Child Culture Guide for Adults: Week 5
The world of young people can be confusing and annoying, so let me help you understand their lives with a weekly guide to what happens to these damn children. (Stay away from my lawn.)
This Week In Video Games: Minecraft Picks
It’s election time, which means millions of people will start voting for Iceologer, Moobloom, or Glowsquid. Oh, you thought I meant those two old dudes? Nope. I’m talking about Minecraft , not C-Span. Mojang, the company behind the still hugely popular sandbox open-world video game, lets fans vote on which of three new monsters will be included in the next Minecraft update. The vote will take place during a Minecraft live Twitter feed on October 3rd.
At the risk of campaigning, I say vote for Moobloom! If chosen, this flower-covered cow will be adorable, friendly and will protect preexisting diseases.
This Week In Music (And Film): Billie Eilish Meets James Bond
A million years ago, back in February, Billie Eilish recorded the title track for the James Bond film No Time to Die , due out on April 10th. But for one reason or another, the film never came out. Perhaps a harbinger of a return to normalcy, a new Bond film isdue out on November 20, and Eilis, the youngest woman to ever sing a Bond song,released a video of her humming into a vintage movie clip microphone. More than 1.5 million people watched the dark video on its first day.
This week in Tiny Trends: Stopwatch
I bet this is a trend that a child in your life makes without your knowledge, and I call it “Stopwatch.” It works like this: you start a stopwatch on your phone or laptop and then let it run. That’s all. No further activity. Just let the stopwatch run until the end of the world.
My son says that the same stopwatch has been running on his computer for over a year and a half, and he assures me that all the children in his school are doing the same time experiments on their own devices, as well as on the devices released by each school. computer. I love this trendlet – it highlights how kids will embrace any new technology and come up with something innovative but meaningless.
This Week on TV: Netflix by Personality
The days when everyone watched the same popular TV shows are long gone. Kids are all over the place when it comes to television, and since there isn’t much hype on television this week, here’s a list of some of the shows kids watch on Netflix, based on their personality types:
Fantasy nerds
My best Netflix pick for sword and witchcraft fans: Cursed . Set in the time of King Arthur, The Damned is the story of the origin of Nimue, a young sorceress who resigned herself to her newfound magical powers. Yes, it’s a metaphor for the growth and strength of growing adulthood, but there are tons of swords, battles, and magic missiles that the D&D crowd will love.
Artsy, anxious types
If your teen is on the dark and frilly side of your life, you should watch The End of the Fucking World . Gloomy comedy from the UK, EOTFW, talks about the troubled girl-loser who falls in love with troubled guy-loser, who is secretly a serial killer who plan to kill her. It’s not for the squeamish or easily overwhelmed, but it’s ridiculously weird and misunderstood teens will love it.
Dystopia from the Future Fans
Despite living in a dystopian present, young people still love stories of a dystopian future. My favorite genre pick is Breaking Dawn , a Netflix series that mixes Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Last Man on Earth . The game takes place in the near future in Los Angeles, in Breaking Dawn. All people over the age of 18 have either died or turned into zombies. Without parents or structure, children form tribes based on their school grouping.
Note. Don’t confuse Breaking Dawn with Society , Netflix’s more “serious” teenage show, in which all adults disappear and kids must create their own society. Or The New People , a 1969 ABC show where a plane full of hippies crashes on a mysterious island and they must form their own adult-free society.
Fans of supernatural abilities and teenage drama
Netflix’s strategy is to cast a ton of quirky, one-of-a-kind shows to see which sticks can lead to really cool stories left unfinished. Case in point: The network won’t return ” I’m not okay with this” for Season 2. I think this adorable comedy / drama about a teenage girl struggling with her sexuality and psychokinetic abilities is too good for a streaming platform. Either way, I bet your child will love it. It’s like a Carrie and 16 candlestick combination , and how bad could that be?
Fans of teenage drama without supernatural powers
Space aliens and mature wizards are cool, but some kids love more traditional teenage shows. Degrassi remains the undisputed king of traditional teen drama. Airing in various incarnations since the late 1970s (!) The empire’s latest show, Degrassi: Next Class , continues the tradition of Canadian teenagers politely grappling with hot teenage problems. It’s like teenage food – nothing too mind-boggling or too nutritious, but you can always count on it to taste.