A Guide to Child Culture for Out-of-Touch Adults: How Young Is He to Go Horn?
In the UK, the summer months were called “silly season” because of the frivolous news that filled the media for lack of “real” news. The […]
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In the UK, the summer months were called “silly season” because of the frivolous news that filled the media for lack of “real” news. The […]
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Youth pop culture has its ups and downs and this week is a definite valley. Maybe it’s because so many school-aged people are studying for […]
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This week, nostalgia has taken over the Internet for young people, and all generations Y and Z have paid attention to the lawsuit involving former […]
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I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to think that every single person on earth, constantly connected to a source of endless unverified information, […]
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This week, heed the advice of America’s greatest living artist and national treasure, Dr. Taylor Swift. We’re also looking at crouching, exploring Poppy ‘s timing, […]
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Don’t sing the song wrong, man. Karaoke is endless enough. When KISS’s “Rock and Roll All Night” comes on, don’t be like my friend Mike […]
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This week everyone is talking about imaginary dragons and the real lawsuit. Hopefully the House of the Dragon trailer will divert attention from the trial […]
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I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy because I love it when books take me to new worlds or present new realities, but […]
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This week, young people try to capture the lifestyle of coastal grandmothers, explain slang to elders and go to Coachella. Return of Coachella After two […]
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Music festivals have come a long way from the dirty fairgrounds of Woodstock in 1969. What started as an expression of the counterculture has grown […]
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If you are desperately trying to stay afloat in the swirling ocean of information and ephemera in which young people float so easily, please enjoy […]
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The news that old-school adventure game pioneers Roberta and Ken Williams are returning to gaming after 25 years with a VR version of the classic […]
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This week’s exploration of the underside of youth culture takes us into surreal and frightening imaginary spaces and invites us to have a heart-to-heart with […]
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All kids know that Facebook is for older people to share political memes, but that doesn’t stop Mark Zuckerberg’s company from winning the hearts and […]
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Regardless of your age, you have seen many technological changes in your life, not to mention changes in the natural world such as climate change. […]
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Adults love nothing more than getting mad at movies made for kids, but this week’s cultural bickering over Pixar’s innocent teen movie Blush is as […]
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This week I’m answering big questions like “Which is cooler, Star Wars or Star Trek”, “What the hell is Elden Ring ” and “Can you […]
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After years of waiting, Matt Reeves’ dark and bleak reboot of The Batman has finally hit the screens. For those looking to watch this week’s […]
Continue reading »This week we welcome to our screens another installment of one of the hottest new TV shows ever. Pam and Tommy bring us the real […]
Continue reading »Hulu is building a library of great limited series that already includes shows like Dopesick and Pam & Tommy . Now you can add another […]
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It’s a strange day to write about pop culture, but like the tiktokers below who take silly walks for their “stupid” mental health, I’ll plod […]
Continue reading »This week we mourn the passing of Pot Roast , the beloved cat that millions of TikTok users have been lucky enough to get their […]
Continue reading »This week, kids test each other’s loyalty via TikTok, poke fun at a gamer for not knowing female anatomy, and celebrate their fathers by digging […]
Continue reading »Do you feel it? East wind, fog is approaching – something seems to be brewing ? Has something changed seismically, as this iconic pre-pandemic tweet […]
Continue reading »YouTube’s algorithm is designed to keep your eyes on video after video (after video, after video…). The dangers of this rabbit hole are well documented […]
Continue reading »This week, young people are posting cryptic videos of housework, finding naked men in the trunks of their cars, and virtually riding horses together. It’s […]
Continue reading »No matter what happens in the world, your local library remains an oasis of calm—a place where you can educate yourself, do research, or simply […]
Continue reading »The glory days of special Super Bowl “counter-programming” are over. When you can stream whatever you want on Netflix to prove how much you don’t […]
Continue reading »Gen Z is turning their collective eyes skyward this week, but they still find time to poke fun at venomously male podcasts, catch video game […]
Continue reading »Teenage culture can be depressing, dark and meaningless, whether we’re talking hopeful movements falling apart for no reason, bullying game show winners, or dark teen […]
Continue reading »This week, all the kids are holding their breath for news of corporate acquisitions and forcing each other to sign non-disclosure agreements. Everything is very […]
Continue reading »This week YouTuber Logan Paul got scammed for three and a half million dollars, crypto-heads are planning to leave us forever, and children are eating […]
Continue reading »In the role of his father’s favorite sitcom 80/90 Danny Tanner Bob Saget with a smile shared useful wisdom, absorbing “ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! At the same time, […]
Continue reading »Young people are everywhere this week, recreating dishes on doomed ocean liners, eating Oreos with mustard and joking with each other. Here’s everything you need […]
Continue reading »Did n’t we have the Olympics? Yes, but the 2020 Summer Games have been rescheduled to 2021 due to COVID, so here we are again. […]
Continue reading »The twenty-second year was supposed to be the year when everything would return to normal. When we all return to our normal lives and finally […]
Continue reading »Figuring out the age of the Internet is like figuring out the age of the universe: we could date it to the 1960s and the […]
Continue reading »This week, kids watch the second season of The Witcher , overcome the pitfalls of virtual reality (spoiler alert: other people are the problem) and […]
Continue reading »There is nothing like curling up on the couch and watching one of your favorite kids’ movies. Sure, you already know the plot and can […]
Continue reading »Depending on who you ask, the 90s was the last decade of romantic comedies. Of course, there were those in the early 2000s, but the […]
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