A Child Culture Guide for Disconnected Adults: What’s in the Johnny Depp Papers?
This week’s Adult Guide to Out of Touch features a slew of unrelated nonsense from the world of youth culture, including an informative dump of […]
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This week’s Adult Guide to Out of Touch features a slew of unrelated nonsense from the world of youth culture, including an informative dump of […]
Continue reading »Whether it’s toddlers, teenagers or 23 year olds, young people are disgusting. Old people are, of course, disgusting too, because being rude is a human […]
Continue reading »While we are all waiting for a terrible heat wave that will burn our flesh and destroy our crops, young people are trying to appease […]
Continue reading »I’m not sure if it’s just me, but everything that’s happening in pop culture this week has me ambivalent. I understand that you would like […]
Continue reading »The main thing that distinguishes children from older people is not a technological gap or that children have not fully internalized the inevitability of their […]
Continue reading »This week in The Guardian, writer Rachel Sigi pondered why so many of us visit sites like Goodreads and Letterboxd so frequently to log our […]
Continue reading »Let’s be honest, one of the reasons we love sharing our Spotify listening data is because of the competition. There are apps that help flaunt […]
Continue reading »This week’s journey through the collective unconscious of people much younger than me leads us into strange travel traps. There’s a dancing baby named “Horace”, […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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, […]
Continue reading »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, […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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. […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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