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45 Years of Pac-Man: Gobbling Its Way from a Gaming Sensation to a Pop Culture Icon
When we look back on the games that shaped our beloved medium, the usual suspects spring to mind immediately. These include Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy VII, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Doom, and Metal Gear Solid, to name a few. But there’s an argument to be made that none of these games would’ve seen the light of…
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‘Employees aren’t having it’: European workers are pushing back on the US-style ‘always on’ work culture – many are worried about the rise of ‘hustle culture’ and a third would quit if forced back to the office
European workers are looking warily across the Atlantic, worried that US corporate culture could start creeping in across the region. More than eight-in-ten employees across the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain told careers site Zety that high-pressure US work environments, highlighted by figures such as Elon Musk, could start influencing their own workplace. A third said they’d start looking…
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100 Men vs. One Gorilla: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture
This week, the Out-of-Touch Guide grapples with an eternal question of man vs. beast, sees Gen Z throw a hilarious right cross at millennial decorating trends, contemplates whether refusing to wash your face is a skincare routine or a cry for help, and explains why serving booze at weddings has become a generational flashpoint. What is “100 men vs. 1…
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What Is a Hozier Yell: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture
This week’s trip into the minds of people who aren’t old enough to rent a car is like a potpourri of unrelated trends and memes that present a picture of the variety of ways young people are relating to the world. Some TikTokers are memorializing peak moments in their lives with a “Hozier yell,” while others are spending their precious…
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International Women’s Month Special: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture
Saturday, March 8, was International Women’s Day. March is a whole women’s month, even if Google erased it from its calendar. So I’m taking a look at young women—and not in a creepy way. I want to know: what’s up with young women? What are they about? What are their dreams? How are they feeling deep in their hearts? So…
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Kendrick Lamar’s Epic Super Bowl Win: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture
This week’s biggest event was the Super Bowl. While the game was a snore-fest reminiscent of the lopsided Super Bowl blowouts of the past, the halftime show was nothing like the performances of 1980s Super Bowl favorites “Up with People.” If you compare the two performances (and you should), you’ll see how far we have come as a society. Kendrick’s…
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The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What Is a ‘Treatler?’
This week, young adults are calling each other “treatler,” vowing to show up at the beach with a full bush in a bikini, and playing an online game that has been heavily censored by China. Read on to unpack all this, plus learn why goats like to jump in fire. Who (or what) is “Treatler?” “Treatler” and “Treatlerite” are online…
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The Rise of Rizzmas Carols: The Out-Of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture
We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you’re curious about how younger people are celebrating the holiday season this year, I have you covered: They’re singing each other Rizzmas Carols, with lyrics like “On the first day or Rizzmas, my gyat gave to me, a toilet, skibidi.” They’re also decorating their Fortnite avatars with festive Skibidi…
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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture
This week we take a look at Kendrick Lamar’s surprise new album, delve into the world of banned brainrot words in classrooms, find out what “jugging” means, and look at how easy it is to grift people with a cryptocurrency. What a world! Why is everyone talking about Kendrick Lamar’s GNX? On Friday at noon, with no warning, rapper Kendrick…
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Hurricane Milton Memes: The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture
This week, young people are making disasters their own through memes, convincing their boyfriends to do interpretive dance, making a star out of a local judge, and complaining about a cartoon. So a normal week, other than the now twice-yearly appearance of once-in-a-lifetime storm. The memeing of Hurricane Milton The lead-up to Hurricane Milton was terrifying, with meteorologists warning of…
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