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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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