When parents find out about it… AND start using it, the trend is over. Or at least, it should be. Maybe we can get Dr. Rick from Progressive to put up some short videos. Not “new homeowners turning into their parents” but something like “parents trying to be cool with the yutes”.
Basically what I’m saying is that when people my age find out about some random trend among teenagers, that trend has already been around awhile and probably is on its last lap of popularity. 🤞
Have you heard about the 6-7 thing? I still only sort of know what it means. I guess that means I’m officially too old to understand. But wait, I’m also too old to care. It has something to do with someone’s height. A basketball player, LeBron James, maybe?
It’s just another reason (along with “bruh” and phone addiction and “mid” and TikTok and the list goes on…) that I’m glad I’m 46 in 2025. To their credit, and all I really have to go on is my nieces and nephews, the high school/college age person seems to be taking all of this in stride. They’re (mostly) able to juggle a thousand things coming at them from all sides. So to them I say, good job. Keep it up! But then I whisper under my breath, “Thank God it’s not me.” Growing up in the 80s/90s/2000s had its own share of inside jokes, chaos, and temptations but it just seems like kids today have it a lot harder. Maybe we had hundreds of things competing for our attention, now it’s in the thousands.
But still, some of these trends that pop up couldn’t be more annoying and if I ever partake and I’m not doing it ironically, call Dr. Rick.
-Out of the Wilderness
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