The Out-of-Touch Adult’s Guide to Children’s Culture: What is a “Theater”?

This week, young adults are calling each other “treaters,” vowing to show up on the beach in bikinis with a full bush and playing an online game that has been heavily censored in China. Read on to understand all of this and learn why goats love jumping into fire.

Who (or what) is a “theatre”?

“Treatler” and “Treatlerite” are online insults that combine “Treat” and “Hitler.” They refer to the demands of some users of services like Doordash or Uber Eats, particularly people who seem to view luxury delivery services as a human right and who do not take into account the needs of the people who do the work that makes “private taxis” “burritos” possible .

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The term “Treatlerite” was coined by X users @posting_foreverand is becoming shorthand on the Internet for the type of person who files an angry report when the Instacart driver buys the wrong brand of ice cream. The The argument gets deeper considering that many disabled people say they rely on these services. But is that a good argument? Some say, “No.”

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Getting a pizza delivered is nothing new, but the widespread use of services like DoorDash and Grubhub has created a new class of gig workers, but we don’t usually think of the corresponding “upper class” of people who are wealthy enough are to pay someone else to buy groceries for them. It’s interesting that the new upper class has exactly the same problem with this as their old school colleagues. Balancing “I pay a lot for this, so I expect good service” and “The people I pay to do my menial tasks also deserve respect” has never been easy, and thanks to capitalism, young people are trying It makes sense even if you weren’t born into a wealthy family.

Why is everyone talking about “full bush in a bikini”?

TikTok user Sujidah signaled the possible future of seaside grooming habits this week by posting a video in which she repeated the phrase “full bush in a bikini”:

The video has been played over 13 million times in the last three days and commenters vow to go “completely wild” this summer.

Sujindah credits an Etsy review of a bikini “where the girl had a full bush” with “radicalizing” her on the issue. “That’s how it should be!” she says.

I’m sure many of you reading this are old enough to remember this everyone Bikini included a full bush, so there’s nothing new under the sun, but it’s encouraging when young women look at society’s beauty expectations and say, “I won’t do it, and you can’t make me.”

What’s wrong with Jerkmate Ranked?

While young women vow not to clear the bushes before their trip to Kauai, young men joke about jerking off, particularly “jerkmate rankings” or “competitive fighting.”

Gooning, as defined by me in my Guide to Gen Z and Gen Alpha slangrefers to extended masturbation without orgasm. Jerkmate is an adult website that brings users into public chat rooms while watching live streams. So the joke about Jerkmate Ranked is that there is a competitive element to gooning. Meme makers post sarcastic boasts about their rank on Jerkmate Imagine the rules of the competition. Jerkmate doesn’t really offer “ranked matches,” but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were working on that right now.

Everyone plays Marvel Rivalsbut no one can mention Winnie the Pooh.

Marvel Rivals is the current online must-play game. Launched just over a month ago, the team-based PVP shooter in the Marvel Universe is the best-selling game on Steam (it’s free to download, I guess that’s more like “most downloaded”) and that third most played game on the streaming service. It allows players to play as a Marvel character. The list includes well-known heroes like Iron Man and Hulk, but also obscure Marvel creations like Squirrel Girl and Peni Parker.

Marvel Rivals caused international controversy and highlight China’s growing control over discourse in gaming and pop culture in general. Marvel Rivals was developed by China-based NetEase Games and censors politically sensitive language related to China in its chat. Captain America can’t type “Free Hong Kong.” Marvel Rivals chat window, and Groot can’t respond with “Remember the Tiananmen Square Massacre!” Players cannot reference Winnie the Pooh (due to memes pointing out the characters’ resemblance to Chinese leader Xi Jinping) or type “Taiwan is a country.” But you can also type “911 was an inside job.”

Viral Videos of the Week: A Goat Jumps into a Fire and Disney Gingerbread Horror

There are two viral videos this week because they are short. The first was posted by an Instagram user xiaoling5350and it shows seemingly suicidal goats jumping into someone’s living room fireplace. Even after being pulled from the flames, the goats return to the inferno as if to end their lives.

In addition to jokes about making curry yourself, many viewers of this video (including me) are surprised. Why A goat repeatedly jumped into the fire. Goats and fire have a deep relationship. Goats are known to like to eat anything, so they can used to prevent forest fires by releasing them to eat the undergrowth. But they seem to love flames: there are lots of them videos from Goats play around with fire And Reports of animals staring creepily into campfires. The accepted explanation online is that goats burn themselves to kill parasites in their fur or throat, but I don’t believe that. How many times would feral goats have been close enough to fire to develop this behavior, and wouldn’t the attraction to fire ultimately kill more goats than it helped? So I would like to suggest a second explanation: Goats are really stupid and don’t know any better.

The second viral video raises no questions about the animals’ behavior; it’s just funny. TheMainStreetDuo are Disney fanatics who posted an incredibly simple video of an interaction during a Disneyland parade. As giant gingerbread men walk by, one half of the Main Street duo bites forcefully into a gingerbread man cookie, resulting in horror. Not much, but it’s funny enough to be viewed over a hundred million times.