An eventful week! From the Super Bowl, which I’m pretty sure nobody actually cared about, to the Free Britney documentary on Hulu. Oh, and of course the ongoing Impeachment Trial because everything is normal and fine.
I definitely recommend going through the #freebritney hashtag on TikTok, it will take you down the rabbit hole of theories, breadcrumbs posted by Britney herself over the years and unsettling things to do with the conservatorship.
Millennial TikTok
One thing that has blown up on TikTok the past couple of weeks, and I’ve avoided talking about too much here, has been the Millennial response to Gen-Z making fun of wearing side parts, skinny jeans, Hogwarts houses and “adulting”. Articles about it: here, here and here.
Following style trends is an endless cycle and it is best, in my opinion, to incorporate elements that you enjoy from a trend but ONLY if you actually like it and if it works for you.
The Millennial hate is nothing new, one would think we’d have thicker skin and be able to handle being heckled for our generational style on the internet because we kind of invented Cyberbullying. We’ve also had much worse, being called entitled for wanting the bare minimum in an impossible economy, for example.
Another strange thing occurring on TikTok simultaneous with Gen-Z roasting Millennials, is Gen-Z adopting 2000s trends and going as far as ordering old Motorola Razr flip phones off eBay. It is all extremely ridiculous.
SpaceHey has entered the chat
I have been reminiscing about MySpace lately and how great of a platform it was. It definitely had its faults but it was so much fun to discover music and trick out your profile with HTML. I lost my mind this week when I saw, on TikTok of course, that someone created a fan-made platform that looks EXACTLY like MySpace but it is called SpaceHey.
P.S. Add me on SpaceHey at: spacehey.com/yeehaw . One thing I won’t shut up about this week is how excited I am about claiming “yeehaw” as my username.
Back to Lord of the Rings TikTok (sorry not sorry)
So I watched all the Hobbit movies last week. I swore I would never watch the second and third because the first one gave me a headache in the theater when it first came out. There were a couple of moments that I appreciated about the films, but they still make me upset. I ranted about it on Twitter.
Okay back to TikTok, @knewbettadobetta is my new favorite creator, he makes videos commenting and answering questions about Lord of the Rings/Tolkien. Here he is commenting on the Hobbit movies:
Here he is explaining power, corruption and wizards:
And for anyone who has asked “Why didn’t the eagles just fly Frodo to Mt. Doom to destroy the ring?”:
Let me make this crystal clear
I saw a few videos presumably following a meme trend. It's pretty self explanatory, here are a couple examples:
Bread in bed
This one radiated energy similar to my friendship with my feline son. He loves bread, I in fact cannot keep him away from bread and have to keep it locked up because he WILL find it and he WILL eat through packaging to get to it. This includes but is not limited to: standard bread loaf, crumpets, english muffins, valentines day sugar cookie, tortillas, the list goes on.
How foods walk
Protect this man at all costs.
American Architecture
Unsettling
This creepy video appeared on my feed and it freaked me out so of course I had to investigate a little. Turns out it is just a little horror account that posts freaky stuff. This is the kind of content that makes me stop scrolling through the feed late at night.
Stuart Little and a Stolen Painting
This appears to be a story resurfaced from 2014 featured in articles here, here and here.
I’ll leave you with my favorite anti-capitalist YouTube video:
Thanks for reading! Stay safe! See y’all next week!
Another adorable bread cat. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe8MB93g/