Now that we are a week at the time when the presidency of Donald J. Trump (has it been that long?), Let’s see how the country’s younger generations react to Trump’s return to power.
While voter participation among people between 18 and 29 was down in 2024 compared to 2020 (42%, down from 50%) Trump gained ground in every youth demographic. Young women went from 33% support in 2020 to 41% support in 2024, and young men went from 41% support to 55% support. So the kids are getting the president they asked for. Half of the kids, anyway. The other half are not happy, and they’re noting their discontent with meme phrases, a new attitude, and online activism.
It’s not all politics this week, thank god. There’s also an internet invasion by Family Guy one-off character Mr. Washee Washee, and a viral video from Poppy Playtime, a video game that children love and everyone else is confused by.
Shortly after Trump’s elections in 2016, the # resistance motion led through other people who were born, first as a hashtag and later in the form of provisional measures and protests for women nationwide. Things appear a little more in 2024.
In Tiktok, the opposition to Trump comes from posters that remember using “beautiful winter boots” to “fight ice. ” So, if you see this video prayer, see a secret message. The concept is that other people who oppose Donald Trump’s immigration policy oppose ice (that is, American immigration and the application of customs), so they warn other people who “use enough winter boots “It is a coded way of saying:” I do not like the president to expel many other people.
Tiktok’s posters have not followed a slogan like “Oh, my God, Donald Trump’s shit”, because they feel “beautiful winter boots” on the set of total censorship rules that believe that Tiktok is (or something), by What they publish videos like this, what some other “hidden” message adds with the word “kills the cistem”.
While I appreciate teenagers’ opposition to entrenched power structures, if you ask me, this is all cringe af (as the kids say). Also: this “movement” is surely being artificially inflated by people sharing it because it’s so cringe.
I do not think the thing of “winter boots” will take over, yet “Dark Woke” turns out to be, even if many of his practitioners do not call him so. Dark Woke is fundamentally awaiting that misfortune arrives for other folks who voted for Donald Trump so that you worry about it. When their uncle Dave has to pay $ 38 for a salad because so many migrant staff are expelled, a awakening dark user may just answer: “Ha ha, hungry, asshole. I do not like government chaos? Should have voted for Harris. “”
You have the idea. You can see as many examples as in Reddits such as R / Leopardatemyface and R / Trumpgrets.
Once again, if you ask me, it is a cynical, egocentric and finally dead movement, I do not think that many other people who voted for Trump suddenly admitted to having made a mistake, whatever happens. But really, what else does it do?
Many of the people who hang out on nerd-centric internet hive Reddit are reacting to Trump’s buddy Elon Musk throwing up a suspicious hand gesture at the President’s inauguration—in addition to his Trump adjacency in general—by banning links to Musk’s social media site X.
Subnets to block links X are R/NBA, which has 15 million members, R/Twoxosomes, which has 14 million members, and R/NFL, which has 12 million members.
Moving from politics: the meme of the moment among other people would like a serious palate. It has Mr. Washee Washee, an exclusive and retro-racist character of the Circle of Guy relatives. Here is Washee’s appearance on the exhibition in 2011:
However, this clip is what turns viral. The viral component is local for this publication X of @Bollymen:
Viewed over a million times, the post shows Washee Washee seemingly trapped in music production program FL Studios with the question, “how do I get him off?” So there’s a little bit of “I’m a clueless user and something weird happened; help!” that anyone who has assisted older relatives with tech issues will relate to, and there’s also the suggestion that Washee Washee somehow invaded the project of his/its own volition. Pretty funny. But it became meme-worthy because you can answer the question with suggestions like “Have you tried whispering some algebra facts into his ear?” and because you can put Mr. Washee Washee anywhere then ask “How do I get him off?” For example: your browser, or your X profile, or your Windows XP home screen.
The new trailer for the fourth game in the Poppy Playtime series has been viewed nearly seven million times in the three days its been online. These games are a sensation among the preteen set, but can be utterly baffling to anyone old enough to vote, so here’s a rundown: Heavily influenced by Five Nights at Freddy’s, the Poppy Playtime games are first-person, puzzle-heavy survival-horror games that are geared toward younger players. The ongoing story revolves around the player uncovering the misdeeds of Playtime Co., a toy company that creates the sentient playthings that act as villains in the game.
It seems that children respond to the creepy but not too practical atmosphere of the games and that the vintage horror trope of making something familiar and friendly (clowns, toys, etc. ) into anything sinister. Scared) Huggy Wuggy, a giant blue toy/abomination with bulging eyes, red lips, long limbs who love to eat other people unfortunate enough to meet him in a deserted toy factory.
Stephen Johnson is editor of Lifehacker, where he covers pop culture, adding two weekly columns “the adult consultant in touch with children’s culture” and “what other people are this week. “She graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in writing, literature, and publishing.
Previously, Stephen was Managing Editor at NBC/Universal’s G4TV. While at G4, he won a Telly Award for writing and was nominated for a Webby award. Stephen has also written for Blumhouse, FearNET, Performing Songwriter magazine, NewEgg, AVN, GameFly, Art Connoisseur International magazine, Fender Musical Instruments, Hustler Magazine, and other outlets. His work has aired on Comedy Central and screened at the Sundance International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, and Chicago Horror Film Festival. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.