Celebrity news looked like that for me since I was a kid lol. I never understood how people are supposed to know celebrities and be attracted by such headlines.
As a kid, I also liked to do crosswords, but I rarely could complete them, because they always asked things about celebrities. I hated it so much.
Same. I remember trying to do crossword puzzles, and half of them were like, “Name of the actress who played X in the 90s series title.” Me: Hell if I know… name of a purple crystal used for jewelry and home decorations? oh yeah, I know this one!"
I’ve never cared about celebrity news for the sake of celebrity news, but I’ve found I very much care about the actual creation of the art that I like.
That means sometimes I know about the relationship history of the songwriters whose albums I listen to, knowing that a post-divorce album might explore those themes. Same with when a standup comedian I like becomes a parent, knowing that the observational humor may shift as a result.
For television and film, I know who’s signing deals with who, which actors and directors like working with each other, what some prior screenwriter was doing before the current project, which studios have reputations for interfering with the artistic vision, which directors and producers have reputations for mismanaging resources, which characters had to be written off of shows for off-set reasons, etc., because it all affects the end product.
For sports, some of the off-field drama can affect the on-field product (suspensions or personnel movement for non-sports reasons, weird health conspiracy theories affecting one’s return from injured status).
So I don’t really mess with celebrity gossip in itself, but I do follow industry news in television, film, music, the sports I like, and any other entertainment I enjoy.
I’ve found I very much care about the actual creation of the art that I like.
I totally get that. I think it’s like that for a lot of people.
Sad thing is, there’s a bunch of folks out there that aren’t all that deep. So “pretty people doing pretty people things” is about the level of involvement there. There’s probably an escapism/fantasy element there too, which may explain why we have people that are famous for being famous.
I would be so much more impressive at jeopardy if it wasn’t for all the celebrity questions!
Is [celebrity noun 1] the new [trendsetter], or is he just getting [influenced with sexual undertones] by [celebrity noun 2]?
I hope Baby Gronk talked to his doctor about that drip.
40 years ago and before, slang had to travel by… get this… word of mouth. Now one obnoxious tik tok influencer (and the word is valid because they do actually influence others) to say something for a 12 year old to make it the new thing in her school, thereby infecting an entire town/village/planet. it’s skibidi if you ask me. And I’m 55.
Slang travelled through print magazines, underground zines, radio, musicians, books, etc.
True. Radio is word of mouth, and the other forms of media are even slower. When one can sit down and doomscroll tik tok for an hour and be exposed to orders of magnitude more information, things are going to change more quickly.
Radio was huge. Some rapper could make slang local to his street corner famous and it would be in car commercials within two years.
On the other hand, we don’t need to try to understand slangs anymore, because they will be obsolete tomorrow in the morning, when a new one appears.
No, some of them just become permanent.
“Cool” first showed up in the late 1910’s and early 1920’s, and so fully absorbed into the culture that each subsequent generation just knows it without really considering it to be slang.
“My bad” was novel slang in the 80’s, went mainstream in the 90’s, and is still with us today.
I’d guess that among recent slang, “yeet,” “rizz,” and “drip” will have the most staying power, most likely to be picked up unironically by older generations and just propagated from there.
Yeet is over a decade old my man.
I am confident that drip is even older lmao
Well, that’s part of why I think those have staying power.
Same with some slang that’s been around but has recently been elevated to new heights, like “cooked” re-entering the slang mainstream and some younger people thinking their generation invented it.
Or newer syntactical/grammatical constructions that borrow from established phrases, like “it’s giving (noun or noun phrase)” to mean some kind of description. Or industry jargon that enters the mainstream. Once those hit a threshold popularity they tend to stick around as well.
“This thing that has stuck around has staying power.”
No shit, what a hot take 😂
But the ones who get integrated into language for the long-term, we will eventually see them all around and it will be impossible to miss
When I was a 12 year old people were drawing that pointy S, which first started showing up in graffiti in the 70’s but became a staple in middle school notebooks by the 90’s. Somehow it had gone fully national without seeming to have any adult influence in its spread.
Also around the same time, “my bad” entered the lexicon, and went from basketball-coded slang to basically mainstream acceptance by the 90’s, with this blog post from 2005 amusedly marking its use among Ivy League faculty members.
I’m with Dave. I have no idea what any of this shit means.
I never understood slang as a kid but I’m finally starting to figure it out. By the time my kids are teenagers, I’ll be a pro. They won’t be able to hide anything from me.
A few more years, and I’ll finally become cool. Hehe, yes, just a few more years…
I’m a school bus driver and my kids act like their slang is some kind of secret language that I can’t possibly understand. They apparently aren’t aware that google is a thing.
Urban dictionary ftw
Just say the words they do. Nothing will make something uncool faster than a parent adopting it.
I am so excited to do this when they get older haha
The older I get the more young people sound like dolphins chattering.
didnt baby gronk get rizzed up like last year?
Also wasn’t this proven to be a completely made up troll?
I’m a big fan of the word ‘calc’. It’s short for calculator by the way, I’m just using slang. Oh by the way if anyone’s new to the stream, calc is short for calculator. I’m just using slang.
I’m ngl I saw baby Gronk and immediately thought of a baby version of Kronk instead. I vaguely think this makes more sense anyway, so I’m just gonna pretend that’s what they meant.
The one from the Turtles?
The Emperor’s New Groove
Bat Boy would never
Stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not happening.
fetch? which fetch? browser fetch?
🛫
Ha. It’s the new “IDKMYBFFJILL”
Hilarious.
I’m with Dave. I have no idea what any of this shit means.
Thats crazy.
