Madeon – Pop Culture submitted by /u/perfringens

The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Do It for the Plot Inspiration comes from unexpected places this week—places like an Indian restaurant in Bowling Green, Kentucky and TikTok’s recommendation algorithm. Young are people doing it for the plot, wallowing in their own filth, and debating whether Gollum or King Kong stars in the worst video game of the year. Read more…

Would you recommend Taiwan for a culture and architecture – confused trip? Hi everyone, I’m thinking about visiting Taiwan in January, but I’m not sure it has what I’m looking for. As the title says, I’m primarily interested in culture and architecture (and food!) in the places I’m visiting. Nightlife and shopping don’t matter at all. What I’m concerned about is that Taiwanese cities seem to be just concrete jungles, …

Disrupting Agency Culture: Unleash The Power Of The Four-Day Workweek via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell Are you ready to shake up your agency’s work structure and discover new productivity solutions? Are you looking for ways to boost your team’s work-life balance, while driving performance and results? With the Four-Day Workweek (4DWW) program, it’s actually possible to increase workflow efficiency within your agency without sacrificing employee w…

The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What Is ‘Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler?’ Remember when you were a kid and you repeated the same dumb joke again and again until everyone was annoyed with you? And the annoyance would make the joke even funnier? But only to you? So you’d just say it more? And everyone else was thinking, “will you please shut up already?” Well, kids still do that, but it’s… Read more…

Remember Ringtones? How a forgotten piece of pop culture sparked the mobile revolution submitted by /u/gilkaz

The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What Is ‘Locktober’? When I hear kids talk these days, it’s like a foreign language! The hell is “locktober?” Why are they talking about “mind goblins?” What happened to speaking American, like we used to back in the good old days? The world is going to hell, I tells ya, with the kids all wearing their pants sagging down their butts and… Read more…

How MAGA Corrupts the Culture of the White Working Class Republican elites are delivering the worst kind of red meat to their working-class base.

Where can I go to completely escape American culture? I love my country, but I’m in deep Albania right now and still hearing USA top-40 and it’s annoying. Wondering where you’d recommend that America feels reaaaaaaly far away. I know Coke and McDonald’s is everywhere, but aside from that, I wanna go somewhere enjoyable (e.g. not North Korea, though I’m up for a challenge) or at least interesting wh…

Has Michael Jackson’s image/legacy all but vanished from popular culture? Had this conversation today at work and I wondered what you all thought about it. I remember the day he passed, it was huge. We’re coming up to the 15th anniversary of his death next year and I’ll be honest, here in the UK; he is very rarely mentioned in popular culture parlance and his music is pretty much no longer played on our radio stations…

The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Who Is Sneako, and Why Is He so Dangerous? There’s lots to learn about Gen-Z this week, so pay attention. Study questions: 1) Who is Sneako and why is he the most hated man on the internet? 2) What does “keep it lemon” mean? 3) Does “copyright” even exist in the age of YouTube? And for the extra credit: Which federal government agency dropped an album full of… Read more…

Someone smarter than me please explain Spanish tapas culture. So. We’ve been road tripping through Andalucía. Seville, Ronda, the coast, and now Grenada. Wonderful time. But the rigid American “everything must make sense” part of me is having trouble understanding Tapas culture in Spain. For example: Sometimes it’s on a menu. You simply select what you want and order it (or write your order on a card in so…

How an M.L.B. Team’s ‘Toxic’ Culture Led to ‘Institutional Failure’ The San Diego Padres’ disastrous season has included a rift between the front office and manager. It’s become one of the worst-kept secrets in baseball.

Mulder, Scully and how The X-Files’ incredible origin of ‘shipping’ took over pop culture submitted by /u/jaxstan19

The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What’s the Deal With Smurf Cat? Things are getting surreal in popular culture this week. There’s a weird blue smurf/cat chimera that suddenly appeared everywhere all at once, a hugely popular TikToker who’s whole thing is making sure faucets work correctly, and a newly discovered universal trait among men: thinking about the Roman Empire. Read more…

In new Bob Jones University podcast, former students and faculty blast ‘insular’ culture (RNS) — ‘Surviving Bob Jones University: A Christian Cult’ aims to show how alleged patterns of conformity, isolation, information control and surveillance impacted members of the Bob Jones ecosystem. The post In new Bob Jones University podcast, former students and faculty blast ‘insular’ culture appeared first on Religion News Service.

(2023) What’s the tipping culture like in NYC? I am planning a trip to NYC coming December and I have read a lot of stories about tipping culture in the US, causing it to kind of daunt me. For instance I have read anekdotes from Redditors being asked to tip at even serviceless facilities like self-service coffee machines and employees getting angry when you don’t tip, or tip ‘too little’. He…

What is the culture war? submitted by /u/TowBotTalker

The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: ‘Starfield’ Reviews Video game Starfield has shut down all activity among people who don’t have jobs this week. The kids are all off in their little rocket ships, and what little time isn’t being spent in space is being used to listen to people yapping, watching Doja Cat’s new video, and hating on overweight squirrels. Read more…

The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: ‘Bama Rush We’re studying the extremes this week in popular culture, from Riverdale’s alternative sexuality, to the anti-nudity wing of the Youth of Today, to the uniquely disquieting rituals of ‘Bama Rush. Read more…