There is a strong argument to be made that Generation Alpha is the third age group to be filled with so-called ‘digital natives’, after Gen Z and millennials. If the older, younger generations are anything to go by, they are the wildest and most brainrotted generation yet. Perhaps this is a little unfair, especially considering …
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‘Dumbing It Down’: How brainrot memes have satisfied our craving for simplicity through Neanderthalic humor and escapism
Today’s young adults are the most highly-educated age group of all time, outperforming their parents and grandparents in the race for higher education and post-graduate studies. After years of studying, training our minds to expand with the vast knowledge of the entire human experience—including physics, biochemistry, ancient philosophy, and modern art—our brains are brimming with …
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Questionable Posts and Random Musings From Kids Who Are Too Young to Be on the Internet
One of the greatest unintentional social experiments of our time is raising almost an entire generation through the medium of screens and the internet. Sure, this has already happened to some extent to younger millennials and Gen Z, but it is Gen Alpha who is going to be the true test of what it means …
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20-year-old girlfriend’s nonstop TikTok-inspired ‘brain rot’ slang is making boyfriend rethink relationship: ‘Me: XYZ happened, her: you’ve gyatt to be rizzing me’
Slang is like a linguistic time capsule—it defines a generation, creates inside jokes, and connects people through shared verbal quirks. But as fun as it can be, too much slang can sometimes cause, well, problems. Take, for instance, a young man in his 20s who adores his girlfriend—except for one little snag. Her love of …
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Sticking Out Our Gyatt For the Rizzler: Are We Really Slang Fatigued?
On Reddit’s infamous r/teenagers sub, a user offers up a post with the title, «I f****** HATE being 13». They elaborate: «Yesterday my whole class had to stay behind for 30 minutes because some kid kept yelling ‘sigma sigma on the wall, who’s the skibidiest of them all.’» It would seem that even the first …
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Excessive screen time causes 10-year-old boy to lose his Australian accent, parents defend their parenting choices: ‘The kid obviously is deteriorating’
Everyone has a right to parent in their own way, but we also all have the right to think what we think about those choices. There are as many ways to parent as there are children in the world, and we will never understand the full scope of a situation from the outside. We can …
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‘I don’t think you guys realize how cooked we are’: Concerned relative causes controversy complaining about 14-year-old Gen Alpha cousin’s use of slang
Hand-wringing about the state of youth today is not a new phenomenon, but some like to treat it as one. It’s fair to say that the advent of the internet has only intensified this, seeing as it has multiplied the number of stupid things that impressionable young brains can absorb countless times at this point. …
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Educated adults worry that ‘reading and writing on a normal level’ is becoming a thing of the past for Gen Alpha: ‘The literacy level has dropped so much in last ten years’
The whole goal of school is to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. The bare bones of knowledge. But now, according to some pundits on Twitter, some of that is starting to disappear. We all know that social media is dwindling our attention spans and the proliferation of user-friendly AI has made it easier to cheat, …
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Phone-Obsessed Student Would Rather Let Their Phone Dwindle to 0% Before Letting it Charge Across the Room
Teachers have seen it all. Like warriors returned from battle, they have flashbacks of classroom insanity, ungraded papers, and dreaded detention slip deliveries gone wrong. Although there are many shining moments of student pride and genuine happiness in class, teachers often deal with more BS than they’re given credit for. In the age of cell …
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‘Go make rock soup or something’: Millennial Mom Hilariously Shows Her «Bored» Gen Alpha Kids What She Used to Do to Entertain Herself When She Was Their Age
You have to get bored to get your imagination to work.