Who (or what) is Horace?Out of Touch Children’s Guide for Adults

This week’s road trip goes through the collective unconscious of much younger people Than me Take us to some strange Tourist trap. There is a dancing baby man named “Horace”. very Several stories explaining Generation Z’s conflicting emotions about personal and smiley face: Are they friendly? Are they scary?They are both??

Meet Horace: TikTok Generation’s Grotesque Dancing Baby

All generations get the grotesque dancing baby they deserve. Well, on the early internet, Dancing baby.. The TikTok generation has Horace.Created by animator Jackson Q. Gray, Horace began his / his life at I in 2020.You can slap posts as nstagram, filters. But at that time he was naked. Instagram has adopted a viral filter because it considers it “adult or sexual content”. But you can’t hold back a good baby, and Horace, like Jesus, rose from death on TikTok. But unlike our Lord and Savior, Horace is now wearing a red onesie.He will star in a video like this This one, tHis stuff, and This one..Horace is very popular and says, “How Like your fellow kids’ style corporate social media stream This is from O’Reilly auto partss.

I’m too old to be a little entertained by Horace, but probably your blood isn’t made of ice water and wants to be with 26 million other people Horace hashtag You can watch ridiculous dancing baby videos all day long.

Makeup recommendations will be confessed

If you don’t pay attention to the part of the internet that is dedicated to recommending cosmetics, you Missing.. soon, Cosmetology posters have inserted dark confessions into product recommendation videos, and it’s great.Someone posts an innocent query like this “WDo you use a hat cleanser? And they Receive video Correspondingly like this “I personally never see human connections again, but I use cetaphil,” says user Kelsey Sales. Looking for a shade of summer lipstick? Prera ​​phaelite queen “Personally, I don’t know how to enjoy the relationship without constantly preparing to end it. The shaded shiny Zip is one of my favorite coral shades.” Strange connection -It makes sense for some reason-it’s what the internet was created for. Interesting, smart, and unexpected, this is the opposite of the dancing baby meme.

Warning from TikTok

Here’s Part 3,119 of my 8,320-part series, “Don’t do these things you see online”: because everything on the internet is bad and kills you

Emoji working for young people

If I were in linguistics graduate school, I would have written a dissertation on how people of different generations use emoji. One of my areas of research is the analysis of emoji use on work-related platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Lots of raw data!

This video from more frejenal She says she “doesn’t be rude” with Smiley in her first company job. Her mission has been accomplished, but will she be childish or not serious, at least for Geezer like me? It’s a hassle for everyone to navigate work communication and maintain a completely different “work persona”, especially for the young women I imagine, but Gen Z’s communication style is intended. I’m worried that it may not give the impression that I did.Many people can get lost Emoji communication between generations in the end.

This Week’s Viral Video: Smile Official Trailer

Speaking of smiley faces—thTrailer for upcoming horror movies smile Resonates with the YouTube people, not because they’re trying to soften posts on Slack. Over 5 million people are watching smile Trailer for the first few days online.It’s hard to describe a movie other than to say it looks like a movie smile Borrow elements from early 2000■ Add J-Horror and spooky / happy faces.I agree with the commenter dxr Someone who concludes, “This will happen to be cheerful or really scary.” When the movie is released in September, you’ll see how the coins land.

“Smiles are actually pretty scary” The history of horror movies is about as long as the movies themselves. 1928s Laughing man It’s a story about a man who had a big and scary smile on his face when he was a boy. The movie was published in various reviews in 1928, but what did they know because everyone who saw the movie died at the time of its release?In the lasting influence of Laughing mans is the tooth-showing smile of the leading actor Conrad Veidt, influencing t’s original character design.He is a joker!