This week’s journey into the minds of people that aren’t sufficiently old to hire a automobile is sort of a potpourri of unrelated developments and memes that current an image of the number of methods younger persons are referring to the world. Some TikTokers are memorializing peak moments of their lives with a “Hozier yell,” whereas others are spending their treasured time on Earth creating brain-rot “juggtok” movies, or getting actually, actually offended about chess and chubbiness. It is a massive world.
What’s a Hozier yell?
A “Hozier yell” is utilized in TikTok movies to check with a peak, climactic, awe-inspiring second. Literary sorts would possibly substitute “barbaric yamp.”
The top result’s movies like these:
The reference and the audio that goes with it’s to the music “Northern Angle,” a 2024 collab between Hozier and Noah Kahan, wherein Hozier hits a very climactic word simply because the music climaxes. Hozier, by the way in which, is an Irish singer-songwriter whose songs are closely influenced by folks music who’s finest recognized for his 2013 music “Take Me to Church.”
Up to now, almost 200,000 movies have used the audio clip of Hozier and Kahan, commenting on every thing from seeing a bear to marriage proposals to graduating cosmetology college.
What does “Jugg” imply? And what’s “Juggtok?”
The slang time period “jugg” (someday “juug”) means to seize rapidly or to steal. Like most trendy slang, it’s derived from AAVE, particularly from the South.
“Jugg” has been round for awhile—the phrase is utilized in a lot of rap songs from the 2010s—but it surely has come into wider utilization recently as a part of a TikTok meme format known as “juggtok,” a convoluted brain-rot-centric subculture wherein particular slang phrases and acronyms are paired with a set of unrelated pictures and video clips in such a manner as to render all of it meaningless. If my studying is right, juggtok and its offshoots and adversaries like slimetok and jollytok defy rationalization on function. They’re meant to be meaningless and self-referential. Listed here are a pair examples:
(For extra definitions, try my slang glossary, ‘Aura Farming,’ ‘Huzz,’ and Different Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Would possibly Want Assist Decoding.)
Chubby filter inflicting TikTok controversy
The cultural argument over “fats acceptance” has been happening for a very long time, however synthetic intelligence is including an thrilling new wrinkle. This month, a video filter known as “Chubby AI” allowed Tiktokers to visualise what it could seem like in the event that they (gasp!) gained weight, and movies like these began going viral:
There was, as you’d most likely count on, an immediate backlash, as illustrated by this X put up from author Bec Shaw:
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If you happen to had hope that youthful folks is likely to be extra accepting of individuals being obese, since so lots of them are, you would be mistaken. However on the plus facet, I am assured that many skinny younger individuals who look down on fats folks will ultimately develop fats themselves.
Since we’re doing controversy, a manner dumber foofaraw was kicked off final week by chess.com that proves how everybody should choose a facet of the tradition wars, even web sites about chess.
The row started when chess.com’s X account posted this seemingly innocuous piece of engagement-bait:
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Apparently some X customers assumed that Chess.com needs to rename the diagonally shifting piece due to spiritual connotation of the title “bishop,” so the feedback part rapidly full of responses like this, from a ” pleasant neighborhood Christian Nationalist:”
What do you assume up to now?
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And this, from another goof:
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And this, from a traditional particular person having a really regular day:
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Anyway, chess.com ensured extra outrage by troll-posting:
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So is chess.com actually making an attempt to deliver down Christianity? Sadly, no. They’d made an analogous put up earlier about The Rook:
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And nobody freaked out. The seething outrage over a meaningless shitpost illustrates that X is worst web site ever and nobody ought to use it. I really feel like I would like a bathe after even a couple of minutes there.
Viral movies of the the week: Can You Idiot A Self Driving Automotive?
As the good Criswell intones in Plan 9 From Outer Area, the longer term is the place you and I are going to spend the remainder of our lives; little doubt lots of that point can be spent driving, and driving can be very totally different sooner or later. Chopping-edge know-how is quickly taking up driver’s choices, whether or not it is emergency braking or full-on auto-driving so I can take a nap and go to Hardees.
Laptop-assisted driving is usually a good suggestion, however the know-how has limits, and the longer term holds auto-related risks that Henry Ford by no means dreamed of. As an illustration, how would an auto-driving automobile deal with a brick wall painted to seem like the street? That is the query on the heart of this week’s viral video of the week, wherein YouTube legend Mark Rober pits the 2 main self-driving automobile applied sciences towards obstacles like thick fog, heavy rain, and a wall painted to seem like the street.
Rober’s experiments encompasses a automobile from Luminar with a self-driving system that makes use of a LiDAR (Gentle Detection and Ranging) to navigate, and a Tesla that makes use of cameras. Rober’s assessments are unscientific—that is an leisure YouTube channel in any case—however they’re, as Elon Musk would possibly put up, “regarding.” Few drivers will ever encounter a brick wall painted just like the street (until they’re driving by way of a Warner Brothers cartoon) however whether or not a automobile on auto-pilot will brake for an impediment in a heavy fog appears fairly related. And the outcomes do not look promising for the Tesla.
