If your college-age kid thinks they’ve discovered a cool hack to get out of paying student loans, they haven’t. There are a bunch of videos like this one that purport to demonstrate "one cool trick" to get out of repaying money the government lends for education. Two of these four tricks flat out won’t work. The other two could work, but the cure may be worse than the disease.
Filing a privacy report: Some contend that the recent activity of DOGE violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and that loan-holders can use that violation to discharge student debt. They can’t, and there (probably) wasn't a violation of FERPA. A lawsuit is in progress to determine if DOGE violated the Privacy Act of 1974, but FERPA applies to schools distributing private info, not federal agencies. Here’s how Andrew Miltenberg, who defends college students as a partner at Nesenoff and Miltenberg, put it: “It is complete fiction that at this moment in time you can get your loans forgiven for a FERPA violation.”
Just not paying it back: This isn’t advisable as it will kill your credit rating, but they can’t throw you in jail, you know? At least not yet.
Why is everyone saying “Bacon Avocado”?
The secret words can be anything from advice:
To a personal ad:
to random vulgarity:
If you hear your kid talking about “The Dusting Challenge,” you should be alarmed—but you probably won’t hear them talking about it. Like many media reports of “dangerous online challenges,” going viral, what’s actually "going viral" is the hysteria, not the challenge. Like most reports of online dangers, this is a mix of tragedy with misinformation. The tragedy: On June 1, Arizona 19-year-old Renna O’Rourke died of “sudden sniffing death syndrome” from inhaling computer dusting spray to get high. The misinformation: Media sources are reporting that the death was part of a “TikTok trend” or “an online trend” called “The Dusting Challenge.”
What does IWEL mean?
A new acronym is growing in popularity on TikTok comment sections this week. IWEL means “I wouldn’t even lie.” Another variant: IWL, or “I wouldn’t lie.” So “IWEL” is in. “No cap” is out.
In a broader sense, IWEL is the latest “internet only” acronym that include classics like “LOL” (“laughing out loud) and newer entries like YWLTSMHBYC (“you will live to see manmade horrors beyond your comprehension") OK, kids aren’t really using that last one, but they should be.
(If you’d like more definitions of current slang, check out my glossary: “’Aura Farming,' 'Huzz,' and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding.”)
Viral video of the week: Black widow vs. Venus Flytrap
Unlike the dubious challenges and bogus hacks above, this week’s viral video delivers exactly what it promises: pure results. The problem with many burning internet questions is that they can't ethically be tested—who’s going to volunteer for "100 men vs. one gorilla?” That's what makes insect YouTuber TerraGreen's video so satisfying. In Black Widow vs. Venus Flytrap, he takes the age-old debate of poisonous spider vs. carnivorous plant and settles it with real experimentation. He also tests flies and crickets against cheap flytraps versus expensive ones as a bonus. Spoiler: It ends exactly how you'd expect, with black widows being trapped and digested by flytraps. It’s not like spider venom works on plants. But ultimately, any excuse for footage of flytraps munching on spiders is good enough.
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