What does "code rot" mean?
Expect to hear young people talking about code rot for awhile, maybe for the rest of their lives. It's a concept that's going to affect them more than any previous generation. Code rot, or software rot, describes what happens to a computer program when the hardware and operating system it runs on advance. If older programs aren't updated, they become less stable and glitchy until they eventually become unusable.
Kids are making videos where they demonstrate actual code rot:
or point out physical things that are code rotted, like a cat:
or their school:
Interestingly, a lot of the online discourse around code rotting concerns the massive video game platform Roblox. Because Roblox games there are made by users, there's often not a lot of incentive for the creators to keep the games current with the platform's changes, so a lot of Gen Z's childhood memories of playing games are sinking into code rot. Here's a video about it:
The meaning of "PDF file" depends on the context. If you're at work, it refers to a Portable Document Format file, a format created by Adobe that is famously hard for older people to open. In slang, though, PDF file is algo speak for "pedophile." Because that word is flagged by moderation software online, people say "PDF File" to skirt the censorship.
Why was Freddy Krueger (supposedly) canceled?
Although the article does say that "Freddy Krueger lunchboxes shouldn’t exist," and that parents "shouldn’t have been buying their kids action figures of a child murderer," this is not a call to action. It's not suggesting cancellation of any kind, and it's hard to even conceive of what cancellation of a fictional character in an old horror franchise would even mean. The article is actually an observation about how merchandising (and low-quality sequels) change the meaning of art. But people online missed the point entirely and invented a scenario where "woke" young people are calling for the cancellations of a fictional villain for doing bad things.
I've been scouring TikTok, looking for even one video where someone is calling for "canceling" Freddy Krueger, and I can't find any, but there are hundreds, maybe thousands of videos like this:
Viral videos of the week: My boyfriend is a diva
This week's viral videos are of boyfriends dancing. The newest thing on the TikTok is young women sharing video of their boyfriends getting down accompanied by a clip from the song "gay alligations fr. my girlfriend" by TikToker OH MICKEY. Like this:
or like this:
It's a simple, silly template that maybe doesn't mean a whole lot, but this generation of young men are so messed up when it comes to relationships and masculinity, I'm always happy when a meme becomes popular that indicates that young women want goofy dudes, dudes who know how to dance, and dudes who act silly as boyfriends more than they want red-pilled, manosphere, looksmaxxing types. I don't know if these kinds of messages ever really "break through" to the underground of internet incels, but I like to hope they do, because a lot of young men are not OK.
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