Current Trends Explained: The ‘Dusting Challenge,’ Student Loan Hacks, and ‘Bacon Avocado’:
This week’s out -of -touch guide is presented to you by the letter “M” for disinformation. We have Tiktok challenges that probably do not exist, hacking pirnes for not having reimbursed your student loans who will certainly not work, and videos of memes on the bacon and the lawyer who have nothing to do with food, all supposed to illuminate the dark chasm between what adults think and what really happens. So let’s take a flashlight and go!
Tiktok tips to get rid of student loans
If your university age thinks they have discovered a cool hack to get out of student loans, they did not do it. There are a bunch of videos like this one who claim to demonstrate “a nice thing” to withdraw money that the government lends for education. Two of these four tips will not work. The other two could Working, but the remedy can be worse than the disease.
Declining student loan fees: You can contest your student loan debt (or any debt) with credit declaration agencies. Agencies could temporarily remove the debt from your report until the dispute is settled, but you must continue to pay during the litigation period, and you will almost lose. Then the loan will reappear on your credit report.
Submission of a confidentiality report: Some argue that Doge’s recent activity has violated Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and that loan holders can use this violation to release students’ debt. They cannot, and there (probably) was not a violation of Ferpa. A trial is underway to determine whether Doge has violated the 1974 law on privacy, but FERPA applies to schools distributing private information, not to federal agencies. Here’s how Andrew Miltenberg, who defends students as a partner of Nesenoff and Miltenberg, said: “It is full of fiction that at the moment, you can make your loans forgiven for a FERPA violation.”
Never leave school: Given that the reimbursement calendar of federal loans subsidized to students will not start only six months after having completed your studies, theoretically, we could continue to stay at school at least at halftime and pay nothing. This is legitimate, but requires adopting an entire lifestyle, and if you continue to borrow for more schools, you continue to locate yourself more in education. And what has education ever do for someone?
I don’t reimburse him: This is not advised because it will kill your credit rating, but they can’t throw you in prison, you know? At least not yet.
Why does everyone say “Bacon Avocado”?
If you hear your children say “Bacon Avocado” lately, don’t be alarmed. It is not a new drug or a sexual practice. They also do not plan to make you a sandwich. Bacon Avocado is a harmless meme that takes off on Tiktok. It is a video and switching video format that works like this: you publish a promising video to say that “Bacon Avocado” is quickly possible. Then you slow the reading to reveal a different message.
Secret words can be advice:
To a personal ad:
to random vulgarity:
If you want to see more, there are a ton of Bacon Avocado videos here.
What is “the challenge sprinkling”?
If you hear your child talking about “the dust challenge”, you should Be alarmed, but you probably don’t hear them talk about it. Like many media reports of “dangerous online challenges”, becoming viral, which is in fact “to become viral” is hysteria, not the challenge. Like most online danger reports, it is a mixture of tragedy with disinformation. The tragedy: June 1, Renna O’Rourke, 19, 19, died of the “sudden death syndrome of sniffing” of the IT spraying inhalation for rising. Disinformation: media sources report that death was part of a “tiktok trend” or “an online trend” called “The Dusting Challenge”.
What do you think so far?
Even if some sources point out that “Dusting Challenge” videos get “millions of views”, I can’t find such videos on Tiktok. There are republished reports about “The dust challenge on Tiktok”, but no children’s video participating in something called “dust challenge” or encouraging each other to inhale a sprinkling of sprinkling. Tiktok quickly locks the harmful content these days, in addition, so supervising something like “the XXXX challenge” is no longer even one thing. A more realistic perspective: children have always blown things up (aerosol paint, plane glue, etc.), it is dangerous and stupid, but children do dangerous and stupid things without a campaign on social networks encourage it.
What does Iwel mean?
A new acronym is gaining popularity on the Tiktok comments this week. Iwel means “I wouldn’t even lie”. Another variant: IWL, or “I wouldn’t lie”. So “Iwel” is in place. “No cap” is out.
It is interesting to see how many words of youth slang are intended to transmit the idea of telling the truth – no cap, dead ass, etc. – As in response to disinformation dissemination everywhere, by everyone.
In a broader sense, Iwel is the last “internet” acronym that includes classics like “lol” (“laugh aloud) and more recent entries like YWLTSMHBYC (” you will live to see artificial horrors beyond your understanding “) OK, children do not really use it, but they should be.
(If you want more definitions of the current slang, consult my glossary: ”” aura farming “,” huzz “, and other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang, you may need help to decode.”)
Video of the week: Black Widow vs Venus Flytrap
Unlike doubtful challenges and false hacks above, this week’s viral video offers exactly what it promises: pure results. The problem with many burning internet questions is that they cannot be tested ethically – who will volunteer for “100 men against a gorilla?” This is what makes the video of the youtubreen insect so satisfactory. In Black Widow against Venus Flytrap, he takes the secular debate of Spider Spider vs Carnivore Plant and will settle it with a real experiment. It also tests flies and crickets against cheap flies compared to those costly bonus. Spoiler: it ends exactly as you expect, with black widows trapped and digested by pistols. It is not as if the spider venom is working on plants. But in the end, any excuse for images of falling flies to snack on spiders is quite good.
