Internet cultureIt’s hard to keep up with the internet culture, but do not worry: every week we tell you the best of what you need to know.This week’s potpourri of nonsense-you-might-not-know-about takes us from whaling ships in the 1800s to 2021’s hottest hype houses, with a pit stop in Lental to make some Pokémon.
TikTok Trend of the Week: Sea shanties
Future sociologists and cultural historians will write dissertations in which they discuss why songs originally sung by seafaring workers in the 1800s are the most popular trend on TikTok this week. But here we are: sea shanties are the bang of the moment.
It looks like the hype machine for maritime idiots started with a video of Scottish postman Nathan Evans singing “The Wellerman, ”And blow up from there. Others started record their own songs, to add their voices to Evans’ video, to create parodies, try to figure it out, and otherwise honored / chopped-and-screwed this all-but-forgotten music form. But it really started this hilarious video from Beertheist which within 44 seconds demonstrates how sea stockings are initially ridiculous, then delicious and finally irresistible.
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This Week in Games: Pokémon Snap Release Date Announced
Nintendo is very popular for taking their worn-out intellectual properties from console to console, creating weakened versions of older titles and then releasing almost the same game on newer machines. (I do not complain – tthat’s all i want nintendo ever do. Gamer favorite Pokémon Snap, well, has not been seen on a Nintendo console since the Nintendo 64, back in 1999. Cut missed the GameCube, DS, Wii, en Wii U, but to celebrate the 25de anniversary of Pokémon, it’s coming to the Nintendo Switch on April 30th.
If you did not play it back that day, Pokémon Snap is the best: you’re a photographer and your job (I think it’s your job?) is to travel around to take down Pokémon. It’s almost like that. You snap shy pocket samples in desserts, jungles and other environments, and your photos get points based on the composition. If it’s as good as the original, it’s better than anything you’ll ever do in your life. Look at the new trailer, you will see it.
Definition of the week: “Hype house”
Meme-based presidential candidate and hopeful mayor of New York, Andrew Yang, recently said that part of his plan for Gotham is to encourage ‘hype houses’ to move to the city. If you’re too busy having ‘work’ and ‘living your life’ to know what a hype house is, here’s the breakdown: young influencers and content editors on social media pull together in expensive mansions to work together artistically work and tons. TikTok videos, and otherwise irritate their rich neighbors. Think of it like Andy Warhol’s factory, but with less heroin and nothing nearly as cool as The Velvet Underground.
‘Hype house’ created back in December, then 19 of the most influential people on TikTok all moved into a Spanish-style mansion in Los Angeles and called themselves ‘Hype House’. Now it’s the general term for any of the hundreds of similar arrangements across the country, whether it’s a goggle gamers on YouTube, a pride of Instagram influencers, or a TikTok aviary. The trend of internet people living together dates back to 2014, when YouTubers invaded posh neighborhoods in LA and never got there, and like everything young people do, it’s annoying and horrible. Wait, I mean it’s amazing and the best!
This Week in Internet Cats: Cats Against Technology
Cats have been an important part of the internet since the late forties, and this week our cat friends are doing a great show on Reddit. The Cats versus technology subreddit was originally founded in 2014, but for reasons known only to internet gods, it breaks up in January 2021. This fast-growing subreddit contains videos and photos of cats sit on hot laptops, find out how water coolers work, of try to relax their automatic feeder. In other words, there are cats in there, and cats are pretty good. Especially if they are on the internet and I do not have to dig their shit out of a box in the laundry room.
Viral video of the week: Ultra unboxing
The viral videos that people are really this week is part of Capitol rioters boasting about committing crimes, grinning while stealing lecturers and incitement to violence, but it’s all depressing, so let’s calm our confused nerves with some Boxing therapy! Unboxing Videos is a strange hypnotic subgenre of YouTube videos where someone opens a box with a new product in it and shows the content, and Unbox Therapy’s latest is an email. It features the full Samsung Galaxy S21 product range, including the Ultra 5G S21, Galaxy S21, the and the S21 +, plus their Galaxy Buds headphones. It’s 22 minutes hardcore, uncensored unboxing, where cell phones are stripped of their packaging and display in crystal clear HD. You see every connection port, every charging cable, all the camera lenses …my god, if he peels that plastic protective sheet off the display panel …