Now that we’re a week into the second presidency of Donald J. Trump (has it really been that long?), let’s take a look at how the nation’s younger generations are reacting to Trump’s return to power.
While the participation of the electorate among young people aged 18 and 29 decreased by 2024 compared to 2020 (42%, in opposition to 50%), Trump gained floor in each young demography. Young women went from 33% in 2020 to 41% in 2024, and young men went from 41% to 55% of the matrix the young people, therefore, discharged the president who asked them. Half of young people anyway. The other part is not happy, and they notice their dissatisfaction even with prayers, a new attitude and activism online.
It’s all politician this week, thank God. There is also an internet invasion through the exclusive character of Family Guy, Mr. Washee Washee and a viral video of Poppy Playtime, a video game that young people love and that all are confused.
Soon after Trump’s election in 2016, the youth-led #resistance movement sprung up, first as a hashtag and later in the form of defiant women’s marches and protests that millions attended nationwide. Things look a little different in 2024.
On TikTok, opposition to Trump is coming from posters reminding each other to wear “cute winter boots” to “combat ice.” So if you see that phrase in video, you’re looking at a secret message. The idea is that people who oppose Donald Trump’s immigration policy are against ICE (that is, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), so warning people to “wear cute winter boots” is a coded way of saying, “I don’t like that the president is deporting so many people.”
TikTok’s posters haven’t adopted a slogan like “Oh my god, fuck Donald Trump,” because they feel “cute winter boots” will get past whatever censorship algorithm they think TikTok is using (or something), so they’re posting videos like this one, which adds another “hidden” message with the phrase “kill the CIStem.”
Although I appreciate the adolescent opposition to the rooted strength structures, if you ask me, everything shrinks teeth (as young people say). Also: this “movement” is artificially swollen through other people who share it because it is very crunchy.
I don’t think the “winter boots” thing takes over, but “Dark Woke” turns out to be, even if many of its practitioners don’t call it that. Dark Woke is fundamentally waiting for misfortune to come for other people who voted for Donald Trump for you to worry about it. When his uncle Dave has to pay $38 for a salad because so many migrant employees are kicked out, a dark user waking up may reply, “Ha, ha, hungry, ass. Don’t like the chaos of the government? I should have voted for Harris. “”
You get the idea. You can see as many examples of this as you’d like on Reddits like r/LeopardsAteMyFace and r/Trumpgrets.
Again, if you ask me, this is a cynical, selfish, and ultimately pointless movement—I don’t think many people who voted for Trump are going to suddenly admit to making a mistake, no matter what happens. But really, what else is there to do?
Many other people who pass the time in the Nerd -centered Reddit are reacting to the adaptation of Trump’s friend, Elon Musk, launching a gesture of suspicious hands at the president’s inauguration, in addition to Trump’s adjacence in Trump in general , through the prohibition of links with the social media site of Musk X.
Subnets to block links X are R/NBA, which has 15 million members, R/Twoxosomes, which has 14 million members, and R/NFL, which has 12 million members.
Moving on from politics: the meme of the moment among young people needs some serious ‘splaining. It features Mr. Washee Washee, a one-off, kinda retro-racist character from The Family Guy. Here’s Washee’s appearance on the show back in 2011:
However, this clip is what turns viral. The viral component is local for this publication X of @Bollymen:
Viewed over a million times, the post shows Washee Washee seemingly trapped in music production program FL Studios with the question, “how do I get him off?” So there’s a little bit of “I’m a clueless user and something weird happened; help!” that anyone who has assisted older relatives with tech issues will relate to, and there’s also the suggestion that Washee Washee somehow invaded the project of his/its own volition. Pretty funny. But it became meme-worthy because you can answer the question with suggestions like “Have you tried whispering some algebra facts into his ear?” and because you can put Mr. Washee Washee anywhere then ask “How do I get him off?” For example: your browser, or your X profile, or your Windows XP home screen.
The new trailer for the fourth game of the Poppy Playtime series noticed almost seven million times in 3 days, online. These games are a feeling among pre -adolescents, but they can be absolutely confused for anyone greater enough to vote, so here is an overview: strongly influenced in five nights in Freddy, the games games are in the first person, Loaded to survive, heavy with games games for young players. The existing story revolves around the player who discovers the misdeeds of Playtime Co. , a toy corporate who creates delicate games that act as bad in the game.
It seems that children respond to the spooky but not too practical environment of games and that the vintage terror trope of doing something familiar and friendly (clown, toys, etc. ) in anything sinister. Scared) Huggy Wuggy, a giant blue toy/abomination with bulky eyes, red lips, long limbs that love to eat other people unfortunate enough to meet him in a desert toy factory.
Stephen Johnson is a Staff Writer for Lifehacker where he covers pop culture, including two weekly columns “The Out of Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People are Getting Wrong this Week.” He graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing.
Previously, Stephen -in -in -Chief of the NBC / Universal G4TV. During his rest with G4, he won a television prize for writing and nominated for a Webby Prize. Stephen also wrote for Blumhouse, Fearnet, interpreter of the author-composition magazine, Newgg, Avn, Gamefly, Art Connoisseur International Magazine, FENDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Hustler Magazine and other sales themes. His paintings broadcast on Comedy Central and screened at the Sunday Film Festival in Sunday, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Chicago’s horror film festival. He lives in Los Angeles, California.