…it’s now in the pop culture social media dictionary ..
We live in a fascinating world. Just a few days ago, the “Hauk Tuah girl” became an internet sensation. Imagine spending months or even years building your brand, following all the advice from textbooks, advertising on social media, and paying for ads.
Suddenly, this girl gets interviewed, answers a question about pleasing a man with “Hauk tuah and spit on that thang,” and becomes an overnight sensation.
Her 15 minutes of fame came quickly, but they will pass just as fast. It’s intriguing to consider her future prospects and why she became famous in the first place.
Out of nowhere, she appears in our feeds, becomes a meme, and even inspires songs, all within a short time.
The Hauk Tuah girl has emerged suddenly, but she could disappear just as quickly unless she capitalizes on this moment.
Her best strategy would be to create a brand, start a podcast, or host a relationship show. If she seizes this opportunity, she might extend her time in the spotlight and become a lasting figure in our lives.. If she doesn’t, she will be remembered for a single statement and a brief, peculiar moment that made her the latest internet meme.
The haunting words of Gordon Lightfoot’s IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND may be the best background for this story.. conjuring the imagination of his ghostly song coupled with technology piercing the safety nets of our mind.. and going deep into brains to predict what we will want. What we will buy.. what we will…think?
As this post is written, a LONG day is wrapping up. For some weird reason, this particular Saturday felt like the longest day that ever existed.. Maybe the snowy landscape and bone chilling temperatures.. Who knows.
I think it was hour number 5,000 of the day when I was just bored in the chair looking through stupid TikTok videos, one after the other. After the other.. And so on. People falling. Political content. Old ladies screaming. Ice storms and people slipping. Weird stuff and so on. Everyone’s for you page is different. That’s a peak at mine.
This is where the weirdness started.
In my brain, a voice said “it’s been a long time since you saw TikTok videos about Michael Myers and Halloween”.. No verbal output occurred, here, it was just an internalized passing thought. A blip on the brain wave radar.. It just popped into my brain, and I remembered rationalizing it by saying that ‘Halloween is over and of course I will not be seeing videos like that on the for me page’ for a while..
About a good solid minute later this video now pops up on the for you page:
First of all, great great video. Pure nostalgia and 1980s glory and all that..
But wait.. HALLOWEEN!? Just when moments earlier the idea of a Halloween video was crossing the brain and being dismissed due to the time of the year..
I completely got the chills and gave me a very bizarre feeling.
And it just started more thoughts to roll. Do you have this occur? Does this happen when you talk about things–we all know ads pop up a little bit after we search things or talk about them.. but how often do you actually have something on tech occur after you simply THINK about it?
Is there some algorithm that certain videos trigger people searching for other things? Or perhaps this was just all weird and random coincidence ..
Controversy about TikTok’s (and other social media platforms) algorithms have be been in the news for years. Most of those have revolved around the kids not being alright, teens with angst getting a perverted sense of purpose and meaning after diving too deep into rabbit holes.
Advertising clearly goes hand in hand with things you search and like. TikTok was accused of privacy violations recently. Others have accused social media platforms of monitoring heart rates and eye movements when viewing Apps. Sounds ridiculous, right? Conspiracy silly theory?
When it happens it’s weird.. But it does not feel real.. natural. It has no meaningful or paranormal context.. Instead it has a creepy and artificial feeling. You get an immediate impression that you’re a test subject, a spoke on a wheel. Nothing of it feels right, instead you just want to escape this hellscape that the future may be bringing us.
Person of the year. Huge ticket seller. People dying with heat exhaustion just to see her. A wild 2023 for Tay Tay..
But Pennsylvania went one step further.. the state House in the Keystone State now officially declared it all the Era of Taylor Swift..
And even this vote was divisive and along party lines..
The resolution celebrates how Swift has ‘transcended the role of pop star,‘ and recognizes her achievements in 2023 – including being named TIME’s Person of the Year
Most Republicans voted against the honorary measure, as did a few Democrats, despite it being introduced by eight Pennsylvania progressives..
Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican, responded by questioning what the guidance, in reality, actually meant, before labeling it an empty gesture by the progressive left.
‘What a joke of the State House Assembly of Pennsylvania,’ Borowicz said of the proposal, which would go on to be barely passed after some back-and-forth.
‘This is the Democratic party though, idolizing Hollywood,’ the lawmaker continued. ‘Giving Taylor Swift an era while our veterans get a day.’
Rep. Russ Diamond, another Republican, was even more pointed with his remarks, reminding the more than 200 lawmakers how Swift broke up with her home state when she moved to Tennessee to pursue her singing career.
In the new Texas law, porn site users must be asked to provide digital identification; government-issued identification; or, public or private transactional data (mortgage, pay stub, etc.) to prove that they are adults and not minors.
The law will also require porn and adult websites to display the following warnings:
“Pornography is potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.”
“Exposure to this content is associated with low self-esteem and body image, eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.”
“Pornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography.”
Applicable websites will also have to list the phone number for the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
She had the nerve to say biotin kept her hair and radiation kept her tan. Social media grossness at its grossest..
Madison Russo allegedly used social media to spread awareness about her battle with cancer and to raise almost $40,000 on GoFundMe — but the entire operation was a scam, according to Iowa police, who have charged Russo with theft.
Russo, a 19-year-old TikTok content creator, raised more than $37,303 from 439 donors by falsely claiming she suffered from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Stage 2 pancreatic cancer, and a tumor the “size of a football, that wrapped around her spine,” according to a news release from the Eldridge Police Department.
We fell for it.. we got the click bait.. and we dove straight in.
It appears a new “dress” style debate has emerged online–all from an image that was either taken in 2015 or first appeared then.
This cat:
It’s walking up–or down–stairs..
According to The Minds Journal, the direction in which you see the cat walking says a lot about your personality.
If you think the cat is walking upstairs then supposedly you are optimistic, whereas if you see it walking downstairs then you’re more pessimistic…
And we have no idea why someone decided that was the case..
So what does that make us here at the HORROR REPORT?
The first thing we thought was that the cat was literally walking along a straight flat surface that just had a design that appeared as though they were steps… neither up, nor down.
So we are just plain old realistic… Or surrealistic..?
Two judges reportedly walked off the stage in protest after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was unmasked as an exiting costumed contestant during a recent taping of Fox’s The Masked Singer.
“Deadline hears that as soon as they saw Giuliani, judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke quickly left the stage in protest,” the site reported Wednesday night. “Deadline hears that while Jeong and Thicke exited (they eventually returned), fellow judges Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger remained onstage.
….the first episode may be a throwback nostalgia filled gasp-worthy event. Kevin Smith undoubtedly will homage the fans from the 1980s who keep the spirit of Eternia alive.
But what if the show goes woke?
Will Tea-La secure a girlfriend? Will He-Man’s toxic masculinity cause him to rage? Will Skeletor be nice on Christmas like during the 80s holiday special?
We are being told that the characters in the new Netflix cartoons premiering July 23 will face certain crises and as they unfold, adult dialogue will greet our favorite action figures from the cartoon..
Clownfish is among the YouTube channels lamenting the chances that the new cartoon will go all in on modern virtue signaling, and forget the fans who grew up watching cartoon..
Their video here for your enjoyment:
Could they be right!
But there could also be a certain amount of hype about this possibility. Cartoons modernize.. they change with times.
We will keep our minds open that this show may be exactly what we hoped for. Or at least enough of what we hoped for that the modern changes can get a pass.
Everything is political. Even .. yes.. even vaccines.
Apparently you can gleam a lot into the personal political choices of someone by their vaccine they get? Or at least this is what ‘pop culture’ is telling us. So it has got taaaa bee true, right!?
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The latest vaccine rage online apparently consists of which vaccine is hottest. Prettiest. The most alluring and gratifying …
And the winner is Pfizer!
You see this shot get hot Every antibody comes through.. When I step up in the spot (are you ready?) Make the vaccine sizzle like a summertime cookout Prowl for the best shot, yes I’m on the lookout (let’s dance) Slow banging shorty like a dancer with the RONA Smell good, pretty skin, so gangsta with it (oh, baby) No tricks only diamonds under my sleeve Gimme the number, but give me the T cells before you leave…
At the moment, the internet is full of jokes about all the things you still can’t do after you’ve gotten vaccinated—like taking my hand and dragging me headfirst, which is part of a Taylor Swift song from 2008; removing the green ribbon from around your neck, a reference to a disturbing children’s story in which a woman named Jenny does that and then her head falls off; or emerging “from the soil after 17 years to shed your outer cuticular layer & scream into the ether in unison,” which is a subtweet of cicadas. I’m laughing, but what are we talking about? Weirder still, one vaccine in particular—from Pfizer—has somehow become the cool vaccine, as well as the vaccine for the rich and stylish. Slate’s Heather Schwedel recently discussed the “Pfizer superiority complex” at length. As one source told her: “One of my cousins got Moderna, and I was like, ‘That’s OK. We need a strong middle class.’” On Twitter, the vaccinated are changing their usernames to reflect their new personal identities: There are Pfizer Princesses and Pfizer Floozies and Pfizer Pfairies and at least one Portrait of a Lady on Pfizer. “Pfizer is what was available when I signed up,” Jagger Blaec, a 33-year-old podcast host told me, “but it’s no coincidence every baddie I know has Pfizer and not Moderna.” Isn’t it a coincidence, though?
The TikTok culture has solidified the notion that only hot people get Pfizer.. or that Pfizer makes you hot.
This is not science of course.. but we don’t care about facts in 2021. The last decade has proven that facts are just opinions in your own windmills of your mind.
Don’t cha wish your vaccine was hot like me? Don’t cha wish your vaccine was an RNA freak like me? Don’t cha? Don’t cha? Don’t cha wish your vaccine was raw like me? Don’t cha wish your vaccinewas fun like me? Don’t cha? Don’t cha?
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The ATLANTIC article continues:
Pfizer elitism seems to have originated on TikTok, where the vaccine hierarchy has been most concretely outlined. I wondered if it might have something to do with the particulars of that platform, so I reached out to Shauna Pomerantz, a TikTok scholar and an associate professor at Brock University, in Ontario. She suggested a much simpler explanation: The idea of a rich-hot-bougie-elite-status vaccine comes out of American culture, she said, in which everything is extremely competitive and organized around “winners and losers rather than support and kindness.” Yikes.
