The Out-Of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: The Rise of Rizzmas Carols

If you’re curious about how younger people are celebrating the holiday season this year, I have you covered: They’re singing each other Rizzmas Carols, with lyrics like “On the first day or Rizzmas, my gyat gave to me, a toilet, skibidi.” They’re also decorating their Fortnite avatars with festive Skibidi Toilet skins, and watching MrBeast’s new game show, The Beast Games.

The rise of Rizzmas Carols

This year, the kids are marking the holiday by singing “Rizzmas Carols” with lines like “deck the halls with boughs of sigmas.” They’re basically slang overload, brain rot versions of Christmas carols. Check out “It’s Beginning to Look a Gyat like Rizzmas” to see what I mean:

For reasons known to no one, this brain rot version of “Last Christmas” (“Last Rizzmas”) has a million and a half plays on TikTok:

A favorite song to parody if you want to really cram in as many Gen-A references as possible is “12 Days of Rizzmas,” in which your rizzler might give you nine sigmas moggings…

…or 10 skibidi toilets.

Before you start bemoaning the future of the holidays, ask yourself how many times you sang “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg” when you were a kid. (If you asked your parents, I bet they’d answer “way too many.”) And if you simply don’t know what any of these newer slang words mean, I have you covered with my constantly updated guide to Gen Z and Gen A slang.

Skibidi Toilet comes to Fortnite

While we’re doing brain rot, let’s talk about Skibidi Toilet coming to Fortnite. The “Skibidi Toilet Bundle” contains a skin of Skibidi Toilet, two versions of Plungerman, a skibidi backpack, and the Plungerman’s plungers, all for 2,200 V-Bucks. But act fast, it’s only available until December 28.

If none of the above made any sense to you, allow me to translate: Fortnite is a massively popular competitive online game. Skibidi Toilet is a massively popular (among the younger set, anyway) web series on YouTube. Skins allow players to “dress” their in-game avatars, and it all costs V-Bucks, which are the online currency in Fortnite. At the current exchange rate, 2,200 V-Bucks is about $20, so kids can now spend $20 to look like Skibidi Toilet characters while they’re playing Fortnite. If you’re looking for a last minute gift for the 11 year-old in your life, hold your nose and fork over the V-Bucks.

TikTok gets nostalgic with Google Maps

For many, the end of the year is a time for bittersweet reflection, and TikTok denizens are getting into the spirit in an interesting way. The newest trend on social media involves posting videos of virtual time travel: finding familiar places on Google Maps’ street view, then virtually going back in time by checking out earlier photos to note who or what is no longer around. For instance, this TikToker misses her grandparents, but somewhere on Google Maps, they’re alive, working on the front lawn:

People are finding their own chalk drawings on the driveway:

People are seeing themselves waiting for the school bus:

People are catching themselves on a first date in the driveway:

Many people are finding beloved pets, sunning themselves in the yard, with no idea of how little time they have left:

Even if no one was captured by Google’s map car, just a missing car in a driveway is enough to stop people cold:

If you’re interested in checking out how your own home has changed over the years, here’s how:

1. Open up the google maps app or go to the Google Maps page.

2. Put in your address

3. Click “View street view”

4. Click “Show more dates”

5. Pick a year and see if it makes you cry

Man brings flowers to date, gets flamed

X user @Thehullboy posted a photo of himself about to go on a date last week and drew the ire and bile of a countless X users. See if you can guess what he did wrong:

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If you said, “nothing,” congratulations, you’re not a bitter cretin. According to man-o-sphere types, incels, and other sentient garbage heaps, though, the dude should not have brought the girl flowers. Some sample comments:

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To be fair, many commenters on this dude’s post support his decision to bring a bouquet on a date, pointing out that it’s kind of a nice thing to do on a date, and sort of adorable. In response, angry men are pointing out that those comments are from women, and what do women know about what women like? In other words, something has gone terrible wrong with many, many young men.

Viral Video of the Week: The first episode of ‘The Beast Games’

Mr. Beast has 338 million followers on his YouTube channel, more than anyone else on Earth, but this month he’s making the move to more traditional streaming by hosting his own game show on Amazon Prime Video. The Beast Games is like a real life version of Squid Game where 1,000 regular people compete for a prize of $5 million through the kinds of endurance tests and contests that MrBeast made so popular on his YouTube channel. Critics do not like it, dubbing it “$100 million worth of charmless YouTube nonsense” and “about what you’d expect from an ever-hustling spectacle merchant like MrBeast.” The kids, though, seem to like it: Almost 100 million people viewed the first episode on YouTube in less than a week. For comparison: around 123 million people viewed the last Super Bowl.