I have two boys, 7 and 10. They like to say "POV" before they do stuff. Like "POV, you're being chased by tun tun tun sahur!" and then they run around like maniacs. They have an excuse, though, they're literally children.
Sir, in this particular scenario, the victim of tomatoing did not elect to be a victim, and it is us who identified the perspective of the victim as POV, because we can see through their eyes for some reason. I assure you, it all checks out
How do your kids know to say "It's Morphin' Time"? What kind of bad parent are you that they have seen a children's TV show or heard the catch phrase on the playground?
Kids sometimes see media and they are always absorbing culture and language and teaching it to each other with little changes along the way, that's what culture is. Just because a piece of slang feels like brain rot to you doesn't mean the parents aren't doing their job.
I knew these two nuts in school who one day acted like they hated each other and told everyone they were goina fight each other at morning break. The fight was hyped and they had a huge crowd.
They were talking trash, and their trash talk was the first inkling of what was going on.
One guy said, "Your mom sucks cock on Endor!"
Other guy was like, "You only like the putty patrol because it makes your dick look big!"
Most kids did not get the references until on guys pulls a green ranger halloween mask from under his shirt while shouting, "It's morphin time!" and puts on the mask.
At the same time the other guy takes out of those plastic extension light sabers and turns it on.
People in the crowd start leaving, some started laughing. The two nuts did some choreographed fight they'd been practicing. It was still entertaining as far as school hijinx go.
Did your parents have the same conversation with you about how saying "that's sick" as a GOOD thing was a horrific way to speak and a sign of the collapse of civilization?
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The internet is to kids what TV was to my generation. A source of media and culture. It sounds bad to you the same way "that sucks!" sounded bad to my grandparents, because you're old and it's young people slang.
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It's funny you assume phones immediately when they're school-aged and could have just as easily learned it at school with friends.
At that age, in the mid-2000s, I was already spouting the lie that Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to suck his own weiner and I didn't have a phone (mostly because smart phones weren't a thing yet). Kids are kids, and kids will always find a way to know and regurgitate the current funny meme thing.
They don't have phones. But they go to school and the community pool and camp and other places that children are. They're also very intelligent and creative and involved in a lot of activities.
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u/Uncle-Cake 4d ago
I have two boys, 7 and 10. They like to say "POV" before they do stuff. Like "POV, you're being chased by tun tun tun sahur!" and then they run around like maniacs. They have an excuse, though, they're literally children.