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This Week in Dulture…
Approx 3 minute read:
🤪 Emojis aren’t what they used to be
🚶♂️ Tom Green documenting himself
🎵 Bruno Mars and his triforce
🧑🏭 Gen Z employees suck (according to research, not me)
Remember the days when you could drive while using your cell phone and it was perfectly okay?
Those days you either had a QWERTY keyboard or used T9 but with either option, you could easily text while you were driving and didn’t even have to look down because you knew exactly which button you were pressing.
Millennials ruined it all for us.
It wasn’t long until you had to start looking down because your phone no longer had any buttons to feel for. And then only a matter of time until you held up traffic or got into an accident from looking at your phone instead. And then it was illegal.
I blame it on trying to find emojis.
Once you could use the actual picture as the emoji as opposed to “<3” or “:D”, you just had so many options to choose from.
And millennials started using emojis immediately, in their literal context…because how else would you use emojis?
Enter: Gen Z
My wife was telling me how our Gen Z kid uses emojis the other day. If you look at it with a literal perspective, none of it makes sense. But here’s your emoji manual for 2025 by Gen Z’s:
💀 This one I actually thought the same - you aren’t literally dead but just dying from laughter. OR, you’re dead in a sense that someone told you something that is shocking.
😭 When emojis were first introduced this one wasn’t being used unless you were super sad. Gen Z has turned this one upside down - it’s used for when something is super funny, sweet, or just really really nice.
🙃 Typically I use this for sarcasm or just being stupid but Gen Z takes this one to another level indicating when their world has gone upside down, essentially a FML moment.
❤️ This one is obvious…unless you’re Gen Z. If a Gen Z person is sending you a message and it ends with this, they’re essentially telling you they disagree with you but in a less aggressive way. “Sorry, no” comes to mind.
There were a few more emojis but honestly, it all just gets summarized with the fact that Gen Z has taken emojis and used them for anything but their literal meaning.
The Tom Green Documentary: A Review
I don’t know the origins of a lot of things in life but all of those YouTubers who prank people in public, I know exactly where that all came from…
At this point I don’t even think YouTubers today even know this all originated from a guy in Ottawa on a local cable access TV channel.
It’s been over 25 years since the first episode of The Tom Green Show aired. In his new documentary, This Is The Tom Green Documentary, Tom Green takes us through his life from his early days of performing at amateur night every week at Yuk Yuk’s in Ottawa, to finding himself constantly filming for his show, which would eventually get picked up by the CBC in Canada and later on MTV.
Given Tom essentially created the wild, shocking, and most of the time hilarious world he performed in, it was actually very fitting that he did the interviewing within the documentary - even though the subject of the documentary typically doesn’t do any of the work behind the scenes.
Tom met Glen Humplik (left) in Ottawa at a college radio station in high school
The documentary is a refreshing reminder of what it meant to be famous within a familiar time for pop culture prior to the advent of social media. As a Canadian, it’s also a reminder of how many barriers Tom Green broke down in American show business, seemingly on his own. He creates a TV show about his own hijinx and whatever he finds funny and eventually finds himself with a studio in Times Square on MTV at its peak, marrying A-lister Drew Barrymore, arguably at her peak too.
There’s a pleasant humanizing aura throughout the documentary as Tom recounts all the stories and accolades he experienced from moving to New York and then to LA as he sits with his parents. The man who created a new brand of comedy for the world and inspired Joe Rogan to start podcasting sits outside his quaint house in the middle of Ontario farmlands.
Tom provides commentary to all the classic Tom Green Show segments alongside commentary from his co-stars Glen Humplik and Phil Giroux, and his manager and producers - all of whom oftentimes knew as much as the audience in terms of what was going on.
It’s odd, yet charming, to see Tom act so normal after watching him be anything but normal for the better part of 10 years in film and television.
If you were a fan of Tom Green this documentary will bring back so many memories and laughs. And if you don’t know who Tom Green is, you should check this out as it’s a great story of someone taking their dream and making it a reality, when none of it should have happened in the first place.
You can find it on Amazon Prime.
The Bruno Mars Triforce
Bruno Mars is on a collab tear with female artists these days.
It all started in August with his collaboration with Lady Gaga on their song, Die with a Smile, which originally was just supposed to be a one off single. But now Lady Gaga is including it in her new album this year.
Next, in October our ears were blessed by Rosé’s (from Blackpink) first single off of her first solo album, APT, which featured Mars. And now it’s stuck in your head…and I don’t blame you, the second I hear the first part or see the dance I’m screwed.
And just last week Bruno and Sexxy Red released the strip club athem he was “looking to make” called Fat Juicy & Wet, which is obviously about watermelon 🙃
The kicker is the music video has appearances from both Lady Gaga and Rosé effectively completing the Bruno Triforce.
Last year there were rumours of Bruno being in $50M of debt to MGM in Vegas. It doesn’t seem to be much of a worry these days after the trifecta of hits buddy has collaborated on over the past few months…
You’re Fired!…Gen Z
I don’t mean to stereotype buuuuut lemme stereotype for a second. Younger Gen Z employees need to get their sh*t together. According to a report, of 966 business leaders interviewed, 75% of companies felt some or all of their recent grads that they hired were unsatisfactory.
From the report, hiring managers said that “recent college grads were unprepared for the workforce, can’t handle the workload, and are unprofessional.” I had this job once where I worked with a lot of younger people who were “entrepreneurs”. My colleagues and I used to joke that they were only entrepreneurs because no one would hire them - I guess we weren’t that far off from the truth.
The entitled thing is such a real thing
The more I write about this the more I feel like the “get off my lawn” old man but let’s keep it a buck for a minute - Gen Z grew up with access to the world handed to them, so I get why they feel entitled. The internet has made basically everything exponentially easier and as a result, made those who grew up with the internet exponentially lazier.
I know they say social media isn’t reality most of the time but c’mon, if people are setting up tripods in public places to perform dances, disrupting people trying to just go about their daily life, you can only imagine how unhinged these people are to work with.
OK rant over…I’m sure you’re all VERY nice to work with 💀
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