You need to leave the house – Joy’s guide to solo dates
Gen Z is no stranger to unique internet lingo. The millennials before us, with their sarcastic and meta humour (and slightly cringe one-liners) paved the path for us; our own nihilistic meta-humour has unfortunately led to gen alpha’s love of absurdist AI-generated images. A millennial will not get what ‘slay’ means to a gen Z, and a gen Z is probably never going to find Tungtungtung sahur as funny as a gen alpha. Among the museum hall of gen-z slang, one in particular stands out to me as something that is growing ever-relevant in a world where our screentime has far overtaken our real time. Touch grass. With the rise of gamer culture in the 2010s, this phrase had it’s origins in call lobbies as a insult against try-hards who spent hours of their life online trying to be the best possible player in the game. As it left the gaming hemisphere and entered social media, its core meaning remained the same. You are spending too much time online and need to re-enter the real world. An insult,...
