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I've never cared about celebrity news for the sake of celebrity news, but I've found I very much care about the actual creation of the art that I like.

That means sometimes I know about the relationship history of the songwriters whose albums I listen to, knowing that a post-divorce album might explore those themes. Same with when a standup comedian I like becomes a parent, knowing that the observational humor may shift as a result.

For television and film, I know who's signing deals with who, which actors and directors like working with each other, what some prior screenwriter was doing before the current project, which studios have reputations for interfering with the artistic vision, which directors and producers have reputations for mismanaging resources, which characters had to be written off of shows for off-set reasons, etc., because it all affects the end product.

For sports, some of the off-field drama can affect the on-field product (suspensions or personnel movement for non-sports reasons, weird health conspiracy theories affecting one's return from injured status).

So I don't really mess with celebrity gossip in itself, but I do follow industry news in television, film, music, the sports I like, and any other entertainment I enjoy.

Same. I remember trying to do crossword puzzles, and half of them were like, "Name of the actress who played X in the 90s series title." Me: Hell if I know... name of a purple crystal used for jewelry and home decorations? oh yeah, I know this one!"

A few more years, and I'll finally become cool. Hehe, yes, just a few more years...

Just say the words they do. Nothing will make something uncool faster than a parent adopting it.

I'm a school bus driver and my kids act like their slang is some kind of secret language that I can't possibly understand. They apparently aren't aware that google is a thing.

When I was a 12 year old people were drawing that pointy S, which first started showing up in graffiti in the 70's but became a staple in middle school notebooks by the 90's. Somehow it had gone fully national without seeming to have any adult influence in its spread.

Also around the same time, "my bad" entered the lexicon, and went from basketball-coded slang to basically mainstream acceptance by the 90's, with this blog post from 2005 amusedly marking its use among Ivy League faculty members.

Slang travelled through print magazines, underground zines, radio, musicians, books, etc.

fetch? which fetch? browser fetch?

I suspect you're making half of this stuff up but I can't prove a thing

Wait, that was easy to parse?

No. Baby gronk was a sensation a few years ago in like u12 football because he was bigger than all the other kids ie he is a “baby” gronk. His dad promotes him hella on socials and now he’s an internet celebrity. “Drip king” can refer to a lot. Here I’d say it’s how well does he dress and what kind of aura does he have. But it’s a catch all term in this context. Livvy Dunne is a former LSU gymnast who became a huge internet celebrity around the same time as baby gronk, so there was a lot of talk of baby gronk rizzing her up and iirc they met up one time.

“Baby gronk rizzing up Livvy” is also a meme that has been around a couple years because it’s a silly sentence.

Livvy is Livvy Dunne the gymnast. And apparently Gronk is trying to hype up his very young son as a future athlete.

Probably because you grew up with it an understand it. Here's some 1950s brainrot slang:

I'm a circled guy to an ex paper shaker when this bird dog tried to bash her ears at this fat city place, not supermurgitroid!

Literally any discussion about Pokeyman (or Yugioh, etc.) our parents overheard was complete nonsense noises to them. I've had this brought to my attention by my mother, but only as an adult.

Also, anything we picked up from our era of flash videos - e.g., someone saying "so, this is the ....What a sweet you might say" and someone else reflexively responding "round", or a loop of "badger" and "mushroom" between friends: also nonsense.

In any case, it's an important skill to learn the new slang: as an old, it gives you the power to make it "cringe" by using it. Very fun, on god

lulz u f0rg0t l33tsp33k