Calling your friend and saying “goodnight” is a wholesome, hilarious prank somehow
A couple weeks ago, TikToker Miranda Faye posted this video of her boyfriend calling his friends to say "goodnight." (I love the guy who answers, "What's up, bitch boy?" immediately. So dude.)
Overall, it's a poignant video that really says something about how men relate to one another. It's also hilarious, and exactly the kind of thing that kicks off a trend. It didn't take long for dudes all over to start calling their friends for no reason other than to say "good night" and/or "sweet dreams," resulting in videos like this one:
Here's my absolute favorite example:
A lot of commenters on TikTok connect this to the "male loneliness epidemic" or view friends calling friends as something men should do. But I think that's looking into it too deeply. For the most part, the friends in these videos immediately ask the callers "are you ok?" with real concern—I'm not seeing a lot of male loneliness here. And there's something great about the trait of not talking to your friends about personal things unless it's really important. The real male loneliness sufferers are the many guys out there who don't have any pals they can gently prank on video.
What is fambushing?
Since I'm covering wholesome trends this week, let's talk about fambushing. The word combines "family" and "ambush" and refers to young people checking where their parents are on location-sharing apps so they can get some free food—you see mom at Chipotle, you're gonna ask for a burrito. Starbucks too:
According to a rep from family-location-sharing app Life360, teenagers who use the app are more likely to check what their parents are doing than parents are to check their kids' locations. This seems wholesome and encouraging at first, but if I project back to my own youth (long before cell phones) I'd probably be using to check where my parents were so I wouldn't get caught doing whatever I was doing.
Forgotten Cher and Future collaboration disgusts nation
Anyway, the video made no ripple when it was produced and quietly slept on YouTube for nearly a decade. But a few weeks ago, the kids noticed. And they started tearing it apart.
The song so captured the imaginations of young people that they started re-enacting it in videos like this:
and this:
Even the Zaytoven's son started clowning on it:
There comes a time in people’s lives, usually around when they turn 30, when they stop noticing changes in fashion. Concerns like “I have to work all the time” and “is this mole cancer?” take over that brain-space. So for everyone who’s ever been advised by a clerk at the Gap (Cher and Future’s favorite store!) to “try a looser fit,” the "Outfits I Wore in High School" trend on TikTok will make you feel as old as the Cryptkeeper. Or even as old as Cher.
It’s all very cute until you realize the joke is on you. Your fashion mistakes aren’t nostalgic, they’re prehistoric—not even worthy of parody. You’ve aged out of relevance. It's comforting in a way.
Viral video of the week: Will smith eating spaghetti, revisited
Back in 2023, Reddit user u/chaindrop created an AI video made with Stable Diffusion featuring Will Smith eating spaghetti. It went viral for being a grotesque, surreal nightmare that frightened everyone who saw it. A year later, Will Smith himself posted an actual video of Will Smith eating spaghetti. A few weeks ago, Google released Veo 3, an AI video generation tool that creates realistic clips, complete with dialogue and sound. So of course it was used to make a video of Will Smith eating pasta. Check out how far AI has come:
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.It sounds absurd that "Will Smith Eating Spaghetti" is the baseline test for AI video generation, but it's actually a worthy challenge for artificial intelligence: humans eating and pasta are both hard things to "generalize" in an AI way. I also can't deny that's it's technically amazing, but I'm not looking forward to the "we can't tell real from fake" future that will probably be here in about six weeks.
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