Here’s why teens are dressing up in suits to see ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’
It answers:
It’s unclear why this trend has taken off, but TikTok users are saying it’s just for fun. Many groups have not caused issues.
No, it is clear: It’s TikTok.
Full disclosure: My boys dressed up to go see the film on the first. We thought that is one of the notions that gets into the older boy’s head from time-to-time until I saw the son of friends on Facebook also dressed up to see the film in the theater. So then I thought TikTok. In an unrelated note, when talking with my boys, I call it the TikTok to emphasize how old and out-of-touch I want them to think I am.
Man, that Chinese application can get the kids to do some crazy things! How scared should I be?
I would also normally riff a bit on how this might be a 20-something journalist getting something wrong and being ignorant of things he or she is too old for, but reading these little AP filler stories, I am not completely convinced that they’re not written by AI. I mean, this story and another I read this morning (Self-checkout growing even though no one likes it) follow a similar template. A trend mentioned with a non-specific example followed by a counterpoint of sorts. No actual reporting involved, and the headline is pretty much all you need to read.
