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Learn all about the street fashion trend that’s taking over young people’s closets. Oct 27, 2026

This week’s Out of Touch Guide delves into the musical genre/sub-culture of “Loser Core,” a pointed response to overly polished music and Instagram-polished fashion. We also define some slang, so if a young person says you have EBK or nods and says “GiGis” to you, you’ll know whether you’re being insulted or complimented. And then…

This week’s Out-of-Touch guide takes us from the frozen wastelands of ancient Scandinanostalgia and the peculiar love Gen Z has for clowns

This week’s Out-of-Touch Guide explains everything from a dance trend that anyone with a face can do to which social media trends are leading to arrests.Put on your face’s dancing shoes and let’s get going!

This week’s trip into the culture of young people is filled with bad ideas and stupidity, but it’s that specific kind of stupidity that’s the sole purview of youth—unserious, frequently baffling, but ultimately harmless. Old people are just as stupid, but our stupidity has consequences. Debating whether ditching basic hygiene to be more attractive is…

This week’s dispatch has it all: the indomitable spirit of internet perverts, a genre of music named for its awfulness, slang that didn’t come from African-American vernacular English, and a couple of YouTubers who out-earned Star Wars. As always, I’ve done the deeply undignified work of digging into it so you don’t have to. You’re…

The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide is your roadmap to what the younger people are up to. This week, discussions of what “quiet on the creek” means, why kids are calling each other “Tylenol babies,” and what “corny on the bob, off the bob” means take us into some surprisingly choppy water. Because just like all of…