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Felicia's Melange

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Random musings, pictures and the occasional cat gif.

Yay, Belgium! I’m ready to meet you at @FACTSConvention, in Flanders Expo Ghent soon! November 2-3, for photoshoots, autographs, and big panels on both days. Make plans now please! 📷Tickets & info: www.facts.be #FACTSConvention

I just turned 43, but I have to say, trying to figure out what Skibidi Toilet was, made me feel much older.

It's basically a bunch of 14 year olds (and younger) who have had their first taste of surrealist content and because it is so novel to them, they can't get enough of it. And it has become extremely popular.

It has a perfect storm of features built in to appeal to that age group. First and foremost, their parents don't get it. It frustrates older people. But it isn't objectionable enough for parents to put their foot down and say they can't watch it for arbitrary moral conflicts. It's like Baby Shark for tweens.

And so these young people get to truly explore what weirdness is. How it makes them feel. And it gets to be... just theirs. They get to claim ownership of it and have this community surrealist experience together and then laugh at their parents because they're all, "Okay, but why is the head in a toilet?"

Kids are exploring the limits of their imagination and finding the wonders of surrealism... in the most infuriating-to-parents way possible.

A tale as old as time.

I'm betting there were some caveparents thousands of years ago looking at doodles on the cave walls and just shaking their head.

"Grok, my son... what the shit is this?"

The cycle continues.

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