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This week we take a look at the dark, scary side of youth culture, including Russian trash streaming, deadly TikTok dangers and, most terrifyingly, Elon Musk doing comedy.
The dark world of “Trash Streaming”
Earning clicks (and money) by going too far is a time-honored internet tradition. While things like this are mostly harmless pranks and stunts like YouTuber Mr. Beast fill his brother’s house with slime (and then buy him a new house) the other side of the “extreme” coin is “trash streaming,” which is much darker.
Hailing from Russia, these video streamers are like the internet version of radio shock jocks. They basically get drunk, stream videos, and take tips from viewers in exchange for antics. Drunk Russians paying each other for debauchery? What could possibly go wrong?
How about this: Sixty years old Yuri “grandfather” Dushechkin died in February after drinking 1.5 liters of vodka during a live stream, reportedly after a YouTube channel host offered him money. Belarusian garbage man Andrey Burim slapped model Alena Efremova’s face against a table while thousands watched. then he mocked her in the press for a good measure. Nice guy. Stas Reeflay, a Russian streamer, was Sentenced to six years in jail for allegedly killing his pregnant girlfriend according to a bystander paid $ 1,000 to see he abuses her. The Russian authorities are reportedly looking for ways to ban the content.
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Alerts of the week
If you’re looking for something new to emphasize this week, here are some juicy dangers. Warn your kids to avoid all of these things … unless you really don’t like them.
On TV this week: Elon Musk moderates SNL
As I am giving warnings this week, I want to add this: If you are a charismatic plutocrat, don’t host Saturday Night Live. On his hosting debut, Elon Musk, controversial Tesla CEO and well-known Twitter shit poster, received high ratings, angry activists and fueled a cryptocurrency market. Not bad for 90 minutes of late-night TV.
Musk started the show by calling himself “the first person with Asperger’s” to host the SNL (I think he forgot And Aykroyd), then appeared in a series of sketches in which he made Nancy Kerrigan, the worst hostess ever, look positively awesome. He starred in a sketch that was offended woke up TwitterThen he called Dogecoin “a hassle,” which caused the cryptocurrency to drop 22 percent. The best moments of Musk’s SNL debacle were when he introduced Miley Cyrus. (Miley Cyrus is the best.)
Viral Video of the Week: I survived on $ 0.01 for 1 week
I’m a sucker for videos of people trying to make a living on their minds and hard work and for YouTubers Ryan Trahan makes the genre proud with a multi-part miniseries. Challenge himself to survive a week in a small Texas town, starting with just a dime, documenting it all on YouTube, and raising nearly $ 12,000 for the Central Texas Food Bank (as well as nearly four million views of his videos).
He started by trading the penny for a pen, sold the pen, and then went to the races with all sorts of programs from selling candy to passers-by to delivering for DoorDash. I like the idea that a person can still get on with old-fashioned moxie, chewing gum, and elbow grease, although I have to imagine that there is a clear benefit to being a charismatic, energetic, good-looking kid with a victorious personality to trying To do street sales. Anyway it is worth a visit.
This Week In Movies: Ultraman Comes To Netflix
If you like gigantic monster battles, Netflix has a movie for you. The streaming service works with Japan’s Tsuburuaya Productions Ultraman movie.
Originally starring on an incredibly great 1970s TV show in America, Ultraman is a household name in Japan and the hope is that it will reach an international audience. Unfortunately, the new version of Ultraman is CGI, so there aren’t any guys in rubber suits throwing each other around in model cities, but it does promise Ultraman’s alter ego, baseball star Ken Sato, to raise a baby Kaiju, a cuddly little kid monster offspring of his greatest Enemy. There are certain possibilities for this idea. No word on a release date or casting yet, but stay tuned.
