by Timothy Jung (6th)

Memes and Trends

Volume 1

“67 is dead!” No it is not. Apparently, it’s at the elementary schools now as well as “being dead”. However, this is new knowledge that they are remixing the old meme and saying 10 and 11. Of course you might already be laughing. So let’s continue. Apparently there are four different types of 6 and 7. There are 33, 41, and like I just told you, 10 and 11. (the word “and” states that you say them as two different numbers as in ten eleven, where if you do not have that supporting phrase, it is just said as a number with multiple digits, such as thirty-three.)

This is all real bad news, because over the course of around 4 to 5 months, people have been saying what you see as the first sentence on the screen. I’m seeing kindergarteners saying it in my face, putting their hands up and down like a scale that has lost all purpose, and at the middle school you’re all saying, “It’s dead,” like people who’ve been stuck living in a box their whole lives! It’s a problem. Of course (thankfully) it might actually be finished in middle school, but as I said, we might as well be in a box.

And that leads us to not just putting ourselves in boxes, but our supply of water too. From 2023 we were doomed. People were already getting these giant water bottles that cost a hundred dollars per bottle. They were called Stanleys. Everyone hated them. If they fell over it would spill out no matter what– unless you had a cap for the top, which everyone who had a Stanley could’ve bought if they had enough money for the expensive Stanley.

Then 5th grade. The Water Wars. People started getting interested in what was called the Owala. It was safer from spills, but it cost 40 bucks on a small one, not those huge giant ones, but the tiny ones that needed you to take off the cap in order to drink the actual stuff. Talk about expensive. Now? Other than a few Stanleys, it’s pretty much all Owala or nothing. Of course, that’s the past. On Volume 2, we’ll talk about present day trends and how appropriate they are for middle schoolers.