The Out of Touch Adult Child Culture Guide: Why Are 'Gentleminions' Banned?

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The main thing that separates children from old people is not the technological divide or the fact that children have not fully internalized the inevitability of their own death. It's that young people have so much more free time than we do. The freedom of not having to support yourself and clean up everything leaves plenty of time to participate in a grassroots movement around a silly kids movie, experience the benefits of "brown noise", and eat in all the fucking Rainforest Cafe in North America.

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The Out of Touch Adult Child Culture Guide: Why Are 'Gentleminions' Banned?
Image for article titled The Disconnected Adults Guide to Childhood Culture: Why Are 'Gentleminions' Banned? Screenshot: Stephen Johnson/TikTok

The main thing that separates children from old people is not the technological divide or the fact that children have not fully internalized the inevitability of their own death. It's that young people have so much more free time than we do. The freedom of not having to support yourself and clean up everything leaves plenty of time to participate in a grassroots movement around a silly kids movie, experience the benefits of "brown noise", and eat in all the fucking Rainforest Cafe in North America.

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