Credit: PA Department of Corrections, Hailey Welch – YouTube





This week, youth culture gives us both a hero and a villain. Incongruously, the online world has cast accused murderer Luigi Mangione of UnitedHealthcare as the first, and Hailey “Hawk Tuah Girl” Welch as the heel, and the reasons why are difficult to explain. I’m also going to subject you to “Sigma Boy Sigma Boy”, the most annoying video on the internet (so far).


The internet is rallying around a killer


Twenty-six-year-old Mangione is an unlikely vigilante. The child of a wealthy and influential Baltimore family (the Mangiones aren’t just country club members, they’re country club members). own the country club), he was valedictorian of his class at the elite Gilman School and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a master’s degree in computer science. But then something still unknown distracted Mangione from his expected major league career, and he was ultimately accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York street corner. He is currently facing second-degree murder charges, weapons charges and other crimes.


Considering he is reportedly a ruthless killer, it may seem strange to you that Mangione has been highly celebrated online since his capture. He has been heavily avoidedmerchandise was erected in his honorand people have done that offered to pay his legal bills. Venerating murderers and criminals is nothing new: bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde left bodies in their wake during a Depression-era crime spree, but nevertheless became a public sensationwhich speaks at least in part to the anger many people felt about the then-devastating economy. And sure enough, on social media, people of all political persuasions are alluding to (if not outright) the belief that even if what Mangione did wasn’t exactly admirable, since pretty much everyone has a health insurance horror story to share, it was at least understandable .


But it really wasn’t. As much as we hate insurance companies, and as much blame for their incompetence we place on the people in charge of them, extrajudicial killings rarely turn out the way you might think – instead of Robin Hood stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, or even the Punisher who shoots villains over whom the justice system has no influence, you get nightmares like the KKK and the Salvadoran death squads. And instead of making plans to change the capitalist policies that cause suffering, you get companies that plan to do just that increase security for their best buyers.


In general, however, young people on the Internet are not interested in moral complexity. They’ve decided that Mangione is a heroand find different ways to worship him. Such as:


Saying he’s like the Riddler: In keeping with their comic book-level understanding of how anything works, conspiracy theorists imagine that Mangione left cryptic clues in the header of his X account, including a photo of the Pokémon Breloom, pokedex #286, which probably a reference to Proverbs 28:6: “Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.” (But it could just as well be Leviticus 28.6: “The earthen pot in which the meat is cooked must be broken; but if it is cooked in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.)


Noting that he is hot: This is hard to argue with, but it is remarkable The attractiveness of Mangione has become a popular topic for memes.


Suggests that we should contribute (monetarily) and help him: Various crowdsourced Legal defense funds have been established (despite the fact that Mangione’s family is probably at least as wealthy as his alleged victim), and #FreeLuigi is trending everywhere.


Compare him to fictional characters: He has the same name as a Nintendo characterbut looks like the chef Ratatouille.


Thinking he’s just like us: He listens to popular music And shitposting on X.


However, Mangione isn’t exactly like us, at least I hope not. Because I think it’s best if we don’t all think of ourselves as murderers in waiting.


The internet hates Hawk Tuah Girl


Back in September, I suggested that Haliey Welch, the Hawk Tuah Girl, should monetize her 15 minutes of fame as thoroughly as possible, but I didn’t mean it that way: About a week ago, Welch launched a new memecoin (HAWK) on the Solana blockchain. Memecoins are cryptocurrencies based on memes, because that’s what people are doing now.


According to Welch and her manager, this was not a scam. “We don’t want to violate securities laws,” Welch’s manager, Jonnie Forster, explained Fortune. “We would say we almost symbolize Hailey’s fan base in a way.”


The coin skyrocketed in value when it was offered to the public, with a total market capitalization of $490 million. But in a development that no one could have seen coming, HAWK soon plummeted, crashed, crashed and burned. The price dropped by more than 90% in just a few hours because someone It appears he bought 17.5% of the memecoin’s supply – worth $993,000 at the time – and then sold all 135.8 million of those HAWK tokens about 90 minutes later. Total profit: approximately $1.3 million. Wow! Who could it be?


Welch denies that her team had anything to do with it and posts on X:




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She later added:




Tim Robinson in 'I Think You Should Leave'




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There is talk of lawsuits about the confusion, but should it be so? No one should lose money to unscrupulous financial marketers, just as no one should be shot in cold blood on a New York City sidewalk, but it’s hard to have an inordinate amount of sympathy for someone who “invested” in a Hawk Tuah . memecoin. Ultimately, they would have traded that money for magic beans or something.


“Sigma Boy Sigma Boy” explained


From the heroes and villains of youth culture to their annoying little brother. The latest sound bite/meme/song that is popular among the brain rot The set is “Sigma Boy Sigma Boy”, an excerpt from a Russian song called Сигма Бой by Betsy and Masha Yankovskaya.


Below is the video for the song, but I recommend you don’t watch it.


That’s pretty annoying, but until TikToker it wasn’t annoying enough to really become a brain rot viral Dahoodapollo made it faster and more screechy and added Roblox characters. Please don’t click this:




Then other children started making their own creations own versionswhere they add incomprehensible nonsenseor took away everything except the textor ducks added. None of it means anything, but each of the videos I linked to has tens of millions of views, and on TikTok alone there are over 240,000 videos using the song. Is there something wrong here? I think there’s something wrong here.


Viral Video of the Week: “Rankin Bass Guy”


Young people are clearly having a bad week, but I don’t want to end this on a negative note, so I’ll point out something that should make you laugh: the videos of @cameronCortinas. This TikToker’s account is blowing up (not Sigma Boy, of course) because he makes perfect re-creations of those timeless Rankin Bass stop-motion Christmas specials.


Check out this famous dance number from Santa Claus is coming to town:




Uncanny, right? How about the Heat Miser’s joint? The year without Sinterklaas?




He uses some kind of filter to get the choppy look, but it’s really about the guy performance. He embodies these characters, and exhibits an almost scary ability to get the details right. Other TikTokers are work on the same side of the streetAnd many of their videos are funbut the original is the master.




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