Reddit explains how to embarrass an 18-year-old in 2018
In the age of the internet, it seems harder than ever to connect with the youths of today without coming off like the Steve Buscemi “how do you do, fellow kids?” meme from 30 Rock.
So in an attempt to make sense of it all, one adjunct professor took to r/NoStupidQuestions on Reddit to get an idea of how to speak to a class of freshman bio students.
The appropriately named “lazyadjunct” actually wants to embarrass themselves in front of the students, equating to an instructor attempting rap lyrics or using slang like “radical” in the ’90s. “Basically I want to pull the ‘old person trying too hard to fit in with young people,’ gag but at 31 I’m too old to figure out youth culture,” they wrote.
And the results were predictably gold. Some suggested making references to Fortnite, ...