Goodnight Phone Calls, Annabelle, and Gen Z Tech Restrictions
- Author
- Axis
- Published
- Thu 29 May 2025
- Episode Link
- https://culturetranslator.libsyn.com/young-men-call-to-say-goodnight-suspicions-of-a-haunted-doll-gen-zers-talk-technology-restrictions
A new trend involves young men calling each other to say goodnight, a supposedly haunted doll named Annabelle is blamed for a plantation burning down, and Gen Zers explain why they would give significant restrictions on technology to their own kids.
Elsewhere in culture: Lilo & Stitch had a bigger box office opening than the new Mission: Impossible movie, a newly published study from JAMA found that social media use can predict depression but that depression doesn’t necessarily predict social media use, Transformers Director Michael Bay plans to direct a Skibidi Toilet movie, Dr. Jordan Peterson debated 20 atheists simultaneously in a Jubilee video, and New York influencer @justjazzzyidk posted 20 TikToks on her own wedding day.
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