The Asylum Where Gen Z Was Raised on The Viral List

We round up the most viral moments of the week…

  • Taylor Swift’s lyric, “You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me” is taking over TikTok
  • A Chick-fil-A employee was told to stop making promotional content about the food, so Shake Shack partnered with her instead
  • Biden signed a potential TikTok ban into law, but the app’s CEO is working to fight it
A Taylor Swift lyric has Gen Z showing their personal “asylum” they were raised in  Taylor Swift’s latest album The Tortured Poet’s Department of course has Swifties producing a ton of new social content with Swift’s new songs as the audios. Among the flood of reactions, one thing is standing out this week: a meme from her track “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” where Swift dives deep into the dark side of fame and criticism over her personal life. The lyric, “You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me” has people across X and TikTok pairing the line with images of places that mean something to them-good or bad. From childhood hang outs to places that bring back haunting memories, it’s a trip down memory lane that Gen Z is of course shaping with their unique brand of communal humor.   The meme spans from nods to classic TV shows like Sex and the City and Skins, then spiraled into references to Tumblr in...

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