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Naming Our Kids After Something We Love: The Viral List

We round up the most viral moments of the week…

Written and Edited by the YPulse Editorial Team
KEY TAKEAWAYS
  • TikTok’s new meme is normalizing Gen Z naming their kids after something they love—like Wingstop
  • Chipotle’s “phone rule” is either a hack to get bigger portions or a genius marketing ploy
  • Young men and women on TikTok have different ideas of what a sundress actually looks like
This week on TikTok: Normalize naming your kids after something (even a product) you love  A new TikTok meme wants to “normalize” naming our kids after “something we love.” And by that, they either mean something wholesome or (in most cases) something entirely inappropriate. TikTok users are posting photo slides, the first captioned, “normalize naming your kid after something you love” and the second with a caption that names the child after something unexpected or completely abstract that the person loves. When they meme tucking in their hypothetical kids, they write: “Goodnight my little twisted tea,” “Goodnight Wingstop,” or “Goodnight...

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