If you’re over the age of 21, clicking on the Instagram page of Kylie Jenner or any other rich and famous teen can be a disheartening experience.
Not only are they already more well-off than 99.999999% of us will ever be, but they mix slang with web-speak in a way that often reads like a foreign language.
Of course, you can choose to take it as a reminder that young people are always coming up with new ways of expressing themselves as way of distinguishing themselves from prior generations, or as an indicator that sub-millennials or whatever the hell Kylie and her generation are called are a special kind of dumb.
It depends on your level of crotchetiness!
Anyway, no matter your age or your feeling on wealthy semi-nude 18-year-olds like Kylie, we can all agree that this trend of calling people who aren’t your parents “mom” or “dad” is especially stupid.
Yes, it’s been 18 months since Lorde confused the hell out of everyone by calling Kim Kardashian her mother on Twitter, but apparently assigning false parentage as a compliment is still a thing:
Kylie posted the above video last night, and if twerking in some kind of hellish nightmare version of Chuck E. Cheese weren’t confusing enough, she gave us this confusing caption:
“My mom and me @kimkardashian”
Look, we’re hip … Okay, no we’re not, but we get that “mom” is meant to be a form flattery.
As in, “I think you’re so awesome you should adopt me!”
But no matter what the explanation, we always think that declaring someone your parent is freakin’ weird.
Especially when that person is your sister.
Just stick to age-inapproriate bikini pics, Kylie.
