Roundtable: TikTok Censorship, The Rise of Sad Music, and Antisocial Media

Roundtable: TikTok Censorship, The Rise of Sad Music, and Antisocial Media

Three Big Conversations:

  1. TikTok has a new US owner, which users worry is muddying the platform's approach to censorship. - 10:16
  2. Data shows that sad and angsty songs are ruling the streaming charts. - 29:28
  3. It's official: our algorithms are making us lonelier. - 40:12

Emoji of the Week: 🙂 - 01:19

Axis Resource--> Check out A Parent's Guide to Emoji

In Other News: - 52:04

Last week, Alex Honnold free-soloed Taipei 101 live on Netflix, with roughly 6.2 million people watching him climb a 1,667-foot skyscraper without a rope. The 2026 Oscar nominations dropped last week, with director Ryan Coogler's horror-thriller Sinners receiving a record-breaking 16 nominations. Speaking of awards season, after a long hiatus, Justin Bieber is slated to return to the Grammys stage this Sunday night. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal on Monday to apologize for his antisemitic comments and psychotic behavior. Athleisure is out for 2026. Some Gen Z creators are leaning into vintage (meaning 90s and early 2000s) sportswear and putting their matching workout sets out to pasture.

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Jenna Mindel on Slang, Cultural Trends, and Discipling the Next Generation

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Roundtable: 2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

Roundtable: 2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

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CT: 2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

CT: 2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

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Ask Axis: "Should we encourage teens to go to parties?"

Ask Axis: "Should we encourage teens to go to parties?"

A question on "camp skits not aging well." Libby asks, "We generally have just substituted current pop culture references into old skits to bring them up to date. But it's so necessary right now to he...

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Roundtable: Trade School, Grok Deepfakes, Fiber vs. Protein

Roundtable: Trade School, Grok Deepfakes, Fiber vs. Protein

Three Big Conversations: Gen Z heads to trade school en masse - 05:14 The controversy around Grok's creation of deepfake images - 21:26 Fiber is the new protein - 42:00 Slang of the Week: "Choppelga...

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CT: Trade School, Fiber vs. Protein, and Grok Deepfakes

CT: Trade School, Fiber vs. Protein, and Grok Deepfakes

Gen Z heads to trade school en masse, fiber is the new protein, and the controversy around Grok's creation of deepfake images. Slang of the Week: "Choppelganger" --> Check out the defenition in our re...

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Ask Axis: "How do I talk to my teens about swearing?"

Ask Axis: "How do I talk to my teens about swearing?"

"I recently had a conversation with my teen son about how words he (and everyone else) uses regularly were not considered ok when I was growing up. Can you speak to how language has changed and what i...

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Roundtable: "End of Beginning," Gen Alpha's Sushi Obsession, and the Great Meme Reset

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Three Big Conversations: Stranger Things star Joe Keery's synthpop song tops the charts - 12:55 Sushi is the new pizza for Gen Alpha - 22:46 the Great Meme Reset that wasn't.- 31:18 Slang of the Wee...

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