Roundtable: Group 7, Trans Identities in Decline, and The Dead Internet Theory

Three Big Conversations:

1. Why TikTokers are talking about being in "Group 7". - 9:00
2. A decrease in the number of young people self-identifying as trans and nonbinary. - 17:30
3. What it means that over half of the internet's articles are now written by AI. - 33:20

Resource of the Week - Conversation Kit on Miracles - 02:18

Elsewhere in culture: - 52:54

Colleen Hoover, the #BookTok author of It Ends With Us, has another movie adaptation coming out this week called Regretting You. Twitch streamer Emiru was forcefully grabbed by a large man at TwitchCon, and has sworn off future participation in their conference because of how Twitch handled it. The massive power outage at AWS (Amazon Web Services), impacting the functionality of apps, banks, and alarm clocks (just to name a few), is sparking new conversations about the potential dangers of tech monopoly. MrBeast reportedly filed a trademark application for "MrBeast Financial," leading many to suspect that Jimmy Donaldson's newest stunt might be starting his own bank. A trending meme uses a drawing of the White Rabbit (from Alice in Wonderland) pointing at a clock to joke about how much time people do (or don't) have left.

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