Roundtable: GPT-5, The Stiletto Challenge, and The 30-Minute Ick

Roundtable: GPT-5, The Stiletto Challenge, and The 30-Minute Ick

Three Big Conversations:

    1. The "Nicki Minaj stiletto challenge" encourages influencers to film themselves balancing on one stiletto-clad foot. - 05:50
    2. OpenAI released GPT-5 and users hate it. - 16:08
    3. Why time (unfortunately) flies when we're using social media. - 43:22

Slang of the Week - "Dogwater" - 01:25

Elsewhere in culture: - 53:06

Taylor Swift announced (on her boyfriend's football podcast) that her 12th album will be titled The Life of a Showgirl, and available for pre-order soon. Popular TikTok couple Nick and Cassie, featured on @cassiesbooktok, are breaking up—and the video announcing it has almost 8 million likes and numerous comments, each with hundreds of thousands of likes. An article in Airmail connects the trend of brides planning wedding proposals for themselves to the fact that proposal content tends to get more likes on social media. The phrase "just found out I'm chopped and also unc" is trending, and jokingly refers to someone being both unattractive (chopped) and old (unc).
Chappell Roan's new song "The Subway" is about struggling to get over a breakup (language and sexual content).

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