
The latter is perhaps a more obvious parody of the trend. The audio clip for this video is borderline unlistenable, layering a robot reading a (potentially fake) Reddit post with multiple sound effects and “Cat’s in the Cradle ” by Harry Chapin.Īm I old or is something very wrong here /6TccyljcFV- Gillian Branstetter January 6, 2023īut neither video in these tweets is quite as straightforward as it appears. “This is what your little cousin watches 14 hours a day,” says another, captioning a video that splices another Family Guy clip with footage from what appears to be Jump Girl, a silly endless runner game that sees the protagonist bouncing off various items, including men and giant eggplants. “Am I old or is something very wrong here,” reads one tweet, showing a video split three ways between Subway Surfers gameplay, an episode of Family Guy, and someone scooping and cutting sensory sand. Often, that attention is negative, particularly about the perceived attention spans of younger internet users. But they’ve also been shared on other platforms, where they’ve become a meme in and of themselves. These kinds of collaged videos - sometimes called “sludge content” - that play completely different footage side by side are proliferating on TikTok.

Slime is being coiled and stretched next to a reupload of someone else’s POV sketch. The jumping, coin-collecting gameplay of Subway Surfers plays alongside a segment of a Twitch stream. Someone is chopping kinetic sand into neat, even cubes next to a clip from Family Guy.
