Stephen Johnson Stephen Johnson Senior Staff Writer Experience Stephen Johnson is a senior staff writer at Lifehacker covering pop culture and technology, including the columns “The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People Are Getting Wrong This Week.” Read Full Bio May 4, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Credit: @jessicaer45, @pablopyee, @xanda.basedgod A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, and viral videos of youth culture in terms that even the squarest can understand. Table of Contents This week, a meme-based generational civil war is breaking out on TikTok, and only one side knows it's even happening; a throwaway tweet from rapper Young Thug has me looking into why so many rappers put "ASAP" in front of their names, and we're going back in time to 2012, when prank videos ruled the internet. TikTok’s Le Snack Demon and why it signals a generational rift TikTok has been around since 2016; Instagram, since 2010.…