Insta Ruined Everything

So I'm old.

Quite old.

I was in hol- high school 40-plus years ago, [gentle music] so lots of things could've changed.

But, uh, I was talking to a woman the other day and, uh, she said, "Well, I gotta, I gotta get going.

I gotta finish the poster for my son.

I'm s- such a mom, I'm actually making his poster for homecoming." And I thought, "A poster for homecoming?" Like-

What do you mean?

"Well, my son's asking this girl out, and I have to have the poster done by tomorrow." What? I didn't...

I w- I was completely unaware of this phenomenon, and then I guess it's all the rage now, uh, or at least for some people.

And it gets to the whole, I guess, social media, Instagram thing.

Um-

I was just gonna say, social media had to have done this

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so I'm at the, uh, I'm at the football game, and this was several weeks ago.

And, uh, yeah, everybody knows ahead of time that you're gonna ask the girl out for the homecoming dance.

And everybody has their phones out, including both sets of parents.

And then you go up to her with this great big, giant sign that says, "Will you go to homecoming with me?" Facing the camera so everybody can see it.

And then they tell you yes in front of everybody, and then hug, and then everybody's got th- Do you post the video somewhere, I guess? [laughs] Or I don't know, I don't know how that works, but when did-

Of course you do

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when did that become a thing, that you have to have a giant sign to ask somebody to go to the dance? Has that been that way for decades and I just missed it, or, or has it always been that way and we just, we just didn't do that at my high school?

Boy, I hate to ruin the fun, but this, this, uh, horrifies me.

I hate it.

Yeah.

It's, uh, everything is performative, and it trans-