The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is the Matcha Filter?

This week's dispatch has it all: the indomitable spirit of internet perverts, a genre of music named for its awfulness, slang that didn't come from African-American vernacular English, and a couple of YouTubers who out-earned Star Wars . As always, I've done the deeply undignified work of digging into it so you don't have to. You're welcome. What is the matcha filter? TikTok is serious about keeping people from using its service to expose their parts, but the ingenuity of perverts should not be underestimated. Enter the matcha filter. Officially named "wild hearts whisper," unofficially named for the thick, hazy green wash it throws over videos, the matcha filter showed up on the 'Tok a few weeks ago and user quickly discovered it defeats the platform's nudity filters. Here's a non-nudie video of it in action: Using the matcha filter is called out in the comments on those videos, and TikTok's moderation team works hard at the endless "prevent nudity" game of whack-a-mole, so don't be shocked if the filter is "fixed" by the time you read this. That's the rhythm of moderation: Someone discovers a gap in the algorithm; it gets famous, gets patched, and everyone moves on to the next thing. What is UK Poo? I love obscure musical sub-sub-sub genres, and you don't get more obscure than UK Poo. Basically, it's British hip-hop that is very, very bad. I've never heard any British hip-hop that was good , but UK Poo is next level: the very bottom of the cultural garbage heap of Brits try…