someone told my mom about memes and now she’s sending me this

me: how did you find this meme
mom: what’s a meme
me: what you just sent me
mom: I thought that was a memoji

update: mom just called to confirm that “lol” stands for “laugh out loud”, which she had been arguing about with my dad

vindicated, she cries, “I knew it. this is like how you don’t say y-o-u a-r-e anymore you just say ‘ur’”

mom, this morning: "here's a new thing that i'm into: sea shanties. it's trending all over the place"

my mom learned about the sea shanties from npr but i told her it came from tiktok and now she wants to learn more about tiktok:

mom: do they have animals?
me: yes
mom: do the animals sing and dance?
me: sometimes
mom: i could really go for that. do i have to go to the app store?