Digested week: Hit or miss? Conker unboxing craze leaves me baffled

TikTok users are videoing themselves peeling ‘nature’s Labubus’, but shouldn’t they be doing this face-to-face by a hedgerow? Photograph: Paul Biggins/Alamy

Monday

I don’t know whether to walk into the sea or burst into joyful song. The young folk, you see, have taken to … unboxing conkers on the interweb. It is, I am told by people hundreds of years younger than me and yet still not quite young enough to be participating themselves, the latest trend on TikTok. Instead of opening up their latest purchases or freebies on the platform (or is it a channel? Zoetrope with notions?), they have taken to easing conkers out of their spiny cases and marvelling at the beauty within.