If you spend enough time on the Internet, you are bound to have your vocabulary changed by it. There are definitely plenty of signs, whether you are Sebastian Stan awkwardly trying to sell a Thunderbolts* and Marvel Rivals collab, or a group of friends who can quote an obscure YouTube video verbatim.
Recently, one of those signs has been overwhelmingly, hilariously apparent in my life, thanks to the most recent TikTok trend (outside of all things “Group 7”) to take over my For You page: Marcus the Worm. His aesthetic almost defies explanation, but here is my best attempt: he is a spindly, bipedal character with haunting black eyes, a sort of beer belly, and a head that looks like a mix between an Earthworm and a bowel movement. If you scroll on TikTok long enough, you will see, or at very least hear, his monotonous, drawn-out delivery of out-of-context lines like “I don’t like this rock, Robert. It’s pissing me off.” and “I can’t find my Doritos. My spicy, sweet, chili tortilla chips.”
