The British “adolescence” miniseries generated a wave of global reflection on the relationship between adults and children and the hidden languages used by young people in the digital age. What secret codes reveals the plot.
The “Adolescence” series, available in Netflix, caused fury worldwide. The plot, centered on a 13 -year -old adolescent of murder, does not focus on crime itself, but on the solitude of adolescents in a world that adults often do not know. Focusing on Jamie’s interactions with his classmates, his family, the psychologist and the detectives in charge of the case.
One of the most revealing aspects of the series is the exposure of a language made up of emojis and neologisms, which contain a double hidden meaning that young people only handle.
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In a specific scene, the police are investigating the Instagram messages between Jamie (the defendant) and Katie (the victim) in the form of emojis and that are indecipherable to the sergeant (character in the series).
The dark “ince” phenomenon and the meaning of the emojis used in the series “adolescence”
One of the most used terms in the series: INCEL. This ideology grew in recent years in virtual communities of Men who say they feel rejected by women, who ensure that, although they wish, they fail to establish romantic or sexual relationships, because they are not “attractive.” From this place, they promote hate and misogyny speeches.
In the series, it explains how The colors of hearts have specific meanings: Red for love, violet for sexual desire, yellow for mutual and pink interest for attraction without sexual desire. In addition, the Half and yellow half pill reflects the “awakening” of men in the relevance of feminismand the red dynamite symbolizes the “pop” of misogynist ideas and toxic masculinity.
The symbol of 100 They put it to Jamie as a comment on their Instagram to refer to INCEL MOVEMENT and their inability to like girls. This refers to the rule of “80-20 “based that 80% of women are attracted to 20% of men. “Very few. You have to fool them because you can not conquer them by normal route. They are impossible for almost all,” explains the son of the sergeant in a scene after explaining to his father the conversations.
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