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The 'Is your child texting about' meme is back and still hilarious

OMG = Order More Guinea pigs

Nicole Gallucci

on August 22, 2019

It's a tale as old as time: Parents are dying to know what their kids are texting about.

When cellphones and instant messaging accounts became popular back in the day, texting acronyms and online abbreviations were invented to make communication easier and secretly curse and chat with friends in a way that parents wouldn't be able to understand.

Eventually, helpful shorthand lists were created to teach clueless parents that "LOL" meant "laughing out loud" and "WTF" stood for "what the fuck." Now those lists have inspired a delightfully evergreen meme.

The "Is your child texting about" meme presents a specific topic, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Warren, or Little Women, and imagines what the related text acronyms would be. Usually "NVM" means "never mind," but in the case of Poe, for example, it obviously means "nevermore."

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According to Know Your Meme, the "Is your child texting about" meme has been around for years, with the earliest tweet in 2017 asking, "Is Your Child Texting About Classical Music?" Prior to that it's reported that other formats of the meme were seen on Reddit and elsewhere on the internet.

Over the years parody alarmist text templates have been made about everything from communism to Olive Garden. Mashable wrote up the trend in 2018, but since the format is so hilarious it springs back up every so often.

Here are some things your children might be texting about in 2019:

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You're welcome, parents.

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.