How To Make Your Son Hate 'I ❤️ Hot Moms'
Thwarting the most annoying middle schooler trend
If you don’t know the “I ❤️ Hot Moms” trend, I envy you.
A short history, courtesy of one of my teenage sons:
“Middle school kids, mostly 7th and 8th graders, like this YouTuber named Danny Duncan who likes blowing stuff up and doing stunts that appeal to guys that age. His pranks are funny, like large-scale pranks like putting a large speedboat in a pond and telling anyone who asked what the hell he’s doing, ‘my dad owns this pond’.”
I’ve seen some of those pranks, and whenever they prank is on rich and entitled people, I love them. When the prank is against people just trying to do their jobs? Not so much.
Danny Duncan’s content is pure id — just like most middle schoolers. He knows his audience and he serves them well.
“I ❤️ Hot Moms” is designed for one purpose: to make boys laugh and make parents roll their eyes. Like Duncan’s content overall, it’s not harmful enough to get his channels banned from your house, but annoying enough to make a parent go, “Ughhhh, this guy.” Again, just like most middle schoolers.
(There is, of course, a serious problem with the “I ❤️ Hot Moms” meme, and as a media critic I could go into a long diatribe about the inappropriate sexualization of minor boys with older girls and women, but that’s for another day — and it has little to do with this guy anyway.)
For now, I want to focus on this mom below, who is my hero, and who may have just invented a powerful parenting hack.
When her son sneaks around and buys one of Duncan’s hoodies with the slogan despite being told he may not, Mom discovers it and shows up at pickup wearing it. Genius.
Younger brother commits to denying knowing anything about it — but the fact that he doesn’t seem at all concerned that his mom is wearing a “I ❤️ Hot Moms” hoodie gives him away. Watch older brother’s reaction to his mom wearing it for an indication of what any other kid would do if they saw us roll up in our minivans wearing one.
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This brings me to my point:
How can we make our kids STOP wearing “I ❤️ Hot Moms” and other super annoying clothing trends?
Start wearing them ourselves!
Imagine your child’s horror when you show up to pickup in his “I ❤️ Hot Moms” shirt? Imagine the collective horror if all us over-30s & over-40s wore Danny Duncan merch with our ill-fitting mid-calf Target yoga pants and sneakers?
They’d never wear them again!
See? I’ve got this all figured out.