Gwyneth Paltrow is delightfully out of touch, thatâs her whole thing. From having only the vaguest idea of what should go into a refrigerator to genuinely not knowing that she once appeared in a Spider-Man movie, she is simply operating on a level the rest of us cannot comprehend.
So, of course she doesnât keep up with memes.
âThis one meme, âIâm baby,â Iâm like, What the fuck? What does that mean? And then everyone tries to explain what âIâm babyâ means. I finally got it,â the Oscar winner told Cultured Mag in a recent profile.
Paltrow revealed that when the need to understand a meme arises, her Gen Z kids, Apple and Moses, are happy to help.
âLuckily, I talk to my daughter multiple times a day, and Iâm sure when Moses goes [to college] it will be the same,â she said. âBut in the meantime, until September, I have my son here to explain to me what all these crazy things that pop up are.â
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The empress of modern wellness also popped off on other media, opining that TikTok is ânever happeningâ and that television is in âkind of a sad state.â
Her pitch for a fix is, naturally, uplifting and slightly opaque.
âI would love there to be a return to self,â she said. âNot in a narcissistic way, but everybody gets such a barrage of incoming stuff all the time that I think people become disconnected from themselves. Thereâs a lot of anesthetizing that goes on in the culture. People donât want to feel pain or discomfort, which, unfortunately, is part of being human. I feel like everybodyâs getting pulled around on a leash by culture right nowâall the âshoulds.â I wish for a return to a really robust inner life.â