In the words of Kourtney Kardashian, ABCDEFG, we have to go…back in time to a place when we felt safe, when Dexter didn’t need a revival, when the alphabet song wasn’t up for debate.
Yes, if you haven’t heard, teachers have changed the tried-and-true anthem and are now instructing kids to separate LMNOP. (You can listen to this utter nonsense here.) And listen, we get it. It makes sense. But that doesn’t make it right. Now, the Internet is boycotting. “That’s not the abc it’s [an] imposter song,” one TikTok user wrote. Added another, “Where’s the rhyme? The point of making it a song is it becomes an earworm that sticks in your head this is just normal memorization without the fun.”
And this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to news that has people saying, “Wait, what?” So, allow us to bring you some clarity on the messiest, most confusing stories that likely left you scratching your head.
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