"But this week's explosion by Brooklyn Beckham was the culmination of a chain of events triggered last month when Victoria Beckham, advisedly or otherwise, chucked a like at her son's video of a roast chicken on Instagram. For some, the takeaway was that Brooklyn's chicken looked undercooked. For others, it was a reminder that you could draw a face on a balloon and achieve roughly the same level of sentience as Brooklyn in his cooking videos."
"These terms derive from burgeoning online communities in which adult children estranged from their parents gather in groups for mutual support. This kind of alienation isn't new; it probably goes back as far as the family unit itself. What's unique to the era of gen Z and millennial kids cutting their gen X and boomer parents out of their lives is codification, an attempt to legitimise and name a traumatic experience in an effort to remove stigma and guilt from painful decisions."
A mother's Instagram like on her adult son's roast-chicken video provoked an escalation into public no contact. Observers interpreted the gesture as criticism of his cooking or as evidence of parental interference. The incident exemplifies a new semiotics of family alienation in which small social-media acts shift relational categories among NC, VLC and LC. Online communities for estranged adult children formalize terminology to legitimize and name traumatic separations and to reduce stigma and guilt. Critics caution that the no contact movement can encourage flippant or petulant decisions and that parents within these groups face broad psychiatric accusations.
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