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Today, what it's like being a teenager online in 2026. Hang on, I'll turn my brightness up.

I'm in the bright and airy kitchen of a house in the south of England, and 15-year-old

Abbey is showing me her phone.

And in particular, a post on Instagram that came up in her feed.

What is it a picture of?

So it's like a video of a car with a huge sort of basket of flowers on it.

So obviously the flowers are being delivered to a girl.

And the caption is,

All this to a girl who let another guy crack for free, by the way.

All this to a girl who let another guy crack for free, by the way. All this to a girl who let another guy crack for free.

Right, translate.

Translate for us.

Okay.

So crack means to have sex with.

The way it works is that men do the cracking and women are cracked.

The moral of the story is that the man who's giving the flowers is like getting played essentially by the girl receiving them because she's making him like pay for sex whereas another man got it for free.

Okay and let's look at some of the comments underneath here.

Yeah. So the top comment with 42,000 likes is one man's five year relationship is another man's one night stand.

So essentially, yeah, saying that one man has to wait five years for sex,

well another man gets in one night.

The second top comment is, only untouched woman deserve this.

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