Mara St. Ariel
4 min readDec 26, 2020

The Secret Love Language of Pop Culture References

“I’m Pickle Rick!” yells a college-aged goth walking down the street with friends, all holwing with laughter. Several passersby give their boisterous noise the stinkeye.
“Snake jazz!” Yells another one, and the crew of misfits hiss, snap their fingers, and giggle.

Several more passersby express disapproval at the chaos. give the rowdy young adults the stinkeye, but a few in-the-know…