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Well, like I keep reminding my teenager, teenagers are idiots.
They can't help it. Their brains are still cooking in puberty juice
Every single person you've ever known was an idiot as a teenager. The only questions are how big of one, and was it obvious to everyone around them or not?
But, yeah, that general kind of idiocy is pretty common. "I'm so random! hahahahah!" It's a thing. Back in my day, we didn't have the benefit of the internet, so we had to be loud when we were being idiots for attention.
The meowing part is just a variation on a theme that runs through teenagers where a vaguely inoffensive noise is used often enough and long enough to become offensive to the ear.
An example of teenage stupidity: back in high school, me and one of my friends had a pact. At any point, one of us could call out "Merry Christmas!". The other, regardless of when or where it was, had to respond with "shitter's full!" The price of failing to do so? Nothing at all, it was just two idiot teenagers being idiots. The staff at school were smart enough to ignore it and eventually we stopped because we moved on to other stupidity. Well, for a while; the last time we ran into each other was a year ago, and we were in our late forties, but I called out Merry Christmas, and he sure as fuck yelled out that his shitter was full.
I never said adults weren't idiots too ;)