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I really don't know what to do here. My son is 16 and he's always been the funny one in the family, cracking jokes, doing impressions to make us laugh. But lately it's like that's all he does and it's getting out of hand.
A few months ago he started saying "jestermaxxing" constantly. Before school he'll go "time to jestermaxx today" or when he's on his phone he'll laugh and say "that was peak jestermaxxing right there." I figured it was some stupid meme at first but he literally uses it for everything now.
He'll come home from being with friends and tell me "Mom I jestermaxxed so hard at lunch, everyone was losing it." Then he practices these over the top faces and dances in front of the mirror while saying stuff like "gotta keep the jestermaxx energy up." It's weird.
I asked him straight up what it means because it sounded off. He got kind of mad and said it's about being entertaining so people actually notice you and "serious dudes just get ignored but jesters get the clout." He showed me some videos of this guy dancing like a maniac in a club and people in the comments calling it "jestermaxxing god tier." It honestly looked humiliating.
Now he's doing it at home nonstop. He'll just interrupt us at dinner with some loud random joke or impression then stare at everyone waiting for a huge reaction. If we don't laugh enough he gets quiet and says "yall don't get the jestermaxx" and walks off. Family time is exhausting because it's like he's performing all the time instead of just talking normally.
