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Name: Horse chestnuts.

Age: Brought into the UK over four centuries back.

Look: Nature's Labubu.

That can't be accurate. Absolutely. Check out a TikTok video of someone revealing a conker, and you’ll almost certainly hear them call it “nature's Labubu”.

Opening up horse chestnuts? What on earth are you talking about? Goodness, you are definitely out of the loop, aren’t you? Gen Zers are using social platforms to record videos unpeeling conkers from their spiky capsules.

What's the reason? Because of the feeling of amazement! When you unbox a conker, you can't predict what you’re going to get. Could it be large? Might it be flattened? How shiny will it be? It is like a mystery box every time!

Do Labubu dolls share those traits? No, they’re somewhat eerie dolls that have become collectible because they are sold in mystery boxes.

Can someone please tell the younger crowd that they’re not using conkers correctly? Is that so? How do you do conkers, then?

Thread a lace through the center, and try to break others' nuts. Is that true? That’s bizarre.

Yeah. Your odds improve if you leave it in vinegar and then heat it in the oven. Seriously?

Seriously. And if you end up collecting too many conkers, you can hurl them across the playground and all the other kids will fight each other for them. A beautiful, natural thing like a conker, and you use it as a weapon? A weapon that comes with a long set of complex and confusing guidelines?

It’s traditional! King Charles literally just presented the World Conker Championships with a gift of 300 conkers! At least gen Z is only filming them.

How are you unaware of this? At a guess, because certain schools prohibited the game twenty years back, due to concerns over well-being.

Today's society always surprises. Maybe unboxing conkers just doesn't appeal to you. In which case, perhaps you would be more interested in some other popular youth fads.

Is that so? Like what? Well, there’s this thing called yarn work, and something else called pottery that I can explain to you.

Those hobbies are ancient! Let me guess, you boil the needles in cider and then use them to jab one another?

Certainly not! OK, relax. I thought all older generation's pastimes involved violence in some form, after that horse chestnut game.

I feel stressed. Take a breath. If you need me, I’ll be unboxing seeds for clicks.

Appropriate comment: “Social media loves showcasing nut discoveries.”

What to avoid: “That's crazy.”