1/1/2024 0 Comments That girl trend![]() ![]() You would think we would have known better. ![]() Y2K has overwhelmed our Pinterest boards and Tiktok hauls as of late, and this era's outfit inspos require one crucial accessory, a thin body. It was inevitable, that we would repeat history. There was a thriving community of the mentally unwell encouraging pre-teens to starve themselves, spamming their feed with aesthetically pleasing snaps of emaciated faces - their torsos like great white tombstones, with slight fingers stretched across their ribs like disused piano keys. However, it was also home to something much more sinister, the 'pro ana' community: #thinspo # bonespo #abcdiet. Is it any surprise then, that Tiktok has proved so appealing? And with a younger and younger audiences gaining access to the internet who want desperately to get older, gain popularity, and glow up, 'that girl' seams like a potential bully.Ī new social media platform oversaturated with young, impressionable young children which incessantly pushes an idealistic and impossible to attain standard for women - sounds familiar, right? The 2010s Tumblr era was a time which I remember imperfectly: a grey-black low-saturated blur of fandoms, shipping, and My Chemical Romance stans. To my chagrin, our parents have a point: young people's attention spans are increasingly limited. Eventually your battery runs out, the screen shrinks to black and suddenly the screen reflects a familiar image: horribly imperfect, unnatural, an amateur. The videos fall into the next, endlessly for hours, one after the other. ![]() An endless rolling scroll of 30 seconds of ab lines, sunsets for breakfast, and a 24 hour golden hour. Never before has this been so true than of Tiktok. Often it is said that social media is a highlights real. Currently there is a time limit of three minutes. Tiktok is a social media platform like never before a greater volume of content at even greater frequencies filters so eerily stitched to your face that you could swear that the pixels has existed there forever and it is consistently the briefest video content to capture our attention since Instagram stories. 'That girl' is sexy and rich and healthy, and happy. "Men always say that as the defining complement, don't they? She's a cool girl." - Gone Girl.įrom Evelyn Nesbit to Gigi Hadid, every generation has had its 'it girl' its smoking, French, big-breasted, death by drinking habit, girl its hash and paparazzi-flash, slender, over under-dressed girl. ![]()
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