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Kaleigh's avatar

I was with you until I actually had to pause at this sentence which seemed to veer completely off the course I was expecting: "What it does make fun of is the kind of basic white girl humor that became larger than itself." As a Millennial I can tell you that the bulk of this humor was actually piloted by BOYS. Ermagerd, I Can Has Cheezburger, Dogespeak, all created by men. I get that you see white women doing this on tiktok now but it's still soooooo weird of this article to frame its argument around girlboss this and that when most of this annoying jargon came from 4chan, the most misogynistic place on the internet, or reddit, which is not all that better. The internet was always mean.

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Paddywhacked's avatar

"While there is always an instinct for Younger People to make fun of Older People, that’s not really what this is."

It's a more than a bit of that, though, isn't it? Generational difference is a constant - one which every generation gets to discover anew. See Punk as to Hippy - same same but different.

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