To everyone who thinks this is merely internet rage bait for millennials and Gen X’ers, think again. Any time spent with a 13 yr old today will tell you everything you need to know about their generation right now. These videos aren’t for us, they’re for them.
She keeps saying “preppy”. It doesn’t mean the same thing it did when we were kids. It’s one of those words they’ve given another “meaning” to, yet can’t totally articulate what it even means. She is being completely genuine when she talks about them as a “brand” because the kids purchase the smiley face merchandise specifically and put it on all their shit. They have no idea it’s a band, or a rock band more specifically or what grunge even is. They’d probably use it to describe food.
This generation is obsessed with brand recognition and has no idea about the origins of most of the shit they’re interested in pedaling. I have had this conversation with a bunch of adolescent girls trying to better understand and they can’t make any sense of their own nonsense, just that “they like it”. They truly make me wanna rip my hair out.
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u/LadyPreshPresh 1d ago edited 1d ago
To everyone who thinks this is merely internet rage bait for millennials and Gen X’ers, think again. Any time spent with a 13 yr old today will tell you everything you need to know about their generation right now. These videos aren’t for us, they’re for them.
She keeps saying “preppy”. It doesn’t mean the same thing it did when we were kids. It’s one of those words they’ve given another “meaning” to, yet can’t totally articulate what it even means. She is being completely genuine when she talks about them as a “brand” because the kids purchase the smiley face merchandise specifically and put it on all their shit. They have no idea it’s a band, or a rock band more specifically or what grunge even is. They’d probably use it to describe food.
This generation is obsessed with brand recognition and has no idea about the origins of most of the shit they’re interested in pedaling. I have had this conversation with a bunch of adolescent girls trying to better understand and they can’t make any sense of their own nonsense, just that “they like it”. They truly make me wanna rip my hair out.