Something Different
The Internet. Week of November 24th, 2019.
OPINION:
VSCO Girls.
‘VSCO girl’, a term for teenage girls donned in oversized t-shirts, scrunchies, and hydro-flask water bottles; everyone knows one. Named after the popular photo editing and sharing app, VSCO, the internet has spent a lot of its time imitating these girls on apps like TikTok and Twitter, criticism largely stemming from teenage boys.
Something to recognize; the internet loves making fun of females. Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter videos could be found picking apart anything and everything a girl could be doing, and how they do it.
Some jokes more lighthearted than others:
Others, however, begin crossing lines:
It seems everything women do become some sort of beckoning for attention, or display of unoriginality on the internet.
The New York Times published an article titled “When Your Tween Wants to Conform to the VSCO Girl Trend”, which advises parents to help their child become more independent thinkers. A thought, however, is that teenage girls most likely conform to attempting to fit in with these larger groups of girls, i.e. VSCO girls, (who then became the butt of the joke anyway,) so they have less of a chance to stand out, be seen, or be called out by their male counterparts.
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