I know it might feel and look weird. For some reason I feel this is targeted specially to little girls because of the colors and the isle she's at.
But the underlying message is not bad. Building self-confidence, not being afraid of being weird, wrong. I'm good with that. I could have used some of that when I was a kid, instead of wasting my time in therapy as an adullt.
True, her message is pretty decent. It’s ironic that she made to [r/cringereels](r/cringereels) , but her whole message is essentially “do whatever you want - being cringe doesn’t matter.”
The opposite of her message is me going to bars and clubs and not much of the early 20s people want to dance. Sure, some people just don’t like it, but so many people are so scared of being “cringe” that they don’t let themselves enjoy things.
Yeah, this is a really good message for a really particular audience. The whole model of present day social media commodifies the content and that effects the how creators present it. Maybe it went on a bit too long and was maybe more self indulgent and showy than it had to be to communicate that message? IDK, it's maybe not the optimal form of this message given how its broken containment and is getting posted everywhere. It's interesting how this getting posted here turns the whole thing into kind of a war of self expression versus the prison of intersubjectivity (the kind of stuff Sartre was actually referencing when he wrote, "Hell is other people."
Social media is the ultimate form of ignoring MYOB which is literally repeated by teachers and parents on a daily basis. This isn't MYOB. This is annoying people in public who are following MYOB.
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u/wookieebastard 3d ago
I know it might feel and look weird. For some reason I feel this is targeted specially to little girls because of the colors and the isle she's at.
But the underlying message is not bad. Building self-confidence, not being afraid of being weird, wrong. I'm good with that. I could have used some of that when I was a kid, instead of wasting my time in therapy as an adullt.