It’s tweet after tweet, post after post, millennials are in this trend to continually drone on about how they “don’t have friends lmao” or “never leaving my house” while they are literally in the presence of other human contact or right in the middle of plans. It’s the concept that being this pigeon holed teenager has become the norm. Yet, people are being just as social as ever so what’s the deal? Why are angsty teens pretending to be so alone and a social outcast?
We introduce ourselves to a social media obsession, an insecurity thats burrowed its way into our lives to be a part of our routine.
We lay around repeating the same lines about how we never do anything or have any plans, etc., etc. yet we become self absorbed into social media where we have hundreds of followers and still claim to never have friends.
The selfies taken with the captions “So ugly” when someone is clearly attractive.
There’s also a substance to now to relate with the gawky, awkward character in media. It’s someone that we think we might feel bad for if we knew them personally yet adore on the screen with how they have raw honesty and pride in themselves. We, deep down, almost want to be them. It’s embracing a type of quirkiness that maybe in the earlier generation, would’ve been seen as laughable. We exclaim how we want to be them and how we are them yet at the same time we do not. We enjoy thinking that we are more awkward than we really are only to be in a position that ironically disproves it.
In this day and age, it’s a society built on mocking others who we view to be less than us. The ones who sit alone at a lunch table with headphones blasting in each ear. The ones who don’t fit the societal standards of beauty. The “Don’t Judge Me Challenge”, a trend that had users painting on features they have deemed unattractive only to wipe them off to show that they truly are attractive. It’s all about belittling what we believe is to be the lesser person to boost our own self esteem.
It masks a layer of insecurity that we are so afraid to be “unpopular” or being alone that we feign loneliness all over social media, afraid of exuding confidence in fear of denial or themselves being mocked.
