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Hello. Welcome to nerdyandquirky. It’s been a while since I’ve made a rant but i am
angry. I just came back from vidcon only to find an article that called it a “scream
fest where teenage girls chase YouTube stars through the halls”
1) REALLY INACCURATE. Aside from a few incidents, vidcon was mostly people mulling around trying
to connect to wifi. and 2) CAN WE PLEASE STOP BEING SO MEAN TO TEENAGE
GIRLS. PLEASE.
Yes, I know I'm a little biased being a 17 year old girl. But this article wasn’t alone
in it’s condescending attitude to young women. The media has this really degrading
way of using teenaged girls as scapegoats for stupidity and quite frankly, it’s insulting.
For everyone who's ever made a joke about fangirls, or how teenaged girls ruin everything
you love… Listen up, because I’m gonna lay it out for you like a real nice buffet
table.
1) This is the salad part of your meal. And in the salad of fan culture, girls may be
the lettuce. We are the most visible because there are so many of us, but that doesn’t
change that fact that there may be tomato guys or gender non-conforming croutons wandering
around those expo halls too. 2) This is the fried food. This is why you
came to an all-you-can-eat-buffet. And guess what, teenaged girls want it too. They probably
want it even more than you do. Because, here’s the things, gender roles present in society right now
teach guys to repress any excitement unless it has to do with sweaty guys putting balls
in holes. It’s a sucky topic for another time. But girls, we're allowed free reign
while we're teenagers. We are taught that it is alright to be whole-heartedly enthusiastic
about whatever we love and it is beautiful. Whether it’s musicians, or actors, or books,
or movies, or tv shows. If teenage girls like it, they’re gonna go ham. You stick a reference
on a t-shirt, we’ll buy it. You make buttons for it? We’ll buy it. You make posters?
we already got it and stuck it to our walls. If you take any piece of media we like
and stick it to a cheap piece of plastic produced in china, mark the price up by 500%, we will
still buy it. And you wanna know why? It’s because in a world that pits teenage girls against
each other. That tells us that we need to look the prettier or compete over guys. Fan
culture, fandom, is like a vacation. You have people who are just as excited over things
as you. You have people who cry over headcanons and argue for hours over who the best avenger
is, and that’s not a bad thing. Too many people, myself included, are starting to react
to this excitement with cynicism. That it’s immature, or that you’re falling to the
corporate machine. But take a second and pull you head out of your crusty old white philosopher
loving ***, and realize that what teenaged girls are so obsessed over is a feeling of
belonging, and chris evans immaculate body. And is that so ridiculous?
3) The Heartburn. You can in fact have too much of a good thing, and I wont deny that
some fangirls may go way too far. Whether it’s chasing their favourite celebrities,
or creeping outside their rooms. But mind you, this occurs almost 100% in conventions,
where the mob mentality takes over. Where these people, not just teenaged girls, crave
a unique, one-on-one interaction with their idol. They have paid countless dollars for
this and some part of their brain make them think this is okay. Which it's not. it’s
inexcusable. If you ever think it's okay to do any of that, don't. But these people are
in no way the majority. If 50 people or 150 people are lurking where they do not belong,
that is still probably at least out of at least 15 thousand people. That is about 1%
That is the overwhelming minority. So stop acting like a group of overexcited
teenagers are ruining the world. 4) The dessert. Here’s a pie, or a cake,
that i’m going to rub in your face if you don’t already get my point. Every single
celebrity out there that you’ve idolized. I can promise you that the driving force behind
their rise to fame was teenage girls. Because that enthusiasm, that willingness to wait
hours in line to say hello and maybe snap a selfie with their idol, that downright desire to buy any cheap trinket
that will help advertise their love - that’s what makes people famous.
So the next time you make fun of a teenaged girl being excited. Take
a step back. Realize how sad your life has gotten that you are getting angry over someone's
happiness. And just go find something you enjoy. I’d tell you to go *** off, but
you don’t need that. What you need is to embrace your inner teenage girl, and do something
you love without worrying about how stupid you look while doing it.
Please share this video. I know it won’t stop media from hating teenage girls, but
i’d like to at least make a dent.
Hit like to support one such teenaged girl. And I will see you on Tuesday.
My lovely friend Rikki also made a video in response to the article that sparked all of
this. She makes some really eye-opening stuff, so i suggest you check her out. Link in the
description.
Also, starting next Tuesday, I will be uploading twice a week. On Tuesday, I will be posting
episodes of The Lameshow, which are collabs that I filmed at vidcon. And on Friday, it
will just be normal vlogs.
Until then...