RE: boring nyc influencers and social media groupthink / cancel culture

I think one thing that’s missing from the discussion is just how nitpicky people are of influencers. Listen, I love snark and this subreddit, don’t get me wrong. People (normies and snarkers alike) immediately start dissecting things influencers do that are “against the norm” and especially for women, if you deviate too far everyone in your comment section immediately starts glomming on to that one aberration. Your counter is a little unorganized and it’s all “girl you need to clean”. Your apartment doesn’t fit into one of 5 on-trend, acceptable aesthetics and everyone starts telling you to get a CB2 coffee table and a Tom Ford paperweight.

I think this is why we’re missing out on the fun, interesting influencers who go do something crazy and actually fucking INTERESTING. If society lets girls who do anything a bit out of the normative standard of perfection survive on social media, we might be able to start seeing how girls who live outside of those rules live their lives and get something other than Stepford Wives lite (I have a “scandalous” (respectful and honestly fairly tame) dating life while keeping my body within 2% of my ideal body weight, pick someone who’s conventionally attractive and who I have an outwardly facing palatable relationship with, get engaged, get married, pump out babies, only show “perfect” mothering, and spend 80% of my time up keeping my appearance so I’m fuckable till I die!)