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00:00Mom, can you come pick me up?
00:01The e-girls and the VSCO girls started a war in the cafeteria."
00:06The classic high school movie hierarchy of jocks, cheerleaders, and nerds
00:10that dominated our collective consciousness for decades is officially dated.
00:14Instead, the new high school cafeteria is populated by e-girls, soft girls,
00:19and boys, gym bros, and VSCO girls.
00:22E-girls. Soft girls. VSCO girls.
00:27Today's social media platforms like TikTok make it easier
00:31for young people to find communities of compatible peers,
00:34as well as bigger issues to engage with,
00:37thus breaking down the rigid social boundaries
00:40that once separated the so-called cool kids from the unpopular.
00:44Yes, I'm a girl gamer, playing games is what I do.
00:47These new TikTok-inspired tropes integrate memes and social media aesthetics
00:51with film and TV influences,
00:53while reflecting real-life trends and personalities.
00:57Here's our take on how we define the teen tropes of today
01:00and what they mean for the future.
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02:11What are you rebelling against?
02:17What do you got?
02:19The leather jacket, rock and roll,
02:21I Hate My Parents era of the 50s declared the arrival of teens in cinema.
02:25In movies like Rebel Without a Cause, teens were painted as balls of angst.
02:30I'll never get close to anybody.
02:33Primarily defined in contrast to their mom and dad.
02:36Troubled youths who succumbed to their vices,
02:38before ultimately straightening out just like their parents.
02:42Whatever comes, we'll face it together.
02:45I swear it.
02:46But already in Rebel Without a Cause,
02:48we can see the mean, cool kids clashing with the rebellious outcast.
02:53I'm sorry that I treated you mean today.
02:57You shouldn't believe what I say when I'm with the rest of the kids.
02:59As the teen movie evolved with the decades,
03:02it became less interested in parents,
03:03and intensified its focus on the dynamics of high school cliques and in-crowds.
03:08The 80s flourishing of the teen movie genre,
03:10thanks to John Hughes' movies like The Breakfast Club,
03:12Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Pretty in Pink,
03:14ultimately became the blueprint for future portrayals of high schoolers.
03:18You see us as you want to see us.
03:20The brain.
03:21And an athlete.
03:23And a basket case.
03:25A princess.
03:26And a criminal.
03:27You have the hierarchy with the jocks and cheerleaders at the top,
03:30the nerds and weirdos at the bottom,
03:32and the rebels as outliers outside of the system.
03:35The popular kids were rich, empty, and cruel.
03:38Where'd you get your clothes?
03:39Five and dime store.
03:41While the dorks were original, sensitive, and sweet,
03:44making up for their lack of social cachet with creativity and integrity.
03:47What did that cost you?
03:49Oh, about fifteen dollars for the shoes secondhand,
03:52and I made the rest.
03:52These archetypal notions of high school were so embedded in our culture
03:56that by the late 90s and early 2000s,
03:58teen movies became formulaic and self-referential to a degree
04:02that risked killing off the genre.
04:04Well, I'm the reformed cool guy who's learned the error of his ways.
04:08She's gonna forgive me for my mistakes and realize that I really love her.
04:12Then in 2004,
04:13Mean Girls unpacked just how elaborate high school cliques had actually become.
04:18Asian nerds.
04:20Cool Asians.
04:22Varsity jocks.
04:24Unfriendly black potties.
04:26While deconstructing the cruelty-fueled power structure of old-school popularity.
04:31That is the thing with you plastics.
04:33You think that everybody is in love with you when actually everybody hates you.
04:37Looking back,
04:38almost all teen movies underlined variations on similar messages.
04:42Exclusionary popularity doesn't make you happy.
04:44This system actually makes everyone miserable, including those at the top.
04:49Your daydreams are a lot better than my realities, believe me.
04:52And it's more important to find your individual passion and true friends.
04:56Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier.
04:59Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter.
05:01But over the last fifteen years or so,
05:04movies, shows, and social media finally seem to be more effectively
05:07destroying that traditional hierarchy.
05:10Whether through explicitly critiquing its myths,
05:12But the irresponsible people who partied also got into those colleges.
05:16They did both.
05:17Complicating its classic tropes?
05:19Or leaving it behind altogether?
05:27TikTok is full of teenagers who unapologetically meme everyone,
05:30including themselves.
05:31And collectively, they've created an informal set of guidelines
05:35for what teen tropes look like today.
05:37So let's take a look at the character types that populate this new crowd.
05:41And note that while some may sound gender specific,
05:44in practice they're actually expressed across the gender spectrum
05:48and open to all who identify.
05:50The rebel with a cause.
05:52Oh, he just threw tear gas into the crowd, yo!
05:55Pick it up with your bare hands and throw it back.
05:57The rebel is a staple of the teen genre,
06:00going back to the earliest movies.
06:02The classic model of this character is a lone wolf determined to stick it to the man,
06:07or wallowing in anger and despair at the emptiness and corruption of society.
06:11There is no gas shortage, man.
06:13It's all fake.
06:15The oil companies control everything.
06:16But with our digital age contributing to Gen Z's striking political awareness,
06:21today's rebel with a cause is a relatable main character,
06:25showing that it's now pretty mainstream to voice tough questions
06:28about the direction our society and planet are going in.
06:31I hate that we are shoved aside,
06:34that we are dismissed, ranked, assaulted.
06:40Meanwhile, the new alternative it girl is the e-girl.
06:43I blacked out.
06:44When I woke up, I looked like Strawberry Shortcake.
06:46I looked to my left to see a note.
06:47Your page is dying.
06:48We did what we had to do.
06:49XOXO the e-girls.
06:50Where goth meets kawaii and TikTok meets Twitch.
06:53All I do is play Animal Crossing and cry.
06:55She's an update to cinema's older versions of the edgy weird girl,
07:00with a dash of the manic pixie dream girl's eccentric style,
07:03and the cool girl's traditionally masculine hobbies
07:05that society will have you believe aren't meant for girls.
07:08To spot her in the cafeteria, look for someone breaking the dress code,
07:11lecturing men on the patriarchy,
07:13it's degrading, it's discriminatory,
07:17and it just goes to show how insidious and systemic body terrorism truly is in this country.
07:23And perhaps hanging out with her polar opposite.
07:25The soft girl.
07:27I write a letter when I have a crush so intense
07:29that I don't know what else to do.
07:31While the e-girl claims conventionally male spaces,
07:34the soft girl began as an internet aesthetic that embraces hyper-femininity,
07:38composed of pastels, rosy makeup, and perfectly cute clothing.
07:42On-screen iterations of the soft girl often build on the girly girl
07:46and girl-next-door tropes.
07:48And although it's easy to mistake a soft girl for meek,
07:51she has hidden strength as well as emotional intelligence and empathy.
07:55But the best part is spending time with my sisters.
07:58The soft girl reflects a larger trend in today's online spaces
08:02of pushing back against hating on girls who present as feminine.
08:05I like pinks. Pink.
08:10And recognizing that it's sexist to denigrate pink, princesses,
08:14or anything unapologetically girly.
08:17There's also the soft boy, who's in touch with his feminine side
08:21and channels his sensitivity into his interests, hobbies,
08:24and attitude toward women.
08:25I have this thing where I like to hear the words of powerful women
08:28before I party to remind myself of the respect
08:30and all you ladies deserve.
08:31But there's also a less genuine version of the soft boy,
08:34who veers into pretentiousness and a pursuit of sex disguised
08:38as getting to know the real you.
08:40My parents live in Hoxton, but I live in the moment.
08:44This faux soft boy starts to overlap with the f*** boy.
08:48Constantly lurking in your DMs, the f*** boy takes pride in how many people
08:52he slept with this week and couldn't care less about emotional attachment.
08:56You want my advice? You f*** her like the horse she is.
08:58You kick her ass to the curb.
09:00His characteristics have arguably always been present in cinema,
09:04with tropes like the mean popular guy.
09:06Virgin alert. Favorite.
09:10Looking good, ladies.
09:11But we see a shift in perspective,
09:13with collective opinion villainizing and sidelining the f*** boy,
09:17instead of making them main characters that girls fall in love with.
09:21The popular jock of years gone by is perhaps best kept alive in the gym bro.
09:25The pinnacle of Snapchat culture, the gym bro term was coined to
09:29defined athletic guys flexing their muscles on their social media stories,
09:32with the caption,
09:33the hustle never stops.
09:35His alarm said rise and grind.
09:37Must he forget?
09:38Who still says that unironically?
09:40In film and TV, today's gym bro has more depth than the old school popular jock,
09:44as he's portrayed as having an actual heart behind those pecs.
09:48Come on, he's an idiot jock.
09:49He's not an idiot.
09:50He's trying something new that he might not be very good at,
09:53which is brave.
09:54While young athletes have always been under pressure,
09:57Andrew!
09:59You've got to be number one!
10:02I won't tolerate any losers in this family.
10:05Today's portrayals draw that out even more.
10:07I just need it to stop, like,
10:12what's up?
10:13This f***ing pressure!
10:16and show how dedication to athletics can be mirrored
10:19by a personality that's similarly effortful,
10:22about being a thoughtful friend or boyfriend.
10:24It's actually really nice having someone to talk to about this stuff.
10:29You're a good listener.
10:31The popular mean girl of teen movies gone by is also on the decline,
10:34but we have the VSCO girl, who still embodies the mainstreamness,
10:38privilege, and conspicuous consumption of the earlier trendy popular girl.
10:43Oh, these?
10:44These are just my scrunchies.
10:45I know she won't have one.
10:46Really?
10:47You keep that.
10:47Don't even worry about it.
10:48Painted as the epitome of basic and hyper-fixated on what's trending,
10:52the VSCO girl is into popular fashions like scrunchies, shell necklaces,
10:56and lip gloss, and even boasts a hydro flask as part of her look in her bid to save the turtles.
11:01This?
11:02This is my hydro flask.
11:04You don't have one?
11:05Then how do you make your friendship bracelet?
11:07But whereas the popularity-obsessed Queen Bee of the past ruled her school and kept others down,
11:12the VSCO girl has a lot less social dominance.
11:15She's typically dismissed as a little annoying in an era where being
11:18too trendy or mainstream isn't as cool as it once was.
11:21Which brings us to the new nerds.
11:24As a scientist, Fabiola was used to a clear-cut, data-driven life.
11:28Hello, Fabiola.
11:30And hello to you, Giers Brosnan.
11:32The teen tropes of the past depicted nerds and geeks at the bottom rung of the social hierarchy.
11:37I think I'm joining them athletes.
11:39No, no, no.
11:40You cannot do that.
11:41That is social suicide.
11:43But in today's TikTok ecosystem, where definitions of coolness are a lot more open-ended
11:48and even the most niche interests can be shared in online communities,
11:52the nerd no longer has to feel ashamed.
11:54Let's look at a few subtypes of today's proud nerds.
11:57There's the academic, who can be either dark or light.
12:01The torch holders of light or dark academia
12:04are romantic about the entire culture of knowledge.
12:07It's the main premise that knowledge and the pursuit of knowledge is a gift.
12:10It's something desperately beautiful and exciting and wonderful,
12:14and I just love that there's a place on the internet for that.
12:18We also have the theater kit.
12:19Mark thy calendars and make thy plans to attend the drama department's summer program,
12:25Shakespeare in the Park.
12:27King lot.
12:28The theater kit has always been around in their distinct high school ecosystem,
12:32but TikToks now memed the theater kit into a ubiquitous,
12:35universally recognizable presence.
12:42The same goes for the fan girl.
12:44Prior to the internet, fans on screen were painted as creepy, dangerous,
12:48obsessives, or silly, mindless teen girls.
12:51But as we've increasingly learned to respect the fan,
12:54she's now someone who has power,
12:55either as part of an army of fans advocating for what they care about,
12:59or as an individual who takes inspiration from the culture she loves.
13:03The Chronicles of Glenoxi is an epic alien love comic book series
13:06that will be made into a global movie franchise and eventually be screened in space.
13:10Being a fangirl or fanboy can help you find communities or yourself.
13:14If you liked Harry Styles growing up, you're probably bisexual now.
13:19If you liked Niall, you're attracted to Ellen DeGeneres and the guy from the Lucky Charms commercial.
13:24Whether you're sharing your fan fiction or sporting euphoria girl looks.
13:27In this video, I'm going to be recreating four euphoria looks.
13:30There's also the gamer.
13:38Once a signifier of the classic geek,
13:40You can't get 750,000 points on Dig Dug.
13:43being obsessed with games, especially video games, has now been cool for decades.
13:48Yet the gamer has more power and cachet than ever today,
13:51in an economy where getting good at this field can lead to a career with serious income.
13:56When carefully examining these tropes past and present,
14:04we notice the changing high school environment.
14:06While older films focused on parents, principals, and popular kids as sources of conflict,
14:11How many of you have ever felt personally victimized by Regina George?
14:17The new teen genre is confronting bigger, collective, sometimes abstract, issues.
14:23Climate change, the billionaire class, corrupt politicians,
14:26school shootings, homophobia, and rigid gender norms.
14:29No room for heteronormativity in climate.
14:31Okay, let's make a few people straight and now let's dump that out, yes,
14:35and make everyone else gay.
14:36Instead of rebelling against their dad, they're attacking the patriarchy at large.
14:40You're able to have so much compassion for all these groups of oppressed peoples
14:45you don't even know and yet not for your family.
14:47Your generation's only sacred value, biting the hand that feeds you.
14:51The pursuit of a better world is their cause,
14:53and high school is just a fragment of that story.
14:56Amy's spending the summer in Botswana helping women make their own tampons.
15:00At the same time, the strict lines between popularity and loserdom are blurring.
15:05New movies and shows like Booksmart, Sex Education, and Euphoria
15:09portray this array of different teen types intermingling
15:12and individuals being part of multiple friend groups.
15:15A radical departure from the past rules forbidding popular kids and geeks
15:19from even speaking to one another.
15:21Please, sit here, let's go!
15:23I've been f***ing waiting for this since, like, seventh grade.
15:26Now, a significant number of videos about the E-Girl portray her
15:30with the soft girl as if the two opposite types are besties.
15:33Pull our opposite friends check!
15:36Another key reason those boundaries have broken down is that
15:39the traditional physical space of the high school is different.
15:42Now that the digital world is woven into real-life interactions,
15:46you'll cancel him, dox him, stick the K-pop fans on him.
15:50When you can find people online that are just like you,
15:53the approval of that one queen bee or prom king is a lot less crucial,
15:57because there are a lot more places you can potentially get validation or likes.
16:02Kat had amassed over 53,000 followers.
16:05She'd become extremely popular online.
16:08The internet has considerably impacted how we view and define who we are.
16:19Gen Z is the first generation that doesn't know a pre-digital life,
16:23and their social media presence is a testament to how much
16:26the online and real worlds are melding.
16:29I found the e-boy at school.
16:30They actually exist.
16:31There he is.
16:33It's actually the first time where teens themselves
16:35are defining how they're seen on screen.
16:38Previous generations have always got to shape the stories
16:41about what the next generation's high school hierarchy looks like,
16:44as older screenwriters, directors, and producers
16:46typically create teen movies for each era's actual youths.
16:50But with Gen Z memeing themselves and taking over TikTok,
16:53we see movies and shows following their lead,
16:56and adapting to this portrait of teen world
16:58that's evolving through shifting trends before our eyes.
17:01I know your generation relied on flowers and father's permission,
17:05but it's 2019.
17:06And unless you're Amish, nudes are the currency of love.
17:10On the other hand, this memification of identity risks encouraging
17:14a shallow sense of self built around fleeting fads.
17:17As the godfather of indie cinema Quentin Tarantino likes to say,
17:21Please, God, no more Quentin Tarantino references.
17:24The most important aspect of these modern tropes is their fluidity
17:27and how they challenge the barriers of the past.
17:30Adhering too rigidly to any trend and making it the main part of your identity
17:34will just lead to updated versions of the same old cliques.
17:38On screen, high school has always symbolized what's changing in the next generation.
17:43Whether that's the rebel trope being tied to the hippies and civil rights movement,
17:47or the 90s girly girl to the peak of MTV,
17:50The halls are with the bare midriff.
17:51Oh, and my black hiphuggers.
17:53It'd be so oops, I did it again.
17:54Teen tropes are always reflective of larger societal forces.
17:58Today, social media has given more visibility to marginalized groups,
18:02which has led to more acceptance.
18:04Information about major world problems now meets teens where they are.
18:09Your company is a part of the unraveling of the social fabric.
18:12Should I be rooting for that just because it's run by a woman?
18:16Sometimes overwhelming and daunting young people,
18:18but also potentially galvanizing them to support,
18:21get involved in, and even spearhead social movements.
18:24So why are they banning the app?
18:27Because Gen Z is using TikTok as a platform to organize the masses and prank Donald Trump.
18:32As Gen Z prepares to come into power in the future,
18:35their more holistic worldview has potential to make the positive changes we need to see in our world.
18:42We are not one dimensional. We are smart and fun.
18:46So when I think about the teen movie, I, of course, think about how much I love it.
18:52It's just been a big part of my growth and formation.
18:56But I also think about why should I care?
18:58As you say, it's something that you model as a young person.
19:01And when I look back at the teen movies when I was coming of age,
19:05we've done a video on this too.
19:06And we did a video on the late 90s and early 2000s teen movies.
19:10How aware they were of all of these tropes.
19:14But they were still taking them for granted and reinforcing that
19:18these were the characters in the high school cafeteria.
19:21And I think we took them for granted.
19:23When I look at my high school, you had this hierarchy,
19:26you had the cool kids, you had the nerds.
19:28The coolness is based on these values of athletics, being pretty and rich.
19:35And when you look at it, you're like,
19:36did these types exist before the movies?
19:40Or did the movies create them and then reinforce them?
19:43I think they, I think they did exist.
19:45You know, I think that a lot of times writers,
19:47especially who are writing on the shows and the movies,
19:50did draw on their own high school experiences.
19:52They did, but then it's from, it's the previous generation.
19:56You don't have teens in the movies.
19:58You have adults writing about their teen experience
20:02and shaping the next teen experience.
20:05The movies have always grappled with that, right?
20:07I mean, it's sort of the idea of how you
20:08relate to the generation of your parents before you.
20:11And I always think of Rebel Without a Cause
20:12as such a perfect example of that, which we discussed in our video.
20:15This strong motivation to not become your parents,
20:19which ironically, and it's in the movie, you know,
20:22you really see it play out.
20:24In many ways you do become your parents
20:27because of exactly, Susanna, what you're saying, right?
20:29Is that who's showing us what the models are?
20:31One example that I've always loved is Heather's from 1989,
20:35and it captures how these teen structures and the popular kids
20:41are preparing young people for an adult world
20:45and a certain idea of the adult world that is fueled by meanness
20:49and empty values and that quote where she says
20:52that she and her other popular girls are like co-workers.
20:55It's just like, there are people I work with and our job is being popular and shit.
21:00And it's really striking that all these movies are like,
21:02you should own being different, it's great to be different,
21:05but it never seems like that message got through.
21:08And I never felt like the people around me had internalized that message
21:12that you shouldn't chase after popularity.
21:15But it did give rise to other tropes, right?
21:17Anything like Revenge of the Nerds and those types of movies
21:20that sort of chose a whole new genre, right, to grapple with that.
21:24And so it's exciting to see that there's more models put out there.
21:29You know, I remember 21 Jump Street, the remake,
21:31was definitely a formative moment for me
21:34because it kind of flipped or inverted the standard teen trope on its head
21:38where Jonah Hill became the cool kid, you know,
21:41because he cared about the environment and he was thoughtful
21:44and he did well in school.
21:45And that's really so cool to have that as an example.
21:49And maybe for the first time, teens are getting to write these roles
21:54a little bit more because TikTok and other social media is playing into the narrative.
21:58And then you have film and TV actually listening to that
22:02and incorporating that more and more into their portrayal.
22:05So no longer is it just the adults speaking about their past experience
22:11and assuming that the teens will be a variation on that.
22:14You have more of the teens participating in the conversation
22:17and they're different ideas of what can be a marker of popularity.
22:21And it doesn't just have to be based on meanness and money.
22:24It's do you care about the environment?
22:26It's do you have an original style?
22:29You know, as we saw growing up, these have a real effect.
22:32I mean, there's not just three now buckets, right?
22:35We have different characters and different ways that we can approach the experience of teenage life.
22:42And it's less of an up and down hierarchy too.
22:45It's not about saying you can't talk to each other if you're not the same type or the same crowd.
22:52It's like finally at last, it's taken decades, but we're finally getting a little bit past
22:57that cliched idea of what popularity is and should be.
23:00And I think of Mean Girls and, you know, the end and the conclusion is
23:04calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter.
23:07It's that idea of exclusive idea of popularity,
23:10that making other people feel worse makes you feel better.
23:13That doesn't work. It's not worked for decades.
23:16It doesn't set you up for success in life too.
23:19As you learn more about yourself or you learn more about others,
23:22those roles may change and morph.
23:23And there are more important things to care about.
23:25I think young people today are thinking,
23:28hey, let's save our planet from overheating.
23:32Let's fix some really, really glaring issues in our society.
23:37And do we need to fixate on something so superficial?
23:42Or maybe we got there, we got here because of what we saw.
23:46Things that we watched as teens shaped us and how we view the adult world,
23:51the things that teens are putting out there and how they're writing their narrative
23:55is going to shape the fabric of adult society in the next decade.
23:59So it matters.
24:00It matters. It matters.
24:11And it matters.
24:21Yeah.
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