Though there are rare exceptions children are generally not allowed to shape media in their own image. Instead, entertainment intended for teens has always been based on approximations of the clothing, music, and lifestyles of stylish youths as filtered through the imaginations of the adults in control of the narrative, which teens then attempt to emulate before adults come along and appropriate these trends in some new, slightly different iteration, creating a media snake eating its own tail.
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taught me that flannel and tie-dye pair quite sensibly. Their blazers and powder-blue polyester suits, ironic Members Only jackets and boxy short-sleeved button-downs all look as though every teenager featured on the streaming service shops at the same Brooklyn thrift store. Outside of Netflix, I only know three teenagers, so, curious about how accurate these portrayals are, I texted them screenshots of “teenagers” from Netflix’sThe response, from two teenagers living in rural Vermont and one teenager living in my hometown in rural Louisiana, along with the responses of the teenagers sitting near them, was a resounding no.
“Like someone might dress like that and all power to her, but she would NOT get invited to a party if she dressed like that,” one teen said of the green ensemble featured in the header image that I would absolutely wear. The Louisiana teen simply texted “No ma’am” .
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