![]() I’ve gone to school with them,” one 15-year-old, Kelly, told me. Maybe they existed, but they weren’t called VSCO girls yet? In any case, this school year they’re all anyone can talk about, teens and internet trend piece writers alike: The VSCO girl, named after VSCO, an Instagram-like app for photo editing and sharing, wears oversize name-brand shirts, wrist scrunchies, and puka shell necklaces, shows her concern for the environment by carrying around a metal straw and Hydro Flask water bottle, and likes to say “sksksksk” (aka the letters that indicate a keyboard smash) out loud, among other highly specific characteristics. ![]() Last school year, there was no such thing as a VSCO girl (pronounced “visco”). And now we know that summer is also enough time for an entirely new teen archetype to emerge. ![]() Everyone’s familiar with the growth spurt that takes a proverbial kid from pipsqueak to young adult. When Packing Anxiety Wrecks the Joy of TravelĪ lot can happen in one teenage summer. ![]() Last Fall, I Walked Into a Psych Ward and Asked to Be Locked In. In the 1940s, a Trans Pioneer Fought California for Legal Recognition.
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