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The (Mental) Unluckiness of Your Lucky Girl Era
An Indian influencer recently killed herself trying to ‘manifest’ 1 million followers on Instagram, and we still think social media trends are just fads
Glow Up.
Main Character Energy.
That Girl.
Lucky Girl Era.
If you’re on the internet, you have heard a bevy of social media-engineered terms, such as the aforementioned ones. Some of them are uber cool, while a few others are absolutely crazy.
Look at these fancy phrases from whichever perspective you would like, but they all mean the same — big money (earned or shadily acquired), carefully curated image of a perpetually happy girl, boasting of overconsumption of all kinds, and an army of online followers heaping praises even when an influencer sneezes.
No, I am not shaming anyone.
In fact, I am in no position to take the high moral ground and pretend I don’t consume such content. I do. But it has stopped being fun for me.
You know why?
Because of the toxicity social media regularly ensues.
