Allyson Rees

It's very much this YOLO attitude of like, well, I'm going to be in debt anyway.

I'm going to be in debt.

So why not blow out, have a great time?

Anything that I do is going to require some sort of debt.

So why not make it this event that I love and like have these memories?

I agree with everything Andy Joy said, but I think there's also just this element of...

FOMO that just runs through the underbelly of like social media culture at all times.

Whereas like if you're going to opt out of something, then like you won't be in on this thing that is playing out in real time on social media.

And even if you're not necessarily an influencer or have a big following, you do have the people that you went to high school with, the people that you went to college with.

Everyone is always watching all of the time if you are a person on social media.

People who are having a wedding, they want certain friends to RSVP, no?

So that they also will not have to pay for them.

I think that you can, you know, show friendship and love without this big hoopla.

But again, I say this as someone who like didn't register and so maybe I have a different experience.

But things have become so transactional.

I always think of like the apps and stuff now used for like planning and like there's Venmo and there's Splitwise and there's all of these things that just make everything so transactional.

It's just like this passage of money between people.

Yeah.

And you can see the amounts and you know what it's for.

Yes, these line items.