Freya India

That was Cara Delevingne.

So she had an Instagram story saying silence is consent, which is the worst.

Yeah.

But yeah, so it was young women pressuring each other and then going after each other for not doing it because it became another form of reputation destruction that you have inoffensive behavior.

and outdated views.

And so I think it was even separate from what was happening politically.

It just became another form of competition.

Yeah, I mean, that's another crazy arms race.

I mean, I talk about, again, with beauty influencers like Zoella that I grew up with, she would just do like a back to school makeup tutorial and it would be very simple and basic and nothing really harmful about teenage girls watching that.

But again, the competition, the amount of influencers over the years that now have to compete for clicks and money.

mean that each beauty influencer also has to up their game and say something slightly more extreme or show something more extreme.

So for example, you go from normal beauty tutorials to casual vlogs where you just show you getting a Brazilian butt lift in the middle of the vlog and that becomes part of a standard beauty routine.

And you see it with stuff like anti-aging where it's just

a simple anti-aging routine then becomes like a 50 step anti-aging routine and you need to do it younger and younger because the thumbnail that says you know you need botox at 17 does way better because people click it and want to know more about it

And so it's in all aspects of life for young women.

It's the mental health trends, it's the political trends, it's the beauty trends.

Basically, social media will drag everything to its inevitable extreme.

And then if you're spending most of your waking hours on social media, then that is no longer the extreme.

That is where you're getting your information.

It's where you're learning about beauty and relationships and politics.