y'all. i'm a feminine woman. i'm sitting on a pink couch and wearing pink in my profile picture. this is not about being opposed to people wearing pink or enjoying feminine aesthetics. let's think a little bit harder, please.
@lisah3460
2 жыл бұрын
White girl aesthetic? You need to be open-minded. If the white girls want to dress like barbie then let them dress like barbie. And the black girls too.
@miospio
2 жыл бұрын
@sunset moth a literal blonde skinny WHITE doll…
@silentcries8137
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah some people just want to find something negative about what people say. Plus why does it seem like white people are always coming up with these cool labels and subcultures? They copy it from black people but we usually never give the sub culture a name and follow through with the new sub culture
@britniemonet_3693
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly Barbie is a body type most blavk women have naturally I think all this fixation with our features is just a fetish at this point you’re just as fetishes as a white Barbie doll as a black the aesthetics literally fall into this Barbie look I know plenty of black folks w blonde hair blue eyes naturally idk just like I guess there’s some giant ass elgas out there idk if you get where I’m coming from I just think at this point we’re obviously hot
@lisah3460
2 жыл бұрын
@@silentcries8137 So she can say something negative about a subculture but we can said anything negative about what she said?
@crowofcainhurst
2 жыл бұрын
Isn’t it great that white women starting to embrace their own Caucasian aesthetic instead of trying to look like racially ambiguous? I’d say let them have it.
@bronzebomber814
2 жыл бұрын
GIRL YES¡!!
@2120musiclover
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@lilyrose5410
2 жыл бұрын
honestly, of they want to do barbiecore let them.. we can’t keep complaining about every damn thing they do. also barbiecore can include anyone who’s super into pink and femininity.. it’s literally not just about blonde caucasians.
@FabalociousDee
2 жыл бұрын
It is great that White women want to look like themselves. What isn't great is that it's only a matter of time before the rest of us are held to the same standards. A sensible move never STAYS a sensible move. It always goes to extremes at some point.
@TheLily97232
2 жыл бұрын
@@FabalociousDee I believe that is what Kim is discussing here, thank you for pointing that oiut
@saxviars9749
2 жыл бұрын
wowwww. It's funny how they did a WHOLE documentary about creating those new barbies and how they that representation, and yet they are swaying right back to their "traditional barbie" with the new line of dolls. Representation is so performative, I am so tired that "diversity" is seen as a trend.
@moniquemarrie
2 жыл бұрын
Corporate and media “representation” (and/or “diversity”) is almost always performative. I honestly don’t think we can expect anything else from any industry driven by capitalism. 🤷🏽♀️
@cindyr.2692
2 жыл бұрын
The diverse Barbies are still popular but they're meant for children, and adul doll collectors complain about them so much mattel started re releasing old dolls just for them.
@fliptheswitchyt
2 жыл бұрын
This is partially why I say that while representation does matter, it will not save us.
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, totally not genuine. Just profit driven.
@LisaF777
2 жыл бұрын
To be fair, the white Barbie is their original product. At least there are other options now
@JaylonBrooke
2 жыл бұрын
“Even if Barbie has a job, her real job is looking cute and staying thin” lmaoo spot on
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
That 🤣
@erikavaleries
2 жыл бұрын
Barbie’s “jobs” seemed more fetishistic to sell new dolls & outfits
@AmanirenaII
2 жыл бұрын
@@empresscqueen8524 lol you're so bitter
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
@@empresscqueen8524 Putting others down to lift yourself up? Haha, right on brand. Nothing to be proud of bruh 🤣
@justcallmebon2684
2 жыл бұрын
@@empresscqueen8524 You realize that compared to the full sized version of Barbie, you (a size 4-6) would be obese, right? Don’t be delusional. If Barbie was an actual human, her waist size would be 18 inches and hips 33 inches. So after you’ve just put other people down to uplift yourself, you’ve just realized that you are a complete flop in comparison.
@ShadowJinxXOX
2 жыл бұрын
I just don’t grasp the notion that Barbiecore has to be a “white girl aesthetic” as if any other ethnicity can’t dress up in hyperfemme and enjoy a “Barbie lifestyle?” Why do Black Americans continue to groups ourselves and others into being such a monolith? When the color of our skin and the nature of our features shouldn’t determine that, especially when it comes to fashion and music choice. Yes, It was Western Europeans which created this false notion of race and the boundaries which lies within it. But it’s sadly ironic that the very notion of our “empowerment” is when we ascribe into such Eurocentric philosophy of race purity and keeping cultures separate. As if a black, little girl can’t be a barbie or that white girls have never grown up in a culture that would be known as part of the ghetto; hence this idea of “hot cheetos girls,” which wasn’t exclusionary to one racial group. Have we forgotten that there is more to femininity than just being soft and pink, and that feminine traits are not attached to just one race only? And yea I do understand the political connects to such beauty trend; how the radical left supports the breaking down of beauty standards and the radical right supports having standards as a whole. Wether it’s gender based, age, race, or beauty. But we must learn to fight colorism and featurism outside of culture wars, and segregating by race. In fact it is through the mixture of cultures from which we can achieve that.
@PamelaRubel
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!! As someone that doesn't live in mainland US, but in one of its colonies, racial lines start to blurry here. There is colorism here, but not so much division between what part of the culture belongs to black or white people. We are all technically mixed here, being from a caribbean island, and the culture is all of us, even if someone is pasty white or ebony black, all of us share this same culture, and everyone participates in the same cultural events, everyone can make the same music if they want, everyone participates in our dances, everyone cooks the same foods (many of our foods are of african origin, others taino and others from spain)... regarding Barbiecore, this has been my favorite aesthetic my entire life. I am not a white woman, I am a poc that grew up playing with dolls, fell in love with fashion and now collect Barbies. The doll line has been diverse for a veeeeeeery long time, but people seem to focus on these random releases (like the reproductions) and say that Barbie is reverting back, whereas all the other lines still include poc and diverse bodies. But I digress. I dont think this aesthetic belongs to white women, it has been my favorite thing as a poc for as long as I can remember. I am still a feminist, and I still keep my very mixed culture, and how I dress doesnt change that.
@mermaidsapphire1351
2 жыл бұрын
Nicki Minaj was all about the barbiecore aesthetic in the early 2010's and she's a woman of color.
@ChillingTales12
2 жыл бұрын
I hate Barbie.
@Luxebarbie
Жыл бұрын
Completely agree.
@MiniM69
2 жыл бұрын
Culture is always reflective of other societal forces - anxiety about political change, etc. Therefore, our cultural anxiety about the political and cultural power of black, brown, LGBTQ people will always be reflected in (regressive) what society embraces.
@iamlaurengill
2 жыл бұрын
Bingo! All this shit is connected. White supremacy is taking a stand so why wouldn’t European beauty standards
@callme_burbu5976
2 жыл бұрын
Spot on
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
Very well said
@iwasbornunderwater
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@ladybug3380
2 жыл бұрын
What people don’t realize is that this is a majority white country you guys expect too much from them. Just create your own space and stop begging others to accept you.
@fliptheswitchyt
2 жыл бұрын
Is it weird/bad that I'm kinda excited for the WG aesthetic to come back? Because maybe then I won't have to be bombarded with blackfishing and WW wearing box braids and such. Am I strange? Lol
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
They'll find a way to f it up lmao 🙄
@MiniM69
2 жыл бұрын
Culture boomerangs though. They’ll be back. SMH
@deViianceTV
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I don’t see much of the problem. Diversity has always been a “trend” by big companies & non-poc people, because it’s not authentic to them, so they can easily toss it to the side til it becomes a trend again. I’m just thankful to see white girls actually being white girls for once, especially since it’s an aesthetic made for them by white men 😂
@Kat3369
2 жыл бұрын
Completely agree
@LindaMitchell
2 жыл бұрын
Same!
@r.walker7986
2 жыл бұрын
Them big ol' ghetto booties just got heavy. Their backs hurt... After awhile they could not handle the ghetto connotation that came with them. And as it turned out, there are not enough rappers and athletes to go around so all they are attracting is the same black men black women have been getting so they are going back to Ken... And that whole curvy Barbie, short Barbie, etc was a logistic nightmare because the clothes were no longer universally interchangeable, my niece, the target demo, hated it.... They like those $30+ a pop Rainbow High Dolls now anyways.
@Frosting1000
2 жыл бұрын
The rainbow high clothes are a lot better
@Finlovesjake
2 жыл бұрын
The first paragraph of this comment 💀💀💀 I love it 😭😭😭
@LisaF777
2 жыл бұрын
I think too, BBLs became too accessible. So it was no longer an exclusive look. They no longer stood out, but blended in.
@r.walker7986
2 жыл бұрын
@@LisaF777 yup. Err body got a booty. LOL
@KYCupcakes
2 жыл бұрын
I have also heard Barbiecore linked to the Bimbification aesthetic and y2k fashion. I personally don't have too much of a problem bc I have seen POCs, Queer and Plus size people wear this aesthetic. Like with most aesthetic, we usually only see the white, blonde people represented. But I am more attracted personally to Femme fashion myself
@thatgirlbrinna7927
2 жыл бұрын
I agree
@katyne
2 жыл бұрын
As a non-binary girl who loves androgynous subversive clothes and only wears black I love to see this aesthetic again. Barbie used to only be an ideal for little girls, while the aesthetic had negative connotations of stupidity, vanity and misogyny in general (Legally blonde!). And this time we finally see all kinds of aesthetics used by all kinds of people and, what's important, they are chosen voluntarily. I think we as people can redefine aesthetics. But at the same time I agree with Kim that Barbie is the symbol of classist consumer "feminism" and that we really are backwards in terms of inclusivity (I grew up looking up to Missy Elliott etc.). It's a hard thing to figure out but I think the compromise is possible
@str0wb3rry9irl
2 жыл бұрын
Classic Barbie is white. The face of Barbie is white. But Barbie has always been relatively diverse. There have been black Barbies, well back into the 80s at least. Growing up, my mom only bought us black Barbie products and dolls. And no one I know ever felt excluded. I really don’t know why this narrative is still going around. We occasionally had other races but they were usually movie characters, like the Olsen twins or Mulan. The representation of multiple body types AND races is impractical for manufacturing. Dolls are for fantasy. Even as children we knew this. What girl seeking fantasy desires a chubby plain Jane woman in Walmart clothes… And also, there are majority white people in this country. The company was founded by white people. The face of that company and aesthetic is going to be a skinny white girl. It’s literally a non issue.
@minnyminx1300
2 жыл бұрын
Spoken truly by someone that doesn't understand the negative connations that the barbie ideal holds or is generally unaware of body image issues.
@KYCupcakes
2 жыл бұрын
@@minnyminx1300 I mean I understand the history of barbie and the unattainable beauty standards. I was talking more about the Barbiecore aesthetic now that includes more than skinny, white women. I mean I am a black plus size woman who has struggled and continues to struggle with body image issues so...🤷🏾♀️
@pinklady2994
2 жыл бұрын
Great take. The pendulum is definitely swinging back from this dwindling era of the Bratz doll aesthetic which I think helped influenced the IG baddie culture. Bratz were the first dolls that had features that looked like mine, and mimicked the Black and woc aesthetic I saw in music videos. Now we are in a new era. Very interesting considering the social and political climate we are in.
@bluefood726
2 жыл бұрын
Billie Eilish literally cosplayed as Missy Elliott and these kids acted like it was brand new. Even black kids in my classroom were in awe like it was new shit! Exhausting
@joydanleigh7711
Жыл бұрын
Aaliyah Missy Elliott Hybrid.
@sh0eh0rn4
2 жыл бұрын
this return to “traditional” femininity and white beauty standards is happening at the same time as the rise of cottagecore, homesteading, christian nationalism, the man-o-sphere, etc. it’s a doom-centric circling of the wagons, and the fear that whiteness and patriarchy are losing their grip. this has “female alt-right pipeline” all over it.
@miospio
2 жыл бұрын
And let’s not forget the reversal of Roe vs. Wade. It’s no coincidence…
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
It's all a literal dumpster fire...omfg
@sh0eh0rn4
2 жыл бұрын
@@miospio YOOOOO, yes! Rolling back women’s rights to force economic dependence on men, to stop white people from having abortions and to keep forcing sterilizations on folks of color? it’s a whole iceberg tbh.
@lilyrose5410
2 жыл бұрын
when i first heard of barbiecore i thought it was about nicki minaj, i don’t think it’s to glamorize white beauty standards. it’s inclusive to all women who’s into the pinks and femininity of barbie. you don’t have to be skinny, caucasian and blonde. it’s just the aesthetic. same as you don’t have to be black to indulge in y2k etc
@starzzzy22
2 жыл бұрын
THIS!
@SewRena
2 жыл бұрын
Oh gosh I guess this explains why my 1960’s kitchen remodel took off on Instagram. I modeled my kitchen after her 60’s dream kitchen because I love pastels (yellow, blue and pink) I’m a vintage creator on Insta I focus on fashion, and my home decor usually flops. But the Barbie kitchen did numbers like my fashion videos. Im curious to see how this plays out.
@IndieHellCat
2 жыл бұрын
aah I love your Instagram! sorry I don't have anything intelligent to add but I enjoy seeing your home decor, it feels more cohesive than a lot of other vintage Instagram decor
@LoveAndSnapple
2 жыл бұрын
Awww, your channel is so cute!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
@StellarAvenger
2 жыл бұрын
The Mean Girls/Legally Blonde aesthetic. I'm surprised it's just now catching on again.
@HT-pl8du
2 жыл бұрын
It's bound to come back with the rise of 90s 2000s fashion and makeup but yikes hope it's healthier
@SharonBoo0305
2 жыл бұрын
That’s always been the default standard among WW. WM prefer to marry an Elle Woods over an Iggy Azalea.
@lilyrose5410
2 жыл бұрын
@@SharonBoo0305 true, but that’s because iggy appeals more to the black male ideal. she’s more raunchy and ghetto, she has a bbl and lip injections.
@SharonBoo0305
2 жыл бұрын
@@lilyrose5410 Exactly my point. Iggy and women like her are not wanted by their own men.
@ladybug3380
2 жыл бұрын
@@lilyrose5410 exactly which is why she’s a baby momma. White men have been conservative from the beginning and they want their women to get with the program again.
@technojunkie123
2 жыл бұрын
If we have to deal with white women taking on the aesthetics of POCs vs Barbie then I am more than fine with them emulating Barbie’s style rather trying to look like WOC wannabes
@happygucci5094
2 жыл бұрын
What worries me is - are men now going to be more overtly desirous of and valuing whiteness...not just black adjacent (ie black but close proximity to whiteness.) It seems although we have progressed so much in our cultural dialogue of gender, non- traditional relationship models, transgressive practices that critique hegemonic, patriarchal, white supremacist values and mores- the visibility and popularity of persons like Kevin Samuels, Fresh and Fit etc shows an equally strong push back. Those of us who are struggling to make ends meet in this disastrous stage of global pandemic late stage capitalism, who value relationship with black men- the increase in influence of a social media driven female psychology and aesthetic, ( which privileges a certain look and type and economic status and philosophy)undermines our level to pursue and actualize independence ( work, career, social life etc) and an interdependence ( partnership and even platonic friendship) if we can't or chose not to participate in this latest aesthetic trend is deeply troubling. Does this make sense?
@adjoaosei87
2 жыл бұрын
@@happygucci5094 they have always adored white femininity. The Kim K trend was just that - a trend. It was a temporary smokescreen that allowed us to imagine that blackness was truly revered. It was not. Better to embrace barbie and be honest about where you stand!
@Aikoooooissorry
2 жыл бұрын
@@happygucci5094 why do you care so much about what men like ? Just be yourself
@MrsTlotto
2 жыл бұрын
@@happygucci5094 Makes perfect sense, but if a man's romantic preferences are contingent upon what's trendy, is that man's preference even worth considering? No matter what the media tells you is "in", if a man desires you, he desires YOU. Even when the media portrayed Paris Hilton as the ideal woman, plenty of us naturally shaped like Kim K turned the heads of men everywhere. Don't get swept up in body shapes and aesthetics being trendy
@fliptheswitchyt
2 жыл бұрын
@@happygucci5094 Personally, I think even with when the BW aesthetic was in, BM (generally speaking) we're still desiring whiteness or at least they were still desiring it more so than Blackness, so I don't think this will change things for BW much. Even when our aesthetic was in, we never truly benefited from it. Certainly, not we everyday BW.
@itsme3k
2 жыл бұрын
I knew it was just a trend but it's disappointing how POC's aesthetic is just something for a non POC to use and toss aside when they're finished using it to achieve a goal.
@moniquemarrie
2 жыл бұрын
And this is what we were saying the whole time. All the pushback we received when calling out cultural appropriation, just for them to prove our point. Ethnic traits were cool when they were on trend. It was never about appreciation for who and what we are, it was just something to do. And now that it’s not on trend anymore, they’ve stopped pretending.
@dionysus9876
2 жыл бұрын
Right! Like we're not whole ass people with diverse cultural experiences. They just see us as fashion accessories or backgrounds accent to their white-centered lives.
@ManUntdForever
2 жыл бұрын
@@dionysus9876 bingo. Never the main character, always the “Black best friend”
@marcuswainright952
2 жыл бұрын
Drag Miley Cyrus Drag the Kardashian's It's deserved
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
@@dionysus9876 they're so devoid of culture that they have to take what's not theirs smdh
@simsthre4078
2 жыл бұрын
W ppl have always done this. I grew up in a w area and teens/young adults were all about appropriating black culture but it was seen by the parents & adults as a phase you grow out of, and sure enough most of them did. The elements of black culture that mainstream culture & other cultures are attracted to appropriating, are the least wholesome ones possible a lot of times, so they “grow out of them” cause they associate those things with their mistakes/reckless youth. Most importantly, appropriating other cultures to gain a sense of identity is in fact something that a maturing person should grow out of. So with these ppl of influence swing in the other direction you see the shift that follows. I think it will be good for them and they clearly been dying for it to feel like it’s okay to be w. The sad part is the part of embracing whiteness that usually comes with the degradation and devaluing of other cultures.
@LoveAndSnapple
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! This! I feel like they can finally exhale because they can no longer put on the act anymore. They’re sick of saying “Yaaas Queen!”, sick of saying, “PERIODT!”, sick of saying “and I oop!”, sick of saying “it’s giving…”, they’re sick of the super long nails and making their skin darker than what it actually is. They want to go back to being fully white SO BAD because it’s so much work for them to try and mimic and entire culture long term. You’re so right. They take all of the things from a culture that they know won’t follow them into adulthood. They “Okurrrrr” themselves throughout their entire adolescence and early adulthood and then cloak themselves in UGG boots and pumpkin spice lattes for the rest of their lives.
@michalovesanime
2 жыл бұрын
I knew it was coming, I was waiting. There are going to be a lot of white women regretting their BBLS. Most Black women won't because this has always been the beautiful standard for black communities around the world. It's going to be interesting.
@tessc4615
2 жыл бұрын
i actually don’t know if i fully agree with that. i mean, having a donk has always been glorified in the black community, but what we deemed as thick has drastically changed. what was thick in the 80s is now hella flat in the present. we may regress a little bit as well.
@mayalicious203
2 жыл бұрын
@@tessc4615 not only that but a lot of these girls are really sick from these surgeries and they just aren’t telling you lol also the amount of editing and face tuning they have to do despite all the surgeries because I’m real life it doesn’t look good and they know it . They definitely will regret it
@chocolateprincess8543
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@tessc4615
2 жыл бұрын
@@mayalicious203 wow i didn’t know that, that sucks
@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024
2 жыл бұрын
They’ll still be stealing from BLK Woman and whitewashing it.
@tiairrascott7993
2 жыл бұрын
Although I don’t support Barbie and never have (I’ve always been a Bratz girl lol) I do appreciate the resurgence of Uber-femininity. Growing up I was always the tomboy and never felt feminine and never felt desirable. As an adult, I’ve crossed over into hyper-femininity and it’s honestly been so therapeutic for me. I feel so much more confident and like I’ve figured out who I’m supposed to be. The recent feminist movement taught us the exact opposite and I’m glad we’re finding a happy medium now. As far as race goes, the media will always push white-centric ideals while stealing black ideas. That’s just the society we live in, but I do think black women can do barbie core too. When I think barbie core I think of Tyra Banks in Lifesize. We can take the trend and make it more inclusive instead of reverting back to these white-centric, fatphobic ideologies of beauty. Black girls look the best in pink anyway ☺️
@joydanleigh7711
Жыл бұрын
💕💜💕🌸🎀🌸💗💞💗
@lucy5009
2 жыл бұрын
There is always so much talk about how the black community values thickness but no one ever talks about how harmful these beauty standards are for thinner black women who have their femininity revoked and also don’t fit into white spaces. There’s a lot of nuance to body shaming that I don’t see appreciated in these videos. This whole narrative of the curvy black women is tiring and has a lot of women getting butt injections in shady basements
@tinachristine4573
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for speaking for the skinny black woman who is pushed aside for not fitting in with what the black community celebrates as attractive.
@emmaganta2545
2 жыл бұрын
No one is ready for that conversation. Line up 100 black women at random with no surgery and the curvy debate will be out to BED !!
@joydanleigh7711
Жыл бұрын
💜💜💜
@kennethrosario6706
9 ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@petalromance3998
2 жыл бұрын
This is interesting that this is happening around the same time as this “Clean girl aesthetic” that people are into right now as well
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
Right now?? I saw a video of it being a thing like a year ago? I'm so out of it due to leaving social media. Best decision I've ever made tbh
@seroquelz
2 жыл бұрын
The clean girl aesthetic isn't even theirs - they stole took it from Black and Latine femmes. They are NOT very inventive.
@chick9090
2 жыл бұрын
Also interesting how much of this is prevalent in the “clean girl / that girl “ aesthetic. There is something about the way it is presented that feels very Eurocentric to me but I couldn’t put my finger on it. That point about society distancing from inclusivity reminds me of how all the “clean” girls looks like clones
@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024
2 жыл бұрын
Yup, all they do is appropriate and whitewash.
@voxomnes9537
2 жыл бұрын
Purity politics.
@chick9090
2 жыл бұрын
@Coffee Nut ☕️ lol. I said nothing of “pretty girls” being Eurocentric. You’re right - if I said that, I would be contributing to anti-black rhetoric. What I DID say was that the way this particular aesthetic is presented is Eurocentric - meaning it focuses on white beauty standards. This is to say that being a “clean girl” has one particular look (a white, or racially ambiguous one). Please take a moment and search “clean girl” in the search bar above and peruse the results for yourself. Very VERY white and clone-like, as previously stated. This is not to say that black women cannot participate in this aesthetic, it is just an observation of who this aesthetic is currently representing. Especially in relation to this Barbiecore stuff.
@ImBae
2 жыл бұрын
we’ve been socialized to value most what is exclusive and least accessible. so being that inclusivity makes everyone the it girl, the popular, the stand out - i think people (unfortunately) are bored with it, and would prefer for beauty and fashion to be defined more exclusively to be able to 1. differentiate eras to feel reinventive and 2. to feel the type of special and value that exclusivity gives
@fliptheswitchyt
2 жыл бұрын
This is also why the whole "That Girl" shit is swarming the internet. Just riding the wave lol
@mayalicious203
2 жыл бұрын
That’s interesting you say that because I saw a viral tweet the other day of someone saying they are tired of TikTok because everyone looks the same . The thread explain how everyone being an it girl completely goes against the point of an it girl . Ppl like to pretend they want inclusion but deep down as a society we don’t .
@LisaF777
2 жыл бұрын
THIS comment! I've been saying this for a long time.
@LoneWulf278
2 жыл бұрын
@@mayalicious203 THANK YOU!! 😂
@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024
2 жыл бұрын
So basically their using their racism so they can feel like a more unique individual, even though they have no identity in ytness?
@lowtech42
2 жыл бұрын
Things are shifting in our society and it's being reflected on the macro-level in cultural trends. Like you said, it's more than another nostalgia-driven fashion cycle. As more marginalized groups challenge the status quo for their liberation, the status quo will challenge back. It's a rubberband effect that has us seeing 1950s gender rhetoric (whether it's redpill or pink pill) repopularized, and conservative backlash on other fronts. The more that the contradictions of oppression are exposed, the more we see that oppression retaliate to maintain control. It'll only get worse until the oppressive structures are abolished. Something something "things fall apart"
@koreaboo1437
2 жыл бұрын
I like black barbie and she should be just as popular as white Barbie she should have her own name .
@christiejohnson6755
2 жыл бұрын
There was a Black Barbie and her name was Christie. I had one when I was a kid back in the 80's. If I remeber correctly, it was a Golden Christie doll. She had gold clothes and a gold streak in her hair. She was gorgeous from what I remember.
@cindyr.2692
2 жыл бұрын
There's a new one. Her name is Barbie too but she's referred to as Brooklyn
@orangeprincess1987
2 жыл бұрын
Christie is her name. I had the dolls as a kid
@PamelaRubel
2 жыл бұрын
In the early 90s there was the Shani Barbie line with 3 nrw black characters. Then the Asha line was also only black dolls, and in the 2000s we had the absolutely fabulous So In Style Barbie line wihlth amazing fashions and only black dolls. Barbie continues to release beautiful black and brown dolls, but I guess people that don't collect are not aware
@jonoshaa
2 жыл бұрын
I just hope Black women don't act silly over this. My algorithm would get flooded with them complaining about our look being stolen when I just want to see cute pics of my black women. Now that our fight against appropriation worked and Caucasians are going back to their own aesthetic, are we going to endlessly complain about the lack 'inclusivity' or get the self esteem to rally behind our own cultural ish regardless of white attention?
@ChillingTales12
2 жыл бұрын
@@muadhnate boringggggggg
@JessieBanana
2 жыл бұрын
I'm not going to lie, I have a soft spot in my heart for Barbie and I kind of think Barbie core is cute, even if I am personally not into that much pink. My hair will remain curly. I'll have to be the Scary Spice Barbie.
@toyaJM
2 жыл бұрын
The comments are wild..I don’t understand how folks don’t understand that this wave affects all of us. This is more than a aesthetic it’s a political agenda.
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
For real. It's so annoying when people are like "omg why do you have to make everything about politics?!" Everything is political, they just would rather not think about that 🤦🏻
@ManUntdForever
2 жыл бұрын
Especially when you see the SCOTUS decision regard RvW and how there’s this forced maternalist agenda being shoved down our throats, so the gender binary and the sex determinism of certain women _needing_ to be mothers need to be reinforced as a result. Everything is almost always geared to the gaze of het WM, so there’s a shift to go back to that nuclear, monoracial, white family unit, which begins with making WW the objects of desirability.
@LisaF777
2 жыл бұрын
Toya, can you elaborate a bit more please?
@toyaJM
2 жыл бұрын
@@LisaF777 there is a direct correlation between body aesthetics and body politics. It’s no coincidence that we are leaning backwards towards an aesthetic that aligns with being subjected to gendered norms. I mean the history of Barbie being a sex toy and that time period of women having no say over their bodies it’s definitely a reflection of our current situation.
@modusvivendii
2 жыл бұрын
It’s the fear mongering for me. The conspiracy theories.
@jessimango513
2 жыл бұрын
Why black women can be so insecure?, I just…Do we really feel threatened because the ‘white aesthetic’ is back? In my opinion, it was never gone. I understand white world does impact black people but them celebrating a certain type of beauty should not make us feel less.
@lisah3460
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@BigFacts798
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Just because this one particular trend is coming back, that doesn’t take away all the other inclusive stuff sis mentioned in this video. I can’t be the only one who never once looked at a Barbie and aspired to be just like this plastic doll. I cannot be the only black woman, (I’m an 80s baby) who understood the whole so-called Barbie style/ideal standard of beauty, yada yada🙄to be nothing more than ONE of many different trends and style. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less.
@hentai7444
2 жыл бұрын
I agree with you
@melanatedthinking
2 жыл бұрын
Lol tell that to the black girls going to PWIs and being teased for their curvy figure. This is the price we pay for integration. Also, the collective of black men are increasingly praising white beauty standards. It is what it is.
@lisah3460
2 жыл бұрын
@@melanatedthinking Who care what black men do. That is the price we pay for integration? Come on now. Lord have mercy.
@lilhonor5425
2 жыл бұрын
I think there is also this big desire for escapism and nostalgia in a lot of these trends at the moment for for example cottagecore, Old money, Barbiecore, coastal grandma. Even y2k is escapist since we are getting to the point of young adults and teens who were barely around for it being nostalgic for that era.
@LoveAndSnapple
2 жыл бұрын
Coastal grandma? Wow that new! Never heard of that one!
@kikicinza
2 жыл бұрын
My newest purchased Barbies this year have locs, curly blue hair, an Afro, curves, and baby hair so maybe I got in before this change. And before you ask, I got them for me.
@autumnjade815
2 жыл бұрын
💝
@PamelaRubel
2 жыл бұрын
There has been no change, dont worry! They have not stopped releasing diverse dolls. Their latest release was a doll of Madam CJ Walker, black entrepreneur that changed the game! The doll has a curvy body, beutiful facesculpt and brown curly hair. All the other lines being released have kept their diversity: holiday 2022 has 5 dolls, including a blonde, a latina, a black girl and an asian, plus a redhead. Their mermaids had a curvy, and a black girl too. The babysitter line has a black girl, a brown girl, and asian girl and a white girl. Their line that is most geared to adults, Barbie Looks, has been diverse from day one. First wave had a petite asian, a curvy black girl, a tall blonde girl, a brown latina, a dark skinned male and a blonde male. Second line had a petite black girl, a tall dark skin black girl (sold out and was collector's favorite), a redhead girl, a short hair blonde, a native american guy and a curvy latina. This line came out merely 2 or 3 months ago. In playline the latest fashionista wave (their affordable diverse line) came out with 6 dolls, a blonde girl, a white girl with hearing aids, a black girl with short afro hair, a curvy black girl with long braided hair, a light skin curvy latina, and a brown girl with a prosthetic leg. Oh and also Barbie "Brooklyn" is a black Barbie that has been in her own movies, and one of the movies have a bunch of amazing black characters! If anything, Mattel has been doing very well for years with including more POC (they have been including more asian poc as well, slowly but still good)
@kikicinza
2 жыл бұрын
@@PamelaRubel Thank you! If anything, I was getting more impressed with the selections. My latest came from the Barbie looks line. Love them.
@dionysus9876
2 жыл бұрын
Roe vs. Wade gets overturned and now we're dressing like male fantasy sex dolls? This wave of feminism was a short one huh🤦🏾♀️
@silentcries8137
2 жыл бұрын
😭😭😭😭
@aspyn.j_
2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@MrLakers92
2 жыл бұрын
Crying 😂
@OutOfFocus777
2 жыл бұрын
I'm crying!!!!😭🤣😂🤣😂
@Pretzelgal
2 жыл бұрын
Say it!!!🗣
@Ahnjay_2k
2 жыл бұрын
I think it’s the effect of wanting to return to the y2k aesthetic. Very pink, feminine and full of slim bodied glamorization.
@Jalisialuxe
2 жыл бұрын
Once Kim started loosing weight and Lori Harvey became lean, bbl era had to wrap it up. We’re stepping into a new era because of Kim and Lori imo.
@jeanjmcceee5764
2 жыл бұрын
Kim got her BBL REVERSED,she lied for years about her butt being real and how she went to the gym to build her butt up , now all of a sudden the booty is gone and coincidentally Khloe butt has gotten back small too , soon Kylie will follow
@simsthre4078
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Billie Eilish played a roll too. Changing her style
@ShandraGraham
2 жыл бұрын
Yes I’m noticing all the BBL girls are looking eerily similar to Lori now, all the rap girls I think want that look now so they are all trying to clean up their image to look like her… start looking at the photos and looks they push now. All of them are becoming Lori lookalikes.
@simsthre4078
2 жыл бұрын
@@ShandraGraham like who for example?
@sinain4110
2 жыл бұрын
Bodies of black women aren't trends that just vanish because two influencers have become thin. What's wrong with this society? Stop calling it a bbl era because black women have always been shamed for being naturally curvy. It's a shame that something like this is coming from a black woman.
@astron312
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a deeper dive on the American Girl doll line. At this point, they have a range of time periods and ethnicities. But they are so expensive that their diverse dolls may not be accessible for many children who are represented by them.
@elm1230
2 жыл бұрын
Every part of my body is over these regressive ass trends. Can these kids please do something new?! There’s like no imagination. I get it, fashion recycles but this fast? And because the internet has democratized our access to references and retail, it’s even easier for the basics to look like carbon copies. A world of inspiration a few clicks away and we still doing this lol
@quirkyblackenby
2 жыл бұрын
What do you mean this fast? This is 2000’s fashion coming back. That’s 15-20 years old
@elm1230
2 жыл бұрын
@@quirkyblackenby Yeah exactly, not that long ago for kids to be feeling romantic about it - because the nostalgia is faux. it’s the 2020’s all I’m asking for is a little innovation please lol
@kyky6825
2 жыл бұрын
Literally
@anissa2361
2 жыл бұрын
No seriously. I'm tired of certain fashion trends coming back, lol
@marie2511
2 жыл бұрын
Great video! I'm interested to see how this "new" aesthetic plays out for poc that naturally fit into the physical Barbiecore standard. The girls/women that were/are always made to feel less than by the BC because they didn't/don't have the hourglass figure typically associated with Black women and are naturally thin.
@cymonescurio
2 жыл бұрын
I feel like the ending statement of the video is kind of bleak. Almost sounding like us as people who aren’t white have no choice but to follow suit, when in reality it’s all one big marketing campaign that you can choose not to buy into. We don’t have to pay attention! This is how we keep getting caught up in the tide of trends. Trends of bodies, clothes, surgery, etc... we can look away girlies!
@KimberlyNicoleFoster89
2 жыл бұрын
I don't believe there are individual solutions to structural problems.
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
@@KimberlyNicoleFoster89 agree
@cymonescurio
2 жыл бұрын
@@KimberlyNicoleFoster89 I understand that concept, I’m just saying we should practice exercising autonomy, now more than ever.
@pisceanbeauty2503
2 жыл бұрын
It becomes difficult to look away when we are swimming in it.
@RDCFemmes
2 жыл бұрын
The child I was, in Kinshasa Zaire then now DRC knew that Barbie was a toy, It never crossed my mind once that I want to look like her.
@megank9355
2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Definitely a cultural shift, very frustrating how OBVIOUSLY cyclical everything is!!! Also interesting considering some of the Kardashian hair/body changes lately 🤔
@charmaineespeut4627
2 жыл бұрын
I like the pink in Barbiecore because that's my favorite color. As for full lips, curly afro hair and curvy bodies that will always be IN for me since I can relate. I grew up playing with Black Barbies so I never associated Barbie with whiteness. I associate Barbie with pink and being ultra feminine/glamorous.
@mermaidsapphire1351
2 жыл бұрын
True. Me too I don't associate Barbie with any race.
@redmaple1982
2 жыл бұрын
So I think a few key elements are being erased: firstly the fact that hyperfeminitly has a strong niche in lesbian + gay culture but also within fashion centric women who lean towards the "man repeller look"...so in as much as the look can be very feminine its flamboyance is more accommodating to the female gaze than the male gaze (which tends to prefer simple lines with a lot more skin). An other element here is nostalgia...not for whiteness but for childhood... which is to say the teens and the twenty somethings are trying to harken to a time when they could be more playful (likely in response to quarentine). The aesthic reads more to me as a child's idea of adulthood rather than a sex doll.
@cocopinesweet
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Been binging your videos. They make me feel safe, seen and empowered. Love from London x
@Chrysalis573
2 жыл бұрын
That barbie trend is gonna come and go like the summer season just watch. all trends I predict after Barbie, Juicy Couture tracksuits, Hello kitty anything, scene/gothic trend from the early 2000's, 90's grunge, jelly bracelets, graphic t-shirts, fingerless mesh gloves, jean chains...honestly etc at this point it's all been done before I get so bored with people bringing back eras we already had.
@worthwhileproductions6929
2 жыл бұрын
Life is a circle. Everything comes back around.
@larsattack
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t think just because the aesthetic derives from whiteness doesn’t mean it won’t be inclusive. I’ve already seen a picture of Lizzo in “barbiecore”. Nicki Minaj has also called herself a Barbie in the past.
@uhhhhh4748
2 жыл бұрын
Gotta change the beauty standards every 8 to 10 years or so to keep us on our toes, buying surgery and other products we don't need...
@ladydusk1
2 жыл бұрын
The moment I started hearing people talk about bbl's becoming less popular, I saw the trajectory. Big butts, racial ambiguity, skin darkening to the point of catfishing, wearing weaves and wigs, big lips ....I suspect these trends will all be on the outs and the exact opposite looks become celebrated again, as they were in the 80's and 90's. Combined with the move towards white nationalism and white pride amongst certain groups, and even the attempts to curtail women's rights to abortions - it's a return to 1950's ideals. Diversity of all sorts will take a hit.
@uprootedartist
2 жыл бұрын
I saw this happening when Kardashians started dating more w men. I saw it coming. it's all #Trends which is highly influenced.. alot of use of Psychology and politics.
@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024
2 жыл бұрын
How do we fight back? We need to stop being nice to oppressors.
@Pink_pr1ncess
2 жыл бұрын
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 I honestly gave up fighting back long time ago 🥱 I just want to exist as a black woman without all the riff raff.
@hentai7444
2 жыл бұрын
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 you sound so so so sad and I feel sorry for you, you’re fighting the air - just live ur life and calm down
@miospio
2 жыл бұрын
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 psychological warfare
@ricquia1
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t get why people are mad that pink and the whole Y2K aesthetic is back. If you don’t like the fashions don’t wear them. Don’t buy non-diverse dolls for your children. So, cultural appropriation is not ok but neither is being too close to the White ideal? Date people who like your body type and aesthetic and keep it moving.
@matxalenc8410
2 жыл бұрын
Did you understand what was being said?
@missprettyschannel
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly this pissed me off now the girls like me who have always dressed like this will be seen as just keeping up with a trend when in actual fact this is my niche 🙄😒
@vnikyt
2 жыл бұрын
Still waiting for us to divest from the yt woman aesthetic. We’re not gonna be in the fore of the mainstream any time soon-we’re just where they frequently steal their best ideas from. So let them have their mainstream, but unsupported by Black interest and Black dollars. Let’s focus on determining our own inclusive aesthetics (plural). Let’s teach our young people to not be defined by the mainstream-and that includes “high fashion” because it’s constantly showing its racism and misogynoir. Let’s patronize beautiful Black and brown fashion from all over the world and leave the melanin-deficient to their own devices. But let’s keep calling them out. Great video, girl EDIT: I know I’m dreaming. A girl can dream
@prettynpetty8342
2 жыл бұрын
Definitely radical but I like this. Black bodies have different body types in general so this is not an aesthetic where we fit in. Maybe some but not all and that's the point of Barbie. To lift up Euro aesthetics while deprioritizing or even ignoring African aesthetics. They made sure that black-ish barbie had long straight hair and skinny calves. They know what they're doing.
@no.6377
2 жыл бұрын
I actually noticed for awhile that a lot of black women were being more accepting and embracing cultural aesthetics that we'd previously been shamed for. I saw a lot of people cheering on and accepting "ghetto" things and rightfully pointing out that certain trends are "ghetto" until white people start doing it and then it becomes popular and eventually no one even acknowledges it as a part of black (usually, American) culture. Big hoop earrings, braids/cornrows, long colorful nails, don't even get me started on "internet" slang. I hope we don't let stuff like Babiecore kill this awakening.
@vnikyt
2 жыл бұрын
@Mel C I'm sorry you felt put down; that must've been really hard as a young person. I think that overall, Black people are more accepting of a much broader range of body types than white people, though. White people have the one esthetic: super skinny
@brielleknoxsragerecoveryclinic
2 жыл бұрын
Best comment.
@guruuvy
2 жыл бұрын
I was a Barbie doll designer for 5 1/2 years. The general public doesn’t understand the fact that the dolls have to provide a perceived value to match the retail price. Nobody is going to spend $24.99 on a doll in a t-shirt and shorts if they can get that same doll in a three piece suit for $12.99. TV promoted dolls get a $1 million dollar + commercial, and hundreds of thousands are spent on mechanical features (built into either the doll or her play-set). The doll is going to be dressed to the nines in order to entice the consumer to buy them to recoup the millions that have gone into their production and cover the overhead of having offices in 39+ countries and having over 32,000 employees. Fashion packs are sold separately in order for you to redress your dolls in street wear and exercise gear inexpensively, while allowing kids to play out different scenarios. Barbie went the soccer-Mom route and her sales tanked. Now that she is becoming glamorous again-in response to competition from Rainbow High and LOL OMG (whom I currently work for), her sales are bouncing back. The people complaining about the lack of diversity in Barbie don’t realize that they should be addressing the Barbie social media team- a completely different group of people who are in a completely different building and have absolutely nothing to do with product development. The Social Media team is literally a bunch of White people in a photo studio setting up dolls and redressing them and taking pictures, so I feel like that’s what really needs to be addressed. If you were to go to a store today, you would see Black, Asian, Latina, White and Native looking dolls in glamorous, flashy outfits with all different body types, in the $26.99 Barbie Extra Line and the more modest $12.99 Barbie Fashionistas line. Right next to them on shelf you’ll see fashion packs consisting of everyday outfits for you to change your dolls into. With the exception of the adult Collector, and kid focused Barbie Extra and the Barbie Fashionistas lines, the rest of the Barbie offerings literally all look like soccer moms, so it confuses me that the line is still being attacked for hyper-femininity.
@PamelaRubel
2 жыл бұрын
I dont think people outside of the doll community look further into these things. As you said, even walking by the doll aisle at walmart we can see the diversity. I am hyper-feminine, because I grew up with the very pink Barbie aesthetic and mom indulged me in letting me wear all the pink girly things I wanted. I am not a white woman, I am a feminist and yet I can enjoy this aesthetic.
@guruuvy
2 жыл бұрын
@@PamelaRubel-It’s like being a woman is being outlawed! If you are feminine they find fault with you, if you are gender neutral- or masculine presenting, that’s a problem too! When will they allow women to just ‘BE’?!?
@mindfulnae4904
2 жыл бұрын
On our way to the old days on a fast track!
@OddWomanOut_Pi81
2 жыл бұрын
I was a chubby, Black tomboy who was absolutely OBSESSED with Barbie in my tween years... Guess what? I'm STILL a fat, Black tomboy at 41. It never occurred to me to fashion my real life goals after a DOLL'S... It's a DOLL...a who tf thinks Barbie is perfectly proportioned? 🤨 Have u seen a naked Barbie?!? This is just more of that "rich, famous folks are doing it, so I guess the rest of us in the general pop ought to do it too" nonsense, but, ACTUALLY---and I know this is gonna sound crazy... WE DON'T!
@ki4815
2 жыл бұрын
I thought I was the only one noticing this. But when it comes to Barbie & Mattel, to be fair the diverse barbies weren't a flop. They are still selling and plastered all up in the toy sections. They even diversified their popular "made to move" line with different shapes and skin tones. So Mattel isn't the problem (at least not now). It's us adults & teens who are reverting back to whiteness. Like always the tides are shifting and cycles are repeating itself which sucks especially for us black women. But I'm at the point where I'm just tired of white people controlling the "beauty standards" especially when they aren't even tastemakers and are vultures. But I hope we can one day just live in a world where individual beauty is celebrated cause European standards are SO boring and I don't wanna go back to that. And I also hope us black women just embrace our own beauty and live up to our own standards while teaching young black girls/kids to do the same.
@tcafdees7249
2 жыл бұрын
Let’s be clear, the Barbiecore aesthetic that’s in rn is 100% bc of the pink Valentino collection that just came out. Celebs started wearing it once it became available and now everyone and their moms is making pink outfits. Its literally the same thing Miranda Priestly said about cerulean blue.
@green_heart6560
2 жыл бұрын
Explain why Kim and Khloe are changing their body back.
@ev6564
2 жыл бұрын
Big butts are more appealing to black men. White men tend to like slim, smaller butts, and bigger boobs. Their men are becoming whiter. In a few years, maybe Kim K will end up with a white centi-millionaire or likely a billionaire. Who knows lol
@happygucci5094
2 жыл бұрын
She did- right in the opening... they are reclaiming and now cashing in on and realigning with their whiteness.
@moniquemarrie
2 жыл бұрын
She actually did a whole video on that, I believe.
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
Guess it's not profitable anymore for them smh...ugh
@rainstorm571
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they also had health issue from that much stuff added into their bodies, but since they deny ever doing anything to their bodies we will never know
@maddiedolls
2 жыл бұрын
i can listen to kim talk about paint drying and ill still watch the whole thing LMFAO
@tlg-
2 жыл бұрын
accurate
@lauriebertramroberts8990
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Kim, Just want to let you know Mattel is still selling the full range of diverse Barbies. In fact the kids that my org work with at Christmas LOVE them. At our headquarters we have most of them and all of the disabled ones. We were especially excited to see the doll with vitiligo that is representation we never see.
@erikjj235
2 жыл бұрын
This is the result of western social media and a whole generation of growing up with American movies from the 90s and 00s.
@SeasonalFrostbite
2 жыл бұрын
Barbie is still diverse actually. The market trend is still leaning towards inclusivity Barbie is just not the hottest doll currently. Rainbow high which has more poc designers is what’s hot currently.
@Adele1024
2 жыл бұрын
A few years ago someone gave my daughter a Barbie with a prosthetic leg and a Barbie with vitiligo. I thought that was different, that must’ve been the experiment Barbie’s, lol. Also, she is really specific when she dresses them, because I tried to put a short dress on one of the Barbie’s and she told me that this particular Barbie could not wear that dress because she was a mom. So even mom Barbie’s are expected to wear boring clothes 😩😂
@autsim
2 жыл бұрын
This is not new: we saw the same thing in the 1970s when non-Black and non-ethnic folks got perms so that they could attempt mimicking an Afro, but by 77-80, everyone wanted the look that was inspired by Aaron Spelling-created TV characters. The ushering of Reagan and the opulence of the 1980s was the same thing; meanwhile, media representation of Black and Brown folks that was a focus in the late 1960s and early 1970s had disappeared.
@ChillingTales12
2 жыл бұрын
What about the Cosby Show?
@autsim
2 жыл бұрын
@@ChillingTales12 What about it? Like ONE SHOW makes up for all of the representation and that was available a decade prior. 🙄 It was the first showy show with an all Black cast in the 1980s. The premise of an upper middle class Black family was also a direct response to the opulence and yuppie movement of that era. While the characters were aspirational, it didn't represent what was going on in Black communities across America under the Reagan administration.
@cocoacoolness
2 жыл бұрын
I just find it so gross that not only do our bodies go in and out of trend, but so does our race, our facial features etc. Like what? It's actually so dumb. I've come to hate every type of trend, irregardless of if I'm in trend or not. I completely clocked out when those girls who'd judge me for having freckles started drawing them on their face.
@THRASHKK
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe we’ll finally get our swag back.
@veronicahhh3269
2 жыл бұрын
Oh god, the Barbie aesthetic & just the general re-obsession with more gendered clothes for women is giving me really bad vibes. On social media they can say it’s inclusive & reclaiming or whatever, but irl I’m really just feeling this kind of intense pressure to dress more conventionally feminine that I didn’t experience before. It’s insane to think I experience more pressure like this 4 yrs into uni than when I was in high school.
@simsthre4078
2 жыл бұрын
Do your age group look down on you if you dress tomboyish now?
@lacecocoa6272
2 жыл бұрын
Whatever I do not like some of you feminist. Bring back the 90s women. When it was natural faces and they had natural imperfections bring back the Princess Diana's the Whitney Houston's the Celine Dion's the Diane Carroll Elizabeth Taylor we need to bring them type of women back there's nothing wrong with being a feminine woman. Y'all trying to make every woman masculine is what's wrong. Every woman doesn't want to be strong independent or have two jobs and talk s*** about me and all day. We can talk about some of the things that hurt women but some things you guys over exaggerate or fabricate. There's nothing wrong with a man taking care of a woman at the end of the day physically a man will always be stronger than a woman.
@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024
2 жыл бұрын
@@lacecocoa6272 Girl bye. You just want a man’s attention. Let’s see how that goes when you end up on the grape statistics. 😘
@BluBerryPi
2 жыл бұрын
@@lacecocoa6272 found the hertep/hotep
@miospio
2 жыл бұрын
@@BluBerryPi or pickmeeshia
@jeanjmcceee5764
2 жыл бұрын
EVERYBODY REVERSING THEIR BBL LIKE KIM AND KHLOE KARDASHIAN
@Daijxo
2 жыл бұрын
Trends always come in cycles, and it’s interesting to see all the mini trends that coincide with each other. First I saw the skinny girl trend ( is it fashion or is she just skinny/ what I will wear when/if I’m thin) then the reversing of bbls, then the clean girl Aesthetic, then the clueless trend now Barbie. Not sure of the chronology but it’s interesting to look back at.
@ayyyyyyyy
2 жыл бұрын
Kim you did it AGAIN
@StillMuseum
2 жыл бұрын
I think there is value in separating the current Barbiecore trend, and the iconography it references, from the current state of the Barbie line. The body inclusive campaign that Barbie ran wasn’t a flop, as far as the longevity of diversity and inclusivity of the actual doll line. They have not reverted back to exclusively using the old thin Barbie body. Most Barbie doll lines still use the different body types. The doll line that you highlighted is an exception, not the rule. A better argument, I’d say, is that this campaign was not successful in transforming the greater narrative around Barbie’s image - which I would agree with - and thus this renewed interest in Barbiecore doesn’t acknowledge any of the Mattel company’s recent attempts to change its image.
@bbills4186
2 жыл бұрын
My step-grandmother had a massive Barbie collection. I remember as a little girl asking her to play with one and I might as well have asked for one of her kidneys. She had a room in her home renovated to showcase her collection, lighted cabinets and pull out drawers to hold all the doll outfits. I am sure without a doubt her collection was extremely valuable as she had original Barbie dolls and special editions. She only let me play with a box of misfit non-Barbie dolls but as an adult now I know why, lol, those dolls were an asset.
@AmaraReyal
2 жыл бұрын
Bratz needs to make a come back show or movie too then.. we not letting them take over again baybe
@JM-oe3wf
2 жыл бұрын
All of this is just history repeating itself. We did the 90s things for a few years, even went back to the 80s & now that we’ve worn those aesthetics out, we’ve moved to the early 2000s for inspo. Shortly after this we will move to what we were doing in the 2010s and before you know it we will be back to where we are now. Lmao there’s never a lot of innovation in fashion. Just copying and pasting. So don’t sweat it. The urban look, & curvy bodies will be back “in style” in abt 5-10 years lol
@dariustcotton
2 жыл бұрын
The Hulu documentary “Tiny Shoulders” goes a lot into how they tried to change Barbie’s image in 2016
@ilener1698
2 жыл бұрын
Barbie fashionistas are the ones with the different body types. They are in a category of their own and they are not going out of style anytime soon. Barbie comes in all shades, 3 different body types and now with even with disabilities or health conditions. (wheelchair doll, bald barbie, dolls with Vitiligo...etc)
@anikadiamond007
2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad thin is back in. As a slim bw, I've always gotten dragged for it. Especially during the recent BBL era.
@chocolateprincess8543
2 жыл бұрын
Thin is definitely not back in.
@anikadiamond007
Жыл бұрын
@@chocolateprincess8543 Thin is always in. Sorry.
@chocolateprincess8543
Жыл бұрын
@@anikadiamond007 Nope.
@vixenovas385
2 жыл бұрын
I hate to say it, but I'm kind of excited that they're finally going back to look like themselves. I'm tired of them blackfacing, Asia fishing, or whatever other ethnicity and race they're trying to look like. I say let them have it and leave us alone. Let us do what we're doing, and let them go back to looking white PLEASE.
@chocolateprincess8543
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. There are definitely pros to this!💕
@OOoKarmaoOO
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a Bratz not a Barbie🤷🏾♀️
@lastdays9163
2 жыл бұрын
Love dragrace but I do find it disturbing that nearly all the queens wear blond hair. These "trends" don't just happen, they are thoroughly invested in. Brands put millions upon millions into keeping legacy alive and they do it in places you would never expect. Part of that brand visibility culture gets infected... intentionally. Trends are not as spontaneous as people are lead to believe. What is concerning is that whiteness is being propagated once again at full force.
@notaburneraccount
2 жыл бұрын
Right? I think about that famous scene from the Devil Wears Prada.
@theroseofversailles
2 жыл бұрын
Barbie is actually a great role model when you reflect on the films from the early 2000s. She teaches us to be kind, strong, compassionate, and brave, as well as many other things. I loved Barbie as a child and still love her today, but not for the stereotypical femininity. I have recently realized that the films inspired me in ways I never thought of and shaped me into who I am. I understand why people don't like Barbie and the Barbiecore aesthetic. Some aspects can be toxic, such as getting the idea of slim bodies being better than not. Personally, Barbie can be seen both ways, but I feel like many people forget the good side. I know she is usually white and thin with blonde hair, but she has really great traits and has inspired a good chunk of the gen-z generation.
@ChicaRho
2 жыл бұрын
I suppose I should have seen this coming. If "everything old is new again" holds true, then this was inevitable. I'm curious to see exactly how thin women will become, how flat the butts will become, how blond the hair, etc. Those traits are rare now, since the opposite has been praised/pursued for the past 10 years or so. As others have posted, exclusivity = desirability.
@bettiiblu
2 жыл бұрын
After reading a few of the comments in this section, I realize that us as thinking women, being and feeling women should just try to embrace what we have. I dont think we will ever truly go back to a completely Eurocentric space, although if people head back in that direction for themselves, that's their perogative. I think curvy women will continue to be beautiful, women of color will continue to be beautiful, and now included in the rainbow of beauty standards. I think inclusivity is here to stay despite a trend towards a possible hot pink, ultra skinny version of feminity (which is just one of many styles of feminity of which we are free to take part in.) After being on the rollercoaster of trends, we should do our best not to chase an ideal that is only going to change in a decade. I can sense the fear in the trauma of being embraced, copied and commodified, and now possibly being overshadowed and ousted. I say to that, Just love on you. If you like a trend enjoy it for what it's worth, but you don't want to be coming out of the fog of trend-chasing a decade from now. Just let it be a trend and don't get too attached to it bc when you chase and embody a trend, its only a matter of time before you are discarded. Trends are meant to become fads. So that's the risk you take when you chase trends. If Barbie is popular, so what? She'll have her moment like she had many years ago and then she will cease to be popular. Lol how do you think she feels?🤣 But I'm not going to allow some trend to displace my sense of self to the point where I feel unseen bc the fashion industry is trying to manufacture a self for me so that they can sell me products to create that self. After building you up, telling you this is what is in and hot, to switch up and say this is no longer in and you are no longer enough is pretty cruel. I'm not going to let the fashion industry tell me my body and who I am is not good enough, only to discard me when they are done. I'm not going to let some random guy in France tell me that a manufactured Barbie is better than a God-created original. It's time to just choose who you want to be and really start loving on that, and sitting in your own creativity. It's okay to play with the fantasy of yourself. I mean fashion is about created selves and ideals so play, but just remember that you are still worth loving despite playing with these personas.
@lacecocoa6272
2 жыл бұрын
I think it's a good thing I prefer 90s fashion and natural look more than this new 2000 Kardashian thing. It's just too plastic and unrealistic we need to bring back natural beauties. We used to bring that back I'm missing that when you look at humans you need to see that you're real but you have imperfections but it's still beautiful. The Kardashians brought in unrealistic Beauty to where everybody looks the same and everybody is born. I'm glad we're pushing back to the old s*** I can get into that
@Kilala.6029
2 жыл бұрын
I literally asked WTF is Barbiecore last week 😂😂
@ughIdontwantto
2 жыл бұрын
just wanna put it out there that i think billie eilish's style was used to hide her body, especially since she's quite full at the top, which would have taken away from her music and talent as everyone would be hyper focused and fixated on her body, sexualizing her. i don't think her street fashion was taken from black people and co-opted per se; it seems like it was an available fashion that was (1) yes, fashionable, eye-catching, and hip (re: black people made it cool), but more importantly (2) it protected her, hiding her body from THOSE comments. i think the thought process is: it's preferable that her music is heard and talent acknowledged and possibly being criticized for taking black people's fashion (which, from my view, hasn't even crossed most people's minds as they have mentally divorced this fashion from its origins, considering the style more mainstream), instead of her getting buried by her own body and her voice never heard. am i missing something?
@BryonyClaire
2 жыл бұрын
The evolution of Barbie in terns of how the public views and values "her" is fascinating honestly. I loved Barbie growing up, and haven't really reverted from wearing barbie-esque clothes my whole life but this kind of "escapism to the past" we're seeing with this could be just an aesthetic choice or people genuinely not wanting to stretch their horizons any further and snapping back to toxic mindsets. It's been playing a lot on my mind with the romanticism of the 00's too (a genuinely bad time for anyone who wasn't a straight white male) the combination of romanticizing Barbie? Hmm... I don't like this
@PetitePollyPocket
2 жыл бұрын
It’s honestly crazy to me between this, the Kar-Jenners, the redemption of villainous feminine white characters (Regina George, Sharpay Evan’s, and Meredith Blake from the parent trap), clean girl aesthetic, even the appropriation and rebranding of cultural foods like yt ppl calling agua refrescas “spa water” and acting like it’s something they created. I’m getting that Obama effect all over again, where it seems we were making all this progress and then our society reverts right back to not only the previous way of thinking and behaving but make it 💥EXTREMIST💥 I’m so exhausted with yt ppl at this point…🤧
@vixenovas385
2 жыл бұрын
They'll take what they want from our culture, and when they're ready to give it all up, they'll throw it back in the dumpster.
@paigeh1670
2 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure that this iteration of the girlie girl pink thing is as exclusionary as previous versions. At the very end you said that we're back to enforcing the gender binary, but part of Barbiecore this time around includes men wearing hot pink on the red carpet. The fashion pendulum has historically swung between curvy and thinner bodies for over a century now, and I'm uncomfortable conflating the thinner end of that swing with "whiteness." Has fashion history been deeply influenced by white supremacy? Yeah, of course! Massively. But white people are only somewhat thinner as a population than Black people in America. Especially with other social commentators noticing a lot of South Korean influence on the current beauty zeitgeist, I think you could easily make the argument that this is really the beauty standard shifting towards a more East Asian look. I'm not sure than either assessment is totally correct. I do think it's interesting how many black and brown people we saw in the images you chose for this video essay, and to me it indicates that this time the embrace of unabashed femininity may be open to more than just skinny white women. Just because historically skinny white women have been the Barbie ideal doesn't mean the association will endure indefinitely, or may at least weaken substantially with time and social progress.
@SoniaAlese
Жыл бұрын
Some of us just love the color pink & that doesn't mean we are anti-feminist and racist, nor make someone a "not like other girls".... In fact I have met many girls who specifically didnt like dresses or pink growing up who would say they are "not like other girls" to boys... while it may be true that some people (like Kim K) are trying to set new "body trends", I think we are in a more accepting era now of variety and inclusivity (at least from my perspective). One of the people you featured in barbiecore was Lizzo - a big beautiful black woman. It's for everyone who wants to wear it (or don't).
@וקארמלאק
Жыл бұрын
Women's interests has always been mocked " if u like pink then ur shalow childish and dume " barbie hase always felt impowring to me she can do anything and be a hero will being a girly girl more then that she is never belittled for it , barbiecore isn't about idlsing white femmnity it's about reclaiming femmnity and girly things in a way that makes u feel strong not just pretty + anyone can do barbie core u just have to wear hot pink
@peterpinker8694
2 жыл бұрын
im only 24 so i feel like the past few years have been my first conscious experience with culture shifts. i tell you what, it's let me know early to NEVER let social pressure win when it comes to modifying my body to fit the standard. that being said i've always been a pink girl and always will be one, so if this trend means i get to wear my full pink outfits without getting weird looks i will gladly embrace it
@ladybug3380
2 жыл бұрын
Let white women have their thing just like we have our thing. I don’t see how this has anything to do with black women.
@mayalicious203
2 жыл бұрын
So many things to unpack , great video by the way.I’m new here ☺️ 1. The Barbie changes a few years ago are a great example of how as a society what we say we want and what we actually want don’t align. Barbie had no choice but to change their dolls because the “not like other girls “ feminist were so high on their soap boxes that the “pressure was getting worser “(LOL) but the reality is …those ppl aren’t buying the doll. If you think about entertainment it’s happening there too. Everyone complaint about wanting more lgbtq actors , cancelling movies for certain words , or the location they are shooting , requiring all of these progressive changes then tne artist make those changes and then no one is watching the movies , listening to the music ect that they said they wanted.. Everyone now is living in nostalgia saying they want old things back . I said all that to say people don’t actually want these things they were asking for . That’s why we will start to see old business models , old shows , old aesthetics , even old laws and old ways of society do and donts reappear.
@uprootedartist
2 жыл бұрын
It's like a crazy dimension
@Ushankhuru
2 жыл бұрын
This pairs up really well with what Imani Barbarin has been saying about how the eugenics movement is being expressed at this point in the pandemic.
@JulesM434
2 жыл бұрын
I swear the internet be making any fashion trend and having it end with "core" im done🤣
@reallyitsjackiev.meadows7578
2 жыл бұрын
The Barbie movie comes out next year. 🤷🏾♂️
@team-is1nf
2 жыл бұрын
This could be a response of the circulating gender politics. There’s been a movement of gender neutrality and it could be the trends are reverting back to ultra femininity. Whatever that means.
@sarahtanis1235
2 жыл бұрын
It's a nothing-burger that the media labeled a so-called trend. Barbie-core is not actually happening organically on the streets, in cities, etc. like the 90s revival, re-use eco clothing, quilted Japanese jackets. It's just boils down to Valentino's Fall 2022 ready-to-wear collection and their highly successful PR celeb dressing + the upcoming Greta Gerwig film. That's all.
@brandybwine
2 жыл бұрын
I'm over inclusivity. It's just another kind of way to exclude people. Barbie doesn't have a job, a job for her is an option. I work and I hate it.
@canesugar911
2 жыл бұрын
Its cute that you think that this is for you in anyway. This "inclusivity" thing you are over is what created alot of comforts for you.
@brandybwine
2 жыл бұрын
Inclusivity did not provide the comforts I now enjoy. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's did that. My Mother went through desegregation and cleaned homes so I wouldn't have to. Btw my comment is demonstrative of me not thinking this is for me.
@Nupeguy16
2 жыл бұрын
Just consistently making GREAT content
@marier1542
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know. I don't think a trend can ever be totally inclusive. It's just a pendulum that favours some people then swings the other way and favours other people. At some point it was all about being skinn, then it was about curves and now maybe back to skinny again. but it's alway going to leave people out. which is sad but inevitable i think
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