![]() ![]() ![]() The internet is wallpapered with advice, much of it delivered in a cut-and-dried, cut-’em-loose tone. I had never had to consider whether it was a word that could be applied to me. But I had rarely heard it used offline, and then only semi-ironically, or in regard to people who were objectively terrible. I had seen all kinds of advice on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit about how to deal with “toxic” friends, generally by never speaking to them again. But it was also surprising because toxic is an internet word. This accusation was upsetting because I crave approval at all times from everyone around me. He replied that there wasn’t much to say, except one thing: “Your girlfriend is toxic,” he warned, followed by an emoji of a monkey covering its face. Eventually, my boyfriend texted him to see if he would talk about the situation. Another time, I was on a Zoom call in the living room and heard, from behind his closed bedroom door, the Avril Lavigne song “Girlfriend,” the chorus of which is a peppy “Hey, hey, you, you, I don’t like your girlfriend,” playing at a pointed volume. Though he lived in the apartment for several more months, I saw him only one other time, on the way to the bathroom. So I was sort of shocked when the roommate got up without a word, went into his room, slammed the door, and never spoke to me again. I snapped and said, loudly, “This conversation is dumb, and I don’t want to keep having it.” I knew it was rude, but I thought it was expedient, eldest-sibling rude. The roommate was getting louder and louder my boyfriend was repeating himself. This kind of argument can be entertaining if the participants are making funny or interesting points, but they weren’t, and they wouldn’t drop it. One night, he and my boyfriend started bickering about which Lorde album is better, the first one or the second one. When the lines between genuine support and media content are blurred the motive behind the support becomes unclear.Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. ![]() Lines like "maybe it's about you, the living need attention too, you like em better dead, when all you ever see are dead girls and all you hear are terrible things " also tie into the social media and general public normalization of these concepts. With lines like "I wanna be a dead kid like my friends" it's safe to assume these feelings are being reciprocated by penelope. There's the romanticization of suicide and self harm in places like media as can be seen in lines such as "thats why they're on every show", the death of celebrities/public figures being idolized and spread on social media (there's did girls/kids in my phone, it'd be wrong to say I miss them I didn't really know them, I know it isn't real but I fake it anyway), and repressing your own suicidal feelings behind the mentioned public figures and celebrities. To me, dead girls is about quite a few different subjects pulled from different places. ![]()
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