Hello NBN and welcome to our first take over. Grace Safarik, whom you might remember from a post called This Blog Post is Not About the Beauty in Grace’s Eyes, has submitted her article today to address something serious… THE INTERNET. More specifically though, the people we idolize as “INTERNET FAMOUS”. (Just a disclaimer: We do not hate all of you “white boys” out there.) At first when Grace came to me about wanting to write a piece for my site we were texting around midnight and she said, “I wanted to write an article for your blog, and then I was like. It’s Nothing But Nealie. Not ‘usually Nealie but there was that one time Grace wrote an article about the rise of the idolization of stupid white boys’.” Being the literary genius I am my educated and well thought out response was “OMG PLEASE DO IT”… So without further ado I will let Grace TAKE OVER:

Recently, a video surfaced of “vine famous” Taylor Caniff describing his thoughts on gay relationships. He assured his viewers in the beginning of the thirty-second clip, “I don’t have anything against gay people.” All before ever so eloquently revealing his belief that everything they do is “f***** up”. He continued to show off his gift of gab on twitter… Where he told his ONE MILLION followers that “everyone is aloud (yes, aloud… not allowed.) an opinion”. This tweet received six thousand “retweets” and twenty-one thousand “favorites”. Well since I’m “aloud” an opinion, Nealie graciously agreed to let me share it on her blog, and it’s VERY clear and VERY strong. The amount of young girls obsessing over these newly famous vine stars is mind-boggling, ridiculous, and upsetting. On vine, Taylor Caniff has 1.4 million followers, and averages about seventy thousand “likes” and thirty thousand “revines”. His friend Nash Grier has 8.5 million. Cameron Dallas 4.9 million. These boys have influence… Influence that has not been used wisely. In December of last year, Grier and Dallas, along with another “vine star” J.C. Caylen (700,000) caught some heat for uploading a video describing what they think boys look for in girls. In a mere 9 minutes those three boys reinforced every unattainable and negative beauty standard, with millions of young girls’ attention. They cannot take those words back, and the video still exists on other people’s YouTube accounts for girls to view in their quest to become everything Nash Grier and his handsome “baby blues” want. In the short time Vine has been around (launched January 24, 2013) the criteria for “Vine Celebrity” has been set. The traits for “Vine Celebrity” consist of abs, eyes, and a willingness to do ANYTHING in public on camera… no matter how uncomfortable it makes the people around them. They make a career out of this “celebrity” and tour the country. Girls pay money to go take pictures with them. There are hundreds of comments on everything they post. They sell out nightclubs. They cause hysteria and mobs. Abs, eyes, and an air of pretension is all it seems to take to influence the next generation of women.

XOXO,
Usually Nealie but…
There was that one time that Grace took over.