The Take on the Theater Kid Trope (or How Glee Is Hella Dated)

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YouTube channel The Take breaks down the trope of the "theater kid" from their ambition, high standards, how real life theater kids are stained by the legacy of Glee's Rachel Berry and how the trope's stereotypes are being challenged today.

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ONTD, were you a theater kid?

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[takarai_karin]

I was gonna watch but then I saw it was 18+ minutes

[erin805]

I swear tik tok has shortened my already short attention span, it’s now non existent

[takarai_karin]

I watch YouTube in 1.5 speed now (or 1.75 if they annunciate really well) but sometimes I don’t even wanna make the effort for that

[bitchsdangerous]

It's truly terrible to be seeing it already in young students.

[erin805]

I feel like it also couldn’t have come at a worse time with so many kids having to do distance learning, it’ll be a whole generation of kids who are just behind (this took a real turn sorry for the debbie downer comments!)