Lady Gaga comments the “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous” FB group

[nutella_forever]

Lady Gaga replied to a TikTok about the “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous” group chat. pic.twitter.com/T4O1x3sfJB
- Lady Gaga Now 🃏 (@ladygaganownet) September 12, 2024
Lady Gaga commented a video on TikTok regarding the “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous” FB group created when she was a student by some of her college

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[epicdonald]

i saw this earlier and it's had me thinking about how the 2000s were such a wild time to be a teenager. like there was a very narrow window of acceptable hobbies (mostly sports) and god help you if you had some kind of creative pursuit and people at school found out about it.

i was talking about it a while ago with some friends my age and one of them said that he didn't learn to embrace having hobbies until he stumbled upon the vlog brothers and their "IT'S OKAY TO ENJOY THINGS" content

like literally it was seen as more okay to bully someone for being passionate about their art than it was to be passionate about your art

[iamkenough]

Kids used to bully other kids about literally anything they didn’t think was cool or when they were mad they sucked at the particular thing the bullied kid was good at.

[primimproper]

So much this. As a teen (okay maybe more late 90s than 2000s), you couldn't like anything. Everything was "gay" - especially dancing.

The heaviest teen bullying I received started when my paintings were singled out in art class and I won a local contest. One boy dumped a can of black paint into my art box as the bell rang, all over my brushes and everything, and I was late to my next class, trying to rinse it out fast fast fast, while the art teacher told me to hurry up, like my time management was the problem. He would also paint things on the back of my canvases, like pink triangles to call me a lesbian.

Any one who excelled at or put effort into anything (that was not sports) was turned into hamburger. I didn't find out for years sometimes that my high school friends were also accomplished at playing the piano, etc.

[loveumbrella]

Yeah. I've always been into clothing and "fashion" (more in the sense of how and why people dress, and clothes as artefacts, less into fashion as consumerism) and because I used to dress in a somewhat unconventional way and made most of my clothes and trifted many of them, I was bullied and made fun of.

Now I have the same people come to me saying they find my work (as a designer) great and telling me how cool I was back in my teen years. Like... I know. I always knew, but where were you? It's always been neat, and you've never been the arbiter of what's ~~cool~~.

[epicdonald]

yesss i have been trying since i was a teenager to get into making clothes myself but it's truly never stuck for me. and a big reason is because when i was young enough to have the time to build the skills, there was a huge stigma around wearing clothes you made yourself. it pretty much needed to be indistinguishable from mass manufactured clothing which of course was impossible. now i feel like the stigma has lessened (and mass manufactured clothing has gotten worse and worse anyway) but i'd need like an entire weekend to remember how to do any of it.

i did learn a few years ago that a lot of that stigma around homemade clothing is actually the result of propaganda from the clothing industry, and it used to be the reverse where clothes clearly made by hand were more valued than clothes made by machine. which was a small source of comfort to learn but still probably wouldn't have done much to help if i'd try to throw that fact at people when i was 17

[loveumbrella]

"a lot of that stigma around homemade clothing is actually the result of propaganda from the clothing industry"

that's super interesting and tbh ive never heard of this before really, do you have anywhere i could read more about this? i mean... not entirely suprised bc ~*capitalism*~ lol

[epicdonald]

iirc i originally learned it from the book overdressed! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797414-overdressed

it's a book generally about the rise of fast fashion and labor exploitation in the clothing industry and it includes a brief history of the industry overall

[loveumbrella]

ahh thank you!! ill look it up <<33<3

[progression]

While the 2000s got me in other ways, I truly lived in a bubble when it came to the arts. I got into an art school in 6th grade and stayed in the arts through college. My HS literally felt like FAME at times. We didn’t have sports at our school, so they were actually looked down on. It was lovely, tbh.

[silverstarry]

I was in show choir in the pre-Glee days when it was very uncool. But it kind of ended up being a good thing because I learned not to care that everyone in school thought that what we were doing was totally uncool.

[toshi_hakari]

Haha yeah, I was bullied for being into manga/anime in school, but funny enough, despite being very shy and desperately seeking acceptance and validation, I never changed my hobbies just to fit in.

I think it was around that time that I found my inner resilience and strength and I haven't looked back. Now I'm 38 and still HEAVILY into these hobbies and don't care what other people think about it.

I could have still gone without this whole bullying ordeal but I realized I was fine in the end. Found fellow like-minded people so I'm good :)

[bellwetherr]

it is wild i got out of my childhood with only a few mental illnesses lmao it was rough out there

[steffi_333]

Honestly being a kid is horrible. My childhood was not a bad one compared to a lot of others but I wasn’t a happy kid. It’s one of the many reasons I don’t want kids lmao.

[humannatur3]

i feel like it continues today. if someone is genuinely passionate or happy about something it's "cringe."