• kemsat@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Egirl is short for “emo girl,” apparently. So, think more like Goth Girl Lite.

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      11 months ago

      I assume you’re either 12 or dont belong to either culture and are just an outsider looking in. Emo and goth stem from entirely different music genres and share very little other than black eyeliner and dark fashion. But egirls seem to be something different entirely. Not my generation, so I’m observing from the outside as you were with emos and goths, but from what I can understand, egirls don’t stem from musical roots. They’re a gen-z fashion subculture that sprung up from the internet itself on micro-vlogging sites like tiktok.

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        11 months ago

        Egirls are definitely a millennial thing. Egirls are basically just girls that spend a lot of social interaction on the internet.

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          Aah, I understood it to be a teen tiktok thing in the past 5-10 years or so, when Millennials were already in our late 20s to early 40s. Wikipedia also calls it a Gen Z subculture, but again, I’m an outsider looking in, so I definitely get that Wikipedia may be wrong in this case.