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By analysing three memes from the Instagram account ‘loveofhuns’, I explore how this new classed and gendered figure is constructed in online spaces and question whether the hun is a subject or object of laughter. It has been the subject of many headlines in youth-oriented magazines (which have contributed to and remarked upon its success). I genuinely thought she was talking to someone behind camera, before realising that of course she was talking to us, the great British deeply-traumatised by everything’s that happened on an ITV morning show public.

While genres such as reality TV are understood as ‘lowbrow’ – intellectually basic, cheap and exploitative – for Faye Woods (2014), The Only Way is Essex is seen as ‘employ[ing] a knowing tone and engagement with camp that seeks to smooth tensions that structured reality creates between intervention and “authenticity”, drama and reality TV, with classed femininities and performativity’ (p. This enables an understanding of the post’s relevance to the contemporary situations they address and respond to.Boomers like Cowen are simultaneously anxious about the meme’s ageist implications, and eager to assert their wisdom over younger generations. In 2019, it was transnationally translated for UK audiences (BBC, 2019–) and is currently in its second season after 12 million views gave the streaming service BBC iPlayer a ‘record-breaking’ year ( Kanter, 2019). This publicly imagined figure thus captures an underlying crisis or anxiety, which is then mobilised to create boundaries between individuals and/or groups. Indeed, ‘[o]ne of the generic demands of soap opera is that there should be substantial, even assertive, female roles within its representation of the family and community’ ( Aston and Clarke, 1994: 212). Purchasing ranks, Hypixel Gold, and SkyBlock Gems helps support us in making more, higher quality content.

Lepera, a popular TikTok teen with over 120,000 followers, made a viral OK boomer TikTok reacting to a conversation she had with her grandfather. they don't ever want to grow up [and] they think that the utopian ideals that they have in their youth are somehow going to translate into adulthood". Indeed, some celebrity huns bear similarities to the celebrity chav(ette) in that one of their defining features is ‘an inability to perform femininity correctly [. Yet Waller-Bridge’s character and body do not challenge these media expectations because many huns are concerned with image, as is Waller-Bridge.Fan-creator interactions are mediated through this page, which functions as a comical hub for fans of a specific strand of 1990s and 2000s British culture. Instead they get to revel without self-reflection in oedipal angst about their elders – many of whom were kind enough to pass them their ill-gotten privileges. One of the most popular storylines involving her character, Sonia Fowler, portrayed her teenage pregnancy and the decision to place her baby for adoption.