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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 39 | CULTURE SHOCK: Teen Vogue's ADULT Content!?

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today, Lauren takes a look into the magazine "Teen Vogue," a leftist rag aimed at teenage girls but delivering a VERY adult message. Listener discretion is advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:08.1

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:09.9

Today we're gonna be talking about Teen Vogue and how much I really detest Teen Vogue.

0:16.3

And I know a magazine aimed at teenage girls may seem like a strange thing to have such strong

0:21.8

feelings about, but trust trust me odds are after this

0:25.2

video you're gonna hate it too when I was a young teen slash tween like 12 to

0:30.5

maybe 15 years old I was really into those teeny bopper type magazines.

0:35.6

Tiger Beat, Boop, and J14, I think are some of the ones that I used to read.

0:40.1

And they used to have things like interviews with celebrities, posters of boy bands, and you know like lip gloss recommendations or whatever.

0:48.0

Cringy? Absolutely, but overall pretty harmless if not wholesome content.

0:53.4

That was like 10 years ago and I don't know if you've been keeping track

0:57.8

but to apparently teen magazines have changed a good amount.

1:04.0

Specifically, Teen Vogue isn't quite what it used to be.

1:09.0

As recently as six, maybe seven years ago,

1:12.0

Teen Vogue looked indistinguishable from the types of magazines that I used to read.

1:16.0

Teenaged actresses or singers were on their covers, and there were stories like how to make it as a fashion blogger,

1:22.0

or crushing hard how to tell him you want to be more than friends.

1:25.6

Ah, so innocent, to be young again. But fast forward to 2019 and Teen Vogue's content has changed somewhat.

1:34.0

Yes, there are still the usual fluff articles

1:36.0

that you would expect the average 15 year old girl to like,

1:39.0

things talking about Jonas Brothers lyrics

1:41.0

or Leopard Prince Gerts.

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