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Anonymous wrote:I have said this and mean it as an insult. To me it's someone who follows trends but can't even be bothered to identity my the trends that speak to them personally, or to keep up with the latest trends. Instead a basic person will just adopt the most accessible trends from like 2 years ago and then make them their whole personality.

So like today it would be wearing prairie dresses, wearing hair long and wavy (ideally battled with those heatless rollers), carrying a Stanley cup, and referring to everything as an era (this is my baking on a Saturday night era, this is my making a big deal out if my birthday era).

It's like someone whose persona has been focus grouped by Instagram influencers from Utah.

Very few people are truly basic. It requires a very specific level of insecurity and lack of creativity, usually convinced with plenty of disposable income and too much time in her hands.

I think you are unintentionally making the point that women who refer to other women as basic are just projecting their own insecurities onto those women.

I’m boring and basic. I like what I like. Which is what the majority of people like in most cases, because I don’t kid myself that I am a unique, special snowflake. If I am just catching up with the trends from two years ago but think prairie dresses look nice I’ll wear them. I don’t care if it’s not trendy now.

People like you, ironically, make NOT following mainstream trends your whole personality. If it wasn’t so important to you that you’re NOT basic you wouldn’t notice or care enough about what other women do or like to insult them for it.

Perhaps. I do value originality in people. Though I actually like plenty of things that other people like and don't think there's anything wrong with that. A person who is "basic" isn't merely mainstream or as you put it boring. They are trying very hard to project a certain image. When I was a college student being basic meant asking your parents to buy you Dooney & Burke handbags and getting thatTiffany heart lock jewelry and wearing it like a badge of honor. It was about trying very hard to fit a very specific aesthetic that you and a small group of other people decided was the height of fashion or sophistication but ironically is just some tired and safe trend from several years ago.

I think some of you are getting preemptively offended by this when it's actually a very specific and accurate insult. Being basic isn't just about being late on trends. It's about fundamentally misunderstanding how trends work but then looking down on other people for failing to fall in line with your outdated ideas about what is "in". It's a whole attitude.

Actually I think you have your own definition of “basic” in this context and it is not how the vast majority of the world uses it. Either way, maybe consider not insulting women because they buy and wear different mass produced crap than you do?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have said this and mean it as an insult. To me it's someone who follows trends but can't even be bothered to identity my the trends that speak to them personally, or to keep up with the latest trends. Instead a basic person will just adopt the most accessible trends from like 2 years ago and then make them their whole personality.

So like today it would be wearing prairie dresses, wearing hair long and wavy (ideally battled with those heatless rollers), carrying a Stanley cup, and referring to everything as an era (this is my baking on a Saturday night era, this is my making a big deal out if my birthday era).

It's like someone whose persona has been focus grouped by Instagram influencers from Utah.

Very few people are truly basic. It requires a very specific level of insecurity and lack of creativity, usually convinced with plenty of disposable income and too much time in her hands.

I think you are unintentionally making the point that women who refer to other women as basic are just projecting their own insecurities onto those women.

I’m boring and basic. I like what I like. Which is what the majority of people like in most cases, because I don’t kid myself that I am a unique, special snowflake. If I am just catching up with the trends from two years ago but think prairie dresses look nice I’ll wear them. I don’t care if it’s not trendy now.

People like you, ironically, make NOT following mainstream trends your whole personality. If it wasn’t so important to you that you’re NOT basic you wouldn’t notice or care enough about what other women do or like to insult them for it.

Perhaps. I do value originality in people. Though I actually like plenty of things that other people like and don't think there's anything wrong with that. A person who is "basic" isn't merely mainstream or as you put it boring. They are trying very hard to project a certain image. When I was a college student being basic meant asking your parents to buy you Dooney & Burke handbags and getting thatTiffany heart lock jewelry and wearing it like a badge of honor. It was about trying very hard to fit a very specific aesthetic that you and a small group of other people decided was the height of fashion or sophistication but ironically is just some tired and safe trend from several years ago.

I think some of you are getting preemptively offended by this when it's actually a very specific and accurate insult. Being basic isn't just about being late on trends. It's about fundamentally misunderstanding how trends work but then looking down on other people for failing to fall in line with your outdated ideas about what is "in". It's a whole attitude.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have said this and mean it as an insult. To me it's someone who follows trends but can't even be bothered to identity my the trends that speak to them personally, or to keep up with the latest trends. Instead a basic person will just adopt the most accessible trends from like 2 years ago and then make them their whole personality.

So like today it would be wearing prairie dresses, wearing hair long and wavy (ideally battled with those heatless rollers), carrying a Stanley cup, and referring to everything as an era (this is my baking on a Saturday night era, this is my making a big deal out if my birthday era).

It's like someone whose persona has been focus grouped by Instagram influencers from Utah.

Very few people are truly basic. It requires a very specific level of insecurity and lack of creativity, usually convinced with plenty of disposable income and too much time in her hands.

I think you are unintentionally making the point that women who refer to other women as basic are just projecting their own insecurities onto those women.

I’m boring and basic. I like what I like. Which is what the majority of people like in most cases, because I don’t kid myself that I am a unique, special snowflake. If I am just catching up with the trends from two years ago but think prairie dresses look nice I’ll wear them. I don’t care if it’s not trendy now.

People like you, ironically, make NOT following mainstream trends your whole personality. If it wasn’t so important to you that you’re NOT basic you wouldn’t notice or care enough about what other women do or like to insult them for it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t find “basic” as an insult. I see it as kind of funny and often used by other “basic” white millennial women laughing at themselves for liking pumpkin spice lattes and scented candles.

The pejorative version is “NPC” (non-player character, gamer culture) which does actually refer to a person with predictable, unoriginal opinions. MAGAs are very NPC since their talking points are very predictable in terms of not just politics but the things they are supposed to like and not like. NPCs are most likely part of a cult.

It's definitely an insult.

Most women on DCUMs are definitely basic.

Whatever. I’m basic and I own it. I love everything about the fall, pumpkin spice, ghost stories, Ugg boots, leggings, infinity scarves, you name it. I’m the poster child for millennial October.

The NPC position is to think it’s wrong to like those things because of some cultural implication. I like what I like and I don’t care.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t find “basic” as an insult. I see it as kind of funny and often used by other “basic” white millennial women laughing at themselves for liking pumpkin spice lattes and scented candles.

The pejorative version is “NPC” (non-player character, gamer culture) which does actually refer to a person with predictable, unoriginal opinions. MAGAs are very NPC since their talking points are very predictable in terms of not just politics but the things they are supposed to like and not like. NPCs are most likely part of a cult.

It's definitely an insult.

Most women on DCUMs are definitely basic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic has been around forever. Basically a word used to put down women who have mainstream interests (Uggs, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and blonde hair back when I was young). Stupid AF, since men are never characterized this way for liking sports or IPAs.

Those guys are called a bro. It has come up a million times on this board.

I've known a couple guys who were basic, not bros. I've got a neighbor who is basically a golden retriever who wants to go apple picking in a cozy sweater. Basic as can be. He's a great guy.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t find “basic” as an insult. I see it as kind of funny and often used by other “basic” white millennial women laughing at themselves for liking pumpkin spice lattes and scented candles.

The pejorative version is “NPC” (non-player character, gamer culture) which does actually refer to a person with predictable, unoriginal opinions. MAGAs are very NPC since their talking points are very predictable in terms of not just politics but the things they are supposed to like and not like. NPCs are most likely part of a cult.

Anonymous wrote:Basic has been around forever. Basically a word used to put down women who have mainstream interests (Uggs, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and blonde hair back when I was young). Stupid AF, since men are never characterized this way for liking sports or IPAs.

Anonymous wrote:I have said this and mean it as an insult. To me it's someone who follows trends but can't even be bothered to identity my the trends that speak to them personally, or to keep up with the latest trends. Instead a basic person will just adopt the most accessible trends from like 2 years ago and then make them their whole personality.

So like today it would be wearing prairie dresses, wearing hair long and wavy (ideally battled with those heatless rollers), carrying a Stanley cup, and referring to everything as an era (this is my baking on a Saturday night era, this is my making a big deal out if my birthday era).

It's like someone whose persona has been focus grouped by Instagram influencers from Utah.

Very few people are truly basic. It requires a very specific level of insecurity and lack of creativity, usually convinced with plenty of disposable income and too much time in her hands.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic has been around forever. Basically a word used to put down women who have mainstream interests (Uggs, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and blonde hair back when I was young). Stupid AF, since men are never characterized this way for liking sports or IPAs.

Those guys are called a bro. It has come up a million times on this board.

Anonymous wrote:I have said this and mean it as an insult. To me it's someone who follows trends but can't even be bothered to identity my the trends that speak to them personally, or to keep up with the latest trends. Instead a basic person will just adopt the most accessible trends from like 2 years ago and then make them their whole personality.

So like today it would be wearing prairie dresses, wearing hair long and wavy (ideally battled with those heatless rollers), carrying a Stanley cup, and referring to everything as an era (this is my baking on a Saturday night era, this is my making a big deal out if my birthday era).

It's like someone whose persona has been focus grouped by Instagram influencers from Utah.

Very few people are truly basic. It requires a very specific level of insecurity and lack of creativity, usually convinced with plenty of disposable income and too much time in her hands.

Anonymous wrote:Basic has been around forever. Basically a word used to put down women who have mainstream interests (Uggs, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and blonde hair back when I was young). Stupid AF, since men are never characterized this way for liking sports or IPAs.