Everyone wants to get a little bit into the blogging action and for a lot of mainstream publications, creates a very useful online presence. Some do it well (NY Times, Style File). Some just er… don’t (no name mentioning). I hadn’t checked out the Teen Vogue website for a good period of time and it was only through my stats where someone had linked to me that I found a hideous guilty pleasure – Teen Vogue’s snapshot blog.
Very simple – gaggles of teenage-ish girls who think they have the style props send their photos in and one gets featured every week on the blog. The pictures aren’t really the main attraction, though I’ve picked out my favourite ones and I’m also liking how they’re featuring people from all over the world. The real juicy stuff however, is to be found in the 50-100 comments every post accumulates on the blog. Perhaps it’s the concentrated readership demographic of Teen Vogue but the comments range from the gushy to the ridiculous. It constantly amazes me how liberal people can be with their language online. With the anonymity of the internet in place, you can just go right ahead and give your opinion quite frankly (and in some cases, quite viciously!). I can imagine that for the said featured girl, the positivty is very flattering but what of the negativity? I think it’s great to encourage rapport and dialogue about people’s outfits especially since they’ve given consent to have their picture up for all to see but I can personally relate to having outfits completely lambasted by people and I can’t help but show a little sympathy for the poor gals who get completely slated.
Anyhow, there’s about 5 months worth of comments to get through and I’m boooored. Off I go to scarf some Kinder Bueno bars down whilst reading this guilty pleasure.
How I found my afternoon’s worth of reading: Someone commented on this girl’s outfit kindly saying that people should check out Style Bubble for creative outfits… thanks for the compliment, marcjacobsisgod! But I’m actually liking this girl’s outfit…or at least her attitude in the picture…
hi susie!
i was featured on teenvogue’s blog in the month of june.
hmm i would say girls have to take it with a pinch of salt all the bad comments they get about how common their look is or how the skirt they have on looks mum-sy..
teenvogue randomly picked me, and if i had known i was gonna be picked i might have chosen a better outfit! lol but i had mostly good comments.. nothing to fret over.
i also think that fashionistas have got to be a lil more thick-skinned(susie,you’re best at that i know haha), so.. look on the bright side, “teenvogue chose me- not you!” lol
It’s interesting cause their blog features a lot of average girls with street style, but their magazine doesn’t…I hope that improves…
She IS adorable! What a difference it would make if the girls weren’t sporting the fashionista attitude.
WOW, this is so odd! I cannot believe you put my picture on ur blog post. (does that mean u like me outfit? lol) the nasty comments can be quite mean i totally agree, i got called “poser” for wearing Vans slip-ons with striped socks in my outfit. I thought of just doing this for fun, but its not much fun having nasty people boo you on there sadly!
🙂
It’s kinda disturbing to know that the girl with sunglasses in the sepia-coloured picture is 11/12. Nice outfit though..
cute look(s)
These photos are cute — thanks for sharing.
I also like that you bring up how the anonymity of the internet seems to give people a warrant to be completely nasty. I’m all for being frank and giving a critical opinion but sometimes it seems like comments on blogs are just senselessly vicious. And I suspect that often the person behind a vicious comment isn’t even necessarily a mean person — it’s just that the freedom to say whatever without being face-to-face seems to turn us into monsters.
“It’s kinda disturbing to know that the girl with sunglasses in the sepia-coloured picture is 11/12. Nice outfit though..”
Hey, if you’re talking about the girl with the black and white polka-dotted scarf, that’s me! I’m actually 17 about to be 18…kind of weird that you think I’m 11 or 12 though.
I agree re the vicious comments. Anonymity brings out the worst in everyone, doesn’t it?
do you know a Cory Kennedy ,i think?¬ø… who’s she?¬ø..why everybody talk about her?¬ø
This sounds interesting, I’ll def check it out
Hey, if you’re talking about the girl with the black and white polka-dotted scarf, that’s me! I’m actually 17 about to be 18…kind of weird that you think I’m 11 or 12 though.
I am so sorry! It’s just that in July US Vogue there is this article and it has a picture with girl with same kind of scarf and sunglasses and she’s 11. I checked the picture again and she doesn’t look anything like you, except the accesories. My sincere apologies!
heya!
i don’t know if you’re interested, but i recently came across some “Giles Deacon Black Studded Shoes” on ebay ! the ones you posted ages ago online.they’re too small for me, but maybe they’ll fit you.
anne
Susie, I know what you mean about the comments thing. There are a bunch of blogs that I read just for the hundreds of comical and utterly insane comments and not for the content of the blog at all. Giving criticism is acceptable because that’s why people post pictures of their outfits, to get feedback… but more often people tend to overstep tons of boundaries to personally insult someone they’ve never met.
And it’s sort of entertaining to read them all.
I think the key point of these “snapshot blogs” gets missed more often than not. It is not a sound board for one to judge or degrade another. But more for the person in the picture to say; this is me, in an outfit I like, I feel is fashionable, and hopefully you can draw something from. It should be a source of inspiration for the reader. It can be both good inspiration (if you enjoy the outfit and can take some ideas from it) and bad (it is a miserable outfit and you now know that A and B do not mix well together).