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I'm smart and I need everyone to know it - by Luisa

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If you live on a different side of the internet than me and have never heard about the “thought daughter” concept, it originated on TikTok as a variation of the gay son or thot daughter ‘would you rather’ scenario. The “thought daughter” is an intellectual. She overthinks her every decision, has emotional depth, and reads Plath, Didion, Rooney, Moshfeg, and Kafka. She is an existentialist. One of the most obvious examples of this is the rise of "bookstagrammers," content creators, primarily women, who pose with a coffee cup in hand in front of shelves filled with books and build an online persona around their love for literature. I don’t doubt that most of these creators love books. I do find it strange how some of them, with their meticulously curated profiles and niche references, call themselves literary It girls. Helena Aeberli wrote about this phenomenon and its impact on female artists in her essay “search of cool” arguing: “The literary it girl is a hot girl — but not too hot. S

If you live on a different side of the internet than me and have never heard about the “thought daughter” concept, it originated on TikTok as a variation of the gay son or thot daughter ‘would you rather’ scenario. The “thought daughter” is an intellectual. She overthinks her every decision, has emotional depth, and reads Plath, Didion, Rooney, Moshfeg, and Kafka. She is an existentialist. One of the most obvious examples of this is the rise of "bookstagrammers," content creators, primarily women, who pose with a coffee cup in hand in front of shelves filled with books and build an online…

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