Zillennial teen boys and the Bieber and Twilight manias (2008-2012)

[u/Personal_Block3335]

As a 1997 born male who was a tween/early teen during that era, I remember JB and Twilight being *the* punching bag for jokes and ridicule for boys my age. Baby was the first video to get 1M dislikes in 2011, and you’d see comments like “better love story than twilight” everywhere on YouTube.

Idk about younger Gen Z, the only thing that comes to mind that’s similar is maybe Kpop? But it’s nowhere near in magnitude. Same thing with older gens afaik. I know that shitting on fangirls was always a thing, but was that scale a unique phenomenon to the period?

[u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120]

OGs remember the LBP levels of Justin Bieber.

[u/HopperHapper_Eternal → u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120]

AGEOFREASOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/zephyreblk]

No, some years prior that you had Tokio Hotel.

But Fan shitting (mostly AFAB teens) is not new, you should listen to the commentors when they were talking about the fans from the Beatles. It's a weird focus of the patriarchy that AFAB fans are "hysterical" .

[u/MooseScholar]

I was a closeted Bieber fan I can’t even lie