Being such a young person has made me grow very strong opinions towards social media. It's a relatively new thing, which is frightening as we don't completely know the lasting effects it can have on people, and we won't until it's too late. Being a teenager has ensured that it is practically cemented into my day-to-day life.
Coming-of-age comedies have also noticed this fact and have been writing it into plot lines with their characters to add to the relatability. They usually only use it as means to incite conflict, either with two characters or with some plot line about self-hatred, but I have yet to see one write about an epidemic I've noticed among my peers in the last couple of years.
The social learning media theory is one that aims to explain that people learn and alter their behavior, opinions, and reactions to align with the media that they consume. I've personally seen people change their opinion one day to another to assimilate with whatever people find to be socially acceptable on the internet. It's also genuinely baffling how many people I've see expect ridiculous things out of life and the people around them just because they've seen a skit or a highly edited video online and then become weirdly jealous.
It's genuinely such a strange phenomenon that I don't see get talked about online as much. I've also never seen it written in a realistic way in a coming-of-age comedy so hey, maybe I'll be the first. I feel like there is so much material to work with and so many ways to satirize the subject and let me poke fun at an otherwise, serious issue within my own generation. Sounds like the beginning of a really good comedy to me.
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