ERMAHGERD! "Darryn King's Vanity Fair profile of Goldenberger and history of the ERMAHGERD is a fascinating read. Most interesting to me is the fact that the meme's premise -- that the retainer-wearing, squinch-faced Goosebumps-clutching kid in the photo was a gormless, awkward tween with no idea of how weird she looked -- is totally, perfectly wrong. The picture was posed, created by a savvy, funny, witty tween with more smarts than tweens are credited with by an unfair world, who created a genuinely comic character that inspired millions of people to riff on it. Not bad for a nine- or ten-year-old. Also interesting is the equanimity that Goldenberger has displayed since becoming net-infamous, being pretty much totally cool with it all, laughing it off and moving on (except for when some douchenozzle doxxed her, obviously). In contrast, RL Stine got pretty grumpy about it ("Well I’m on Twitter and about five people a day say, ‘Have you seen this?’ I just don’t get it. I don’t get it.")."
Tweens are smarter than you think: the wonderful, true story of the ERMAHGERD meme
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