A look at “niche memes”, personal clip art diaries teens post on Instagram to close-knit followers, a trend that took off when they returned to school this fall
Almost every day, while she's waiting for soccer practice to begin or for her mom to pick her up from school … Tweets: @chaykak , @taylorlorenz , @parismartineau , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @stephbr0wne , @taylorlorenz , @jjvincent , @ellenhuet , and @mims Tweets: Kyle Chayka / @chaykak : “Niche memes are memes that are supposed to be relatable to you only” http://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : I wrote about “niche memes” which are basically teens and tweens version of LiveJournal and how young girls express themselves on Instagram http://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Paris Martineau / @parismartineau : niche insta meme's are gen-Z's live journal bc teens are too cool for us once again https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : There are hundreds of thousands of these memes and growing. Kids post them all day during and after school pic.twitter.com/bcYxMpMzYd Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Each meme is basically a hyper-specific collage about the creator. I spoke to kids as young as 8 years old who feel like niche memes are the “only place they can really be themselve” pic.twitter.com/kJVdXAN6WC Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Also every single kid I spoke to for this story said their parents absolutely don't know about their accounts. Most said parents weren't even aware they had Insta at all, or thought they just had their main public acct pic.twitter.com/OQCSq1De0Y @stephbr0wne : feels like the internet gets exponentially weirder as time goes on https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : It feels weird to even call them memes since most are just like insta-formatted diary entries pic.twitter.com/yGJqhS4laD James Vincent / @jjvincent : aren't these just ... collages with a meme aesthetic? https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Ellen Huet / @ellenhuet : raise your hand if in jr high you posted the details of your school day, period by period, on livejournal!! because some things change (teens now do this on instagram) but some things stay the same (teens love 2 navel-gaze) http://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Kids as young as 8 now basically live on / communicate almost entirely through their phones http://twitter.com/...