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If you have been following the most famous YouTubers and looking for the latest teen trends on the internet, then you inevitably have come across the term “VSCO Girl.”
First, let’s familiarize ourselves with the term “VSCO.” What does it mean? VSCO is a photography app that allows users to take pictures and edit them with filters. The platform became popular among Gen Z girls because the app is a likes-free platform. Hence the term “VSCO Girl.” But now the term has taken another meaning going beyond just using the VSCO app. The term encompasses personality traits that promote positive vibes and environmental consciousness creating its own internet sub-culture.
The VSCO girl is not afraid to let anyone know that she is basic, self-aware, eco-friendly, and owns a trillion scrunchies. She is here to revamp internet culture and make this world a better place.
Now that we have given you a quick introduction to the VSCO Girl, let’s take a look where she thrives: social media.
The following memes and posts will make anyone proficient on VSCO girl culture and how they are shaping the online world by kicking out the stressed out, bad-looking millennial stereotype to replace it with the “I’m so basic” aesthetic.
The VSCO Girl is all about:
Spreading positive vibes online
i love vsco bc it’s just all girls coming together spreading positivity and it makes me so happy
— al⚜️ (@HylinskiLexi) March 26, 2019
Using “SKSKSK” and “and I ooop” always
wore a scrunchie to a party and was attacked by a horde of gays that kept chanting sksksk and annioop at me, a nightmare lich rally a nightmare
— aleisha 💦 (@soldiermattel) September 16, 2019
mark struggling to say "sksksk and i oop" okay goodnight pic.twitter.com/7eSunxpdop
— lizzeth (@togandjogg) September 17, 2019
Being eco-friendly
Namjoon as a vsco girl
Joon: Wait? You're not saving the koalas? Well try to and join my program sksksksksksk. And also, I see that you don't have a scrunchie, here's an eco-friendly one don't forget to use plastic straw sis SKSKSKSKSKKSKSKSKKSSK pic.twitter.com/0B49Fr2pdD
— Suju⁷ u3u (@johncena_simp) August 29, 2019
Reusable water bottles
i dont really care about everyone making fun of vsco girls, but once you make fun of them for using metal straws and reusable water bottles i do. stop ridiculing people for making an effort at saving the planet.
— adamari cárdenas 🕊 (@adamaricardena) September 4, 2019
Metal straws
my 12 y/o cousin really called me a vsco girl bc i have metal straws and scrunchies jdgdjdg
— scandinavian clown (@dykeabled) September 17, 2019
Kanken bagpacks
THE VSCO GIRL AESTHETIC pic.twitter.com/1YTGq31B8R
— ig: @bodycarethreads (@bodycarethreads) September 16, 2019
Wearing scrunchies
All of a sudden VSCO Girl is a thing yet I was out here rocking scrunchies and saving sea turtles with my environmental club back in ‘04
— Janna (@PrivettJanna) September 17, 2019
Wearing oversized t-shirts
I think I might have a problem. 1 week ago I didn’t know what a VSCO girl was and now I want to buy oversized tshirts and seashell necklaces and talk about saving the turtles.
I’m 27. I need to stop being this easily influenced by 15 year old girls.
But also… and I oop sksksk
— Amy Lovatt (@AmyLovatt_) August 29, 2019
Vans
“VSCO Girl- Has Vans, Crocs, Birkenstocks, and wears a shell necklace. Has a Fjallraven Kanken bagpack. Saving the planet enthusiast. She always has a hydroflask. She can't leave home without a scrunchie.” Well, everyday certainly is a school day🤷🏽♀️🤯🤕 pic.twitter.com/gNTYnY7CqS
— Miss Gold #StayHomeSaveLives (@MissGoldTeacher) September 17, 2019
Crocs
https://twitter.com/sunnycrissie/status/1173964151426822146
The VSCO Girl is the new trend of late 2010s early 2020s that will probably shape the discourse on environmental and social issues in the world. As you can tell based on the tweets, many people say that the VSCO Girl is just a comeback of the 90s girl or that they were doing or wearing what a VSCO girl wears all the time before the movement started, but reality is that VSCO girls are the ones reining on social media and they will make a statement online just like millennials did. We just need to be ready to see a whole new generation write relatable posts that us, older generations, can not longer relate to.
