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https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/C92zCcASIs0<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Publications such as Pitchfork, Dazed, and some random Instagram account declared brat summer dead and officially joever.<\/p>\n
Charli XCX responded with: oh ? see u next week \ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/p>\n
Pitchfork wrote:<\/a> However, Brat Summer\u2019s condition took a turn for the worse at the beginning of the week. On July 21, President Joseph Biden announced he would be ending his re-election campaign and nominated Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his stead. Harris, certainly more than Biden, seemed primed for a Brat Summer\u2014she did spend June in Las Vegas, after all, albeit apologizing for Biden\u2019s verbal miscues at the first Presidential debate. Charli XCX, perhaps sensing the twin swells of support for two powerful women, wrote the post that would, in three words, signal the end of Brat Summer: \u201ckamala IS brat.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
In the hours following, Harris\u2019 social media team leaned into her support, updating their social headers to BRAT\u2019s green hue. Soon, people who were absolutely not having a Brat Summer\u2014CNN reporter Jake Tapper, Minnesota governor Tim Walz\u2014began to pile atop an already fragile meme. There were mixes made that interpolated Harris\u2019 own speeches where lyrics about doing key bumps used to be. By the end of the day, Brat Summer had been pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Dazed wrote:<\/a> It\u2019s easy to blame other people. But if you really want to know who killed brat summer, you must only take a look in the mirror. It was you, it was me, it was all of us. We took it too far. We memed too close to the sun. We grabbed brat summer with rough hands and squeezed it for every last drop of content, until the nights began to cool and there was nothing left.<\/i><\/p>\n
That random instagram account wrote:<\/a> brat summer is officially over everyone. It was already pretty much packed in by the time every corporation and brand decided to use the \u201cbrat\u201d aesthetic. The meme was stale and getting dragged pretty hard, but I never expected it to go out this sad. With Charli\u2019s endorsement of Kamala Harris, we see a full turn to neoliberalism from the cult pop singer. <\/i><\/p>\n
Thoughts?<\/i><\/p>\nSources:<\/b> 1<\/a> | 2<\/a> | 3<\/a> | 4<\/a><\/p>\n
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