This post is really just an excuse to post a Daria video. This is the episode where Val from Val Magazine comes to Lawndale to hang out with daria and find out about the 'youth culture'.
I love that even though these were made a few years ago this still happens today. Every single tv program, magazine, product that is aimed at young people are desperatley clinging to the little that they do know about us and the rest that they made up. 'Skins' is a perfect example of this. No one I know had that eventful or interesting childhood. We just sat at home feeling lonely or went out and felt lonely. Drug fuelled orgies didn't enter into it. Daria's reaction to it all is perfect. Exactly what I want to write in somedays when I see my so called culture sold back to me.
I think this episode completely encapsulates everything that I love about Daria. It's funny, perceptive and not afraid to stand up and be counted. I know she's not real but if I could be as honest and direct as Daria is all the time then I would definitely feel like I was adding a bit more to the world.
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