When I was a budding teenager in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, I remember watching the show Awkward with my older sisters. I found it hard to grasp the idea that these characters in the show were meant to portray teens that were only a few years older than I. Most of them were driving, drinking, partying, doing drugs, and or having sex. Although I wasn't formally introduced to the idea of "pop" at this age, I had the impression that this was a misrepresentation of what high school was like, that the characters were merely a ploy to get viewers to watch a show that was oh-so-ridiculous. Now that I'm at the half way point in my high school career, I'm not so sure that this show was the blaring form of pop that I used to think it was.
As sad as it is, I feel that the description of the characters in Awkward aren't so far off. I know plenty of kids my age that can fit into every single one of those descriptions. It almost seems like the show, which ended just last year, attempts to use an out dated form of pop. A fifteen year old who is doing weed and having sex might've been harder to grasp as a norm in the 90s or early 2000s, but it's not that odd for kids my age to hear about.
This reality just further proves the idea that the technique of pop is a positive feedback loop that has less than positive results. Media creators like to push the envelope to get people's attention, but this only creates a new norm for that generation to make a reality. This just forces these creators to go further and further off into the deep end. Sex, alcohol, and drugs used to be forbidden fruit that was only seen in the movies during the 90s and 2000s, but now it's a reality, no longer something that is shocking. The cycle of the pop technique only makes me concerned for the future. How far will we go and how far will be too far?
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