It's complicated. (Surprise.)
Honestly? I just couldn't find a place that was taking about all the "teen" and "tween" labled stuff in the media/world/TV/internet/whatever. Why was a looking for a place like that? Because I feel like a lot of the people putting out all the "teen" and "tween" stuff are total idiots. I'm also wondering if the teen consumers of all their stuff, are really consciously consuming all of their crap.
Teenagers have a pretty bad reputation in the first place. The youth vote never comes out. We're angsty and moody for no apparent reason. We're lazy. Every female teenager is psychotically in love with Edward Cullen. We don't realize how good we have it. We spend too much on clothes. We don't care about anything that doesn't directly affect us. And of course, all of us have sex, do drugs, drink etc. Search for "teen" in google news and nearly every result that comes up has to do with teens either killing or being killed.
Aside from the stereotypes, companies spend millions of dollars trying to figure our what teenagers want and how to market their products/services to us. We're the new gold mine. We don't have to pay taxes and will apparently buy anything churned out by Disney or that comes in pink and black.
SnarkyTeen is the result of me not being able to find a place where other people are annoyed with Disney churning out less than mediocre "family approved" programming for the sole purpose of making money, causing everyone else to have to compete with them, and ending with a pile of crap products. It's ridiculous. I don't want to have a part in it anymore.
