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I have to agree with everyone else here. I haven’t been reading on the app lately but every “typical” mean girl I’ve seen in stories are always blonde/blue eyes/white girls. Maybe screenshot some that aren’t? Or story titles?
Probably because when you think mean girl you think a blonde white girl. Hollywood has made that image ingrained in our head with characters like Sharpay Evans, Regina George and Marriane Bryant.I’m happy to see that stereotypes are being broken and more and more writers are choosing to go against the norm now.
To pull off a mean girl or queen bee role, the character must be powerful and intimidating. So I like to see more people like me in these roles instead of just the best friend to the MC with no personality or purpose within the story.
i only notice this with some episode original stories. they’ve made at least two of their mean girls east asian, which isn’t a lot, but i think those two stories are the only ones with a mean girl. haven’t read any of their new stories for the past few months though
People should worry less about the ethnicities of the “mean girl” and more on actually making her a three dimensional character with other goals besides “taking down the MC for breathing next to the hot guy in math class.”