In the March 2nd, 2024 episode of Saturday Night Live starring Sydney Sweeney, one skit involves a police department hiring two new interns who manage to solve several dead-end cases in seconds through their online sleuthing skills. “We’re 22 year old girls in situationships… we can find out literally anything about anyone with no information,” Sweeney’s character says. While they’re useful in the context of the skit, the point remains that these young women are depressingly phone-brained, tangled in romantic limbos that require obsessive digital maneuvering. The guys they’re seeing are probably seeing other people, or else they always have to worry about that, but they aren’t allowed to express any real concern — never mind define the relationship as exclusive — lest they come off as uncool or overbearing. And of course, these young women are intended to be representative of their demographic as a whole.
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