The meaning of lucky girl syndrome consists of manifesting positive thoughts and affirmations to get what you want.
But the lucky girl aesthetic’s got some critics.
I was recently reading about lucky girl syndrome and its spread across social media, especially on Tik Tok.
If you haven’t heart of lucky girl syndrome, here’s a quick summary. It’s “essentially the belief that affirmative mantras and a positive mind-set in life will bend everyday events in your favor.”
Like all social media trends, lucky girl syndrome got its backlash nice and hard lately.
The overwhelming critique proposes the LGS is nothing more that inherently privileged social media users flaunting their privilege with no awareness for those that lack those privileges. In other words, they’re being thoughtless.
While I think it’s important to be personally and socially aware of the advantages you are born with – advantages that one often does not choose – bashing a social media trend whereby (mostly) young women are trying to hustle the heck out of their lives seems like a game being played in bad faith.
I’m pretty sure most of those social media users talking about LGS are not trying to discount the genuine challenges, trauma, and oppression that people have endured.
I think they’re just trying to make something of themselves.
So to the online critics who seem quite determined to label these LGS followers in all kinds of unfair and nasty ways, I would encourage you to take a step back and ask where this intense disdain stems from.
Not everyone is trying to perpetuate oppressive behavior.
Sometimes, they’re just trying to find the motivation to survive and, maybe, thrive.
Love,
L. x