“The Fuckbois of Vine”

The broken ballad of Maggie and Carter illustrates a larger issue when it comes to reckoning with explosive male Vine fame: the rabid celebrity worship and fandom that teenage girls are so prone to can be legitimately harmful if the celebrities are utter fuckboi assholes. Carter Reynolds, like many of his infernally famous male Vine peers, is a fuckboi down to his marrow.

Helen Holmes’ occasional column on The Awl, “I Heard It Through The Great Vine,” is a real window into the six-second hearts and minds of Teens. Her latest is on the fuckbois of Vine and it is…horrifying. Read it!!