The switch up towards Lexie has been scary
Mainly coming from eyekons. I remember her vividly being a fan favourite during and after dream/popstar academy. People were sad when she left near the end of the program, they loved her visuals, she was praised for her maturity and bravery for leaving an unhealthy environment, everyone wanted her to debut someway, somehow, somewhere. She was well liked and loved. Even at the very beginning of the announcement last year of the girls being announced of who will be in the group from da, Lexie still had some little praise and excitement and a few months after that. At least mixed reviews for a while.
Now, I feel like she has become so unlikeable and hated for whatever reason. Before anyone says she’s a hypocrite, I don’t see it that way. I saw it as a 19 year old girl that didn’t like how the grown adult staff were making the girls competitive and pinning against with each other ( remember they were a bunch of teens and very young adults) and she literally said that herself and didn’t like it. Even if she deceived to leave the very last minute, sometimes there’s only so much a person can take. I speak from experience coming from being in dance environments, in programs, classes with mainly only girls and being in an all girls high school. And in their first live stream with Emily and Samara, when she answered the question of something like what character reminds of this person, and Lexie said the ongoing thing with Sid the sloth. Yeah that was kinda mean and wasn’t nice at all. But even before the live, ppl were being weird towards Lexie. I don’t watch their full videos.
I’m ngl I’m a bit scared for this group. And I have a theory, and alr seems to maybe be the case, that Lexie has been given the “pretty popular mean girl with no personality” type label. The same how what they’ve been doing with Daniela. Smh and even tho she’s from Sweden and reps that heritage, she confirmed that she is also Latina, specifically of Chilean descent. I know Latinas can be white lol, you guys should know what point I’m trying to make, the mean toxic aggressive stereotype exists and Latina girls/women are sadly affected by it regardless of colour. The point still stands, and Lexie does look more “stereotypically” Hispanic nowadays lol I won’t lie. That’s for another conversation but it does get sociological.
Imo I personally don’t get mean girl vibes from her at all actually. None of them. Maybe a bit awkward but remember they’re extremely new need to readjust with each other. And I also feel like people are so used to Katseye’s big, chaotic, loud, hilarious personalities, but c’mon guys not everyone can be bubbly. They are all still extremely young girls. 16 and 20.
This is just the same ole tired classic cycle of misogyny. People love to switch up, hyper analyze female artists esp in girl groups, online and assume the worst in them and make unhealthy conclusions to villainize them. I also feel like people like to aim and redirect their anger, hostility, hate towards young girls/women and not the company hxg and real villains. You even see it with non artists (ex. Nara Smith) women are just hated for no reason. Same for ordinary women who aren’t famous. It’s worse when you’re a woc. Even when they’re not a bad person in the slightest degree. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a nice, good, decent, neutral, bad. So you can’t really win as a woman. Men and boys don’t receive not even a quarter of scrutiny or hate for doing and saying the same exact things or even worse (ex. r@pists, pdfs, abusers, m**erders etc).
Please don’t attack me I’m only just sharing my opinion and perspective as a casual fan. Can we please just learn to give these girls and people in general a chance and time? And people need to realize even if you are flawed (we all are) and have not so nice or good ways, you can change, learn and grow.
Sorry if this was a bit long, just needed to get it off my chest x