Kim was already famous before her

Babe with love I think it would be the other way around 😅

@@Sjood-qs8ol to YOU. Some of us didn't know who the hell Kim was back then.

😂 Kim and snook are two diferente people. Kim is evil snook is real

Who’s Kim?

She made you tan? Damn, how's your skin doing? I grew up at the beach, lathered in sunscreen but I was still very tan and have sun damage now although I do my best to stay out of the sun.

@@uschilou my skin is doing good! :) she’s chilled out alot about tanning after learning how bad it was for your skin. Thank you for asking!!

This is hilarious, as someone who grew up raised by Italians in the actual area of the show, I had the totally opposite experience. A lot of the people I grew up with from Staten Island, Jersey, and even Brooklyn felt bizarrely seen by the show, mostly middle aged Italian American women I knew and younger kids in our schools wanting to emulate it. Most people who dismissed it around here did it as more of a “reality tv rots your brain” thing, rather than any cultural reason, because to some extent it is an accurate depiction of the culture there, especially Staten and nearby Jersey at the time (minus all the reality tv show manipulation and plying young people with copious alcohol) Also my Brooklynite parents refer to themselves as Guidos, all of the time. My mom and all her friends were totally crazy about Jersey Shore and Mob Wives in the early 2000s when we were growing up there and yes, she made me tan by the pool too :).

@littlegoblin6923 Of course! I also had to learn that tanning is bad for my skin. My step mom told me to lay out on tinfoil slathered in baking oil. I never did that but I definitely tanned. Oh well

@@faithg7750 that’s wild!! My family is from Chicago so I guess that plays a large role in it! Thank you for sharing your story!!

I’m a gyaru and I’ve seen people say that about Snooki too on social media Honestly her outfits on the show are so cute

Gyaru/scene!!

gyaru 🤝🏻 guidette solidarity

And yet many others find the term offensive as it was actually used against them. I didn’t experience being hunted for my race like my grandparents did, but that doesn’t mean I can discount their experience or anyone else’s. 😘

I didn’t know most italians were black. Neat.​@@namedrop721

& love pink

Von Dutch

Thank you for your comment because the people that were complaining about this show at the time had to understand that JS was the culture of the youth at that time. They weren't representing anyone but themselves. It was the trend

Multiple members of the cast were out of state, but a few of them were nj natives. A big part of the drama on the show was nj not wanting to claim them and being very territorial. I think the territorial aggression is a very tri state area characteristic, as an nj native myself have observed. Growing up ten minutes away from seaside heights, I know the locals hated them. Myself included for a while lol until I became self aware.

@@ImKodiBrooks My mother in law lives in Red Bank and I live near Atlantic City. We avoided any filming.

@@tdsollog you were better off haha I remember being in high school and people would make fun of them would shout at them or want to fight them. It wasn’t just the kids though, as we saw on the show. I really didn’t like that they would make me move out of the way while I’m walking so they could film walking on the boardwalk.

@@ImKodiBrooks We used to go to “Sleaze-side Heights” in the 80s when I was in high school. Very different time

The Italians from nj, aren't much different from the ones from ny, CT or philly , I dunno why u are so pressed.

I think you did well and traversed the multifaceted universe with a perfect sense of unbiased knowledge. I enjoy that you adhered the aesthetic to the different styles and aesthetics that mash together to create it, including the northeast beach culture that’s very much standout on its own. As a local, I can attest the beach culture here is more casual than that of New England and not necessarily more “put together” but more blinged out and metropolitan than that of beach cultures farther south, like Florida or the Carolina’s. As an Italian, I think the leopard print became synonymous with the women because of its glamor and connection to wealth. Outright displays of wealth were definitively a part of the north eastern tri state area look. Fur coats go hand in hand with that and that leads into the “mob wife” aesthetic which has been connected to New York/ New Jersey Italian culture for a long time now. I know from being a scene kid at the time in high school, the cues were beginning to blend as the rise of social media began. I remember leopard and zebra stripes became popular in bright neon colors for the scene queens, and the gothic symbols of the angel wings, roses, and skulls and tattoo themes were also appealing to the alternative crowd. For this reason, my style definitely started to blend into the jersey shore aesthetic and could be a reason it blended for Snooki as well. Now that I think about it, one thing the scene aesthetic and jersey shore aesthetic have in common is how bold they are. Both aesthetics have are not afraid to stand out.

Yeah like if she does Snooki she should definitely do those lol

Thank you so much Donald. Your book was a fascinating read.

idk if theres a significant amount of academic research about the subculture btw, but theres definitely a lot of content about it in tiktok since it was kinda trendy after the pandemic

Snooki denied that in a interview a while back I’m pretty sure