These shallow, instagram-baked, all-fur-coat-and-no-knickers nothing people who parrot every line they hear in pop culture and have no actual substance or originality in themselves. They are exhausting to be around! They are like Disneyland people where the facade is a shiny, sincere pastiche of actual architecture. People who buy brands and period homes and shop in Whole Foods not because they genuinely have come to the conclusion that the actual ‘products’ are superior, but because that’s what their social group does, and they would rather have something others recognize as naice than something unknown, even if the unknown thing does the job better.
They are people who visit destinations not because they are genuinely interested or have a curiosity about a new culture/food/people, but because they have seen on the internet that they are rated ‘the best’. If the internet says something is the classiest or the most authentic or the most unbeatable, then it must be so. It’s like they can’t be bothered to form any actual opinions for themselves, and then they have the utter lack of awareness to try to wield their ‘best’ destinations like some weird status symbol (having never actually tried anywhere else!).
People who are cultural bandwagoners. They loudly and publicly attend shows/concerts/cultural events, but only because they are zeitgeisty and the thing to be seen doing. Like they love Hamilton but have zero interest in anything more obscure and might actually mock people who like more obscure things.
People who aggressively push their children toward universities for the school name alone and not the actual education, whilst sincerely proclaiming that they feel passionate about education.
People who buy the fancy kitchen gadgets and subscribe to the NYT recipes and consider themselves foodies, but are actually mediocre cooks who don’t know how to make basic things because ‘foodie’ is a persona they’ve adopted to impress their friends instead of something they actually are.
People who think buying a home in a city centre (vs a tiny new build on a suburban estate) is actually a sign of superior taste and intellect instead of something that is almost entirely money-based.
People who are very sincerely into organic free range Whole Foods products and love pick-your-own, but simultaneously sneer at the people who actually grow/raise the products as slightly dim, low-achieving country folk.
“You do you” = “I am a very chill and open minded person, but if you are at all different to me in terms of priorities, perspectives, or life experiences, then I will judge you extremely harshly and will discuss this with everyone I know.”