#phandom tea

*Queen reference incoming

My brain was just like -Is this the real life or is this just fantasy?

So among the phandom, I often see the people asking "why were the highschoolers that mean? :0" or something along that line.

And what I don't think people get is that it was actually pretty accurate for the time period the show was in, as well as the social hierarchy back then. I'm not saying ALL highschoolers were/are that way, but back before the late 2000s/early 2010s hit, "geek" was an insult. If you liked technology (like Tucker) were a bit of a independent thinker (like Sam) or just had unusual hobbies in general (like Danny and astronomy, bless that child) it was painting a target on yourself to be snubbed, ridaculed, bullied, or just flat out ignored. I think that the reason that the highschoolers come off as overly antagonistic is because it's told from the POV of a group of social outcasts, and even though we as the audience get to see how cool the trio are, the rest of their world is too busy shunning them to actually notice.

And hey, I'll be the first to admit; maybe at times how unkind highschoolers are in the show is over played, even for how things were back then, but I think that probably just chalks up to it being a TV show? Sometimes cartoons just over-exagerate stuff for whatever reason.