Why the Limit to Mean Girls Does Not Exist
Mean Girls was released 10 years ago today. This means that Mean Girls was also released just weeks after Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com from his Kirkland House dorm room.
That is mostly a coincidence. In many ways, the now-classic high school comedy had a lifecycle typical of its genre: theatrical release, DVD release, Netflix release, basic-cable omnipresence. (For the film’s enduring popularity, “I think we mostly have TBS to thank,” Mean Girls ’ writer and co-star, Tina Fey, put it in a recent interview.) But Mean Girls has been exceptional in one notable way: At some point, it stopped being simply a film. It became an Internet Phenomenon. It became a meme.
The film still feels fresh today—it still feels fetch today—in large part because it never really left us. We’ve been living in Girl World since long after Mean Girls made its initial run in the theaters. Irregardless.
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