{"id":705271,"date":"2025-11-18T05:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=705271"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:39:10","slug":"what-i-love-la-gets-right-about-being-a-zillennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=705271","title":{"rendered":"What I Love LA Gets Right About Being a Zillennial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What I Love LA<\/em> Gets Right About Being a Zillennial<\/h1>\n
By <\/span>Olivia Allen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

November 17, 2025<\/p>\n

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    Every so often, a piece of media comes along that quietly shifts the culture. The Godfather, Pulp Fiction<\/em>\u2026 Dakota Johnson\u2019s Architectural Digest<\/em> house tour. For me, it was Rachel Sennott\u2019s infamous \u201cWhat? It\u2019s LA!\u201d TikTok. If your brain isn\u2019t fully softened by the internet (can\u2019t relate), let me enlighten you: the clip saw a 20-something Sennott twirling around to Azealia Banks\u2019s \u201c212\u201d while throwing out gems such as, \u201cI\u2019m addicted to drugs… we all are.\u201d Allegedly, this was the 30-second fever dream that spawned Sennott\u2019s new HBO series, I Love LA<\/em>, in which we watch a bunch of 27-year-olds make questionable personal and professional choices against a backdrop of Instagram apology videos and slogan tees.<\/p>\n

    If Sex and the City<\/em> was for Gen X and Girls<\/em> was for Millennials, I Love LA<\/em> is for Zillennials, the wayward middle children of the internet age. In the good year of 2025, we\u2019ve been collectively brow-beaten into looking down our noses at Gen Z and their anti-social ways, while laughing at Millennials\u2019 ankle socks and awkward pauses. But what about the in-between generation of multi-hyphenates and freelance creatives? Google calls Zillennials the generation who grew up with \u201cthe family desktop in a common area, requiring knowledge of clearing browser history.\u201d As someone who had a Club Penguin Premium account and still has a deep appreciation for Britney\u2019s Blackout<\/em> era, I would count myself comfortably in this camp.<\/p>\n

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    Given the above, the characters in I Love LA<\/em> are painfully familiar. Whether it\u2019s the Balenciaga bag and declined Monzo charge or the affinity for vague self-help affirmations and the soundbite dialogue, in I Love LA<\/em>, Sennott has captured the Zillennial condition in all of its dead-eyed, Stories-watching glory.<\/p>\n

    I am, of course, biased. Everyone wants to be in on the joke, and as a 27-year-old who works in fashion and occasionally wears Tabis, I like to think of myself as the target audience for the Dilara Findikoglu references and Wildflower phone cases. I, too, have a graveyard of dead vapes by my bed and love going for over-priced, dimly lit dinners, so to see it played out on the screen\u2014arguably for the first time\u2014affirms the campy absurdity woven into it all.<\/p>\n

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    Recently, I\u2019ve found myself doubling down on the Zillennial literature: Zoe Dubno\u2019s Happiness and Love<\/em>, Anika Jade Levy\u2019s Flat Earth<\/em>, and Honor Levy\u2019s My First Book<\/em>, all of which felt a little too close to home. The anxiety-inducing accounts of evenings spent among self-proclaimed artists and thinkers in Dubno\u2019s novel in particular felt eerily accurate, disgustingly relatable, and made me want to delete social media and block anyone with an Eames chair or a Red Scare Patreon subscription.<\/p>\n

    On the flipside, I Love LA<\/em> hasn\u2019t had the same effect. Maybe it\u2019s the light-hearted tone, or maybe it\u2019s because it\u2019s set in LA, which isn\u2019t a serious place, but the series has left me feeling weirdly affectionate towards these car-crash characters, bringing to mind culturally essential shows like Absolutely Fabulous.<\/em> Sennott\u2019s LA natives may be delusional and shallow, but I have a soft spot for their tacky, overblown ways, in the same way I do for Harvey Nicks-obsessive Edina and Stoli-swinging Patsy. The world is a bleak and scary place these days, and personally, I\u2019d rather indulge in a bit of absurdity when possible, rather than reflect on how adrift, aimless, and generally screwed us Zillenials are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Sennott\u2014voice of a generation (or a<\/em> voice, of a<\/em> generation)\u2014understands this. I Love LA<\/em> is a reminder that, although landing a Marc Jacobs Heaven campaign might not cure the existential malaise, it might just soothe the spiritual decay for a little while longer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

    Source URL: http:\/\/vogue.com\/article\/what-i-love-la-gets-right-about-being-a-zillennial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    TV & Movies What I Love LA Gets Right About Being a Zillennial By Olivia Allen November 17, 2025 Photo: Kenny Laubbacher\/HBO Every so often, a piece of media comes along that quietly shifts the culture. The Godfather, Pulp Fiction\u2026 Dakota Johnson\u2019s Architectural Digest house tour. For me, it was Rachel Sennott\u2019s infamous \u201cWhat? It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-705271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-vogue-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/705272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}