I don't get the embarrassment here. Creativity is great! And -- shocker! -- teenagers aren't exactly design professionals. The attitude shown here is far worse: used clothes are from "old dead men"? I buy a lot of used clothes & there's never been a death certificate attached. In more than a few of these, I like the BEFORE person better than the AFTER.

There’s several layers to this. For one, Pandas don’t get it because most of the people here are Manic Pixie Dreamgirls and still in the phase. That’s why all the comments are like “oh me too! That’s so cool! How quirky was your feathered ukulele? What book did you read? 🤩🤩” Because lots of people here are trying extra hard to be quirky and different. Second layer, people are missing that the OPs are saying that they specifically were doing this for attention and not because they genuinely enjoyed it. Which I think most pandas won’t admit. Third layer though, is that we need to kind of lighten up about what women and girls are doing for the “male gaze.” There’s technically nothing inherently wrong about women / people doing things for male attention if that’s what makes them happy or confident or attract a partner. All of this s**t is cringy and lame but at the same time, some guys like that cringy quirky s**t, and if women want to date those guys, so be it.

I am in my late thirties and I have recently gotten on antidepressants, and, Surprise! When I'm fully medicated, I wear rainbow colors, unicorns, and silly earrings. Because they make me happy. If you're feeling pressured to do these things in order to be cool, then it's not healthy. But if you're doing these things because you enjoy them... Heaven's sake, just do them! And if you're drowning in embarrassment because you're so worried about what people think of you... Well, you might just be a teenager, in which case, wait a few years to a couple of decades and that feeling will slowly dissipate.

It is a bit sad that all these folks are just doing these things for attention, in creating a persona or a mask, when almost all of these things are delightful and valid in their own right. I was happy to see so many positive comments to each post, as the world does need magic and fun infused into it!. It breaks up the drabness and monotony, doesn't it? I hope the truly quirky folks don't get judged too much for being posers when they're just trying to shine their own little unique light :-).

Aren't we all embarrassed by things we did for other people's opinions? Some of these things are fun and harmless others are mean spirited. Leave the cruelty behind and choose kindness every day.

To be honest, I don't really find any of these quirky or "mysterious ". I've seen plenty of these and just think, meh,someone's trying too hard again.

Maybe a fine distinction, but I just don't get the problem with doing the things you want to do, for the reasons you want to do them. If that reason is "to be a manic pixie dream girl," y'know, have at it. Most of the things in this list are pretty damn cool, tbh.

For me, what's cringy here is telling those things are crazy.. .this is just nice things to do... it just feels nice and sweat...

I always opened a conversation with anecdotes like, "get out of the gutter you're blocking my snorkel. Just to get that out there first..." or "I'm high priestess from the church of the easily amused. So If I laugh or giggle an insane amount that's why." Just funny quips to break the ice. Or I'd immediately quote a famous movie or TV show line to start the conversation.

I can relate to too many of these XD hah

I feel they missed the point of the "manic pixie dream girl". If these women were doing these things because THEY want to do that, more power to 'em. If they were doing it "for the boys" then that's another matter. Also, when did trifle become "edgy"? I'm 52 and have taken trifles as my desserts of choice for the last 40 years. I'm not even close to "edgy". Why is this now quirky? Because it's a favourite of Gen X? [I'm not throwing X-snark, here. My kids--Y & Z--have never shown any signs of embarrassment either; I imagine they would have if their MOTHER was doing a Y/Z weirdo thing].

I did some of these and probably still would if i was out dealing with people more, but i have different corks now. None of my past or present corks had anything to do with being mysterious or cool. It was and is just me. We need to be ourselves and enjoy the things we like. I think it's extremely unhealthy suppress that

I don’t think I’d consider most of these the annoying manac pixie dream girl things, it’s mostly just lovely sweet stuff actually

https://youtu.be/FBNss2PMj60

I would have notebooks full of movie and song quotes...when I started taking typing, I then converted them into Word files lol

I relate to a lot of these I might be a manic pixie dream girl oop

Had one pair of shoes for GOING to school, and a separate bag from my backpack to carry my "nice" shoes in (Ima crazy sneakerhead). -Drew on EVERYTHING - For a while wore arm sweatbands that matched the band on my shirt going all the way up my arm, JNCO jeans with chains, yet had on Jordans or some other "cool" shoe - Had two custom Nike Dunks made in high school One all black (with designs in the middle) with white initials... One all white (same designs) with black initials so that I can put black laces on the white and white laces on the black and call them my Yin-Yangs......my initials are STD

Why are they all trying so hard for attention? I am a girl and did not do any of these weird things. We considered people like this weird in high school and avoided them.