Haters will say that the girl has no access to individual agency and political autonomy, and is therefore an enemy of serious activism-or seriousness, at all. Be not afraid of this other type of angel, the super-evolved brainless doll slurping dollar-pegged ice cream at the end of the infinite scroll. The rise of the “NPC influencer”-smiling and spiritually lobotomized, fine-tuned for an increasingly instinctive response to live cash stimulus-is the endgame for all that terrifies people about digital culture and how it affects human minds. Maybe you, too, are a side character in the story that supposedly ends all stories: the emergence of the postpolitical, delivering a smooth and tranquilized subjectivity so dispersed that it feels nothing and is moved to no action in spite of the Real delivering destruction to their door. The angel-bimbo girl-swarm gives voice to something collectively experienced and soon-to-be historical, a kind of subconscious metabolization of recent events into a general disassociated vibe. Memes, obviously, don’t come out of nowhere. Subscribe to WIRED and stay smart with more of your favorite Ideas writers. It’s a girl’s world now we’re just living in it.

As for man, once the king of the online condition? “Hit him with your car!” says head bimbo Chrissy Chlapecka with heavenly vocal fry, to the tune of 4 million TikTok hearts. Whether it’s the girl in the “girl dinner” or the angels spied in Bella Hadid’s carousel, they appear as perfected conduits for collective consciousness- she’s just like me for real. Which is to say that, while angels and girls have existed since time immemorial-and bimbos as we know them since at least the 1980s-it’s only recently that they’ve become a bit, floating away from history and into memetic shorthand. “What do you mean my actions have consequences? I’m literally just a girl.” This year, your feed has likely been blessed by the avatars of machinic girlhood: angels, bimbos, and the collective entity of “girls,” divine creatures who have transcended earthly bodies, curiously evacuated of anger, pain, attachment, who have nonetheless become wildly popular on every social platform.

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