Unpacking the Clique Franchise

#theclique
Hello everyone! I've been waiting to do this video for a while and I'm so excited to share it with you all. Even though I tried to include as much as possible - I inevitably left out even more crazy moments from the Clique series. Def drop your favorite moments in the comments. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy me talking about tweenage media for far too long.
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[@SeptemberWits]

I’m forever haunted by the fact that my little 12 year old self convinced my parents to name my little brother Landon after reading all the books

[@dominiqueknight6707]

Every time you mentioned a book I thought “oh, THATS the one where I stopped reading” and to my horror I slowly realized that I, too, actually read the entire clique saga

[@kit5165]

i, too, tried to stand up to my 5th grade bullies by going “did i invite you to my bbq? then why are you up in my grill?” 🤪 it made the bullying worse!

[@spicedch4i]

It's kind of wild to look back on books like these from my childhood as a queer girl. Like they're so aggressively straight on the surface but the boys themselves don't even matter, its ALL about the girls and their relationships

[@shawnaejames7817]

Me thinking there were like seven books… “THERE WERE TWENTY?!? DOES IT FOLLOW THEM THROUGH RETIREMENT?!?”

[@annasmith6090]

The fact that middle school boy books were fantasies about the hero within yiu but middle school girl books were realities about the villain within you...

[@anne5182]

Not me refusing to wear gold and silver jewellery together my entire middle school existence because of this series

[@sarahh4927]

As an Autistic person, I remember reading these books back in middle school and viewing them almost as anthropological studies that I thought could help me understand how to navigate middle school social hierarchies. They ultimately didn’t end up teaching me much about how to be “popular” (thankfully I could tell that most of things these characters do are not something you’d want to emulate lol), but they were actually kind of a useful guide of what things were considered particularly socially awkward or weird or uncool. And they helped me understand the politics of cliques and all the complex rules to social interactions beyond the basic “be yourself and be kind” rule that I’d previously believed was the only rule I needed to know.

[@MariaLCirillo]

Tell me how I am 26 years old and I can still tell you exactly how I pictured Massie’s pure white bedroom and how I thought it must’ve been so classy

[@paperoses1]

Massie had 13yr old me fighting with my mom to wear high heels to middle school 😭 the unrealistic chokehold The Clique had on us…..

[@SarahZ]

Hahahahaha holy shit I had forgotten what a sociopath Claire was. This is amazing

[@caaronjolras]

my friends and i had a "nice clique" that we called "PSA: pretty, smart angels" in middle school because of these literary masterpieces. we also had a "blah-g" wherein we would detail the crushes we had with their clever nicknames we gave them 😭 some of my favorite memories <3

[@gray2578]

As someone who had literally never seen these before in my life, I cannot explain to you how lost in the plot sauce I became at Bark Obama

[@Unpoeticirony]

You forgot the completely plot necessary bet that Claire and Massie had where Claire couldn’t outfit repeat and Massie just… couldn’t buy new clothes for a month? What a world we grew up in…

[@SarahZ]

OH MY GOD I'VE BEEN MAD OVER THAT SLEEPOVER LINE CHANGE FOR YEARSSSSS

[@massieblock9770]

“ehmagawd” the way i modeled my entire life after these books back then is embarrassing 🤣

[@AutoNoOne11]

The girl who plays Claire said that the reason the other movies they signed for didn’t get to be made was because of the 2008 recession.

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

The characters feel so much older when you’re also twelve when you’re reading them. Lmaooo

[@BrianaMichelleMeyer]

I read these books religiously in middle school. The era of The Clique, Gossip Girl, The A List, Pretty Little Liars, The Luxe, and Private remains unmatched.

[@martyparty0494]

I remember when I was reading "Bratfest at Tiffany's," my friends grandparents saw me and chimed, "Oh I love Breakfast at Tiffany's!" And already feeling shame for my literary choices, I did not correct them, but agreed, I too loved that book I have never read.