'Sad Beige Moms' on TikTok Have Gone TOO FAR
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2024
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So-called "beige moms" or "sad beige moms" are ruining their childen's childhoods to preserve a beige aesthetic for social media. After a sad beige mom influencer went viral on TikTok after spray painting her child's Christmas tree beige, many have discussed how this harms children's development. They are also decorating their children's room's will all-beige decor and buying them wooden toys. In this video I discuss how the obsession with aesthetics and looking rich is harming children and the dangers of mommy influencer content.
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Color Matters and Child Development
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Meet the mom behind Sad Beige, which calls out the 'somber' children's aesthetic: 'I made a joke and it went viral'
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The ‘sad beige’ trend for kids goes against all my wild instincts
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Why Beige Is The Preferred Color For Rich Women
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There is a goth Instagram influencer. Her whole house is black. But she has a play room for her kids that she calls “ the rainbow room” and it’s just full of color and stimulation. If goths can get it why can’t the beige moms 😂
Omg yall litterally met a beige girl last night. When I tell you everything was white and beige from her car to her Stanley to her clothes!! I did offer her a beige sweater we had in store and she bought it lol. Like they are real serious about the beige. 😂😂
Omg, I agree with this so much! I do love beige and natural aesthetics but if I had kids, their room would have to be absolutely PACKED with bright colours….. people need to stop dressing their kids brown and white and tan….
I think if you buy natural materials like wooden Toys and they are beige and brown that's one thing. But buying plastic toys in bright colours and spray painting them is ridiculous. And it's not long lasting the spray paint will peel or get scratches and look tackie very soon.
I know a famous 50‘s-couple here on RUclips, their whole house looks like that but they leave their teenage daughter the f alone.
Goth's are way ahead of the rest of us.
I thought the beige aesthetic was about having natural tones from natural materials. Part of the “crunchy mom” where it was all about an anti “toxic” life. But these people are spray painting everything
Right, if these people wanted a non-toxic life they wouldn't be spray painting toys or even buying plastic toys to begin with. So inconsistent lol
I think that’s where it started, and there’s nothing really wrong with that because a natural life you would still have natural greens and natural other colors, but just not bright and slightly unnatural looking - as a kid I would’ve liked a more neutral /natural toy set. I hated how Gaudy everything looked, even though I didn’t even know what that word meant back then 😂
@@ElinWinbladexcept if we look at the natural world, there are tons of bright, vibrant colors all over during the spring & summer. And even in fall in some places. Also, those bright colors are there for a reason. They’re actually necessary for a child’s brain to develop. That’s why kindergarten/pre k classrooms are full of rainbows and colored bins/decor.
No but seriously! And I come from a crunchy background (went to Waldorf and everything) But thise lovely wooden toys are still colorful! Maybe not neon colors, but still there’s COLOR! Idgi. This while trend is bizarre.
And spray paint is the opposite of non toxic. Imagine that chipping
A parent who must spray paint their children’s toys for the sake of an aesthetic has WAY too much time on their hands. 😖
These people must not work 😂 Who has time for that???
Yes. Lazy is as lazy does.
😂
And privilege
This was my thought! I have projects that I've been wanting to get done, but I can't because....kids! How do these folks find the time?
I can’t wait for the kids of the sad beige moms to become neon teenage rebels.
FunkyFrogBait made a video about that.
They will just go no contact.
Their generation will bring back splash art of the 1980’s 🎨🌈
I’m here for that. I LOVE neon. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
Same🎉😊
Beige moms: ugh, colors are so overstimulating
Also beige moms: give their kids ipads and let them scroll through brainrot RUclips shorts
what else are the kids gonna do when their toys are being repainted to beige
“People aren’t living their lives anymore, they’re acting.” 🎤-drop and 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
FREAKING NAILED IT!!!
Exactly
That and “living in a world of make believe for other peoples consumption”…sis was preaching lol edit to add, she actually put into words the frustration that I felt as a kid. My mom isn’t on social media big sis has been acting my whole life 😂
Well, those in front of the camera, anyway.
The neutral trend once was about using natural materials, not about spray-painting plastic. Are those colours even safe for toddlers?
I cannot imagine that they are. Since they aren’t edible.
@@palesgensler3099 There are paints at my local DIY-store marked "safe for toys". But these are for wood only.
Definitely not
My experience with paint for plastics, is that sometimes it works, often it chips off. Especially plastic like the tree or flat surfaces. It still needs pre-sanding to create "tooth" for the paint to grab.
Soo unsafe. I wouldn't do this for my cat.
Yes! It started out as Scandinavian natural wood, cotton and wool products.
"You can call me crazy or a sad beige mom..."
I am calling you bored. Bored and exploitative of your child.
Or just call her moron
Bored, uncreative, and pretentious
Ive heard that while Kim Kardashian has a beige house her kids rooms are colorful. So even SHE isn't doing it this extreme
Yes! I saw a video where she showed where her kids play it is really colorful and even where her children study is quiet colorful
It’s only a matter of time until she does.
Interesting, I saw an older video of her children’s playroom, and it was neutral and grey tones. It’s good the children’s rooms themselves are colourful.
@@hannah60000I wonder if that was when Kanye was in control bc he is the one who seemed to start their weird aesthetic.
Crazy 🤯
Imagine having an unseasoned childhood. 🤔😑🙄
Idk why I laughed so hard at this but I get it
😂😂😂
I don’t get it.
From experience, sad beige moms can't cook either. If they're that afraid of color, then they're just afraid of seasoning in their food.
@@annaburns2865 Look at unseasoned chicken.
“A greyscale adventure” is what i call my depressive episodes
....what's sad is that ALL of these moms are doing it for social media...NOT for their kid. It's sad and pathetic, I feel bad for the kid who'll have to deal with a mom that values social media clout over developing a better, more nurturing understanding of raising a baby (NOT likes).
The sassiness of "shaming" family members for buying colourful toys for your kids is actually disgusting. They should be so grateful to receive kindness and shared joy - some of us out here wishing we had family that cared even a fraction of that amount
„With each sweep of the spraycan, I can feel a sense of accomplishment.“ - I for one, did not know huffing needed to be romanticized. I wonder if she has a therapist.
She should get one for sure
I was WAITING for this!
huffing aside, why is spray painting your idea of productivity, lady?? Is there literally nothing else going on in your life? I never woulda guessed Miss had a tagging problem!
Lmao😅
@@Parcha64😂she definitely has nothing else to do
If any mother is concerned with social media aesthetics more than the health and wellbeing of her developing child, she should have her metaphorical mothering license revoked.
absolutely
Sad Beige is the color that takes me back when I was hospitalized for trying to unalive myself. I can't imagine how these kids must feel having to live with that 24/7.
Glad you are ok. Reminds me of my detox centers. 27 days free of alcohol. I get exactly what you’re saying. I hope your doing well and are having a great daaaaay
Honestly, i'm a black hippie mom of two young ones and they do have a lot of wooden toys. I like wooden toys for them because it is ecofriendly. The wooden toys I buy almost all of them have all the colors of the rainbow on them. Just not so much plastic.
This trend really baffles me because it is the opposite of eco- or childfriendly. People please do not spraypaint things for kids 🤦🏾♀️!! That is the opposite of the reason why these colors are "trendy".
This is ridiculous. In the past, these beige and muddy colors were the "aesthetic" of peasants who couldn't afford the expensive pigments in their clothes and homes. And look where we are now. Can't people just enjoy the limitless color variety they have?
What's going to cause overstimulation is when these kids go into school and it's colorful because they've been in these beige house for their whole lives until then. I feel really bad for them.
I guess, those moms will homeschool their beige babies, and those beige young adults will all have to live on in their beige bubbles, their moms have created for them, forever.
Oh, I feel the urge coming on to write a dystopian beige short story about this.
Beige barbarians conspire to turn America into North Korea@@NickUncommon
@@NickUncommonit’s called The Giver.
Sad beige reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons where the children were made to wear drab school uniforms. They blinked uniformly, until the uniforms got wet, revealing bright colors and brought chaos.
And fun and freedom!😊
Oh, hells yeah. I was just thinking that, too.
It's like children of helicopter parents or tiger moms who have been under parental thumbs so strictly they have nothing else... and then they go to college and suddenly have just a little of the freedom their peers took for granted in high school. They go NUTS with it if they don't have someone there to keep 'em somewhat tethered to reality (like a friend or cousin or something). These parents are all about extremes, and the natural form of rebellion is the teen or adult child becoming the opposite just to counter the parental extremism. Life should be about balance; these parents are nuts.
Bright and vibrant colors help children's mental development. Robbing them of that to keep up an "aesthetic" is borderline abuse.
As Someone who grew up with colorful toys, I would much rather have the more natural colors, not necessarily beige, but natural, because nowhere in the evolutionary history, we been exposed 24 seven to all these bright colors in our youth and personally people are getting dumber and dumber so I don’t think the colors are doing anything and the kids who are growing up with this beige set are not old enough to see results yet
@@ElinWinblad
Congrats.. you have the dimmest bulb in the room. It doesnt matter what you 'think' lmao. Doctors, science, facts, and studies.. heavily disagree with your uneducated anecdotal opinion.
@@ElinWinblad So you've clearly never spent anytime in nature, forests are full of colour, grasslands are full of colour, the arctic in the summer has lots of colour. Most time periods of at least the last 2000 years have tried to have more colour. You know who didn't have much colour? Poor people, because colour was valued. As for why people are getting dumber I think it probably has to do with technology allowing people more time to show off to more people just how little they know.
Babies need color! Their rods and cones and neurons are still developing! The “drain the rainbow” woman has to be taking the piss, but any beige mom who genuinely takes it to this stage needs to be reminded that children are not accessories and the toys are for their development, not Mom’s aesthetic.
@@rachelforshee6014you being sure is meaningless though. Do you have any facts or evidence to that? It could be harmful. What I see looks very restrictive and easily affecting the emotions of anyone who has to spend time in that environment. Colours do factually affect the emotions and wellbeing of humans whether you are conscious of it or not.
My mom decorated my room without my input or approval when I was six, and never let me change it my whole childhood because she spent so much money on the aesthetic she wanted (even though she very rarely went in my room since I had a nanny.) It had a little color, but basically looked like a sixty year-old woman’s room. I was always so jealous when I went to friends houses and saw their rooms and was frustrated that I could never change my room to match my personality at all. It may be petty, but I still harbor a tiny bit of resentment towards my mother over that decades later.
Please give your kids color and let them be kids. They’ll love you more for it
Oh wait, she did let me get a bulletin board and put whatever I wanted on it when I was about ten, but I had to keep it in the closet…🙄
Also, let ur kids have their own aesthetic and interests
A tiny bit resentment sounds very restrained!!! I'd be full on resentment 😂
Certainly see how this was lowkey robbery for you as a child. I pray you can forgive her.
@@Greatboldness I forgive her, but have learned to keep both her and my dad on an info diet and at arm’s length for most things because of the way they try to over insert themselves and take control over my life at times. I’m about to have my first child any day now and didn’t tell them the news until the end of my second trimester because I knew they would over insert themselves and drive me crazy. I want them to be part of my son’s life because I still love them, but my husband and I are definitely setting up boundaries. I told my dad a lot of my concerns soon after I told them the news, because I saw my mom being more of the problem in this situation, and since then they’ve backed off a fair amount and have amazingly been respecting my boundaries for the most part. Not completely though 😕
There's a common theory that the kids of these Sad Beige Moms are going to grow up to become maximalists, and spend their adult years trying to gain back the regular childhood that was robbed from them.
It's really sad.
I get really annoyed at the moms who claim it's about not overstimulating their kids, because THAT'S WHAT PASTELS ARE FOR. Every time I see one of these all-neutrals nurseries, I just think 'all of this could have been in multi-coloured pastels'.
Also, toys are *supposed* to encourage mental stimulation. Especially things like blocks, stacking toys, or those boards with different activities on it (I don't know the proper name for them). The bright colours help little ones tell the pieces apart easier.
And yeah, like you addressed, all of this boils down to moms (and parents in general, of course) using their kids for content. I also think at this point, a lot of it is ragebait. They know damn well people are gonna leave angry comments, which just drives up engagement.
I just feel so bad for these kids. I know it was hard enough for me not being able to have my bedroom walls painted like my friends. And that was even with my parents giving me free reign to decorate my room how I wanted. I can't even imagine this.
This theory seems to be based in reality: a lot of people that grew up in the 70s, when beige was really popular, grew up and filled their homes with colour. Including my own parents. And this is a more extreme example of that design. These sad beige homes look like my grans house but even more boring, because at least my gran has a "blue room" (just as monotone as the rest of the house, only in blue instead of beige) and she does keep the colourful cushions we get her.
My parents had really mismatched colors and textures in their home, guess what, i am now obsessed with matching themes in mine. They loved going to tourist attractions, I skip them completely. They love taking photos, I never take them. Wouldn't be surprised this happens to gen alpha, colorful, maximalist homes.
My mom is a sad beige mom (although not this level of sad beige mom) ,and that theory is so far right. Because both me and my brother have a lot of stuff in rooms, are really "messy" (the chaotic way not the room is filled with garbage)
and we have lots of color in our rooms because we can't stand those boring colors or mom loves
I totally agree with your third paragraph ! Not to mention the early childhood stage is the time for them to start learning about color recognition. Smh
@Chellemae44 colour recognition is exactly what I was thinking. How are kids supposed to learn their colours at the toddler stage if they're surrounded by white and beige? You know that these kids are not being sent to a colourful daycare. My kids don't go to daycare and I'd have been so embarrassed if they didn't know their colours when they started preschool at age 3. It's one of the simplest things to learn, if they are exposed to it.
Also, I'd hate to have missed out on the squeals of delight when I painted my daughter's bedroom pastel pink with one glitter purple wall. Her favourite thing about that room is having a wall that sparkles.
toxic paint moms that will sicken their children with paint chips once the use goes to town on the painted surface.
Rant the spray paint toxic for children. They put everything in their mouth.
I bet these ‘moms’ aren’t using a finish so yeah, those toxins gonna be all over thier fingers and in their mouths.😖
“Some of y’all deserve an Academy Award for the level of commitment y’all put in to living in a world of make believe for other people’s consumption.”
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK! 👏🏻
It's more beneficial to spend time playing with your kids vs spending hours spray painting all their toys 🙄
"A grey scale adventure" is a sentence I'd never expect to hear.
Game of Thrones fans worry about that sentence
NGL, I tried an all neutral home for a bit because people said it was calming and would reduce stress (just for me, kid is grown) and it lasted about a month. It was SO DEPRESSING!!! I added color back and THAT was calming and relaxing to me. I need color to feel alive.
Unrelated tangent, but it saddens me how boring and bland the new trendy aesthetics are. I miss goblincore.
LONG LIVE GOBLIN CORE. GOBLIN CORE NEVER DIED.
These aesthetics last 2 seconds so you probably just have to take a nap and colours will be back
Goblincore would be a good one in kid size clothing
Kim’s house looks absolutely awful 🤮 it looks like a dystopian McMansion whyyyy would anyone decorate their house like that??? 😳
Totally agree, it low key gave me anxiety. It looks like nobody lives there! No pictures, books, dishes…it’s giving uncanny valley creepy film set vibes. Like the weird neighbors live there and they’re trying to act human to lure people to their creepy holiday party 😂
Wanna know something ironic. A couple thousand years ago colors like blue or purple were symbols of wealth or royalty cuz the pigment was so hard to obtain and it was the peasants that only had beige clothing. Seeing how nowadays that it made a complete swap is almost uncanny.
her house looks like a backrooms level 💀💀
Bro you’re so correct like I don’t like beige but if they make my broccoli even though I hate it but I think I hate broccoli more when it’s beige
@@maibimbumWhat you described is kinda cool sounding ngl. As a concept and creepy thing. But not for my actual house, I prefer color in my house.
The thought of these people thinking that being rich/ posh means being beige when Buckingham palace literally has tons of colours 😂
It's much more expensive to copy the rich colourful style 😂
These hyper minimalist aesthetics are a great way of hiding that they have no design ability. It doesn't look like a mess, but it doesn't look like much either. They just narrate it with heavy adjectives.
As a creative, no artist would only want to see a one color palette or a less of colors color palette. I Thank God there’s a variety of so many beautiful colors to work with when it comes to art projects!
Ok, but if you’re a designer, it seems these would be the easiest people to please. Just throw together everything drab and puke-like and ta-da! You don’t even need to think about it.
@@PileofAshes53 true, they do seem very profitable lol
As an artist, disagree. I like my home to be minimalistic and mostly white. When I then hang up artworks they pop out and shine even more brightly.
I am an artist. All artists are different!
These people have definitely too much free time
I feel so sad for these kids, these parents have bo idea how much they are stunting their kids imagination and creativity.
The overall effect is kind of like being in a psych ward or something...
I love neutral decor for my home but my kids playroom is filled with color and my kids clothes are what she loves- unicorns, rainbows, sparkles and everything “tacky” but it brings her joy and you’re only a kid once so let your kids be kids
thast cute
Those houses must reek of spraypaint
I got into spray paint a couple of years ago I have to air out stuff days or longer..
tho I use a lot of bold or bright colors w black as an accent...and not baby toys..I'd only do a playhouse etc if faded or ugly.
I do things if ugly rusted, faded or I don't like the colour..and it goes bolder or black
I like some natural things too just not sad baige.
Not mark btw.
As a 28 year old who grew up with a mother who painted every wall a different colour.. now my house is alllllll white, but I don’t have kids yet. Can’t imagine depriving developing brains of colour and contrast.
Your mom probably grew up in an home were she was not allowed to have any color on the walls, everything needed to be white 😂
1. I’m convinced originality is a thing of the past now 🤦🏾♀️ and 2. I I feel like this is a form of psychological abuse on the kids. They already talk about how mentally exhausted gen z already is and they’re barely adults. I literally pray for gen alpha 😢
Holy crap the toxicity of this is horrific. We don’t paint walls because we move often but everything else in my kids rooms is theirs to choose.
My house is a beautiful chaotic mess of color, and I love it! My daughter's room is every shade of pink and my son's room is a mix between Disney's cars and dinosaurs. Our hallway is covered in my kids taped up art work that we add to every week. When you enter my house, you know that happy, healthy, creative children live here!
Ah, so you're a normal parent
Same! I haven’t seen the surface of my fridge in a while cause it’s got art all over it. I think it’s cozy and homey. I can’t stand the color beige.
I just redid my bedroom and my friend that was helping me didn't understand my colors. I had plum purple, mauve, dusty rose, teal, white and gold... I told him to trust my process. Once everything came together, he was left speechless. He told me I should go into interior design. The cacophony of color meshed together like a finely composed symphony. And it is bright, light, colorful, and welcoming. Life is made of color. I could never live in a beige home. It's depressing
That sounds gorgeous - I hope your room feels as good as it sounds. I was planning on retiling my shower to look “like a mermaid exploded” - turquoise arabesque tiles with a lavender grout. It sounds crazy but in my head I could see it and it made me happy. Anyhow, the cost of those tiles held me back, but the philosophy that your home should be filled with colors that make you happy endures.
@@mintybadger6905 until you can get the tile you want could you use a vinyl in the design you’re wanting? That or start to decorate the rest of your bathroom till you can get the tiles. Either way your bathroom sounds like it’s gonna be fun yet relaxing
How painting a plastic tree with 10 different spray paint is "organic"?😷😱
The ugliest tree I've ever seen
100% my sister and aunt are pediatricians and this beige nonsense is so bad for infants and toddlers in particular but is also crazy for bigger kids too… absolutely agree with the messaging let kids be kids (and just to add my own 2 cents… those instagrammable “lives” these mommy influencers live give ME… a 37 year old anxiety… I can’t imagine what that sh*t is doing to their kids)
I worry about the mental health of these kids growing up in these environments. These women are unhinged
As a mid age millennial, i think a lot of us had a "white room" mom or auntie: that ONE room that was white with the matching white doilies and crystal candle sticks and candy dishes that was ABSOLUTELY OFF LIMITS. Sad beige moms are the hip-young variant, entertaining guests both in person and through TikTok/Instagram. My mom snapped out of it once it became apparent that she didn't care about entertaining outsiders so the house is way more vibrant now.
The funny thing about this trend is that my personal room is technically beige too (darker beige) but I used it as a base color for my walls? I wanted my room to look like a medieval Romanesque ruins where a hedge witch lives so my decor involves black wrought iron, medieval tapestry, a lot of greenery...
It's definitely not beige itself that's the problem but how it's just part of another cut+paste disposable personality trend that does more harm than good. A lot of people are focused on the impact this has one children's development, but I also think about how to make houses more appealing on the market, people basically gut out cool historic interiors with bland greyscale "modern" walls and flooring. 😭
Why do these people want to live like the people in The Giver having no color in their lives?
I love that book ❤😂😢
If they are scared about “overstimulation” there are plenty of pastel colors. What is problematic about those?
"but Debbie..."
"What?"
"Pastels?"
As someone who didn't know this was a thing, this absolutely looks like a scam for views. Even the way the chick in the first clip was talking in that Jack Handy 90's relaxation voice makes me think it's a put on. But then I saw clip after clip and, well, now I think it's a cult. I'm so disturbed at what happens to humans when they are bored and have too much money to waste. I'm pretty sure this is some sort of weird way to signal to other cult members. The only winners here are the Beige Mafia, who have never really recovered from their abysmal failure in the 80s.
Kim k is great at stealing other people’s ideas and claiming it as her own. Iykyk.
I saw one youtuber do a very neutral beige Christmas decorations and it looked so sad! No color at all except 2 burgundy pillows and green garland 😢 throughout the entire house. Top that off with neutral wrapping paper and you got yourself a grinch Christmas
My parents were both raised in rather beige houses. Not to this extent, but yeah. That was in the 70s when the bold colours of the 60s had gone out of style and the bold colours of the 80s had yet to come into style.
Anyway, I was raised in a very colourful house. Even the greys and whites and beiges were spruced up with pretty green, brown, blue, purple and pink stencil art, or brightly coloured carpets and art works
Meanwhile I grew up with Lisa frank profucts 🤣
And loved every trapper keeper 😂
My daughter had Lisa Frank stuff and still has fond memories of those little trinkets.
Girl! Yes!
Amen! 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙🩵💜
the only colors that are over stimulating are like neons and colors with a brightness and saturation such as on screens and yt kids. brightly colored toys are fine. good in fact
Right. Are these moms even forcing their kids' dolls and Barbies to wear white and beige?
Man. This makes me happy that when to elementary school when Lisa Frank was popular. Bright colors on school supplies.
And milky gel pens.
These kids are going to grow up wearing neon colors and dyeing their hair neon yellow in rebellion and I’m here for it 😂
How dreadful. I hope there are tons of kids still wanting to be doctors this generation will need them big time in the future.
This trend feels almost like the antithesis to Sephora kids: the other extreme where to avoid chaos and pandemonium, you just deprive of your child of everything so they want nothing. People taking things way too far for their aesthetic and crafted peace, while the others take things way too far by just letting their spoiled brats do whatever they want whenever they want, but in a different aesthetic way, as we all know makeup and beauty is made to entice through its packaging and cute colors.
Social media is wild.
Kids are stimulated by colour...that's why toys are bright and vivid. I just can't with anyone who would put their need for social media clout above their child's development.
I hate that these "moms" are forcing this on their kids and saying "oh this is just what she/he perfers" like their not forcing this onto them, thise poor kids
Super interesting! Especially the theory of a „beige aesthetic“ representing wealth. When I look at colourful things it brings me joy! When I look at beige things it gives me nothing, almost like no brain cells in my mind are stimulated at all.
TikTok is a mistake
Anybody that is extreme with anything is gonna be an issue. Glad to watch a deep dive into the issues of extreme beige
i don’t know what to say bro… i feel so bad for those kids who have to go through this “sad mozart beige aesthetic” like that’s not something you want in a normal child jeez…
Beige does not even sound like a word anymore with how many times i had to hear it
NOOOO KIM K NOT THE GIANT TAMPON CHRISTMAS TREES😂😂😂😂 like she gonna use it to soak up an entire murder scene!!!
🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
I didn’t know this was a thing. I did find it peculiar when a woman bought all beige home
Decor at Hobby Lobby today. 😮 now this makes sense.
I've always hated beige and white. However I love wood, and it's something I think looks better natural. I love the wooden part of the beige aesthetic but that's it! I wany that neutral contrasting with a vivid wall color, furniture and maximalism decoration.
Why that kind of moms scare the shit out of me😂?
I blame the Kardashians. Idk the beige aesthetic just reminds me of a psych ward
Sometimes when I go into a room or house with no color, and some fake plants, I get super super irritated. Sometimes I feel like I can’t breathe and I need to get out of there
The voiceover for the first tiktok sounds like something you would hear in a mind washing cult
Great video! I didn’t really know about this trend but the beige mums have certainly gone too far 👀 kids put these spray painted toys in their mouths! So not safe smh
I was kind of fussy about the toys my son had in his first year especially, but I mostly hated how everything had flashing lights and loud music. He had a lot of crunchy-mom wooden type toys, musical instruments like maracas or a triangles, and high contrast books over stuff with buttons and lights. All of the choices that I made were for HIS benefit, though, not mine. His room is tropical blue with lime and orange accents, so we don't hate color here.
Beige - the new grey…
The narcissism is rampant these days.
Social media seems to have divided people into very stark camps:
1. Sad beige moms: they are completely self-absorbed to the point that they have disregarded how to actually parent. I often wonder of they forget they actually have children.
2. Militant minimalists: they are so rigid in their minimalism that their children have very few, if any, toys.
3. Wanna be’s: although they claim to not want either, they obsessively follow these influencers.
4. Then there is the rest of us who honestly couldn’t care less about the latest fad, but care/cared deeply about raising happy, healthy, productive people.
When my children were growing up, they - like most all children - wanted to be something different every week. My advice to them was always the same: “I don’t care what you do for a living as long as it checks two criteria boxes… a) it had to be honest; and b) they had to love it.” I also explained that sometimes you have to take a job just to get through, and in that case, it just needs to be honest and to do a great job at it until something better came along. The “aesthetic” of the situation never entered into the conversation.
Cool. That’s very sensible!
Harry Chapin's song "Flowers are Red." Just replace the colours in the lyrics ("Flowers are beige, young man, and green grass is. . . also beige"), and I think it's an apt description.
My kids are grown, but I would have never spray painted their toys to match my home. Who the hell even thought of that? Insanity. And the biggest issue with it I see is the messing with their development. Kids need color. There are some things I like about the beige aesthetic but I wouldn't go all the way with it. I have pottery and items from the 70's so I do have various shades of beige/brown in my home, but I try to balance it with other things that have a bit of color. And as far as that beautiful cloud couch that is so popular now, forget it. In my house it would look like crap in just a few months and be a source of anxiety trying to keep pristine.
The implied message that all unwanted trases of child's existance should be dissolved into the background is what really unsettles me in this trend.
I think I would be very sad living in a beige house when I was a kid. I still remember. This beautiful bird's nest with the mom and some eggs and some chicks painted on the inside of my crib. I mean, how old was I when I left the crib... my mom said I was 4, I am 57 and I can still remember it.
So agree with you. Depression is on the rise and I this trend might lend a hand in it.😖🤯
That’s why we have variations in life, because everyone is different and aren’t going to like the same things as another person.
The beige moms feel like parents who resent that they had a kid and maybe have underdiagnosed sensory fixations.
I am stealing “influencer industrial complex.” That was genius.
5:01 "only a little bit of peeling" GIRL WHAT
This is definitely sad. Congratulations on the success of your RUclips channel. 👏👏👏
Congrats on 15k subs. Keep flourishing.
The hashtag “sad beige child” alone…
“My children are beautifully beige depressed. Look at had the cry them silent tears as I drain all the colours from their lives.”
Beige reminds me of the movie The Banger Sisters, and Goldie Hawn's character was trying to get Susan Sarandon's character dressed up and ready to party - but Susan Sarandon's character was looking at her wardrobe exclaiming "but everything I own is BEIGE" like it was the opposite of fun lol
Its sad how theyre stripping colour for these children's lives, especially how colour impacts a childs development in so many ways, inculding attention span, productivity, creativity and memory. Its so sad how they care more about their aesthetic than their childs ability to grow and be happy.
“Crunchy” mom here, the idea of spray painting children’s toys is insane and I completely agree with u re beige, my son has a lot of wooden toys (95%) and they are all colourful, some more so than others but children need colour and colourful toys don’t have to be hideous, plasticky and noisy.
They can be fun and exciting promoting learning and also colourful! ❤
I love your videos. I worked for a Narcissist for a few months. It was the most surreal experience I’ve ever had. In a way it was fasting because he was so strange and outrageous but it wore me down. I was “lucky” that he acted slightly inappropriately towards me and I put in an HR complaint and I got transferred. In my complaint I requested that he not be allowed to supervise anyone else and he was not allowed that. It was a weird, draining, and surreal experience!
Started off the video so strong I thought that tiktok was satire
I'm still half-convinced it is...i mean, the hyperbolic poetry of her speech...😭😭however it seems like a LOT of effort to put into a satire video. anything for views maybe? idk, i desperately hope it's satire. the other ones seemed to be dead serious though 😳
Spray painting children's toys is not only selfish, it is completely DANGEROUS. And all for looks?!?!
That first one _has_ to be trolling us. The rest of them really do want to drain the rainbow. 😟I'm glad that tiktoker said that about people trying to look rich, because that's always been my theory. Like, okay ma'am, you like Pottery Barn and West Elm. We get it. Some of these bedrooms look like a set in a near-future dystopian movie.
My mom kept the most of the house in neutral colors but my brother and I got the colorful rooms. We got to pick the themes of our respective rooms. When I was a little kid my mom painted my brother's room with various comic book superheroes. I remember my mom tracing around my brother and I with a pencil as we did poses and my mom used those outlines to paint the superheroes~
My room was purple and had a big tree on the wall with little critters. My room has all kinds of colorful stuffed animals. The playroom was white but had colorful polka dots scattered about. That was one house.
Another house we were in was also colorful. I had my room in swimming pool blue and my brother has hunter green. I'm so glad my mom let my brother and I grow with color and got to pick what we wanted.
So sad that beige moms are a thing. I suppose they were a thing but now it is just so publicized that it is breeding more beige moms.
I agree natural tones for me is like woods, natural stones but never meant no color 😢 sad world without color
Wow. There is so much more to focus on I the world and THIS is where "trends" have landed us. I am in disbelief
OMG love the title of your video. I agree - I have to have colors!