" Barbies have inhabit too many stories . "
TikTok has recently been flooded withpeople acting out how their parents thought they played Barbies vs. how they actually did, and millions of people are not holding back in exposing themselves.
A woman namedAlexa Rowefirst surfaced this universal commonality last year withthis viral TikTok.
She starts the TikTok playing the version of Barbies her parents think she played. One says: “Wow. You look so nice today.” The other says: “Thank you, so do you Barbie. Let’s go to the store!”
Then she switches gears to the reality of how she played Barbies. Barbie to Ken: “How could you do that to me? You’re sleeping with every other Barbie?! WE HAVE A FAMILY TOGETHER!!!!!”
Ken: “But I don’t love any of them like I love you!”
Barbie: “STOP! Do me and our 35 other children mean nothing to you? The fact we’re getting evicted from our apartment that you haven’t even been paying for!”
Ken: “I GAVE YOU EVERYTHNING YOU EVER WANTED!”
Barbie: “YOU NEVER GAVE ME ANYTHING INEEDED!”
Barbie: “Kids! Come on we are leaving your father in the dust.”
Ken: “Oh please! Let me stay with the kids!”
Barbie: “NEVER! And if you even try to find me again I will pluck out your eyeballs in front of every single woman you have ever loved and eat them!!!”
Then the child version of Alexa is snapped out of it as she hears her mom in this scenario yell, “Honey it’s time to go!!”
The video immediately resonated with people.
And they had no shame sharing the messed up scenarios they put their Barbies in during play time:
Some Barbies became orphans:
Some were a part of scandals on the regular:
And some just really, really went through the ringer:
People also came clean with their Barbie habits, and it landed them in therapy:
Either way, it is apparent Barbie was put through constant trauma and drama:
It is just a universal doing:
BuzzFeed spoke to Alexa who said she saw a video of someone pretending to play Barbies which reminded her of how wildly dramatic she used to be when playing with her Barbies. “I thought it would be a hilarious contrast to depict how I assumed parents/the media ‘think’ we play with toys/play pretend versus how we actually do. Little girls can have such a RICH AND WILD imagination so I thought it would be funny to depict!”
The success of her Barbie video inspired Alexa to create similar videos, likehow parents think kids play with dolls vs. how they actually play with him:
She said she has been having funmaking the videos and relating to women everywhere.“I just, man, I love girlhood. And I love breaking the stereotypes of girlhood.”
