Me as a kid: I’ll have my own money and do exciting things!
Me as an adult: I have a favorite spoon, a specific pajama rotation, and won’t buy a $25 shower curtain liner without reading 200 online reviews confirming it doesn’t “feel cheap.”
My takeaway from this season of love island is that people don’t know how to enjoy media anymore. Everyone has to find someone to stan, create a fandom, dig into people lives. The line between viewer and parasocial delusion is gone. It’s sad.