/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10701723

I neither said, nor implied that Jersey Shore is the origin of gyaru. As you said, it has been around much longer than that. Rather, my point was that Jersey Shore exists as an uncomfortable, yet accurate example of real gyaru/ gyaruō in their natural environment. It breaks the illusion that a gyaru is some pretty Japanese girl, and not the popular bitch from your highschool who would have bullied you in slang and thrown your EGG magazines in the trash. I think that point is almost impossible to refute, once you admit how gyaru came to be & who it’s for.

Snooki is a particularly good example, because she’s so ratchet that she accidentally looks like a Japanese gyaru cosplayer 50% of the time.