In this thoughtful 19-minute video essay, cultural critic Lindsay Ellis re-examines the history of hating on the vampire love story Twilight, which reached a fever pitch around 2008/2009. Though there’s no doubt Twilight is easy to make fun of, Ellis also comes to a more complicated conclusion about the maligned YA series: Twilight certainly has its problems, but the immense hatred towards the franchise (and towards author Stephenie Meyer) is also a potent example of the extreme, reflexive hatred we tend to feel towards anything that’s popular among teenage girls. After all, plenty of our pop culture is dumb and cheesy (Ellis cites The Fast And The Furious franchise as another example), but little of it gets as much backlash as Twilight did.
Why the Twilight series doesn’t deserve our hatred
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