“The void of our times”
This is the expression that LFI MP Aymeric Caron used on Twitter to describe the latest “challenge” of the influencer Léna Situations, whose real name is Léna Mahfouf: going without her smartphone for a month. History of refocusing on the essentials, in a hyperconnected society, while the cell phone constitutes a large part of one's professional and personal life. Logical equation when you are a content creator.
A “social experiment” which did not really please Aymeric Caron, therefore: “The emptiness of our time“, we can read on his social networks about an article in Le Parisien dedicated to the choice of the videographer. Under the influx of comments, Aymeric Caron however clarified: “It is obviously the choice of the Parisian that my comment underlines: an article about nothing“.
But it's hard not to see this as a dig at Léna Situations, period.
However, known for her environmentalist convictions, the 52-year-old political figure has allowed herself to recycle arguments that have been well-worn and hackneyed about the influencer for years. And who do not show deep benevolence towards the young woman.
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“Nothingness”, “culture of emptiness”: the relentlessness of fifty-year-olds towards Léna Situations continues
At only 27 years old, Léna Mahfouf clearly has the gift of annoying boomers in need of witticisms.
We remember that four years ago already, the YouTuber's best-seller (more than 37,000 copies sold in three weeks), a lifestyle manual aimed at a teenage audience and her many followers, was massacred in rule by the writer Frédéric Beigbeder. In the pages of Le Figaro, the fifty-year-old (only 7 years older than the environmentalist deputy) gave his punchline: “between Being and Nothingness, Léna Situations rather favors the second option“.
It’s hard not to detect a certain self-satisfaction there. We detail this column for you in this mood post.
What is the difference today with this reproach, so often used against influencers, of “culture of emptiness”? The author of 99 Francs d’ailleurs exclaimed “147 empty pages and €19.50 lost” not without qualifying the potential readership (very real) of the said opus… Uneducated. A social contempt which does not really speak its name but still seems so trivialized.
And this while other subjects seem to have priority, to choose from: the virulent cyberharassment of which the influencer has been a victim for years, and at the slightest of her public appearances. Just last year, in her Insta channel, Lena Mahfouf explained, very alarmed, that she had been the subject of threatening messages to be taken “very seriously”. Death threats. She testifies to it here. The slightest of his fashion sequences is the subject of a flood of sexist remarks.
Addressing Aymeric Caron, many Internet users recall these facts: “Aymeric, I love you but please find another target than a woman who is the victim of racist and misogynistic harassment 24/7.” alerts a reader.
Others see it as a certain clash of generations: “Arf the ultra boomer tweet… Aymeric we knew you more inspired” “I think it’s counterproductive to hit an influencer who decided to disconnect to preserve her mental health”, “We are all hyper connected. It can generate suffering, not to mention our relationship with others which is biased.“.
In 2020, to Quotidien, the influencer herself spoke openly: “It's a bit easy to attack the new generation, saying it was better before. We are tired of this intellectual snobbery and the contempt we can have towards young people who try to do things“.QED?
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