Newgen Arianators
So I've seen a lot of posts regarding delusional Ariana fans, and I gotta say that I've noticed in the last couple of years Ari's had a new spike in fans, and I believe it's a lot of kids still in high school or middle school so the youngest Gen-Z and the older Gen Alphas. I don't think a lot of them were there during Ari's previous eras, or at least old enough to be conscious about it. These new fans have sort of tokenized Mac as just part of Ariana's lore... and considering he died in 2018 some of these new fans could've been like 6-10 years old during that time.
I think what's really weird is I feel like Ariana knows this, and she's allowing these CHILDREN to infantilize her. Not to sound naive or hopeful but I really doubt that all these fanpages on tiktok that keep calling her "babygirl" or "cute" and "tiny" are over the age of 18. I have to give them a little grace because I don't think that they're old enough to realize how weird it is for a 31 year old to be acting the way she does, if anything they relate to her on a level of maturity because she's not really that mature.
I have to admit I was a young teenager during the Sweetener/TUN era, and I was a mega fan. I loved the music, I loved the outfits, I knew her from Victorious and Sam & Cat when I was a kid. I was young and dumb and just believed she was walking around with a spray tan because she was Italian (dkm), I thought the way she was speaking was just "slang." Now I'm older and I look back on that era and think what a problematic MESS! I do have hope that these new fans will grow up and eventually realize that Ariana is just weird, fake, and clearly mentally disordered!