RUSSIAN DOLLS ON TIKTOK | Why Slavic Aesthetic Is Trending? (2000s models, post-soviet era)

Toxic Side of Slavic Bimbo Trend
This winter TikTok discovered new core of Slavic Bimbos (or Russian Dolls). It's not the first time when Eastern-European beauty is trending in Western culture. In this video I'm going to analyze how Slavic Bimbos of Gen Z are connected with "Russian Wave" in modeling industry in the 2000s, the phenomenon of slavic mail-order brides and the rise in trafficking-in Eastern-European women in the 1990s.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Bimbo Core
2:22 Trend on Eastern European Aesthetic
4:31 Collapse of USSR
5:12 Russian Models
6:14 Mail-order Brides
9:13 Trafficking-in Women
11:50 Conclusion


🔹 2000s Working Paper of European Parliament on trafficking in women: @papers/libe/pdf/109_en.pdf
___________
subscribe for more content 💗

🫧 hi, my name is polina! i'm a media-journalism student from moscow, social media manager and content-creator. sometimes i watch silly cats on TikTok and sometimes make researches on social phenomena that make me curios.
🫧 get to know me better on instagram*: @imean_polina
___________
Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by Brentin Davis - Hip Hop Real Hold - https://thmatc.co/?l=C9420D89
___________
*Instagram — проект Meta Platforms Inc., деятельность которой в России запрещена