![]() Hilton, for example, is part of a class of women experiencing widespread sympathy after being mocked, for years, as ditzes in low-rise denim. Fashion’s famous maxim that trends move in 20-year cycles continues to hold true, but this revisitation, in the way of so many recent cultural waves, coincides with a moral reckoning too. In the music world, Ariana Grande sampled ’NSync, Olivia Rodrigo released a Paramore-inspired single, and Travis Barker of Blink-182 has become one of the hot producers of the moment. TikTok users upvote videos of creaky five-disc CD changers whirring into action. Instagram models now flaunt the trucker-hat brand Von Dutch. ![]() For the past few years, Y2K-era aesthetics have edged back into hipness. Modern influencers certainly seem to think so. Maybe the 2000s don’t belong entirely in the trash? Suddenly the photo and its implications seem less sinister. It’s a small but significant difference: Hilton’s shirt was fun-sassy, not villain-sassy. She then showed the original picture as proof. Superimposing her 40-year-old present self in front of the image of her at 24-she has not aged-she explained that someone had Photoshopped the word poor on top of what had been the word desperate. Hilton corrected the record this month on TikTok. Or at least STOP BEING POOR, the real clincher (which is still inspiring memes), is. ![]() Here, in other words, was a document of obliviousness being marketed as aspirational. Here was an essay in an overlit photograph, connecting 2000s celebrity culture to Bush-era tax policies and mortgage lenders. ![]() Hilton’s bronzed midriff peeked out below her shirt’s aristocratic slogan and above the pink folds of-this isn’t a joke-a peasant skirt. The crowd around her wielded flip phones and digital cameras, then-new tech that turned normies into paparazzi. The heiress and reality-TV star grinned and threw her arms in the air in a gesture of calculated abandon. If any image captured the chaos of early-2000s pop culture, it was one viral shot of Paris Hilton, in 2005, wearing a shirt that said STOP BEING POOR. ![]()
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