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Listening to Griffin say "But Twilight wasn't like a mainstream thing until the movie came out" and realizing "Oh shit, I'm only a few years younger than him but he **was not in high-school** when Twilight came out, because **every fucking person I knew** had read that book"
Comment by SevenGoudas at 21/05/2021 at 22:43 UTC
42 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I had the same reaction! I was like “Griffin, you’re crazy” and then realized... no, I was just 13 and everyone I knew was also 13.
Comment by benblue at 22/05/2021 at 04:16 UTC
25 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I worked in a bookstore when the books came out and it was a PHENOMENON.
Comment by ron_donald_dos at 22/05/2021 at 05:28 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Yep I’m just three years younger than him I think, and it was wild realizing what a huge difference that made for exposure to Twilight. That shit was everywhere in high school circa 2007, both people loving it and people shitting on it. Crazy but understandable to think it had penetrated the monoculture at that point!
Comment by oryxonix at 23/05/2021 at 10:46 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yes! I had a visceral memory come back to me when he said that of like half of the desks of my seventh grade home room class with that first book on them.