Hello!! back with a discussion about all the fall aesthetics and products we’re sold 🎃🍁 PS please comment for the algorithm, it helps a lot and I appreciate the support very much. Wishing you all the coziest day!! 🧡
i just think we love living in aesthetics. we basically did to autumn what we do yearly to Christmas. it gives us things to look forward to that you don't do year round bc living the same existence day in and day out is exhausting. we should create more aesthetics tbh
Never thought of it like that but i think that really captures it. I definitely get excited for fall and spring because its a time to change things up, even if it is just aesthetics. Well said!
Celebrating the change in seasons is an ancient druid practice. It's natural for us to embrace the shift in nature. We lost this during the industrial revolution. Capitalism has done what it does and make it an industry, but inherently it is based in pagan ritual and deeply human of us
I think another reason why so many women love fall besides nostalgia is the fact that so much of Christmas is something that a lot of women are expected to perform for their families that fall can be a time to enjoy all of those seasonal favorites but without the expectation that you also need to make them magical for other people. I can go buy myself a pumpkin spice latte, but at Christmas time I’m also worrying about what I’m going to buy all of my family and my husband‘s family and make for our family dinner (can’t forget to make my husband‘s childhood favorites so he can enjoy Christmas) and also put up a Christmas tree, etc. etc. Fall is the time that I can enjoy all those wonderful holiday vibes but without all the expectations and anxiety
Very true!! Fall is kind of a “treat yourself” season compared to the rest of the holidays that are much more focused on gifts, family / others. Helps to have a bit of a restful time before the exhausting chaos of holidays!
Well then you're not performing up to par, you didn't refresh your frontporchscape for Fall? Smh, Hallmark held a contest for best front porches. Where the prize was......to have it featured in their newest movie for free! They got a lady to spend hundreds if not thousands on porch decor so they wouldn't have to shell it out. When she won her husband found out that it meant they'd have film crews traipsing over his lawn and house for two weeks and smartly refused the prize. Hallmark to my knowledge made no offer to repair or compensate the owner for any landscape damage (or for filming there period) that occurred during filming and they live in a marshland-border area.
One way in which I see women having expectations during the fall is during Thanksgiving. It’s supposed to be “traditional” for the matriarch to be the only person to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal for their families. It becomes really stressful for the matriarch having to shop for groceries during this time and have to prepare dishes days in advance. And it HAS to be a satisfying meal for everyone.
When you mentioned the small aesthetically pleasing towns it validated me so much cause I've been trying to describe those kinds of towns that only seem to exist in Disney movies and shows. The boutique-style shops on the main street, high walkability, a town square that always is decked out for whatever season is depicted in the show/ movie. The whole town seems to be 30 miles away from the closest city but all the schools somehow still have hundreds of kids. Giant houses in suburbs that also have the 'main character' bedroom phenomena as well. Such a random train of thought but an interesting niche little topic. 😆
if I’m being honest, I buy into the fall consumerism thing so hard bc seasonal depression is a bitch and I’ll get super depressed if I don’t actively go out of my way to find joy in different aspects of the seasons changing lol. kind of a “fake it til you make it” thing for me
I think we can find the joy in each season without falling into consumerism, at least not buying mass produced items that will go in the trash sooner or later. I like finding out where traditions come from in the past and seeing how modern marketing tries to recreate a flimsy imitation of the past really becomes bizarre.
I've seen the people from the original "Christian Girl Autumn" and they ended up finding the whole thing hilarious. I'm glad they ended up not having an issue with how their image was used
@@43v3rh1d3n I think I'd seen some of her comments reshared on Tumblr, but I couldn't remember exactly what she said or did. And I didn't wanna say something that was potentially incorrect 😅
The Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand have a lunar calendar called the Maramataka. Using certain natural signs, like the flowering of certain plants, it can be used as a guide as to when to plant certain crops, hunt certain animals etc. I've seen a lot of arguments about how this calendar, being associated with changes in the natural world, is a much better way of tracking the seasons. We may say Spring starts on September 1st here, but try telling that to the Kōwhai trees whose flowers are blooming in July! It's also another way of tracking the impact of climate change on the environment by seeing which natural signs have moved and how that impacts growing seasons etc.
There are many traditional ways of dividing the seasons, and the "starting on the Solstice/Equinox" method is nowhere near universal or official. I like to consider American Thanksgiving the day between fall and winter as it's the end of the main harvest and the beginning of preserving foods for the next year. Then Valentine's Day is the day between winter and spring, because it's a time of frozen mornings but flowers are blooming. Pentecost divides Spring from Summer, and Assumption Day divides Summer from Fall, as the main harvest begins and the nights are cooling off.
King of France, Madame du Poisson/Pompadour and Marie Antoinette were big into the peasant play too. Is it any less offensive to play poor for kinks and then go home to the palace when you're pinafore gets muddy then it is to 'blackfish' on instagram and then take the fake tanner off before your job interview? I suppose it depends on the inital intent and actions after experiencing the cosplayed perspective. Fully support people educating themselves in a return to self-sufficiency especially in food production. But anyone who's done that rarely has the time/energy to take pictures of it. Especially not since the Adderall shortage.😉
@@maebandy uuhhh…yes, it’s less offensive to wear a pinafore (an article of clothing not belonging to a singular income bracket) than to do LITERAL BLACKFACE Truly, wtf is wrong with you ????
@@Anna-xh6fk you might want to go read about the historical cosplay the king and his women were engaging in. Fetishization of the plight and submissivness of your constituency is pretty egregious. I know race is the trigger word of the day but dressing up as ethnic because you think it's pretty and being oblivious to the fact that you can wipe the melanin off seems ignorant but not intentionally mocking in the way that blackface was used in early film or peasant dress was used in royal foreplay.
On Jenny Nicholson's latest video, about the Evermore theme park, there's a great quote about how pumpkins are a great way to distract Americans lol. During the soft launch of the park, lots of buildings weren't completed so they opened during fall and had an autumn theme and hid the incompleteness behind many sizes of pumpkins.
Hahahaha I love that. We are simple creatures, give us pumpkins! Idk if I reached that part of the video yet but Jenny really blessed us with that 4 hour upload
as someone from a country who has basically no seasons (australia), coming to canada and experiencing seasons was a freakin life -changing revelation. it is SO EXCITING - u can actually differentiate different parts of the year! it doesnt just kinda blend from hot to hotter - the plants change, flavours change, there's always something to look forward to. companies are just reflecting something that already exists. appreciate it! cos i carved a rock hard gourd, and two watermelons out of desperation to join in the festivities, cos i sure as shit couldn't find an orange pumpkin to buy.
I think the American love of fall & Halloween, especially in the recent years, has been really wholesome. I'm definitely a spooky season person & I've enjoyed letting myself experience it. It feels nice to *experience* the seasons, even if it's a little performative. Something in my brain changed when I turned 24 and suddenly I didn't find holidays cringe, I wanted to indulge in all the festivities.
I think you can appreciate/celebrate seasons without having to spend money, or at least spend a TON of money. I don't buy new things every seasons other than certain foods/treats. I like to buy in-season, local produce and base my meals around it as a seasonal treat. I reuse the same decorations every year, so it's become a ritual. I whip out the same sweater collection each year and start slowly layering up. I read my favorite stories/watch my favorite movies about Fall/Christmas/Thansgiving. But I get the commercialization of seasons has gone out of hand.
It's really interesting growing up in the UK, we have about 2 days of pretty autumn leaves and then it's basically just rain for 6 months and as a kid halloween wasn't such a big thing here and we never celebrated it but in the past few years I've seen the American fall crazes making their way over here more and more
yesss i feel like all uk people relate, leaves are already all gone and now it’s just dark, rainy and miserable. halloween is meh too, i feel like this is a completely american thing.
Totally depends where you are. I grew up in the north north and now I live in the south of England. The leaves are still on all the trees and it’s been very sunny this autumn. Thanks global warming…! It was 18 degrees this weekend. When and where I grew up we’d be lucky to get double figures. It was cold. But I do agree with the darkness. the only problem is the darkness thanks to daylight savings time…!
Honestly, this kind of stuff makes Autumn so much more bearable. I want comfy. I want festivities. I believe this is why the holidays were celebrated in the cooler seasons . . . Bc it’s depressing otherwise.
This is especially interesting to me as a non-American. I used to know these fall trends through youtube only, but as globalisation creeps in we have more and more shops and venues introducing seasonal/halloween decor, spice lattes and all that, which people are happy to buy, of course. I never understood the American obsession with pumpkin, so that section was particularly informative. Thanks for another great video!
I'm definitely a spooky season girl, but I'm also not a November 1 = Christmastime girl. Lately, I've been seeing November as a much needed pause, a long inhale-exhale, between spooky season and Christmastime. I'm not a big Thanksgiving person, but I enjoy November as a pure fall season month sans spookiness. Pumpkins without faces. Leaves, maple flavors, cinnamon scents, and appreciating whenever the temperature dips below 70 here in San Diego. I do wait until after Thanksgiving to begin my specific Christmas traditions. What I thought was funny is how quickly we switch from fall to Christmastime around Thanksgiving even when the actual fall season extends two thirds into the month of December. But we don't often see fall leaf and pumpkin aesthetics mixed in with candy canes, pine trees, and Santa Claus. 🤷♀
Same, except for the fact that I dont celebrate Thanksgiving (im not american). So i just like to have November to enjoy the autumn before Christmas hits (also where I live, winter sometimes lasts till April, so I'd like to not start romantisizing it as early as November, thanks. I'd like to enjoy a few weeks more of sunlight and snowless weather)
I gotta say also, I taught a “science of the seasons” class to some young kids over the course of a school year and that really made me realize how commodification has DESTROYED our concept of seasons. Like, Christmas is in the BEGINNING of winter, which begins on Dec. 21-22. Fall starts in the end of September. Spring starts near the end of March! But products keep us thinking it’s winter for 5 months, and that fall is only one month long.
Would you mind explaining this more? Is it correct that thermal winter starts when the mean temperature of the day is below 0 °C (water freezes)? So according to weather forcast, it would be starting tomorrow here; today was 1 °C all day and tonight it will drop to 0 °C, in the morning to -1 °C and possibly to -2 °C in tomorrow evening. I'm in Oulu, Finland, and tomorrow it will be 15th of November.
@Rääpynä We don't use a temperature- bad method of determining seasons; we use solstices as seasonal markers. Based on our timing methods, each season runs roughly 91 days. Here in southeastern Pennsylvania, we experience all four seasons fairly dynamically, but the weather is coldest between December and March. So we have a bit of a longer "feeling" winter than say... Florida that never really has a winter and celebrates the winter more symbolically than those of us actually going below freezing. (Not sure if that clarifies anything and felt UA-cam's comment system not allowing me to see the comment I'm responding to makes my short-term memory forget my original point 🤕)
imo winter was never the end of december. Even before I knew about commercialization, I felt the seasons were all wrong and made no sense as a kid as summer=hot, winter=cold spring=new growth and autumn=new colors/falling leaves....it's just a feeling, most people don't go by the mean temperature lol. If it's 80* in October, you can't convince me it's autumn yet. It's always been more of a feeling and that's okay. :)
Me desperately trying to partake in the PSIC (pumpkin spice industrial complex) while having Fa-la-lattes and ✨Merry & Bright ✨pillows shoved in front of my eyeballs
I’m a spooky season and a cinnamon and spice fall season person but I just hate how quickly we all move over to Christmas! I like Christmas too but I want it to feel like it’s own separate thing
I have always lived in a place with no real seasons to speak of, but the past few years I have tried incorporating more and more seasonal elements into my daily life. Marking the passage of time by recognizing and doing certain things in certain seasons is supposedly good for fighting off depression and generally supporting mental health. Of course, this doesn't have to be all about seasonal decor and limited-time products. I like to give a different "theme" to each month and associate certain recipes to cook or doodles to draw in my journal with that month. This doesn't really require any additional spending (you could lump things like TV shows and movies you already own into this). It gives me something to look forward to and focus on for each month, and the fall ones are definitely very traditionally autumnal, so I can enjoy some of the vibe without melting in a chunky sweater.
I have a random hobby of photographing American Girl dolls (I know, it's a little unique) anyway, the bit you said about how photos on Instagram with fall leaves in the background do so much better is true, even for my weird niche!
its really interesting to think that while the enviroments natural climate seasons will slowly distort, we'll still grasp on to what it should be like through the aesthetics and monthly markers of fall, despite it being way too warm to be fall
You’re so much more graceful about this than I ever could be. I’ve been screaming this from the rooftops for years now. People rush seasons/holidays that by the time they happen they are OVER IT. The day after Halloween is now Christmas and then the second Christmas is over people are anxious (yes, it causes literal anxiety in people to both have their Christmas decor not up by November 1st and not down by December 26th). And Christmas time technically starts on December 25th and goes to the epiphany. It’s so sad to me. I’ve also said for years that people like the idea of fall and not actually fall because fall goes right up to Christmas practically. Happy to see this being addressed and I will definitely seek out Ann Helen’s writings on this.
Basically same!! I love all the seasons, and I'm a big fan of Christmas but I find it very weird how so many people dream of summer in February, post Halloween pictures in August, and are so eager to celebrate Christmas in October... The week from Christmas to early January is one of my favorite times of the year, but when it comes round so many people are already done with Christmas. I guess it's just easier to desire and idealize something than to actually enjoy what we've got.
I tried the Starbucks pumpkin spice (at the low low price of $7 for a medium…) and I was SO disappointed. It genuinely must be popular because it’s Starbucks. The less-than $5 large Dunkin pumpkin spice latte is really good imo. But fall in general is only exciting because of thanksgiving for me. I miss my family!
I tried it (The Starbucks psl) once and I hated it. Because I'm not american, I don't associate the phrase "pumpkin spice" with a specific blend of spices. I had assumed that "pumpkin spice" latte meant "pumpkin and spice" latte. Imagine my disappointment when the drink did not taste of pumpkin... And it wasn't even very spicy, either, just kind of sweet. I could barely taste any cinnamon. What a shame.
@@anzaia2164 Honestly most starbucks drinks taste better when the sugar is knocked back some. tbh I think they're overly sweet to appeal to younger people as morally dubious as that is.
As a Brit it definitely feels like the American seasons have become more prevalent here. Even if we only have three weeks of ‘fall’ I don’t remember any pumpkin patches being visited when I was a kid. Though I do enjoy it as a vibe, the leaves this year have been 🔥🔥
I really resonated with the idea that there's a dichotomy between what fall looks like online and what it looks like for most of us in real life. I recently went on a day hike near me to see some fall foliage and was so happy and blown away by it, so when I got back I decided to use one of my photos as my wallpaper, but upon pulling it up, I realized that it looked way undersaturated compared to all of the online fall photos. I edited the photo to make it look "more fall," but the truth is that when I was actually outdoors, I was so happy and fulfilled with the way nature actually appeared to me! Even if you know that everything is filtered and edited its hard to realize how pervasive this is.
I live in a tropical country but i love the idea of autumn 😭 unless i travel overseas, the most i can do is to live vicariously through shows and products lol
Seasonal depression makes me feel like such a debbie downer every year; everyone else is so excited and having fun when fall comes, and there I am with my mental health taking a nose dive the second I feel a cold breeze.
I love fall. I love it so much. I love the turning leaves, the chilly morning, the warm afternoons, that special shade of blue that only happens in October skies, the return of hot soups and hot tea and pumpkin spice lattes. I love the chill and the drizzle. I love soft blankets and homecoming and apple picking and apple cider. I love the start of hockey season. I love the abundance of the orchards and fields. I love fresh bread. And yes, I LOVE Halloween. Christmas can get wrecked.
As a kid I didn't care for autumn - to me, it was just everything dying ready for cold winter. I grew up in an English town that's very wet during autumn, so it was never very aesthetic. When I was 23, I moved to South Korea, and that's where I fell in love with autumn - it's beautiful there! So vibrant, orange golden yellow and red. And back then, in 2012ish, autumn wasn't really commodified. My boyfriend and I went apple picking, baked apple pie, I attended my first Thanksgiving dinners (boyfriend was Asian American), tasted my first pumpkin pie, rode tandem bicycles through rice paddy's lined with autumnal trees, wore plaid and sweaters, went to towns filled with persimmon trees, drank wine and had the time and energy to bake fresh cookies. It was a dreamy time that I'm grateful to have experienced. Now, I cling to autumn like a safety blanket (one that's aesthetically pleasing) but knowing it'll never feel as good as when I was young and in love with a place, a boy, and the freedom of being a 20something year old...🍂
I'm a fall baby, and I absolutely love autumn. I'm lucky enough to live in a place where we experience it. The colors, the smell and the sound of the leaves when I walk through them is my happy place 🧡🍁
Well, from an outsider, i have seen the romanticization of Fall since puberty on the internet✌️esp in the west. The amount of autumn i have consumed in my life is foliage filled picturesque images, fall fashion, album Red by Taylor Swift & a eurotrip in october 2019. Recently for the first time, I tried the pumpkin spice latte at our recently opened Starbucks, and well, it was... interesting ✌️. I personally love the winters but i do love the aesthetic colors of autumn😁 Tiffany, your outfits are very cute 😍.
Even though I live in the tropics and temperatures stay 80 degrees all year round, it's fascinating how the media and pop culture has created this nostalgic feeling in me which sets off when I get a glimpse of Halloween costumes, turkey feathers, and mistle toe. I find it humorous when I get so excited when the weather is cloudy around these months. My mind tells me to cover up with jackets and sweaters thinking it's cold when in reality, it's still 85 degrees and the humidity is 79% lmao.
Australian here. So yeah, we don't have deciduous trees naturally, and when the northern hemisphere is celebrating their "fall", it's spring here and usually starting to get hot already. Don't even get me started on the Christmas consumer bullplonk 😅 it's so insulting seeing fake snow decorations everywhere when it's hot as buggery outside.
As a person who lived her hole life in Brazil, not only that, but in a state where we only get Hot or Rainy (but also hot) climates, and at the same time has been exposed to American films and media all my life, I've always found it really interesting how some colors and foods seem to be restricted to specific seasons, instead of personal taste and, in the case of foods, what you want to eat in the moment...
Girl, I’m a Brazilian woman. I was born and raised in my tropical South Hemisphere country. Never been to the US. Still, when October and November come, also know as Brazilian Spring, I feel the need to watch Gilmore Girls, You’ve got mail and When Harry met Sally, cause I am in a fall mood. Yesterday, in my 86 degrees city, I took a Pumpkin Spice Latte. The American Way of life really got me.
As someone in the Pacific Northwest, I honestly dread fall. Every year the wildfires get worse, I can't open my windows for days at a time because the smoke is so intense. Usually it only stops once the rain starts, and then we often don't see the sun for weeks, which is terrible for my mental health. I much prefer spring. Clean air, long days, flowers - what's not to love?
I love fall--it's my favorite season. I grew up in Ohio, so part of it is definitely rooted in nostalgia and actual love for the cooler temperature and beautiful colors. (ETA: Fall is definitely the Midwest/Northeast U.S.'s time to shine. The rest of the year, it is not *that* pretty.) Climate change is definitely feeding that nostalgia: even in my lifetime (I'm 32), I've noticed that Ohio's summers are lasting longer and feel more brutal. We joke (probably to keep from crying) that we really only get a good 2 weeks of peak fall. Another part, though, has to be due to the commodification: I've noticed that, even though I'm beyond school-age now, I still feel a strong desire to shop and perform a specific fall aesthetic--rooted in the fact that around the end of August, it was time for "back to school shopping." And then, of course, there's the desire to buy specific items "for fall" - candles, pumpkins, decor... I'm trying to lean into my love of fall without falling into the trap of overconsumption: a candle or two is fine, but maybe go outside and go on a hike if I want to truly experience fall.
Man I love autumn even though I live in the south rn. In my hometown we did have that kind of picturesque fall season. It was so beautiful. I wish I could go back.
Great video as usual!! I was rather surprised by the fact that apparently Halloween is becoming a bigger event in some places, because where I live down South I swear we see less and less of it every year. Only a handful of people do even basic decorations, and larger scale yard haunt setups are essentially non-existent. I remember a lot more people participating when I was a kid but now it's like no one cares about it here anymore... Could just be my immediate area ofc
@@raapyna8544 the few places I've moved between always had a lot of families and younger kids tbh, but from what I've heard from neighbors and extended family people just take them to a contained Halloween event (Trunk or Treat for example) and kind of be done with it. So they do something for Halloween outside of the home, but don't decorate or really have any active local trick or treating
If you don't mind being 'basic' and if you are not worried about 'cringe' and keeping up with trends, the wonderful thing about celebrating autumn is that we can enjoy it in such simple, affordable ways. Like you said, you can live in comfortable, timeless basic clothes like boots and sweaters, you can enjoy affordable foods like soups and stews and homemade pie and hot cocoa, you can walk in nature and carve pumpkins and even decorate your house with nature. Its a season i can participate in nomatter how tough things are x
As someone who lives in a place were we u-pick in the spring, summer, and fall - the whole segment about nostalgia for farming/farm life was very interesting! And even when not picking ourselves, I go to a lot of local farms to get certain seasonal produce (going to get sweet corn and peaches from the farm vs the store). Especially when you need it in bulk!
I'm both a spooky fall girlie and a pumpkin spice fall girlie. I find I start off with more pumpkin and transition into spooky as we get closer to Halloween, and back to pumpkin again afterwards. I'm a goth with a pumpkin themed kitchen so it's the perfect time to buy decor for my year-round spooky house. This year my favourite finds were some salad tongs that are little skeleton arms and a bunch of little cauldron mugs.
I basically live in the stars hollow of Missouri so fall is beautiful and there are SO MANY FALL EVENTS. The chili cook off, cider days, haunted corn maze, pumpkin patches, festivals, zombie paint ball, etc etc etc. the nature here is beautiful and we just really buy in (though people don’t really follow fall trend here all that often we mostly just stick with the basics like jeans or leggings with a sweater of any kind
Thank you thank you for acknowledging how pumpkins are Native to Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island. I’m Native & my tribe is from “Mexico” and it’s annoying having to have a bunch of ppl make fun of me calling me basic for making pumpkin dishes (pumpkin flower soup, etc) and it’s frustrating having to explain how Pumpkins are Native to these lands and to our peoples & not a “Basic White Girl Thing” just like “poinsettias” which are also Native to these lands. Considering all the racism Indigenous People around these lands have faced, including IWCA & Immigration and racism/Colorism in MX, and the rest of the “Americas” it’s important to acknowledge this information & how much has been taken from our cultures while our pain has been minimized, white washed and acknowledged. Thank you 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
You know.... I know very well that fall anesthetics was created for capitalization. But I still enjoy it and feel more happy and content during the fall season. I love pumpkin spice things and its scarcity make it more precious to me in terms of feeling, not the monetary aspect of it. And I love cozy sweaters And I am glad we have that season as a transition between summer and winter
Found this video a few months too late but you hit the nail on the head with all of these! I especially found myself obsessing over fall last year, even going as far as following a bunch of "aesthetic vlog" people on Tik Tok who romanticize every aspect of their lives in tune with the seasons, usually going from fall/autumn/Halloween decor in August to Christmas decor in November. I live in Chicago, so recently fall has become either 80 degree weather or 50 degree weather. I find myself clinging onto the old nostalgia of my favorite season from my childhood.
I think as someone growing up in the north east US, celebrating seasons including Fall, was almost a way to help cope with the season change and days getting darker and colder. During the pandemic, decorating for the seasons was a way of coping almost with the opposite, the lack of change.
I was surprised that American PSL doesn't have pumpkin in it! In my country also exists a tradition of PSL, but our baristas do put some kind of pumpkin syrup in coffee. And it has a strong pumpkin taste!
i live in STL and we have gorgeous fall scenery with our old brick buildings and graceful old and wise trees lining our streets. Its a shame our summers last like 7 months
I’ve never been into holidays, but I love the experience of seasons! Fall has always been my favorite season because (living in the desert) the temperature goes from 100s and up to 80, and it’s pretty much southern Cali vibes lol. I’ve rarely been into Halloween since my birthday is close to the holiday. People were ALWAYS (especially) in college having their Halloween parties on my birthday 😭 I couldn’t celebrate my birthday without Halloween being involved until I was celebrating out of the country 🥴
6:40 I actually really love the Brennan Lee Mulligan skit about being basic where one character goes 'but they're all the same' and the reply is 'as are sunsets and rainbows'
how I feel about trends is basically everything comes back eventually so even if you’re not specially “on trend” right now, you could be wearing something that will come back in a year or two and then you’re technically ahead of the trends 🤣 it’s all just made up anyways lmao
Living in Minnesota the seasons are so distinct and specific, it’s easy to match my mood/ home/ clothing etc. to the season. But I think it would maybe feel odd to decorate and dress for the season in the southern states😅
I worked at bath and body works in a mall with a Starbucks. It feels like a classic combo to get a psl and then go to bbw for a "leaves" candle and a bottle of sweet cinnamon pumpkin lotion. In my opinion, it's the food and home fragrance industries that lean in the heaviest!
Thank you for the excellent video! Personally, I had to spent - unwillingly - some time on the farm, helping some relatives, and I must say, that pumpkin does not taste good for me. Pumpkins were heavy to carry, their pumpkin's stems, used for transporting it to the side of the field, - edgy, sharp and scratchy, and altogether experience of heavy farm work - far away from idyllic. Also, the nearer to autumn, the rainier the days were becoming, - the colder & more uncomfortable it was getting to stay at the farms. In autumn, old farmhouses become cold, damp and dank, country roads become wet & muddy, rubber boots get stuck in the wet clay on the paths, and it is difficult to even get to the neighboring farm.
I hate fall with all of my heart. It's dark, it's rainy, it's stressful. I love the idea of fall, the one we see on social media, the pumpkins, red leaves and warm beverages, but that is not the season I live 😅😅
Tbh I’m not on Tiktok and I don’t care about fashion and the fact that fashion comes and goes so fast makes me think that you can wear whatever and you won’t look crazy.
I live in Japan which is a country that has distinct seasons so fall is also quite a big deal here too. Japanese fall is about fall leaves, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, full moons, saury, red dragonflies, osmanthus flowers, etc… Halloween is a relatively new festival in Japan. Trick or treating isn’t really a thing, but many young people go to street parades or festivals in costumes.
In Alaska, if you blink during September you open your eyes again to see snow in October. There’s hardly a fall here. I remember feeling sad about that when I was younger and wanted the “fall feeling” but now I’m like GIVE ME SNOW 😂. Fall is fun and all, butttttt it’s so windy and rainy and messy and cold here.
I would just love for people to enjoy and share their particular flavour of autumn. How does fall look like where you live? What festivities are there? Been enjoying documentaries and vlogs about fall in places such as London or Japan; and to me I feel like that is somehow what fuels a sense of connection with the season. Consumerism is what it is. If we are not going to take care of our necessity to connect with each other and nature, someome will surely sell us on the opportunity of achieving some semblance of that. So I guess it falls under our responsability to be able to take time to appreciate nature, and building seasonal aesthetics that (rather than play on nostalgia) make sense in our own environment.
those “basic” fall outfits are really practical and cute!! Most days I just want to be comfortable and look decent without a whole bunch of thought and I don’t think ppl should be shamed for that
I will say when I went to college in VA, coming from FL, I finally understood the hype around Fall. I loved seeing the leaves change color and going apple picking! I love the nostalgia 🍁
For me the fresh start feeling is in spring when all the flowers are out and the worst part of winter has just finished. Fall feels more like a winding down, beginning-of-the-end period for me but in a very cozy way
Living in Australia and currently in spring, so envious of the northern hemisphere's autumn! Even when we do have it we don't have the full fall aestehtic and miss out on pumpkin spice.
Maple is more of an early spring thing. (Late march) because maple sap can only be harvested when it is above freezing in the day and below freezing at night. I only know this because I am from Maine and in grade school we are taught about how maple harvesting and manufacturing of genuine maple syrup works, and in Maine we have ‘Maine maple Sunday’ where the maple farms open their doors to people for an Agro-tourism kind of weekend where you sample maple syrup and various maple candies, pet some cows, see other farm animals, etc
I don't even like the colours red, yellow or orange, but if they're leaves that are about to fall on the ground, it makes me ridiculously happy! I'm currently vibing under a fleecy blanket on the couch, smelling a pumpkin scented candle, and going to eat an apple crisp I made yesterday. I feel so energised in the autumn. Heat makes me lethargic and headache-y. I keep my autumn decor up until American Thanksgiving and then put up Christmas decor shortly thereafter - it kind of prolongs Halloween/cozy autumn feel for me.
It's so interesting watching this after living in Korea for the past 2 years. They had pumpkin spice at Starbucks for the first time last year and it was so unpopular that they didn't bring it back this year. It was mostly Americans in the Starbucks Korea instagram comments begging for PSL's to be brought back. The clothing and trends are so different here too. There's very little fall marketing, decor, or events.
i would argue that not all food enjoyed at a particular time of year is due to commodification- seasonal availability (depending on how you source your food) also creates distinct times for different foods. i was thinking about this the other day, and I believe the need to identify seasonally different commodities is a product of the type of relationship many have with food and ~nature~. a lack of a solid or availability to have a meaningful relationship (expense, access, ability) with these things creates a longing to differentiate seasons and consumerism makes it easy
As someone who tries to eat seasonally this is just how I grew up. My mom was raised on a farm and even though she left at 13 for the cities this is how we still eat more or less. Food just taste better in its actual season. If I buy berries right now they are frozen but I currently have like three varieties of apples lol
this is one of my favorite videos. im from the midwest, but moved to europe in 2019. the one season i always miss is fall, especially pumpkin patches and apple orchards. great analysis!
I live in Canada and fall literally looks exactly like it does in the stereotypical pictures of fall and the media around fall. HOWEVER, what people don't realize is that in order to get that level of fall-ness, you can only enjoy it for like a month or two at best AND you'd better be prepared for a HECK of a winter lol. Still worth it to me though lol. It's awesome here
I love the smell of warm spices and am a total pumpkin spice snack fanatic. From lattes to cakes, it’s a short timeframe where people enjoy being at home, being cozy, and relaxed. The mad dash of Black Friday and Christmas… the Autumn wind down is needed
Pumpkin spice is not really a thing where I live but I recently tried the Starbucks pumpkin spice latte with 2 instead f 4 pumps of syrup (because I heard it’s very sweet) and it was already riding the edge of my sweetness tolerance. I’m genuinely impressed with the strength of American taste buds
The point about the first chill of fall being a relief because it’s proof that climate change didn’t take the season away this year hit too hard… I know I’ve felt that this year for sure but no one had ever put it into words for me like that. Pretty crazy. Great video as always!
It’s been unseasonably cold here so I’ve been having to layer up because it’s been as low as the high 30s. That’s usually January/February weather here. I like the idea of fall though. I remember swimming in the outdoor pool in as early as late March as a kid. As we don’t really have seasons as such. I’m usually wearing traditionally warm weather items 9 or 10 months out of the year just adding jackets and cardigans as needed.
Growing up in Texas I always looked forward to fall because the weather cooled down enough that I could wear more layers and express my preference for 1960s English dandy-inspired style. We didn’t really have any autumnal traditions in my house so I made my own as an adult. I like to listen to the song and watch the movie Alice’s Restaurant (a 60s Thanksgiving classic) every day of November. Then it’s all Christmas until mid-January lol
I grew up in Michigan and lived there for 22 years. The Midwest has the stereotypical fall “aesthetic” like colored leaves, sweater weather, apple orchards, and pumpkin patches. I’ve lived in Florida now for 6 years and it’s still 80°+ everyday in a November. I’ve never been able to get in the holiday spirit again since living here and I definitely think it’s because of that fall nostalgia of where I grew up!
I found the whole pumpkin thing was partikulary fascinating to me, because I always thought that pumpkins being so much associated with fall is because they are super delicious and you can't really get them (easily) outside of the months of August-December, but I guess that would also be the case for red beets and nobody is putting little porcelain beets on there fron porch (wich really makes me want do that, justice for the red beet!)
I live in the southern hemisphere so the seasons are flipped and Starbucks markets pumpkin spice as a spring drink. 😂 I don't have much seasonal decor because the seasons arent as commodified here (though we do like to celebrate spring with flowers, either real or made of fabric.)
Hello!! back with a discussion about all the fall aesthetics and products we’re sold 🎃🍁 PS please comment for the algorithm, it helps a lot and I appreciate the support very much. Wishing you all the coziest day!! 🧡
I love this video so much it's so cozy and the research is great aksdkddldkdldkl💕💐😃😃😃😃
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Where is your sweater from? Its sooo cute
Well then, if you think further, this video will be only relevant in fall and probably underperformed in other seasons, isn't it?
I have never tasted anything pumpkin spice flavored and I'm shocked that there's no pumpkin in it 😂 it's not that big in Europe
The older I get the more I love the transition into fall but mostly because I now have adult money so I guess capitalism got me again.
Honestly, TJ’s has such a grip on me during the fall and winter
I am now an adult and still don't have money :-(
this is true actually
the way i slowly started to gravitate to target once i started getting a paycheck
Or you can just appreciate the color-changing leaves 🍃🍁.
It’s free.
i just think we love living in aesthetics. we basically did to autumn what we do yearly to Christmas. it gives us things to look forward to that you don't do year round bc living the same existence day in and day out is exhausting. we should create more aesthetics tbh
Never thought of it like that but i think that really captures it. I definitely get excited for fall and spring because its a time to change things up, even if it is just aesthetics. Well said!
Celebrating the change in seasons is an ancient druid practice. It's natural for us to embrace the shift in nature. We lost this during the industrial revolution. Capitalism has done what it does and make it an industry, but inherently it is based in pagan ritual and deeply human of us
@@appleshampoozie yeah Ostara, Litha, Mabon, and Yule
@@wildwitchwest exactly
I started doing this a couple years ago! I haven’t developed aesthetics for every season yet, but it’s been really fun 😊 try it!
I think another reason why so many women love fall besides nostalgia is the fact that so much of Christmas is something that a lot of women are expected to perform for their families that fall can be a time to enjoy all of those seasonal favorites but without the expectation that you also need to make them magical for other people. I can go buy myself a pumpkin spice latte, but at Christmas time I’m also worrying about what I’m going to buy all of my family and my husband‘s family and make for our family dinner (can’t forget to make my husband‘s childhood favorites so he can enjoy Christmas) and also put up a Christmas tree, etc. etc. Fall is the time that I can enjoy all those wonderful holiday vibes but without all the expectations and anxiety
Very true!! Fall is kind of a “treat yourself” season compared to the rest of the holidays that are much more focused on gifts, family / others. Helps to have a bit of a restful time before the exhausting chaos of holidays!
Well then you're not performing up to par, you didn't refresh your frontporchscape for Fall? Smh, Hallmark held a contest for best front porches. Where the prize was......to have it featured in their newest movie for free!
They got a lady to spend hundreds if not thousands on porch decor so they wouldn't have to shell it out. When she won her husband found out that it meant they'd have film crews traipsing over his lawn and house for two weeks and smartly refused the prize. Hallmark to my knowledge made no offer to repair or compensate the owner for any landscape damage (or for filming there period) that occurred during filming and they live in a marshland-border area.
Nail on the head!!!
One way in which I see women having expectations during the fall is during Thanksgiving. It’s supposed to be “traditional” for the matriarch to be the only person to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal for their families. It becomes really stressful for the matriarch having to shop for groceries during this time and have to prepare dishes days in advance. And it HAS to be a satisfying meal for everyone.
iPeace460 In most places where Christmas is celebrated there is no Thanksgiving. That's a US thing. Not an autumn thing.
When you mentioned the small aesthetically pleasing towns it validated me so much cause I've been trying to describe those kinds of towns that only seem to exist in Disney movies and shows. The boutique-style shops on the main street, high walkability, a town square that always is decked out for whatever season is depicted in the show/ movie. The whole town seems to be 30 miles away from the closest city but all the schools somehow still have hundreds of kids. Giant houses in suburbs that also have the 'main character' bedroom phenomena as well. Such a random train of thought but an interesting niche little topic. 😆
Quite a few European cities and towns have that kind of vibe still. Guess that's where Disney got it from.
I actually grew up in a town like that and I miss it so much, it was the best
The only place I’ve lived in that has the aesthetically pleasing small town fall vibe is my college. Our campus is very small and walkable
Yesss you’re totally right! Disney made me want to live somewhere like that so badly
Come to Ohio we have some of those towns it’s so nice to visit them
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if I’m being honest, I buy into the fall consumerism thing so hard bc seasonal depression is a bitch and I’ll get super depressed if I don’t actively go out of my way to find joy in different aspects of the seasons changing lol. kind of a “fake it til you make it” thing for me
Same here
Same. Helps delay the seasonal depression onset, at least until after the holidays
Any excuse to be happy tbf
I think we can find the joy in each season without falling into consumerism, at least not buying mass produced items that will go in the trash sooner or later. I like finding out where traditions come from in the past and seeing how modern marketing tries to recreate a flimsy imitation of the past really becomes bizarre.
I've seen the people from the original "Christian Girl Autumn" and they ended up finding the whole thing hilarious. I'm glad they ended up not having an issue with how their image was used
the og girl Caitlin covinton is amazing and made some big donations to transition funds
@@43v3rh1d3n I think I'd seen some of her comments reshared on Tumblr, but I couldn't remember exactly what she said or did. And I didn't wanna say something that was potentially incorrect 😅
all credits to the queen ms. blizzy mcguire
The Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand have a lunar calendar called the Maramataka. Using certain natural signs, like the flowering of certain plants, it can be used as a guide as to when to plant certain crops, hunt certain animals etc. I've seen a lot of arguments about how this calendar, being associated with changes in the natural world, is a much better way of tracking the seasons. We may say Spring starts on September 1st here, but try telling that to the Kōwhai trees whose flowers are blooming in July! It's also another way of tracking the impact of climate change on the environment by seeing which natural signs have moved and how that impacts growing seasons etc.
There are many traditional ways of dividing the seasons, and the "starting on the Solstice/Equinox" method is nowhere near universal or official. I like to consider American Thanksgiving the day between fall and winter as it's the end of the main harvest and the beginning of preserving foods for the next year. Then Valentine's Day is the day between winter and spring, because it's a time of frozen mornings but flowers are blooming. Pentecost divides Spring from Summer, and Assumption Day divides Summer from Fall, as the main harvest begins and the nights are cooling off.
I would LOVE a video on cottagecore/farmcore and basically the commodification and idealization of food production and rural life.
This. And maybe the cottage core to tradwife pipeline.
King of France, Madame du Poisson/Pompadour and Marie Antoinette were big into the peasant play too. Is it any less offensive to play poor for kinks and then go home to the palace when you're pinafore gets muddy then it is to 'blackfish' on instagram and then take the fake tanner off before your job interview?
I suppose it depends on the inital intent and actions after experiencing the cosplayed perspective. Fully support people educating themselves in a return to self-sufficiency especially in food production. But anyone who's done that rarely has the time/energy to take pictures of it. Especially not since the Adderall shortage.😉
@@maebandy uuhhh…yes, it’s less offensive to wear a pinafore (an article of clothing not belonging to a singular income bracket) than to do LITERAL BLACKFACE
Truly, wtf is wrong with you ????
@@Anna-xh6fk you might want to go read about the historical cosplay the king and his women were engaging in. Fetishization of the plight and submissivness of your constituency is pretty egregious. I know race is the trigger word of the day but dressing up as ethnic because you think it's pretty and being oblivious to the fact that you can wipe the melanin off seems ignorant but not intentionally mocking in the way that blackface was used in early film or peasant dress was used in royal foreplay.
@@AlexandriatheRed Alice Capelle did a video on that.
“Pumpkin Spice Industrial Complex” is my new favorite phrase
U basic
@@simp2234 U hating and for what
On Jenny Nicholson's latest video, about the Evermore theme park, there's a great quote about how pumpkins are a great way to distract Americans lol. During the soft launch of the park, lots of buildings weren't completed so they opened during fall and had an autumn theme and hid the incompleteness behind many sizes of pumpkins.
Hahahaha I love that. We are simple creatures, give us pumpkins! Idk if I reached that part of the video yet but Jenny really blessed us with that 4 hour upload
Evermore theme park should hire Jenny. She has so many great suggestions to make the park so much better,
@@alizakreski1557 Jenny did give great recommendations! Heck, even I'd go if Evermore expanded a little bit and included pumpkins LOL
I think there’s a lot of overlap between these two UA-camrs audiences
did you mean distract or are you using district in a way I'm not familiar with?
Only Hayao Myazaki is allowed to make me nostalgic for something I never experienced
as someone from a country who has basically no seasons (australia), coming to canada and experiencing seasons was a freakin life -changing revelation. it is SO EXCITING - u can actually differentiate different parts of the year! it doesnt just kinda blend from hot to hotter - the plants change, flavours change, there's always something to look forward to. companies are just reflecting something that already exists. appreciate it! cos i carved a rock hard gourd, and two watermelons out of desperation to join in the festivities, cos i sure as shit couldn't find an orange pumpkin to buy.
I think the American love of fall & Halloween, especially in the recent years, has been really wholesome. I'm definitely a spooky season person & I've enjoyed letting myself experience it. It feels nice to *experience* the seasons, even if it's a little performative. Something in my brain changed when I turned 24 and suddenly I didn't find holidays cringe, I wanted to indulge in all the festivities.
I think you can appreciate/celebrate seasons without having to spend money, or at least spend a TON of money. I don't buy new things every seasons other than certain foods/treats. I like to buy in-season, local produce and base my meals around it as a seasonal treat. I reuse the same decorations every year, so it's become a ritual. I whip out the same sweater collection each year and start slowly layering up. I read my favorite stories/watch my favorite movies about Fall/Christmas/Thansgiving.
But I get the commercialization of seasons has gone out of hand.
It's really interesting growing up in the UK, we have about 2 days of pretty autumn leaves and then it's basically just rain for 6 months and as a kid halloween wasn't such a big thing here and we never celebrated it but in the past few years I've seen the American fall crazes making their way over here more and more
yesss i feel like all uk people relate, leaves are already all gone and now it’s just dark, rainy and miserable. halloween is meh too, i feel like this is a completely american thing.
Totally depends where you are. I grew up in the north north and now I live in the south of England. The leaves are still on all the trees and it’s been very sunny this autumn. Thanks global warming…! It was 18 degrees this weekend. When and where I grew up we’d be lucky to get double figures. It was cold. But I do agree with the darkness. the only problem is the darkness thanks to daylight savings time…!
@@MediAndClaire i live in the south but still feel as though around 90% of the leaves are gone 😭 it’s sad because the leaves really are pretty.
@@phoebestener2244 No it is an Irish pagan holiday!!!
Same in eastern europe and we don't even have halloween :(
Honestly, this kind of stuff makes Autumn so much more bearable. I want comfy. I want festivities. I believe this is why the holidays were celebrated in the cooler seasons . . . Bc it’s depressing otherwise.
This is especially interesting to me as a non-American. I used to know these fall trends through youtube only, but as globalisation creeps in we have more and more shops and venues introducing seasonal/halloween decor, spice lattes and all that, which people are happy to buy, of course. I never understood the American obsession with pumpkin, so that section was particularly informative. Thanks for another great video!
I'm definitely a spooky season girl, but I'm also not a November 1 = Christmastime girl. Lately, I've been seeing November as a much needed pause, a long inhale-exhale, between spooky season and Christmastime. I'm not a big Thanksgiving person, but I enjoy November as a pure fall season month sans spookiness. Pumpkins without faces. Leaves, maple flavors, cinnamon scents, and appreciating whenever the temperature dips below 70 here in San Diego. I do wait until after Thanksgiving to begin my specific Christmas traditions. What I thought was funny is how quickly we switch from fall to Christmastime around Thanksgiving even when the actual fall season extends two thirds into the month of December. But we don't often see fall leaf and pumpkin aesthetics mixed in with candy canes, pine trees, and Santa Claus. 🤷♀
Same, except for the fact that I dont celebrate Thanksgiving (im not american). So i just like to have November to enjoy the autumn before Christmas hits (also where I live, winter sometimes lasts till April, so I'd like to not start romantisizing it as early as November, thanks. I'd like to enjoy a few weeks more of sunlight and snowless weather)
Yesss November is so underrated
This exactly!! This is why I love November
I gotta say also, I taught a “science of the seasons” class to some young kids over the course of a school year and that really made me realize how commodification has DESTROYED our concept of seasons. Like, Christmas is in the BEGINNING of winter, which begins on Dec. 21-22. Fall starts in the end of September. Spring starts near the end of March! But products keep us thinking it’s winter for 5 months, and that fall is only one month long.
Would you mind explaining this more? Is it correct that thermal winter starts when the mean temperature of the day is below 0 °C (water freezes)? So according to weather forcast, it would be starting tomorrow here; today was 1 °C all day and tonight it will drop to 0 °C, in the morning to -1 °C and possibly to -2 °C in tomorrow evening. I'm in Oulu, Finland, and tomorrow it will be 15th of November.
@Rääpynä We don't use a temperature- bad method of determining seasons; we use solstices as seasonal markers. Based on our timing methods, each season runs roughly 91 days. Here in southeastern Pennsylvania, we experience all four seasons fairly dynamically, but the weather is coldest between December and March. So we have a bit of a longer "feeling" winter than say... Florida that never really has a winter and celebrates the winter more symbolically than those of us actually going below freezing.
(Not sure if that clarifies anything and felt UA-cam's comment system not allowing me to see the comment I'm responding to makes my short-term memory forget my original point 🤕)
imo winter was never the end of december. Even before I knew about commercialization, I felt the seasons were all wrong and made no sense as a kid as summer=hot, winter=cold spring=new growth and autumn=new colors/falling leaves....it's just a feeling, most people don't go by the mean temperature lol. If it's 80* in October, you can't convince me it's autumn yet. It's always been more of a feeling and that's okay. :)
Me as a kid when I found out the winter solstice was on Dec. 21: "Impossible!"
lol winter really is 5 months long in some parts. Grew up in Minnesota where it snowed from October-March.
Me desperately trying to partake in the PSIC (pumpkin spice industrial complex) while having Fa-la-lattes and ✨Merry & Bright ✨pillows shoved in front of my eyeballs
I worried that I’d put out this video too late lmao after Nov 1st it became Christmas!!
@@tiffanyferg no no, this time-warped me back in place tyvm
" Fa-la-lattes" oh my god lmfao
I’m a spooky season and a cinnamon and spice fall season person but I just hate how quickly we all move over to Christmas! I like Christmas too but I want it to feel like it’s own separate thing
I have always lived in a place with no real seasons to speak of, but the past few years I have tried incorporating more and more seasonal elements into my daily life. Marking the passage of time by recognizing and doing certain things in certain seasons is supposedly good for fighting off depression and generally supporting mental health. Of course, this doesn't have to be all about seasonal decor and limited-time products. I like to give a different "theme" to each month and associate certain recipes to cook or doodles to draw in my journal with that month. This doesn't really require any additional spending (you could lump things like TV shows and movies you already own into this). It gives me something to look forward to and focus on for each month, and the fall ones are definitely very traditionally autumnal, so I can enjoy some of the vibe without melting in a chunky sweater.
I have a random hobby of photographing American Girl dolls (I know, it's a little unique) anyway, the bit you said about how photos on Instagram with fall leaves in the background do so much better is true, even for my weird niche!
its really interesting to think that while the enviroments natural climate seasons will slowly distort, we'll still grasp on to what it should be like through the aesthetics and monthly markers of fall, despite it being way too warm to be fall
Yeah, I have a feeling some people are actually exaggerately excited for the idea of fall, because summer has become so long and hot.
You’re so much more graceful about this than I ever could be. I’ve been screaming this from the rooftops for years now. People rush seasons/holidays that by the time they happen they are OVER IT. The day after Halloween is now Christmas and then the second Christmas is over people are anxious (yes, it causes literal anxiety in people to both have their Christmas decor not up by November 1st and not down by December 26th). And Christmas time technically starts on December 25th and goes to the epiphany. It’s so sad to me. I’ve also said for years that people like the idea of fall and not actually fall because fall goes right up to Christmas practically. Happy to see this being addressed and I will definitely seek out Ann Helen’s writings on this.
Basically same!! I love all the seasons, and I'm a big fan of Christmas but I find it very weird how so many people dream of summer in February, post Halloween pictures in August, and are so eager to celebrate Christmas in October... The week from Christmas to early January is one of my favorite times of the year, but when it comes round so many people are already done with Christmas. I guess it's just easier to desire and idealize something than to actually enjoy what we've got.
I tried the Starbucks pumpkin spice (at the low low price of $7 for a medium…) and I was SO disappointed. It genuinely must be popular because it’s Starbucks. The less-than $5 large Dunkin pumpkin spice latte is really good imo.
But fall in general is only exciting because of thanksgiving for me. I miss my family!
It's literally cause Starbucks positioned it that way. The flavor is very specific to their brand
I tried it (The Starbucks psl) once and I hated it. Because I'm not american, I don't associate the phrase "pumpkin spice" with a specific blend of spices. I had assumed that "pumpkin spice" latte meant "pumpkin and spice" latte. Imagine my disappointment when the drink did not taste of pumpkin... And it wasn't even very spicy, either, just kind of sweet. I could barely taste any cinnamon. What a shame.
@@anzaia2164 Honestly most starbucks drinks taste better when the sugar is knocked back some. tbh I think they're overly sweet to appeal to younger people as morally dubious as that is.
The PSLs from Starbucks suck (imo),but the ones from Peet’s coffee are great
I’ve never liked PSLs because I find them too sweet. But I LOVE Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew (preferably no vanilla syrup but I’m not picky).
As a Brit it definitely feels like the American seasons have become more prevalent here. Even if we only have three weeks of ‘fall’ I don’t remember any pumpkin patches being visited when I was a kid. Though I do enjoy it as a vibe, the leaves this year have been 🔥🔥
I really resonated with the idea that there's a dichotomy between what fall looks like online and what it looks like for most of us in real life. I recently went on a day hike near me to see some fall foliage and was so happy and blown away by it, so when I got back I decided to use one of my photos as my wallpaper, but upon pulling it up, I realized that it looked way undersaturated compared to all of the online fall photos. I edited the photo to make it look "more fall," but the truth is that when I was actually outdoors, I was so happy and fulfilled with the way nature actually appeared to me! Even if you know that everything is filtered and edited its hard to realize how pervasive this is.
I live in a tropical country but i love the idea of autumn 😭 unless i travel overseas, the most i can do is to live vicariously through shows and products lol
Japan is super into having four seasons and everything is seasonal: soda, candy, fast food specials, coffee, etc. It's really nice honestly.
Seasonal depression makes me feel like such a debbie downer every year; everyone else is so excited and having fun when fall comes, and there I am with my mental health taking a nose dive the second I feel a cold breeze.
Yes as an Aussie I’ve always been confused about the whole autumn (‘fall’) thing in the US. Here it’s just another season.
I love fall. I love it so much. I love the turning leaves, the chilly morning, the warm afternoons, that special shade of blue that only happens in October skies, the return of hot soups and hot tea and pumpkin spice lattes. I love the chill and the drizzle. I love soft blankets and homecoming and apple picking and apple cider. I love the start of hockey season. I love the abundance of the orchards and fields. I love fresh bread. And yes, I LOVE Halloween. Christmas can get wrecked.
As a kid I didn't care for autumn - to me, it was just everything dying ready for cold winter. I grew up in an English town that's very wet during autumn, so it was never very aesthetic. When I was 23, I moved to South Korea, and that's where I fell in love with autumn - it's beautiful there! So vibrant, orange golden yellow and red. And back then, in 2012ish, autumn wasn't really commodified. My boyfriend and I went apple picking, baked apple pie, I attended my first Thanksgiving dinners (boyfriend was Asian American), tasted my first pumpkin pie, rode tandem bicycles through rice paddy's lined with autumnal trees, wore plaid and sweaters, went to towns filled with persimmon trees, drank wine and had the time and energy to bake fresh cookies. It was a dreamy time that I'm grateful to have experienced.
Now, I cling to autumn like a safety blanket (one that's aesthetically pleasing) but knowing it'll never feel as good as when I was young and in love with a place, a boy, and the freedom of being a 20something year old...🍂
I'm a fall baby, and I absolutely love autumn. I'm lucky enough to live in a place where we experience it. The colors, the smell and the sound of the leaves when I walk through them is my happy place 🧡🍁
Well, from an outsider, i have seen the romanticization of Fall since puberty on the internet✌️esp in the west. The amount of autumn i have consumed in my life is foliage filled picturesque images, fall fashion, album Red by Taylor Swift & a eurotrip in october 2019. Recently for the first time, I tried the pumpkin spice latte at our recently opened Starbucks, and well, it was... interesting ✌️. I personally love the winters but i do love the aesthetic colors of autumn😁
Tiffany, your outfits are very cute 😍.
Even though I live in the tropics and temperatures stay 80 degrees all year round, it's fascinating how the media and pop culture has created this nostalgic feeling in me which sets off when I get a glimpse of Halloween costumes, turkey feathers, and mistle toe. I find it humorous when I get so excited when the weather is cloudy around these months. My mind tells me to cover up with jackets and sweaters thinking it's cold when in reality, it's still 85 degrees and the humidity is 79% lmao.
Australian here. So yeah, we don't have deciduous trees naturally, and when the northern hemisphere is celebrating their "fall", it's spring here and usually starting to get hot already. Don't even get me started on the Christmas consumer bullplonk 😅 it's so insulting seeing fake snow decorations everywhere when it's hot as buggery outside.
As a person who lived her hole life in Brazil, not only that, but in a state where we only get Hot or Rainy (but also hot) climates, and at the same time has been exposed to American films and media all my life, I've always found it really interesting how some colors and foods seem to be restricted to specific seasons, instead of personal taste and, in the case of foods, what you want to eat in the moment...
Girl, I’m a Brazilian woman. I was born and raised in my tropical South Hemisphere country. Never been to the US. Still, when October and November come, also know as Brazilian Spring, I feel the need to watch Gilmore Girls, You’ve got mail and When Harry met Sally, cause I am in a fall mood.
Yesterday, in my 86 degrees city, I took a Pumpkin Spice Latte.
The American Way of life really got me.
I feel soooo validated rn in my longing for and disconnect from the “ideal” fall as someone who’s grown up in Arizona
Halloween and Christmas are extreme sports in my home. It’s like a straight up festive adrenaline rush from October 1st through January 2nd😂
As someone in the Pacific Northwest, I honestly dread fall. Every year the wildfires get worse, I can't open my windows for days at a time because the smoke is so intense. Usually it only stops once the rain starts, and then we often don't see the sun for weeks, which is terrible for my mental health. I much prefer spring. Clean air, long days, flowers - what's not to love?
I love fall--it's my favorite season. I grew up in Ohio, so part of it is definitely rooted in nostalgia and actual love for the cooler temperature and beautiful colors. (ETA: Fall is definitely the Midwest/Northeast U.S.'s time to shine. The rest of the year, it is not *that* pretty.) Climate change is definitely feeding that nostalgia: even in my lifetime (I'm 32), I've noticed that Ohio's summers are lasting longer and feel more brutal. We joke (probably to keep from crying) that we really only get a good 2 weeks of peak fall.
Another part, though, has to be due to the commodification: I've noticed that, even though I'm beyond school-age now, I still feel a strong desire to shop and perform a specific fall aesthetic--rooted in the fact that around the end of August, it was time for "back to school shopping." And then, of course, there's the desire to buy specific items "for fall" - candles, pumpkins, decor...
I'm trying to lean into my love of fall without falling into the trap of overconsumption: a candle or two is fine, but maybe go outside and go on a hike if I want to truly experience fall.
Man I love autumn even though I live in the south rn. In my hometown we did have that kind of picturesque fall season. It was so beautiful. I wish I could go back.
Great video as usual!!
I was rather surprised by the fact that apparently Halloween is becoming a bigger event in some places, because where I live down South I swear we see less and less of it every year. Only a handful of people do even basic decorations, and larger scale yard haunt setups are essentially non-existent. I remember a lot more people participating when I was a kid but now it's like no one cares about it here anymore... Could just be my immediate area ofc
Could be that the kids in your area grew up and moved out, so it's not as big as when the families did it for the kids.
@@raapyna8544 the few places I've moved between always had a lot of families and younger kids tbh, but from what I've heard from neighbors and extended family people just take them to a contained Halloween event (Trunk or Treat for example) and kind of be done with it. So they do something for Halloween outside of the home, but don't decorate or really have any active local trick or treating
If you don't mind being 'basic' and if you are not worried about 'cringe' and keeping up with trends, the wonderful thing about celebrating autumn is that we can enjoy it in such simple, affordable ways. Like you said, you can live in comfortable, timeless basic clothes like boots and sweaters, you can enjoy affordable foods like soups and stews and homemade pie and hot cocoa, you can walk in nature and carve pumpkins and even decorate your house with nature. Its a season i can participate in nomatter how tough things are x
As someone who lives in a place were we u-pick in the spring, summer, and fall - the whole segment about nostalgia for farming/farm life was very interesting! And even when not picking ourselves, I go to a lot of local farms to get certain seasonal produce (going to get sweet corn and peaches from the farm vs the store). Especially when you need it in bulk!
I'm both a spooky fall girlie and a pumpkin spice fall girlie. I find I start off with more pumpkin and transition into spooky as we get closer to Halloween, and back to pumpkin again afterwards. I'm a goth with a pumpkin themed kitchen so it's the perfect time to buy decor for my year-round spooky house. This year my favourite finds were some salad tongs that are little skeleton arms and a bunch of little cauldron mugs.
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I basically live in the stars hollow of Missouri so fall is beautiful and there are SO MANY FALL EVENTS. The chili cook off, cider days, haunted corn maze, pumpkin patches, festivals, zombie paint ball, etc etc etc. the nature here is beautiful and we just really buy in (though people don’t really follow fall trend here all that often we mostly just stick with the basics like jeans or leggings with a sweater of any kind
Thank you thank you for acknowledging how pumpkins are Native to Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island. I’m Native & my tribe is from “Mexico” and it’s annoying having to have a bunch of ppl make fun of me calling me basic for making pumpkin dishes (pumpkin flower soup, etc) and it’s frustrating having to explain how Pumpkins are Native to these lands and to our peoples & not a “Basic White Girl Thing” just like “poinsettias” which are also Native to these lands.
Considering all the racism Indigenous People around these lands have faced, including IWCA & Immigration and racism/Colorism in MX, and the rest of the “Americas” it’s important to acknowledge this information & how much has been taken from our cultures while our pain has been minimized, white washed and acknowledged. Thank you 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
This is a unique topic! I’m looking forward to your thoughts :)
You know.... I know very well that fall anesthetics was created for capitalization. But I still enjoy it and feel more happy and content during the fall season. I love pumpkin spice things and its scarcity make it more precious to me in terms of feeling, not the monetary aspect of it. And I love cozy sweaters
And I am glad we have that season as a transition between summer and winter
I like fall aesthetic but I don't like pumpkin. I'm a Carmel apple and cinnamon girlie!
omg caramel apple 🤤 So good!
That yellow jumper is EVERYTHING
I love your videos so much!
Whenever I see you uploaded a video I click on it immediately. Your takes are amazing
aw thank you!! ❤️
Found this video a few months too late but you hit the nail on the head with all of these! I especially found myself obsessing over fall last year, even going as far as following a bunch of "aesthetic vlog" people on Tik Tok who romanticize every aspect of their lives in tune with the seasons, usually going from fall/autumn/Halloween decor in August to Christmas decor in November. I live in Chicago, so recently fall has become either 80 degree weather or 50 degree weather. I find myself clinging onto the old nostalgia of my favorite season from my childhood.
I think as someone growing up in the north east US, celebrating seasons including Fall, was almost a way to help cope with the season change and days getting darker and colder. During the pandemic, decorating for the seasons was a way of coping almost with the opposite, the lack of change.
I was surprised that American PSL doesn't have pumpkin in it! In my country also exists a tradition of PSL, but our baristas do put some kind of pumpkin syrup in coffee. And it has a strong pumpkin taste!
i live in STL and we have gorgeous fall scenery with our old brick buildings and graceful old and wise trees lining our streets. Its a shame our summers last like 7 months
I’ve never been into holidays, but I love the experience of seasons! Fall has always been my favorite season because (living in the desert) the temperature goes from 100s and up to 80, and it’s pretty much southern Cali vibes lol.
I’ve rarely been into Halloween since my birthday is close to the holiday. People were ALWAYS (especially) in college having their Halloween parties on my birthday 😭 I couldn’t celebrate my birthday without Halloween being involved until I was celebrating out of the country 🥴
6:40 I actually really love the Brennan Lee Mulligan skit about being basic where one character goes 'but they're all the same' and the reply is 'as are sunsets and rainbows'
how I feel about trends is basically everything comes back eventually so even if you’re not specially “on trend” right now, you could be wearing something that will come back in a year or two and then you’re technically ahead of the trends 🤣 it’s all just made up anyways lmao
Living in Minnesota the seasons are so distinct and specific, it’s easy to match my mood/ home/ clothing etc. to the season. But I think it would maybe feel odd to decorate and dress for the season in the southern states😅
I worked at bath and body works in a mall with a Starbucks. It feels like a classic combo to get a psl and then go to bbw for a "leaves" candle and a bottle of sweet cinnamon pumpkin lotion. In my opinion, it's the food and home fragrance industries that lean in the heaviest!
Just rewatching to boost the cozy feelings because it is fall again
I forgot to watch this when it came out and I wanna say that when this video was released it was already winter. I love Minnesota 😅
Thank you for the excellent video! Personally, I had to spent - unwillingly - some time on the farm, helping some relatives, and I must say, that pumpkin does not taste good for me. Pumpkins were heavy to carry, their pumpkin's stems, used for transporting it to the side of the field, - edgy, sharp and scratchy, and altogether experience of heavy farm work - far away from idyllic. Also, the nearer to autumn, the rainier the days were becoming, - the colder & more uncomfortable it was getting to stay at the farms. In autumn, old farmhouses become cold, damp and dank, country roads become wet & muddy, rubber boots get stuck in the wet clay on the paths, and it is difficult to even get to the neighboring farm.
I hate fall with all of my heart. It's dark, it's rainy, it's stressful. I love the idea of fall, the one we see on social media, the pumpkins, red leaves and warm beverages, but that is not the season I live 😅😅
Tbh I’m not on Tiktok and I don’t care about fashion and the fact that fashion comes and goes so fast makes me think that you can wear whatever and you won’t look crazy.
I’m a definitely a Spooky Season kind of gal and my husband as to reel in my Christmas enthusiasm from Nov 1st to Thanksgiving.
I live in Japan which is a country that has distinct seasons so fall is also quite a big deal here too. Japanese fall is about fall leaves, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, full moons, saury, red dragonflies, osmanthus flowers, etc…
Halloween is a relatively new festival in Japan. Trick or treating isn’t really a thing, but many young people go to street parades or festivals in costumes.
In Alaska, if you blink during September you open your eyes again to see snow in October. There’s hardly a fall here. I remember feeling sad about that when I was younger and wanted the “fall feeling” but now I’m like GIVE ME SNOW 😂. Fall is fun and all, butttttt it’s so windy and rainy and messy and cold here.
I would just love for people to enjoy and share their particular flavour of autumn. How does fall look like where you live? What festivities are there? Been enjoying documentaries and vlogs about fall in places such as London or Japan; and to me I feel like that is somehow what fuels a sense of connection with the season.
Consumerism is what it is. If we are not going to take care of our necessity to connect with each other and nature, someome will surely sell us on the opportunity of achieving some semblance of that. So I guess it falls under our responsability to be able to take time to appreciate nature, and building seasonal aesthetics that (rather than play on nostalgia) make sense in our own environment.
those “basic” fall outfits are really practical and cute!! Most days I just want to be comfortable and look decent without a whole bunch of thought and I don’t think ppl should be shamed for that
I will say when I went to college in VA, coming from FL, I finally understood the hype around Fall. I loved seeing the leaves change color and going apple picking! I love the nostalgia 🍁
For me the fresh start feeling is in spring when all the flowers are out and the worst part of winter has just finished. Fall feels more like a winding down, beginning-of-the-end period for me but in a very cozy way
I've always liked seasons for the festivities and decorations~ it gives me things to look forward to throughout the year
Living in Australia and currently in spring, so envious of the northern hemisphere's autumn! Even when we do have it we don't have the full fall aestehtic and miss out on pumpkin spice.
Maple is more of an early spring thing. (Late march) because maple sap can only be harvested when it is above freezing in the day and below freezing at night. I only know this because I am from Maine and in grade school we are taught about how maple harvesting and manufacturing of genuine maple syrup works, and in Maine we have ‘Maine maple Sunday’ where the maple farms open their doors to people for an Agro-tourism kind of weekend where you sample maple syrup and various maple candies, pet some cows, see other farm animals, etc
i feel like having an october birthday got me extra hooked on the whole spooky season festivities
I don't even like the colours red, yellow or orange, but if they're leaves that are about to fall on the ground, it makes me ridiculously happy! I'm currently vibing under a fleecy blanket on the couch, smelling a pumpkin scented candle, and going to eat an apple crisp I made yesterday. I feel so energised in the autumn. Heat makes me lethargic and headache-y.
I keep my autumn decor up until American Thanksgiving and then put up Christmas decor shortly thereafter - it kind of prolongs Halloween/cozy autumn feel for me.
It's so interesting watching this after living in Korea for the past 2 years. They had pumpkin spice at Starbucks for the first time last year and it was so unpopular that they didn't bring it back this year. It was mostly Americans in the Starbucks Korea instagram comments begging for PSL's to be brought back. The clothing and trends are so different here too. There's very little fall marketing, decor, or events.
i would argue that not all food enjoyed at a particular time of year is due to commodification- seasonal availability (depending on how you source your food) also creates distinct times for different foods. i was thinking about this the other day, and I believe the need to identify seasonally different commodities is a product of the type of relationship many have with food and ~nature~. a lack of a solid or availability to have a meaningful relationship (expense, access, ability) with these things creates a longing to differentiate seasons and consumerism makes it easy
As someone who tries to eat seasonally this is just how I grew up. My mom was raised on a farm and even though she left at 13 for the cities this is how we still eat more or less. Food just taste better in its actual season. If I buy berries right now they are frozen but I currently have like three varieties of apples lol
this is one of my favorite videos. im from the midwest, but moved to europe in 2019. the one season i always miss is fall, especially pumpkin patches and apple orchards. great analysis!
I live in Canada and fall literally looks exactly like it does in the stereotypical pictures of fall and the media around fall. HOWEVER, what people don't realize is that in order to get that level of fall-ness, you can only enjoy it for like a month or two at best AND you'd better be prepared for a HECK of a winter lol. Still worth it to me though lol. It's awesome here
High happy you’re talking about this because fall is just about buying it instead of experiencing it.
It so weird seeing a influencer get excited about fall candle drops from bath and body works.
I love the smell of warm spices and am a total pumpkin spice snack fanatic. From lattes to cakes, it’s a short timeframe where people enjoy being at home, being cozy, and relaxed. The mad dash of Black Friday and Christmas… the Autumn wind down is needed
Pumpkin spice is not really a thing where I live but I recently tried the Starbucks pumpkin spice latte with 2 instead f 4 pumps of syrup (because I heard it’s very sweet) and it was already riding the edge of my sweetness tolerance. I’m genuinely impressed with the strength of American taste buds
back to this video because im finally feeling the autumn vibes
as always, i appreciate the time you take to put in accurate captions on your videos
The point about the first chill of fall being a relief because it’s proof that climate change didn’t take the season away this year hit too hard… I know I’ve felt that this year for sure but no one had ever put it into words for me like that. Pretty crazy. Great video as always!
It’s been unseasonably cold here so I’ve been having to layer up because it’s been as low as the high 30s. That’s usually January/February weather here. I like the idea of fall though.
I remember swimming in the outdoor pool in as early as late March as a kid. As we don’t really have seasons as such. I’m usually wearing traditionally warm weather items 9 or 10 months out of the year just adding jackets and cardigans as needed.
Growing up in Texas I always looked forward to fall because the weather cooled down enough that I could wear more layers and express my preference for 1960s English dandy-inspired style. We didn’t really have any autumnal traditions in my house so I made my own as an adult. I like to listen to the song and watch the movie Alice’s Restaurant (a 60s Thanksgiving classic) every day of November. Then it’s all Christmas until mid-January lol
I grew up in Michigan and lived there for 22 years. The Midwest has the stereotypical fall “aesthetic” like colored leaves, sweater weather, apple orchards, and pumpkin patches. I’ve lived in Florida now for 6 years and it’s still 80°+ everyday in a November. I’ve never been able to get in the holiday spirit again since living here and I definitely think it’s because of that fall nostalgia of where I grew up!
I found the whole pumpkin thing was partikulary fascinating to me, because I always thought that pumpkins being so much associated with fall is because they are super delicious and you can't really get them (easily) outside of the months of August-December, but I guess that would also be the case for red beets and nobody is putting little porcelain beets on there fron porch (wich really makes me want do that, justice for the red beet!)
June isn’t even over but I already can’t wait for fall
Here in Vermont we have a whole tourism industry around fall and the leaves! We call it leaf peeper season
I live in the southern hemisphere so the seasons are flipped and Starbucks markets pumpkin spice as a spring drink. 😂
I don't have much seasonal decor because the seasons arent as commodified here (though we do like to celebrate spring with flowers, either real or made of fabric.)