Jenny Humphrey: From Innocent to Rebel-A Victim of Her Surroundings

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  • @serenitysubs933
    @serenitysubs933 2 місяці тому +241

    Bro the way Chuck took advantage of Jenny several times and Blair blamed Jenny will never sit right with me.

    • @BellesView
      @BellesView 2 місяці тому +37

      I will forever side-eye Blair for that.

    • @CoquetteCygnet
      @CoquetteCygnet 2 місяці тому +21

      The writers did Jenny so dirty from the beginning, never got the arc she deserved

  • @LyricAiLove
    @LyricAiLove 2 місяці тому +170

    The way Jenny was treated like the worst when she was the youngest and the one who was constantly victimized. Tragic.

    • @LyricAiLove
      @LyricAiLove 2 місяці тому +3

      @@pliktl Yeah. Taylor wanted to focus on her music so she left the show.

  • @karleighrock593
    @karleighrock593 2 місяці тому +122

    Rufus had such a double standard with his kids. Dan did twice as many messed up things on the show and Rufus barely cared . Whenever Jenny made a mistake, Rufus punished her to the point where he sent jenny to hudson .

    • @angelaholmes8888
      @angelaholmes8888 2 місяці тому +10

      Yes precisely

    • @breadbasket3685
      @breadbasket3685 2 місяці тому +25

      And he never let her forget that he looks at her and “doesn’t see his daughter anymore”. Said it all the time.

  • @chelseashamim9148
    @chelseashamim9148 2 місяці тому +193

    I still don't get how there are so many Blair stans. I can never forgive how she did Jenny.

    • @angelface333
      @angelface333 2 місяці тому +60

      exactly. i don’t understand anyone who admires blair for anything beyond her lavish lifestyle and extra outfits. she was a horrible person and she barely got any of her goals to come into fruition. 🙄

    • @iconicallyiconic
      @iconicallyiconic  2 місяці тому +64

      It’s people who want to be like her or identify with being mean girls who bully people. She’s also pretty and well dressed so people don’t know how to just admire that part of her, without liking her as a person.

    • @chelseashamim9148
      @chelseashamim9148 2 місяці тому +6

      ​@@iconicallyiconicYeah Blair was the best dressed in my opinion.

    • @badbitch.imthebar
      @badbitch.imthebar 2 місяці тому

      It's because a lot of them wish to be her and have that power over people. they live vicariously through Blair

    • @TheeArtNerd
      @TheeArtNerd 2 місяці тому

      Exactly. She's so misogynistic that she quite literally had all the energy to slut shame Serena for sleeping with Nate, yet had no heat for him. And then she goes and sleeps with his best friend Chuck like...
      I get people love her style, witty comebacks, and her overall being a terrible rich girl on screen, but she's not to be emulated 🙅🏽‍♀

  • @DaniLafontaine
    @DaniLafontaine 2 місяці тому +103

    I think Blair’s contempt for Jenny really came from the fact that she reminded her of Serena. That blonde, effortless It girl potential really bothered her. Like her and Serena were alleged besties and we saw that toxicity. No way was she going to be usurped by someone like that again, from Brooklyn no less.

    • @leiiib
      @leiiib 2 місяці тому +24

      Yeah I’m not here for that Brooklyn slander being from Brooklyn (and not a transplant who moved here when it got trendy. But born and raised here) either like iconically said in her previous video they thought of Brooklyn in that way because there were more minorities in Brooklyn than Manhattan and Blair was an undercover low key rac*st. if she felt that way about Dorota a White Russian woman and said she would call immigratio n on her I can only imagine how she felt about Black and Hispanic people

    • @IssaPartay
      @IssaPartay 2 місяці тому +49

      Worst, she was Serena with a work ethic lmfao. That’s Blair’s worst nightmare. Someone who actually wanted to be queen who was just as clever as she was.

    • @carriesnaps3508
      @carriesnaps3508 2 місяці тому +5

      Omg yes! Totally agree

    • @AprilRose77
      @AprilRose77 2 місяці тому +11

      This!! Thank you I have been saying this for years! Blair was angry and just mean to Jenny from the start which makes no sense except the fact she was a sweet girl who made friends with her friends without having to be a complete jerk just like Serena.

  • @softcoreluvr
    @softcoreluvr 2 місяці тому +106

    Taylor Momsen's style transformation irl being implemented into Jenny Humphrey's was everything to me

  • @takijahrichardson8752
    @takijahrichardson8752 2 місяці тому +91

    They could never make me hate you Jenny Humphrey!!

  • @BellesView
    @BellesView 2 місяці тому +84

    Thank you for this. In the 5-year flashforward in the series finale, Jenny is a fashion designer and has a line under Waldorf Designs. I didn’t like that she became business partners with her former bully. It made more sense for Jenny to be Waldorf Designs’ competitor.

    • @beautelle1065
      @beautelle1065 2 місяці тому +31

      This was also annoying to me because why did it have to circle back to Jenny needing Blair for something. She was fresh, new and innovative she could very well have been their competitor.

    • @angelaholmes8888
      @angelaholmes8888 2 місяці тому +9

      Yes totally agree 💯

    • @fernandaherrera5920
      @fernandaherrera5920 2 місяці тому +7

      I never saw it like that but you're totally right. I think i saw somewhere that she was holding a Waldorf so the audience knew she and Blair had worked through their problems.

  • @barbiesinspiration8799
    @barbiesinspiration8799 2 місяці тому +57

    The way Eleanor used Jenny is exactly where her daughter got her trifling behavior from. 😒😒using people for whatever they can and discarding them after they're no longer of any use. Jenny's mother just up and leaving like she didn't have children was crazy. the parents on this show were basura. Jenny was definitely a victim and didn't deserve how she was treated

  • @beautelle1065
    @beautelle1065 2 місяці тому +53

    People don't like Jenny because she's what happens when the victim of a bully now has a vendetta against those who did what they did to her. They made everyone on this show who didn't come wealth the bad guys - Vanessa, Dan, Jenny, Rufus they portrayed their characters this way because they want people to think of lower class people as less than and people who should be "kept in their place" so to speak. It's the same way the industry and Hollywood is, they don't like people who rebel against them. I always say tv shows, movies etc. are made for a deeper reason and it's to program you into submission when it comes to the upper class who have stolen and profited off of the backs of the poor, lower class. they can't have you thinking it's okay to fight back in these shows because you might actually try to do it in reality.

    • @iconicallyiconic
      @iconicallyiconic  2 місяці тому +11

      Wow, now this really makes you stop and think. 🤔 They definitely tried to keep those characters in their place, it was okay for the wealthy characters to mess up and they’d be forgiven, but the actions of the characters who didn’t have as much as them were held against them and made out to be evil.

    • @allartismental9319
      @allartismental9319 2 місяці тому +4

      Wow!!! The realest comment EVER! The fucking irony & accuracy of it describes my life to the tee! Omg!

  • @leiiib
    @leiiib 2 місяці тому +72

    What they put Jenny through was so terrible and Blair never changed. It’s also very realistic as well like you said because these people who come from money treat those who don’t as if they don’t have a right to be in so society. The moment they retaliate they’re somehow the bad guy, when Jenny gave Blair just a smidgen of what Blair gave her she looked at her like “How dare you betray your queen?!“ these people with money and power don’t like when one stands up to them because it can cause an uprising and that’s why in so many shows they’re painted as the villains because they want people to believe fighting back against powerful people who wrong them is a bad thing

    • @iconicallyiconic
      @iconicallyiconic  2 місяці тому +17

      Y’all are really making some great points! 🩷 Blair most certainly never changed she just learned to be more calculated and sneaky, she just learned how to maneuver.

    • @monetdehane8421
      @monetdehane8421 2 місяці тому +2

      Omg I totally agree

  • @leiiib
    @leiiib 2 місяці тому +59

    Honestly what were Blair’s real goals ? People always say she works hard and doesn’t get things handed to her like Serena does and I mean she did get good grades in school and excel, but she was a nepo baby like the rest of them and ended up taking over her mothers business as a designer something she never had any interest in, what was she working towards besides being royalty?
    Dan wanted to be an author, Chuck wanted to be a club owner and an entrepreneur like his father, Jenny wanted to be a designer, Serena wasn’t sure what she wanted to do (which was very realistic) and showed how she struggled with finding what career she wanted. Blair acted as though she was above everyone else but she was just as uncertain as Serena when it came to what she should do, she just didn’t “struggle” like Serena did

    • @rimacho9741
      @rimacho9741 2 місяці тому +25

      The major goal of blair is to become powerful but she has showed that she had no clue about the field she can become this powerful woman that she imagines. But also even her need to become a powerful woman it's only to prove herself just like she wanted so badly to go to Yale to prove her superiority and assure her prestigious background. Like you said she is as much loss as Serena but at least Serena knew it and tried to find something she can be good at.

    • @leiiib
      @leiiib 2 місяці тому +22

      @@rimacho9741 exactly! it was never about a career but just proving to people she had power, but power towards what? Her only goal was just to have bragging rights about her schooling and wealth but aside from that she didn’t have a real career goal or dream job, she just wanted to use her power to control those around her and be above others

    • @LangBellsChannel
      @LangBellsChannel 2 місяці тому +9

      @@rimacho9741I'im starting to like Serena more'

    • @AprilRose77
      @AprilRose77 2 місяці тому +6

      All of THIS! Blair entire personality is that she wanted power and to be the boss but the boss of what? She didn’t even have any real hobbies or direction that she can turn into a career. Blair was a spoiled brat who pretty much thought that she would have a career directed to her and she did. She got her mother’s business despite the fact her biggest claim to fashion was a headband.

    • @jorgevenegas818
      @jorgevenegas818 2 місяці тому +3

      @@rimacho9741 In the books she wants to go to Yale to study a law degree and become a lawyer like her father and have her own firm

  • @Princessdollamanda
    @Princessdollamanda 2 місяці тому +57

    Blair better be glad she was rich and didn’t go to public school because she would’ve got paws put on her lol Jenny had her moments like they all did but what they put her through was disgusting

    • @irinaimme
      @irinaimme 2 місяці тому +6

      true and tbf Blair did have a bit of that experience in NYU

    • @Princessdollamanda
      @Princessdollamanda 2 місяці тому +9

      @@irinaimme Yeah, she tried to push herself on others at NYU and they distanced themselves from her, because they could see through her B S. Trying to create cliques in college🤦🏽‍♀️

  • @FishareFriendsNotFood972
    @FishareFriendsNotFood972 2 місяці тому +54

    She worked so hard and had basically no real support, she was such a tragic character

  • @amyadams9970
    @amyadams9970 2 місяці тому +42

    The fact that people were mad at her, but not Chuck after they hooked up with one another baffles me! He was the older man, he took advantage of her!

    • @karleighrock593
      @karleighrock593 2 місяці тому +12

      Rufus, Dan and Eric were mad at chuck but quickly let it go. Which is beyond baffling.

    • @MaiaMarv
      @MaiaMarv Місяць тому +1

      @amyadams9970 yesssss this always bothered me and everyone was angry at jenny for what chuck did!! I really hated that storyline! It actually makes me angrier knowing Taylor momsen was 12 when the show began.

  • @doedee7973
    @doedee7973 2 місяці тому +13

    The fact that Dan still gets with Blair after everything that happened with Jenny. He really was a scumbag

  • @lyricaldeceit
    @lyricaldeceit 2 місяці тому +23

    Jenny 🤝 Vanessa
    treated as awful and terrible people by the fandom who idolizes blair & serena because the writers did them dirty by making them villains for no reason simply because they ran out of ideas and were like "hey let's villainize poor people again"

  • @babybluejustice
    @babybluejustice 2 місяці тому +74

    blair may be one of my favorite characters but exiling a literal teen from the entire of manhattan for something that her stinky bf decided to do is CRAZY 😭 mind you that same stinky man tried to assault jenny in the very first episode???

  • @LoveK1
    @LoveK1 2 місяці тому +26

    I know this word is over used by people, (not me because I don’t want it to lose its meaning) but Jenny was literally ICONIC. This random, talented nobody came to this prestigious school with rich kids and shook the table. She was making Blair sweat which many people couldn’t manage to do. She had Blair SCHEMING hardcore, Blair was so shook that she banned Jenny from one side of the bridge. Crazy. Jenny was hungry and crazy talented. She was wasted in those terrible people. And don’t even get me started on Blair’s thieving mom.

  • @mindyourmanners3784
    @mindyourmanners3784 2 місяці тому +34

    It's funny how Jenny gave them what they gave her and they would play victim. matter of fact she didn't do HALF of what they did. Rufus was mis o g y nis tic and wanted to keep Jenny locked away, he always made comments about Serena and how Jenny wouldn't be like her. He had all of this fake morality and standards just to get married to Lily and move his entire family into her home 😂😂 why do you even have your child attending a private school and know they don't have the same things those kids have? even in public school they bully, like you want her to get a good education okay great but this is a school full of kids who come from generational wealth, why would you even want your children to go through that?? he was annoying

  • @angelface333
    @angelface333 2 місяці тому +41

    I DIDNT EVEN WATCH THE VIDEO BUT I AM S A T. THEY TREATED JENNY LIKE SHE WAS *NOTHING* AND ANYTIME SHE RETALIATED SHE WAS THE BAD GUY.
    I COULD LITERALLY WRITE DISSERTATIONS ON THIS. I AM SO HAPPY YOU MADE THIS VIDEO OMG ! 💖✨

  • @nursefulness2274
    @nursefulness2274 2 місяці тому +39

    I’m literally rewatching gossip girl rn! And I will never understand the hatred people have towards Jenny. People hate her bcuz she’s … annoying. I really didn’t find her that annoying tbh. Not as much as some other characters

  • @mutantx2372
    @mutantx2372 2 місяці тому +27

    I don't like bullies at all.

  • @milaakajau861
    @milaakajau861 2 місяці тому +15

    Whewwwww you hit the nail on the head with this one as you always do! It is so true that people who have inno cent faces get away with the most because people don't suspect them to be mean. The way Jenny was treated was so uncalled for, if they didn't want her to be apart of their clique because of her economic status then they could've just dismissed her but they went out of their way to mistreat and ab*s* her because that's exactly what it was. Blair was pretty, well-dressed and smart, but I don't understand how she looked up to women who were kind and graceful like Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly while being the complete opposite

  • @rimacho9741
    @rimacho9741 2 місяці тому +7

    I also love the way that the only adult that supported her was lily. She always gave jenny opportunities to express her talent even when she crashed bart's party, lily complimente her audacity and creativity not like her father

  • @nicolesherman8974
    @nicolesherman8974 2 місяці тому +30

    I’m really loving all the character breakdowns so far. If you don’t mind, have you ever consider doing a deep dive on Wilhelmina Slater from Ugly Betty? That would be a good one.

    • @iconicallyiconic
      @iconicallyiconic  2 місяці тому +6

      Thankyou honey 🩷 I never really watched the show “Ugly Betty” because I had so many other shows I was into at the time😶 lol I may try watching it now though

    • @mk-ri6nl
      @mk-ri6nl 2 місяці тому

      OMG I LOVE UGLY BETTY AND WILHELMINA'S CHARACTER SO MUCH
      That would be such a bomb character breakdown, ugly betty will forever be one of the most underrated shows 😭💔

  • @Jazzy721
    @Jazzy721 2 місяці тому +9

    I genuinely like both girls. They were so much alike and yet total opposites. Blair wanted to achieve world domination and Jenny wanted to dominate in the fashion world. They could have been good friends especially since Jenny wouldn’t allow Blair to push her around.

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 2 місяці тому +12

    jenny totally deserved better i didn't like how the show treated her even though she made mistakes in her life she didn't deserve to be treated so badly totally agree about dan and rufus not being there for her

  • @TheeArtNerd
    @TheeArtNerd 2 місяці тому +9

    I'm so glad you made this video. It frustrates me to no end that Jenny, of all the horrendous and vile people on the show, gets the most hate. It's diabolical.

  • @angelface333
    @angelface333 2 місяці тому +19

    8:56 OMG YES! AND THEN GASLIGHT THEM ABOUT IT AND ACT ALL MORALLY SUPERIOR. LIKE SIR PLEASE GET YOUR MONEY UP, I BEEEGGG 😩😭
    (or just put them in a normal school… like 😭 *WHO TF* is forcing them to go to this bougie ass school???)

    • @iconicallyiconic
      @iconicallyiconic  2 місяці тому +9

      RIGHT ?!!! It always irritated me that he put them in private school (which I understood) but they’re going to school with upper class rich kids you can’t pretend as if they’re not going to feel like outcast and be made fun of because they don’t have the same things their peers have. He irritated me every time he came on my screen lol

    • @angelface333
      @angelface333 2 місяці тому +6

      @@iconicallyiconic same 😭 i liked him for exactly one episode where i thought he was going to be a cool supportive dad but nope. just oblivious and misogynistic 🙄

    • @notyours143forlife2
      @notyours143forlife2 2 місяці тому

      Facts he was too busy with his head in ass about Serena’s mom he turned his back on his own children’s mental health

  • @ximena1832
    @ximena1832 2 місяці тому +12

    I swear the creator of gossip girl and the oc had a thing on making the kind and often neglected girl the villain in not an smart way. Like watching both series over and over it’s just obvious they wanted to paint girls in the worst light.

  • @Princessdollamanda
    @Princessdollamanda 2 місяці тому +7

    Rewatching this and I have to add, Rufus didn’t take Jenny’s feelings into consideration when it came to her being an outcast in a school where kids came from rich backgrounds because most men lack empathy, it’s why they always say the harshest things and don’t take the feelings of others into consideration and more specifically, W O M E N. that’s why she needed her mother. He always wanted to see things his way

  • @euthanizemyself6972
    @euthanizemyself6972 2 місяці тому +8

    I was obsessed with Jenny Humphrey & the actor/singer who played her, Taylor Momsen.. I got a t shirt signed by her backstage at a show in 2011 when we were both teenagers & she was so kind

  • @mutantx2372
    @mutantx2372 2 місяці тому +15

    Eric is friend goals.

  • @amberreed7704
    @amberreed7704 2 місяці тому +7

    I didn't know Taylor was so young when the show was on. I remember the press used to talk so much crap about her and part of the story about her leaving the show was because no one on set wanted to work with her anymore. Now I'm wondering if she was really difficult or was she just acting like a teenager?

  • @beautelle1065
    @beautelle1065 2 місяці тому +6

    Something I also wanted to add tio is that it seems they painted Serena the way they did too because she fraternized with the "poor" and was nice to people who didn't come from money like her

  • @vonterriojones
    @vonterriojones 2 місяці тому +5

    Another wrong thing Jenny did was that Vanessa dress incident.

  • @withneyjoseph51
    @withneyjoseph51 2 місяці тому +8

    I couldn't stand Agnes

    • @Fffffferal
      @Fffffferal 2 місяці тому +4

      When Agnes burned all of Jenny’s designs 😢 i felt worse for her in that moment (no pun intended) than when blair exiled her from manhattan

    • @withneyjoseph51
      @withneyjoseph51 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Fffffferal i felt that too

  • @haysofab
    @haysofab Місяць тому +2

    maturing is realizing that serena was a better person and friend than blair

  • @comfortm1506
    @comfortm1506 2 місяці тому +4

    never understood the jenny hate!!

  • @liliebilie
    @liliebilie 2 місяці тому +5

    Jenny got a lot of unjust hate from fans, especially in the later seasons. I remember arguing with my friends over it, they said she was “annoying” but I was cheering her on

  • @mrahim1342
    @mrahim1342 4 дні тому

    What Agnes did to Jenny was one of the worst things that happened on the show. She drugged her, put her in a Taxi, and then sent her to a bar full of grown men with the hope that one of them would assault her. That was awful, the show villainized her so much in the end and for what? At the very least I was glad she got out of the city eventually and didn’t return until the finale. And she looked happy there so I like to fill in the blanks and imagine that she made something of herself away from the toxicity.

  • @livelaughlovefood
    @livelaughlovefood 2 місяці тому +5

    IVE BEEN SAYIBG THIS SINCE DAY ONEEE Jenny haters perplex me

  • @Fffffferal
    @Fffffferal 2 місяці тому +4

    Is this a safe space? Bc Jenny was my favorite

  • @notyours143forlife2
    @notyours143forlife2 2 місяці тому +3

    Yea a product of her environment everybody got choices and made poor ones but she was also a child Eric never did any harm to Jenny but she backstabbed him smh

    • @Fffffferal
      @Fffffferal 2 місяці тому +3

      Blair was constantly treating Serena worse than Jenny ever treated Eric

    • @rimacho9741
      @rimacho9741 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@Fffffferalalso Éric didn't have the same pressure by mean girls because of his social class. Éric was sure an outcast but people leave him alone most of the time because he is serena's brother

  • @BonitaBocazas
    @BonitaBocazas 2 місяці тому +1

    Blair had her own mommy issues, insecurities, trust issues and she spewed it on to people who didn’t deserve that energy. I still like Blair, she had some awful ways and we also saw her vulnerable. There’s a soft human under that nasty mean girl elitist armor she puts up. …Imagine if I.I. did a character break down on her hint hint 😂👀

  • @PetitePollyPocket
    @PetitePollyPocket 2 місяці тому +2

    I would love for you to do a style breakdown/evolution for Jenny!! Great video! 💕

    • @iconicallyiconic
      @iconicallyiconic  2 місяці тому

      I’ll be adding miss Jenny Humphrey to the list for sure ✨📝

  • @Mochalolo1928
    @Mochalolo1928 2 місяці тому +2

    Even though I hate Jenny, imma watch this and give it a like lol

  • @tanisharoseee
    @tanisharoseee 2 місяці тому +3

    i’ve found my people!

  • @mutantx2372
    @mutantx2372 2 місяці тому +3

    I don't know if you watched the Gossip Girl reboot but could you do character breakdowns for that cast when you get a chance ?

  • @JanisaGarry
    @JanisaGarry 2 місяці тому +1

    Actually Taylor Momsen was born in 1993 like me, so she he was actually playing her exact age and I remember this show starting my freshman year in '07. Still gross they had her doing intimate things as a minor. Probably starting filming in 2005-06

    • @Princessdollamanda
      @Princessdollamanda 2 місяці тому +6

      Actually she was 12, they shot the pilot 2 years before it aired for viewers, Taylor said so herself in her interview with Penn that she was 12. The pilot is usually always filmed 1-2 years before it gets picked up by the network so that they don’t film an entire show and it ends up not being picked up or cancelled. In 2003 she was 10 and filming began in 2005 so her being 12 is accurate. It was still gross like you said though because no one on set was her age they were all in their 20s

  • @beforethenextstep305
    @beforethenextstep305 2 місяці тому +2

    Can you do a video on cruel intentions, it’s the movie that inspired gossip girl book & series, they are doing a reboot that comes out 2024 and cast the actress who played Monet in the gossip girl reboot

    • @iconicallyiconic
      @iconicallyiconic  2 місяці тому +3

      Hello babe, I already did a breakdown on Cruel intentions it’s in my character deep dive playlist 🩷✨

    • @Justafox305
      @Justafox305 2 місяці тому

      @@iconicallyiconic ooh thanks! I will check it out.

  • @apefaaa
    @apefaaa 2 місяці тому +4

    i love your videos, watching from London 🥰

    • @iconicallyiconic
      @iconicallyiconic  2 місяці тому +2

      Aw Thankyou honey, London is one of the cities I plan on visiting soon 🩷

  • @thisisntahandle
    @thisisntahandle 2 місяці тому +1

    Well yes 😔

  • @reinabooker759
    @reinabooker759 2 місяці тому

    Ooh another ICONIC blonde I’ve been waiting on you to do…OMG…BRITNEY SPEARS 💕 Slave 4 U is my shit 💗💞🌸