Gossip Girl: Blair Waldorf Was Mean But Not Totally Wrong

[@thetake]

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[@trinaq]

Most of my pals wanted to be Serena, but I aspired to be Blair, sophisticated, powerful and intelligent, but with a hidden vulnerable side, and without the bullying attitude.

[@Pinkranger87]

Same

[@lexa2310]

Sooo..... super controling to everyone around them and feeling justified in talking down to others because it makes them feel better?

[@qvxcswqr]

and a bully

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

I still strive to be like Blair. I love her fashion, wit, intelligence, charm, and elegance. The only thing that I did not appreciate was her scheming, but it was interesting that when she surrounded herself with people she felt safe with, she had no need to do that.

[@SunshineBarbie-sv4bi]

@@gabrielleduplessis7388Blair doesn’t have any charm she’s so rude snobby and unlikeable 🤣🤣😭

[@So-wb8wr]

I’m still mad at the writers for ignoring Blair’s eating disorder, it would have been such an interesting plot

[@Gxila]

How do you mean it?

[@reng935]

Fr! What I hate about the show is that it peaked at S1 lol

[@Ppzinha]

I remember one episode about it on the show. Is there more on the original history?

[@a.munroe]

Livid! I had an eating disorder the first time I read GG, Blair's ED would quiet down when she felt in control and it was the light bulb moment that teenage me needed.

[@GorgieClarissa]

i think that went out the window with the original mom. hahaha

[@BryanJedBarola]

Her best arc for me was her friendship turned relationship with dan. We get to see her function normally, like how one acts according to their age. We also saw her intellectual side that wasn't shown that much in the earlier seasons. She was carefree, and pressure-free with her moments with Dan. I don't mind them not ending up together, but I wish she didn't go back to Chuck.

[@terrawrites1900]

I know Chuck and Blair have the passion and drama, but....I've always kind of felt that Dan/Blair and Serena/Nate as the endgames made the most sense, and feel like I've been in the smaller camp as far as Dair being the ultimately better ship, but I agree - it was a mature, real, adult relationship where they actually felt compatible and that they helped each other grow while supporting each other in a healthy way.

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

I really wanted dan and blair to be end game. I hate they ruined both of their arcs and what I still feel is the healthiest relationship on the show so she can go back to chuck. She saw Chuck’s side many times. The time when she said no to him and he smashed a window with her in front of it. Trading her for a hotel. Oh and murdering his dad. Yet, she married him. I don’t get it. I liked that Dan and Blair complimented each other. They both liked climbing up the social ladder. Dan loved the perks of being rich just like Blair did. They shared intellectual interests. And I loved how safe they felt with each other. I hated how they made safety and security and trust was wrong compared to lust and passion that just fades in time. Passion can come from trust and foundation too, but the initial honeymoon stage passion kind of fades in time.

[@carolsimpson4422]

I just couldn't sit with the fact thst he tried to rape a 14 year old Jenny Humphrey. They made him a monster and then suddenly I'm supposed to believe he's capable of love and that he's the only one who can make Blair happy? Im to believe that date raping is all behind him? Makes no sense

[@terrawrites1900]

@@gabrielleduplessis7388 yes, exactly this. They were perfect compliments to each other and even if they were going to go the route of Dan being GG in the end, I feel like canonically Blair STILL makes more sense than Serena. In the book he wrote, SHE/Claire was the MC love interest while Sabrina was kind of the villain - and that’s truly how Dan saw them, in the long run. Blair would understand doing something vindictive to grasp for power, might actually respect it in the end. I also genuinely loved Serenate together and their arcs growing together and figuring out what to do with their lives when they were kind of aimlessly floating just made SENSE. Chuck…should have ended with no one. Or maybe Vanessa, I feel like her tough love no nonsense would actually give him a redemption arc and demand better of him than just make excuse after excuse in the storyline for Chuck being horrible /: And ultimately, Eric or Dorota being GG would have been better, Dan was too obvious after he wrote the novels about their lives but…it is what it is, I guess. The reboot could have done so good and was somehow worse, so I don’t even want another attempt at correcting this 😂 unless *i* write it, HBO hit me up ty!

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

@@terrawrites1900 i wanted dorota too, but would be very surprised at how many times she rags on her “daughter figure”. I feel Eric would be better considering how he was treated by people. Agree with everything else you said.

[@RosaGroza]

I’ve always been a Blair girl. Her intelligence, charisma, super ambitious, evil genius but with a doll like cuteness with a compelling beauty in an unforgettable encounter. I was surprised when everyone wanted to be Serena more.

[@ElianaRosalind]

i think people wanted to be like serena more bc everything looked like it came easy to her, without much fuss in the gg universe she can get away with it, bc well, shes serena ... and a fictional character, but irl it would be insane to act at that level of entitlement in the sense of 'i can afford to act naive when it benefits me but don't forget, im the queen' blair also acted crazy for the standards of the real world, but her surroundings & backstory kinda explained those traits in the context of the show i always liked blair more bc she at least put in some work to achieve something for herself & actually powered through difficulties

[@RosaGroza]

@@ElianaRosalind yes exactly! People fantasise and glamourise about someone they can be. I think I related to Blair more because I’ve always been in that position of being misunderstood by people and seeing her go through that too made me feel like I wasn’t alone.

[@rh9110]

​@@ElianaRosalindit's so surprising to me, I feel like every post I see about gg on twitter or on insta or else, Blair is way more iconic than Serena, I have seen very few people who wanted to be or look like Serena, but A LOT OF people who got inspired by Blair aesthetic or loving her character.

[@ElianaRosalind]

@@rh9110 also, imo, blair is more iconic now bc while still being problematic in some aspects, she also had a much more defined & clear redeeming arc, while serena had kinda the same storylines just with different people & never seeminly learned from them basically serena believed she was the main character & acted accordingly just because, blair believed she was the main character but worked to present arguments lol again, tv show universe wise, both iconic, and even irl i'd love to have more of serena's care free nature but im aware i simply couldnt act like that, few people can afford it, both from money & 'charisma which lets you get away with those type of actions' aspects

[@MariaJoseRangelUwU]

Serena’s “I need to go” is iconic

[@PastryChick]

If that was part of a drinking game, everyone playing would be in need of a liver transplant 🥃

[@exosvocals2526]

It was annoying

[@MiaCosco]

soooo weird how the writers glossed over deepening blair's eating disorder, losing her baby, etc

[@CrypticCharm]

aside from the fact Gossip Girl was meant to be Eric and not Dan, no really. it was changed at the last minute. Blair was a love /hate relationship. shame that she got with Chuck, she deserved way better than Chuck. Chuck brought out the worst in her. at least she had Dorota to balance her out. Dorata was the one who practically raised her. also i loved Dorota

[@lilmakori]

I would have loved to see Eric as gossip girl. Unexpected but interesting. Dan being gossip girl made no sense

[@saoirse5764]

Dorota being Gossip Girl would have been a much better twist

[@CrypticCharm]

@@lilmakori it didn't because it wasn't meant to be. some newspapers figured it out, and because of that, they had to change it last minute. Gossip Girl was always meant to be Eric

[@CrypticCharm]

@@saoirse5764 i admittedly thought she was, i thought that was the twist . the one who's had the upper east side, in a grip for all these year, was the one person, always there and always overlooked

[@lilmakori]

@@CrypticCharm they should have changed it to Georgina, when I watched it for the first time I thought it would have made sense for her to be GG anyway

[@So-wb8wr]

It was amazing when Dan and Blair bonded and found they had a lot in common, I loved them as friends, but as a couple they were so weird and forced.

[@aleksandrazobova]

Totally agree. Not all male/female connections need to turn into a romantic relationships. When I was watching it, I was really afraid Blair and Dan would end up together. I remember washing dishes while screaming internally "NOOOOO, not these two, nooooooo!" 😂

[@So-wb8wr]

@@aleksandrazobovaSame 😂

[@lorashukuryan4121]

@@So-wb8wr No! You're wrong! And I didn't ask for your opinion!

[@lorashukuryan4121]

@@So-wb8wr No! You're wrong!

[@lorashukuryan4121]

So-wb8wr No!

[@amy675fly]

Disliked this show when it was on, but LOVED Blair! She was one of the best written female characters of the 2000s, hands down!

[@qvxcswqr]

she was best written in season 1 but after that not so much

[@fleabaguette]

I wouldn’t say best written but Blair Waldorf is unforgettable.

[@So-wb8wr]

No matter how hard they try, they’ll never make an iconic character like Blair Waldorf 👑✨

[@toure8]

✨ Maddy Perez ✨

[@qvxcswqr]

@@toure8 No that’s not even close. Blair and maddy are NOTHING ALIKE. She would absolutely despise maddy because that’s what blair truly is, a classist snob.

[@toure8]

@@qvxcswqr we talking terms of iconicness sweetheart

[@toure8]

"I've been waiting all summer to feel sparkly again and i won't be pulled into the darkness again" - Blair Waldorf as much as i want to see my best friend again... our hometown isn't good for me,i needed to hear this again

[@jamiew.6606]

Blair was always my favorite character in this show, along with Jenny Humphrey! Both hard-working and often overlooked. Very relatable.

[@bumblebee7384]

Honestly, when she was with Dan, they were kind of showing the real (snob) side of being a new yorker. Snobs on art, downtown coffee, vesselka, museums, and film art. I know they tryna show how different UES is from Brooklyn but in all entirety, New York City mostly birthed people like Dan and Blair. So it was fun to see actual New Yorker vibe while it lasted.

[@mnm597]

Truly a shame how they ended the show. Reversed almost all charachter development, especially for Blair and Serena, and, worst of all, the viewer is supposed to feel good about it. Also sent a lot of bad messages to their teenage audience.

[@Missmagazinebura]

@@mnm597 I thought it was from gossip girls pov.

[@sarahclydesdale5035]

Everything about GG was a bad message: the characters were terrible people who did terrible people and somehow all ended up with their childhood sweethearts. However, they were fascinating, scandalous and more complex than initially thought which made it fun (although nowadays probably considered more tame). They almost all had character development at the very end. Also, please no hate but I think she and Dan would never work, admittedly they have shared interests and cute moments that I enjoyed but I don't think that's enough. Blair needed someone who understood what it meant to be born into priviledge: the pressure to live up to expectations, always striving and a taste for the finer things. Besides at the end of the show the audience can infer that while she is a mother she is also successful in the fashion industry - basically having it all because she's Blair Waldorf. So bring on the characters and their poor role modelling I loved them all. Although Dan being GG......I just won't go there.

[@mnm597]

@@sarahclydesdale5035 nah, I disagree. First, it's not whether they were terrible people, they were teenagers who made mistakes and did stupid things. But, unlike, say, The O.C. which had their main characters grow over the course of the show, I don't think that was the case here. We see that in s6 Blair tries to bully Dan into retracting story about her which shows to me (together with some other s6 storylines) that she still hasn't grown out of her petty, scheming, high school mean girl persona. Also, her "successful buisnesswoman" thing doesn't seem convincing. Due to sloppy writing in the last two seasons, I don't know if it was intentional, but her revolutionary buisness idea was designing school uniforms! Convincing parents to buy overpriced school clothes every year is something that I don't think would fly even on the Upper East Side, let alone somewhere else. Abolishing school uniforms was a trend way before 2012. so I really don't know how her buisness would succeed, but again, maybe it was just sloppy writing and we're supposed to think that it's a genius idea, i honestly don't know. As for her and Dan, I'm not sure if it'd work as endgame, maybe if they introduced their relationship differently then they did in s5 (if it was nore like in s4) it could've worked. However, her ending up with Chuck roughly a year and a half after he physically attacked her was a really bad idea. Shows like this simply shouldn't send a message to teenage girls that their abusive boyfriends might transform into perfect gentlemen if they wait a few years. And no matter how much it was said how Chuck has changed, it was never really convincing to me. That's, among other things, why I think the ending was so bad.

[@sarahclydesdale5035]

@mnm597 Jenny sent Serena to a mental hospital, Serena manipulated Dan into having sex with and filmed him without consent, Dan writing and perpetuating rumours about his 'friends', Nate committing fraud, Chuck multiple assaults and Blair bullied just about everyone. I view them as bad people who do good things. They have a very 'no one hurts you but me' attitude. Yet they all got what they wanted in the end. Also Blair started with the back to school clothes but the show does infer she does more things than that later. Besides,regardless of her choices, she seems happy. All I can say is: I know I love them xoxo

[@mnm597]

@@sarahclydesdale5035 I don't have a problem with them doing bad things during the show, I just think that by the end they should grow out of that and behave like adults (because they are adults). I like the show too, had a lot of fun watching it. Have a great day!

[@TitaniumTectonic]

Blair was always my favorite. The character had so much depth while the Serena character was boring and predictable. It's been several years, but Blair's growth and impact is unforgettable.

[@So-wb8wr]

A lot of people wanted to be Serena, but I always preferred Blair, a classy, elegant woman, very ambitious and intelligent, she is a woman of power who does not need men with a hidden side; her character is much more comp and interesting! ♥️

[@SunshineBarbie-sv4bi]

Honey what’s classy about bullying people who aren’t in your tax bracket and tearing down other women 😭😭😭🥴🥴

[@SunshineBarbie-sv4bi]

And Serena is way more interesting than a stupid classist bully who dresses like a librarian

[@divineanajuba07]

​@@SunshineBarbie-sv4bi frr

[@SunshineBarbie-sv4bi]

@@divineanajuba07 exactly anyone who says Blair is classy is just kidding themselves

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

I really did like Blair a lot and her relationship with Serena was very complex in the early seasons. My favorite version of Blair was in 5 and S6 with Dan I hated that she regressed so much with Chuck in S6 but I just focus on the good times. I am glad that they recast Eleanor from the one in the pilot. I felt Margaret Colin was able to give the complexity

[@paolasarmento6734]

Me too, Blair in season 6 is so silly

[@So-wb8wr]

I don’t blame Chuck, I blame the writers who threw away his character development

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

I definetly blame the writers

[@Lolomololomo]

dan + blair made the most sense. their banters were so entertaining

[@michelledavis7944]

Agreed

[@So-wb8wr]

No

[@paolasarmento6734]

​@@So-wb8wr Chuck is a trash

[@Antisocietyrules91]

This! ❤

[@So-wb8wr]

@@paolasarmento6734 You’re too obsessed, I never mentioned Chuck

[@prachikumar1054]

Blair and Dan when they interned together at Conde Nast was so much chaotic fun to watch!

[@Bamgeutcutiepie]

" a mysterious need to always be somewhere else " 😄😄😭😭

[@animesjogoseseriesclassica8282]

I didnt really cared for anyone on this show. And i know that this is kind of the point, but they over did it too much on their awfulness sometimes. Blair is a monster and Chuck is a R word (seriously, people seem to forget that he tried to assault at least 2 girls on the show). I dont give a f#$$% if they are a power couple or not. Still better than the reboot for sure.

[@amy675fly]

@@animesjogoseseriesclassica8282 the actor assaulted a woman irl too. I despise that character and the actor gave me the creeps as a teen too.

[@Azshare554]

@@amy675fly He is innocent and the claim was so unfounded LA prosecutors couldn't even bring it to court because of insufficient evidence. Though I have a feeling you knew that and don't care.

[@amy675fly]

@@Azshare554 he never went to court because the state declined to file charges. That means we'll never know he didn't rape those four women either considering that there's no proof and he was never tried. I have a feeling that the legal distinction means little to you though.

[@MaretteFlora]

Fine, I'll watch "Gossip Girl" again.

[@teonnykardashian]

while blair is a "meangirl" i just always saw her as someone who doesnt want to lose her family, which also includes her friends and while she did want power, she used that for her friends and family.

[@qvxcswqr]

blair is not a “mean girl” she’s a straight up sociopath.

[@ludofratta2328]

if they didn't change her storyline to get back with chuck it would have been great. Having her evolove with Dan, maybe for once her having something that Serena wanted would have made Serena realize that she had to work on their friendship. If they went with the little J and Eric were gossip girl it would have been interesting how Serena and Blair would have navigated that, considering it was her brother and the sister of her boyfriend that she demonized. But for some reason they decided to go with Chuck

[@Jeeshansameer2165]

She's My Favourite Character In Gossip Girl Absolutely Mean Psycho

[@lenusniq_9746]

Thank you, thank you!!! Yes, ending up with Chuck was not a happy ending, it was a actually negating her development, and yep, Dan was definitely the sign of her growing up and realizing what a healty relationship is.... but nontheless.... she is the queen B. And even though she had basically everything, the was the character I most related to bucasue she HAD to struggle so much to get 50% of what Serena just got b/c Serena was so "carefree, shiny hair"... etc. My favourite moment was when Serene realized that she was not THE woman of the Dan's book, that she was not the main character, but actually Blair, who had to fight for everything so hard was finally recognized as the icon she was.

[@florfranco476]

I always wanted to be Blair (I also relate to her more), I hated Serena 😂

[@SunshineBarbie-sv4bi]

Your a classist entitled bully who tears women down and dresses like a librarian ? 🥴🥴 not the own you think it is sweetie

[@syren4731]

Blair should've ended up with Dan. I think her relationship with Chuck was so toxic and I thought Serena was unlikeable and fake. That arc where she married that Prince guy was so ridiculous. The whole show just went downhill from that point but I really liked her friendship with Dan and I thought they could've been good together. Around him, you really got to see how smart she was outside of being a manipulative Queen Bee and how hard she worked at her job. I liked those aspects of her and I thought their relationship had the potential to bring some much-needed maturity to both of them because Dan was slobbering over Serena. Too bad the writers ruined it.

[@dawnriddler]

Serena was a mess, Blair actually accomplished things in life.

[@ruzzelladrian907]

Unfortunately due to the exit of the original writer for Gossip Girl, Blair's character became increasingly diluted after season 1. Sad that the original vision for the show was lost. An example of a show where its creator sticked to the original vision from start to finish is Succession.

[@qvxcswqr]

I agree! but her fans are like “blair had the best character development” no she didn’t?? 💀

[@aubreyjaymes7906]

​​@@qvxcswqrshe did have the best character development when she was with Dan. They reverted her character back to season 1 Blair in season 6 . So she can be with Chuck. They throw away her character development. In the final season

[@aubreyjaymes7906]

​@@qvxcswqrthey threw away her character development for fan service. At the end of season 5 in season 6 they made Dan villan so we can root for chuck in Blair

[@filmowczynia]

I don't think explaining bad traits of Blair by deep sadness and insecurity because of the lost friendship is fair

[@УльянаСьотка]

When I was young watching the show I used to kind of idolise her for being a confident baddie lol not caring what ppl think of her.. but watching it again as an adult I realise she is actually extremely insecure and emotionally immature :( I never realised this. I feel for most ppl who act this way irl it’s either a facade concealing some sort of pain, or they’re just a downright spoilt b1tch

[@springweeks9498]

I definitely like Blair best

[@fortune_roses]

*ENTJ* types are often just like this

[@talyabasaman]

Always been a Blair girl, even when every one around me was all about Serena

[@Nunofyabizzzzz]

Blair is literally a terrible person like one of the worst with positive attributes. She is very entertaining to watch tho

[@lareineii]

Blair ❤👑👏

[@nolakiss]

Blair was my fave

[@thetake]

Thanks for watching! While we love frenemies Blair & Serena, we also love stories where enemies *stay* friends without all of the back and forth! If you do to, check out our recent video on the Enemies to Besties trope: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j528Z4p7g8h-brc

[@Dash120z]

Dan and Blair always ❤

[@a.munroe]

All the girls who love Serena need to link up with all the Blair-lovers😅 Someone needs to make that site.

[@ayuodagiri1577]

Blair is so pretty and real 😢❤

[@TarvalieEvans]

Please do Jenny Humphrey

[@rajunaidu7751]

can someone explain to me the ‘story of plot’ of Gossip Girl because I watched two episodes and there is no plot 😱

[@sunnybloom7272]

Honestly it’s more like a lot of smaller stories I’d recommend Billiams retrospective on the series as it covers a lot more to give a more holistic view of the series and its impact

[@natedetailscars]

The overall plot is actually more like several character driven plots each season. They get successively more complicated (or convoluted) and the characters become better defined as they grow.

[@oooh19]

Rich teens and then they’re in their 20s growing up in the Upper East Side

[@rajunaidu7751]

@@oooh19 so basically no plot 😱

[@rajunaidu7751]

@@natedetailscars coming of age? Young adult themes

[@lorashukuryan4121]

Blair should've ended up with Dan(!)

[@So-wb8wr]

NO

[@lorashukuryan4121]

@@So-wb8wr Yes!!!

[@So-wb8wr]

@@lorashukuryan4121 NO!

[@lorashukuryan4121]

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[@lorashukuryan4121]

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[@hszrfnn98]

207 bones in the human body😮

[@sshh356]

Serena's acting always made me cringe but Blair was incredible

[@qvxcswqr]

The take usually has good videos but what the hell was this? It just seems like you guys are running out of video ideas.

[@TrulyMademoizelle]

Im so sick of the Dan/Blaire bashing! They were a good match.

[@joelleweir9535]

I still like Serena over Blaire. Serena made an effort to be kind *granted after she ran away from a mess she made* HOWEVER Blaire always took the opportunity to be NASTY and terrible

[@TheMarkmcr]

Blair is a psycho

[@Missmagazinebura]

@@joelleweir9535 she isn’t kind when she was in Los Angeles taking away a guys job .

[@qvxcswqr]

@@Missmagazinebura Idk what blair fans don’t get? No one said serena was ALWAYS kind but they’re saying at least she made an effort to be that way. Could serena be a bitch?? absolutely 100%. Did she make it her whole entire personality like blair did?? no she didn’t want to.

[@SunshineBarbie-sv4bi]

@@Missmagazineburaand Blair wasn’t kind throughout the whole show 🤣🤣🤡🤡

[@SunshineBarbie-sv4bi]

Exactly I always preferred Serena over Blair Blair would literally bully you just for breathing wrong

[@madhuram7348]

Uhh no, why you defending Blair? She is so immature, insecure, toxic, and cringe. Eww.

[@isabelfernandes778]

💜💜💜

[@wanjiku6695]

Blaire was Maddy... And I'm not sure how to feel about it

[@qvxcswqr]

if you’re talking about maddy from Euphoria they are nothing alike and blair would hate her so much.

[@leavemeal0ne378]

​@qqisjdk blair is exactly like maddie but. Richer and more bitchy, and even worse sleeps with an abuser.

[@jadziawynter9241]

First! 🥇🏆

[@jagosss]

Your content USED TO BE so good now it’s just random videos to make visuals. 🥸🥸