Millie Bobby Brown Shuts Down Jet Lag With Sunglasses And Sass

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The just jet lagged Millie Bobby Brown was not afforded the iconic energy. The Stranger Things star threw in a cheeky selfie wearing oversized sunglasses, with the caption “Jet lag? Never heard of her. 🕶️✈️,” and the whole internet lost it.

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Looking ethereal through an airport journey, the girl of 20 somehow freakish glam black and white absorption photo. Most followers in the comment section were busy entertaining with heart emojis and declarations of love, but a few surprised everybody with the reactions now going around.

And then another one comes in with: “MY FAVORITE PRINCESS IN PERSON😍😍😍” from one very enthusiastic fan, to which another responded with “I love you to the moon and back” in a typical parasocial-celebrity-on-instagram way one always expects. The Korean comment reading, “So pretty..><” (translated from 한국말) was a testament to Millie’s international stardom, with the fan further building upon the excitement for Stranger Things Season 5.

Here is where it starts to waver. “You look like you’re 60 or smth,” one commented bluntly, to which another cried, “Why do you look like you are in your 40’s 😭?” And so began the internet drama. An immediate battlefield turned the comment section, with defenders replying with “jealous much” and “do you think she gives a f–k about you criticizing her.”

The origin of such a degrading comment was unapologetic: “I like her so much in Stranger Things… just typed what I felt,” she responded before delivering the dagger: “She needs a refund on her skincare,” which, really? Ouch. Several other fans quickly began to point out Millie’s actual age (again, 20), as if that somehow invalidated the comments about her aging; logic?

Meanwhile, amidst this chaos, quite a few people interjected to say that Millie was “Whitney from The Hills,” which might be the farthest-fetched comparison we’ve heard all week. The 2000s right now are begging for their reality TV references back.

Good or not-so-good in the exercise of earthbound rock ‘n’ rolling aplomb or due to Millie looking immaculate in any given nightmare of exhaustion (celebrity perk, activated), what clearly shines really bright is how an inkling of a Millie story can show the inner workings of internet culture: Ultimate adoration (“MY BEST ICON IN UNIVERSE IN GALAXY”), from nowhere age critiques, and white-knighting defenders-all emerged all in one lonely picture of this little gal in shades.

Millie herself has never addressed or commented on any of those remarks, which means she might really have found a way to be a celeb and remain decently down-to-earth through the online realm. Did she really beat jet lag, or is she just incredibly good at pretending? That remains an enigma, but one thing is for sure: Nobody puts Millie in a corner. Except maybe her skincare routine, according to some very opinionated followers.

This quiet shout-out to the last season of Stranger Things further explains the mounting emotions. Once you have watched them grow up on screen from 12, every Tom, Dick, and Harry becomes an amateur critic about their looks. Still, most fans seem firmly Team Millie, with “the reason I hold on” and “my only exception” showing how deep-seated that connection is between the audience and the star.

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At the end of the day, it’s just sunglasses and selfies. However, in the 2024 celebrity culture, it becomes a battleground for beauty standards, fandom wars, and random references from The Hills. Millie is living her jet-setting life, and meanwhile, the internet is doing…whatever this is. Never change, social media; never change.