Alexa is a 24-year-old influencer and ambassador for a vegan-condom brand. She is obsessed with Instagram, but often feels nervous about what her followers think of her. 1843mag gets inside the mind of a millennial From the archive
lexa was choosing a dress for a party. It was taking a while. This always happens, she gets carried away with every little thing. She was late, but she wasn’t worried because everyone’s always late, apart from her boyfriend Olly, who is always on time and was already there, which she felt bad about because he was only going to the party to support her, just like he always did. The decision about what to wear was painful because she had to figure out what would look right.
When they first got together, Olly found Alexa’s constant chronicling of her existence on the internet to be both intrusive and a serious case of bad manners. He had stuck with his BlackBerry for years. When he finally surrendered to social media he assumed it was for posting stuff you were doing, or Being Yourself. He used to clog up his Instagram with pictures of coffee.
Alexa has posted nearly 600 times since she joined in March 2014 and has about 1,500 followers. Recently she’d been noticing that the more pictures she posts of herself and the more care she takes with her hashtags, the more followers she gains. But it’s nerve-racking. She used to post whatever she liked without thinking about it but now she’ll post something and be like, “uuugh, is that a good idea?” and sit there anxiously waiting for comments.
Alexa put on her new ombré top and went down the road to her local PureGym, a dark grey, industrial space, mostly underground, containing the usual rows of machines and sweat-damp men lifting weights in front of floor-to-ceiling mirrors. She considered what to do. She chooses her workout according to her mood – cardio if she’s tired and needs to wake up, or the stairmaster if she’s hyped up and wants to calm down.
A supermarket cake had been bought, iced to resemble a caterpillar, for those who did not want to celebrate with cheese. Alexa was holding a slice.“She has this gym thing,” said Olly. “I’ll go to the gym for 45 minutes to an hour.”Alexa is lactose-sensitive, gluten-free and has a drawer full of supplements and vitamins from which she takes a few when she remembers. Activated charcoal. Gentle iron. Branched chain amino acids. She has become so good at taking them she can swallow a fistful.
Standing in front of her mirror, trying to choose the right dress for the ethical-diamond party, Alexa recalled an episode of the historical drama “Jamestown” that she’d watched the night before. The programme is about the first settlements in Virginia. She loves historical dramas like “Britannia”, “The Vikings” and “Victoria”.
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