Here’s the thing: I know very little about Ansel Elgort. I know he was in that weepy teen drama ‘The Fault in our Stars’ because my sister and cousin are both pretty into John Greene’s books. Upon further investigation I learned he’s 22-years-old and also starred in those allegedly terrible ‘Divergent’ movies and the ‘Carrie’ remake, so I guess he’s some sort of teen star?
You might be wondering: Krysta, if you’ve never actually seen an Ansel Elgort movie and know nothing about him, why the sudden interest and research? The answer is simple: when some random kid shows up to the MTV VMAs in 2016 dressed like a member of My Chemical Romance circa 2003, I can’t help but wonder: who IS this douche bag?
Just for some more reference, here’s another, full body, picture of Ansel at the VMAs:
And one more, so you can really get a good look at his studded, fingerless, leather gloves:
Seeing Ansel Elgort looking like this at the VMAs gave me a mix of ’80’s spoiled, yuppy teen vibes meets emo kid circa 2004 vibes. It is 2016 so I should not be getting either of those vibes from anyone in real life. Ansel looks like what would happy if Blaine, the preppy cunt from Pretty in Pink, was invited to a punk show and had someone look up ‘How to look cool at a punk show’ for him and then put this outfit together.
Upon researching Ansel Elgort, I feel like the vibes I got from him are pretty nail on the head. He’s basically a modern day, New York Blaine from Pretty in Pink. His parents are rich New Yorkers, he grew up a rich kid in New York, became an actor, decided what he really wanted to do WAS BECOME A DJ (of course), put together some remixes, got invited to the MTV VMAs, realized if he wanted to be taken seriously as a DJ he should show up looking super rock and roll, Googled ‘cool rock looks’, then came up with this fucking mess because he wanted to look like a member of Green Day in 2005, but wasn’t rock and roll enough to commit to eyeliner.
I realize this seems like stupid online bullying at it’s finest, and the boy probably just wanted to fit in at the VMAs (too bad all the VMA pics he Googled were from 2004), but I really don’t feel bad. I mean, yes, he looks like a fucking douche bag, but if you spend 30 seconds Googling this guy and reading interviews with him, you’ll find out he actually IS a douche bag. I guess you CAN judge a book by it’s cover sometimes.
He was interviewed by Elle magazine last year and was asked about his time at LaGuardia High School (a performance based high school) and dating while there, and he had this to say:
LaGuardia is a wonderful, wonderful place. If you’re like me and you love dancers, you just have to walk up to the eighth floor and you can get one.
This isn’t going to turn into a rundown of everything annoying Ansel Elgort has ever said in an interview, but I think you get my point. The point being, his outfit was really stupid and I wanted to blog about it.