Uncarley is an Honorary Suburban Elitist

Dear Uncarley,

Congratulations! We’re thrilled to announce that we would like to send you a formal invitation to become an honorary Suburban Elitist. You might be wondering who we are, and why we, a group of four extremely cool and talented fellow girlbosses, obviously, are inviting you to accept this prestigious honor. For starters, your videos have become a topic of frequent discussion in our group chat. We all found you through your celebrity book club, and it turns out that we seem to be fans of many of the same celebrities. We too have questioned Harry Styles’ taste in books and love Anya Taylor-Joy’s selections. Your rant on Lola and the Boy Next Door? An immaculate and very funny read on some of Stephanie Perkins’ most absurd characters; as it turns out, Shea has always commented on the questionable content that is the Lolita nickname. This is a topic which we once decided to discuss during our senior class retreat instead of participating in group activities with our peers. (We were simply not like other girls because our other high school activities involved sneaking out of prom to buy books at Barnes and Noble. This was not hard to do as our prom was located at a hotel in a shopping center that coincidentally had a Barnes and Noble).

Your taste in books and poetry particularly align with our own. A Sally Rooney fan? I recently read Conversations With Friends and sprinted to give it 5 stars. I also started following her Spotify in anticipation of Beautiful World, Where Are You? because I need to read that book as soon as humanly possible. A follower of Mary Oliver? Caroline and Shannon would very much like to discuss nature imagery with you. We all put Wendy Cope on our TBR after you read “The Orange” in your video. As the kids say, Uncarley’s impact! We all, at some point, followed Caroline Calloway’s ascent into Instagram fame and subsequent crash landing into self-proclaimed (and actual) scammer territory. Not to mention you gave us something that is truly rare on Booktube — a channel where we can be safe from a YA Fantasy recommendation! (They’re everywhere. I cannot escape books with titles like “A Throne of Icicles and Bone” or “Shadow and Mist”. I respect the YA Fantasy community, but it ain’t me.) You give us the content that we not only wanted, but desperately needed.

Uncarley, you are both funny and talented, and talented at being funny (improv comedy queen)! It is indeed very hashtag girlboss of you to entertain us week after week while providing amazing book, music, and poetry recommendations, as well as offering us a glimpse into the bookshelves of the rich and famous. Your subscriber count skyrocketing in recent months is no mistake; the people need Uncarley!

And us? We’re just four college students who love to write (and love ourselves) so much that we decided to create a newsletter to share our opinions on the media we consume with the void, or whichever loyal friends decide to read our nonsense. We think it's very humorous that we pretend to be pretentious and cultured but in actuality are from the suburbs of North Texas, where we stumbled through phases of reading John Green and listening to Ed Sheeran (we requested “Galway Girl” to be played at junior prom an embarrassing amount of times.)

In an effort to be even more unlike other girls, Suburban Elitist emerged. (No correlation to wanting to share our writing and ideas whatsoever; it was just an ego boost.) We think you’d like our work; perhaps even mildly enjoy it! We are big fans of yours.

That’s my pitch, but let me tell you a secret — whether you decline or accept, you’re already an honorary member in our hearts! (Hopefully that doesn’t sound creepy). In the meantime, we hope this letter directs the very kind 93 people who choose to follow us to your quality content, so they can not only expand their minds but also so that they too can become haters of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Thanks for reading!

Sincerely,

Suburban Elitist (Caroline, Julie, Shannon, and Shea)