They lived happily ever after because they never spoke again.” Tinderella and Princeton match and message each other Tinderella follows Princeton home for a hookup before, as the narrator tells us, “She snuck out that morning at half past four a.m. But it’s not the start of a classic romance. Princeton drops his own phone and Tinderella stoops down to pick it up, causing their eyes to meet for the first time IRL. But alas, when she arrives at the club at midnight, her phone immediately dies and she’s unable to locate Princeton Charming. Tinderella matches with a boy named Princeton and agrees to meet up with him at a club called The Ball. Cinderella is charmed by technology in a 2013 YouTube video entitled Tinderella. While Gretel used the power of technology to rescue herself from strangers, adults were enchanted by phones’ ability to leave themselves alone with total strangers. The message to children is “cell phones magically instill confidence and independence” and the message for adults is “your children will come to no harm.” Unlike the fairy tale, the commercial never gets them to the point where they’re preyed upon by wicked adults. So Gretel whips out her AT&T phone featuring new GPS technology and guides her brother to safety. Gretel navigates back to her cottage with the help of the snazziest phone of 2009Īnd Gretel wandering a modern city street, getting themselves so hopelessly lost that a breadcrumb trail can’t bring them home again.
Our only viable argument in favor of them was that they’d prove useful should we ever find ourselves lost or kidnapped. And how are you supposed to keep up on the latest goings-on in the kingdom without a live newsfeed? Fortunately for fairy tale characters, modern media works in technological cheats in the form of magic.Īs a child of the 2000’s, I well remember the era when new tech was magical and adults flew into a panic about kids gaining the social independence cell phones provided. Children wandered off into the woods to be gobbled down by wolves and witches without texting you to let you know they’d be out past curfew.
Mystery princesses dashed off from the ball without leaving a number to get in contact with them later.