Megan Tomasic, a 25-year-old Washington resident who works in digital marketing, was excited when she saw that 20-year-old singer-songwriter Sombr was performing in D.C. last week. She was a fan of the songs she had heard online, so she and her boyfriend bought tickets.

What happened next, as she would detail in a TikTok post a couple days later, was “one of the worst experiences” of her life. Her video, which has since racked up 6.3 million views and counting, kicked off a week-long online discourse that devolved into a brutal debate over music criticism, parasocial relationships and, to her surprise, intragenerational age-shaming.

Basically, a controversy that exemplifies the state of internet culture circa 2025.

In her nearly 9-minute video posted Oct. 15, Tomasic explained that sh

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