Credit to Zoe Lobato

Very demure, very mindful. A phrase that highlights a term that has taken the internet by storm. Adults, children and students embrace the word across the country which raises the question: will ‘demure’ remain?

“I feel like for a lot of our Gen Z people out there, I think they’re really attracted to trends, and so I unfortunately don’t see demure staying around for much longer,”

a librarian who has worked at Francis Howell North for a decade Gabrielle Weston said. The integration of the word has been sudden and unexpected, while the usage and implication of the word has been both abused and used in almost every aspect of people’s lives, and many find it becoming tiresome.

“I think there’s a lot of people that are using demure inappropriately,” Weston said. “They don’t understand the word.”

The final criticism of this word is it illustrates the unpredictability of the internet and how any sentence can spark a trend.

“People talk on social media with weird voices, and people like it,” freshman Cadance Sneed said. “It’s a 50/50 shot, you want to be demure, you want to be mindful, then say it in a weird voice, and then it goes viral.”