I hate how people speak about this show like it's incredibly cringe and lacking in nuance. when I watched pen15 for the first time I was ambushed with feelings I had know idea I'd feel, and tears I wasn't prepared to cry. it's a rare thing for a show to be able to do purposeful 'cringe', and comedy while also being this beautifully shot, vibrant, emotional thing. it's an exagerated coming of age show about girls in middle school. my heart absolutely breaks for Maya and Anna sometimes. I don't get how people are so mean to them, fictional or not. their friendship is written so strikingly beautifully, and the show harbours these occasional moments of quiet intimacy between characters that I absolutely adore. I'll be the person to say that the scene where the 2 girls are talking about their suggestive feelings together, in the dark, sort of coming to this realization that what they're feeling is completely normal and they're not these horrible perverse freaks they think they are is one of the most beautiful, intimate, charged and important scenes in the whole show. I think it's so pointless to discredit pen15 as a series because there's clearly an audience who feels it deeply. I don't get how it's funny to laugh at the idea of a 13 year old girl struggling with her identity as a woc. I love pen15 💔
2026-08-21 11:51:00
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kira :
this show is so much more than what people make it out to be
2026-08-19 15:31:06
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isabella :
Maya is for the young thought daughters
2026-08-21 03:48:29
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yourfashionboy :
How it feels growing up in a white community
2026-08-21 23:23:02
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Katarinaᥫ᭡ :
Aw I made a post about this
2026-08-25 01:17:09
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✪𝑳𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏✪ :
Rip Maya, you would've loved Mitski
2026-08-21 05:36:14
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👸🏾🪽🫧 :
Pen15 is genuinely so deep
2026-08-21 17:19:32
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puppymei :
as someone who is wasian but doesn't look Asian AT ALL, I relate to Maya sooooosooosooo much :( especially when she say the line "why does Japanese look good on her but not on me?" (at least I think she said that) growing up and not looking your own ethnicity is hard and it really sucks 😓
2026-08-22 04:57:21
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Kim lee 🪽 :
Her to this song is evil
2026-08-24 18:13:10
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🖤 :
this is the funniest deepest show i've ever seen it made me cry and then cry laughing
2026-08-24 03:56:27
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. :
you will always be my rainbow gel pen in a sea of black writing utensils
2026-08-19 00:17:13
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pleaae icsnt :
this is genuinely the most important show to me
2026-08-21 07:26:04
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𑣲┆suha ˚.⋆ֹ :
strawberry blond is literally mayas so g
2026-08-24 20:20:52
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gyu-tan 🐮👅 :
maya is lowk the most realistic depiction of what its like to be an “weird” japanese girl in america
2026-08-21 11:31:58
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karla⁷ :
She’s so mitski coded
2026-08-23 06:22:04
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maurene :
im literally maya.
2026-08-24 13:51:09
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Boss :
We need more serious edits like this
2026-08-19 11:37:11
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⚠️Ⱡ3₥0₦⚠️ :
Maya is so pretty
2026-08-21 01:04:22
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Angie🌜🌞🪷 :
I get Maya so much 😭 I was the weird kid and I didn’t feel pretty and got picked on for my looks. And everyone loved my best friend instead of me :( I was worried about my appearance at way to young of an age
2026-08-21 15:09:46
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flors :
People who make this show out to be a joke didn’t grow up weird
2026-08-21 23:52:39
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randysaurus123 :
What is this show called??
2026-08-21 02:39:32
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josie ۶ৎ :
maya x mitski 💔
2026-08-21 21:43:21
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Gigi🤓 :
I miss being 14 watching this show in my room alone at night in 2022
2026-08-21 14:54:46
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