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As families reunite for the holidays, drama and feuds are sure to arise but this season big sisters are fighting back — with memes.
“Oldest daughters on their way to solve everyone’s problems yet again because no one will do it,” comedian and author Lane Moore captioned a TikTok video of a model trudging through Balenciaga’s mud pit catwalk at Paris Fashion Week last month. The clip went viral on TikTok with 864,800 views and hundreds of comments from older sisters relating.
“I feel more represented by this one TikTok than I do the entire US government,” one person quipped.
“The oldest have to keep it together for the younger ones even on tough situations,” Alma Lilliana Santos said. To which Moore replied, “And we sleepy.”
Multiple studies have shown that birth order can play a part in forming one’s personality. Birth Order Theory describes how the effect of birth order can shape a child’s thoughts and behaviors.
First born children are prone “to being diligent and wanting to excel at everything they do,” according to Parents.com. But the expectations and reality of being the eldest combined with being a girl can create a complicated cocktail of pressures.
“Are u happy or are u the oldest sibling and also a girl?” Melissa Ong, 29, tweeted.
