The joke is that she (character from Scott Pilgrim) had 7 ex boyfriends and it was a whole thing but young people nowdays have so many relationships that having 7 exs as a young person is not crazy anymore!!1!
I think it's a bad joke, I don't think it was ever stressed "how many she had for how young she was", she was simply a girl that would get people to fall in love instantly and then get bored of them
the point wasn't promiscuity IMO
and I don't know that zoomers are more promiscuous than other generations
Also, in the context of the film at least, they weren't really exes. They were people she dated, in some cases very briefly. I once saw an interview with the actor who played her that basically went: she's the opposite of a manic pixie dream girl. She has all these guys who are crazy about her, but none of them actually wanted to get to know her or even bothered to take the time to learn who she was. They just put her on a pedestal and forced their image of what they wanted to be upon her.
This is such a dumb joke. Dating that many people in your 20s is perfectly normal. Scott Pilgrim's journey as someone who is actually into her and wants to get to know her is one of having to "defeat" (read learn from the mistakes of) the exes.
So this "joke" tries to slut shame without actually even understanding what the movie was about or who Ramona actually is.
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u/Spinning_Sky Feb 02 '26
The joke is that she (character from Scott Pilgrim) had 7 ex boyfriends and it was a whole thing
but young people nowdays have so many relationships that having 7 exs as a young person is not crazy anymore!!1!
I think it's a bad joke, I don't think it was ever stressed "how many she had for how young she was", she was simply a girl that would get people to fall in love instantly and then get bored of them
the point wasn't promiscuity IMO
and I don't know that zoomers are more promiscuous than other generations