Fun - Loving Youth

TV, The Inbetweeners: The Inbetweeners centres around four boys in the sixth form - Simon, Will, Neil and Jay (l-r). Each of them have very different personalities. Simon is obsessed with his childhood friend, Carly, who he continuously tries to impress. Will is extremely studious, awkward and usually the voice of reason during his friends antics. Neil is dim and not at all intelligent whilst Jay is a compulsive liar, failing to convince his friends, with the exception of Neil, of his wild and fanatic tales. The four find themselves in many different scenarios, such as attempting to gate-crash parties and being stranded during a boat trip. However, their behaviour does not have a negative effect upon society and they are not considered troublesome - their actions are only potentially harmful and embarrassing to themselves. Their actions drive the humour of the TV show.

Zoella - Zoella is a British Vlogger and internet personality. She began vlogging in 2009 and continues to. Her videos mainly consist of detailing fashion and beauty hauls and allows her viewers an insight into her life. The videos that she produces are fun and light hearted, with as previously mentioned, being focused on fashion related segments. In addition, she also produces video which gives her viewers advice on how to deal with anxiety issues and she is widely considered a positive role model. Below is a video of Zoella's:

Youth have been more attached and affiliated with labels such as being obsessed with social media and using the internet. Many teenagers have several modes of social media, including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. They are used to inform their followers/friends of their lives, and they are given an opportunity to profess or share any opinion they wish. Teens often post 'selfies' or statuses depicting exciting events in their lives - the posts usually detail social events and teenagers are subsequently portrayed as fun - loving. Social media is also used for other purposes - many teenagers run 'fan accounts' dedicated to their favorite celebrity or book/film series. Tumblr is an extremely popular social media site where people can make and post gifs or memes.

However, completing this research was quite difficult, as there are not many examples of teenagers being portrayed as fun - loving, as the majority of headlines or other media sources depicted them as troublesome, violent and misbehaving.