History YMMV / GossipGirl2021

** Kate deciding to resurrect Gossip Girl to "educate" the students and make them "the next AOC", which is portrayed as justified because the students are (admittedly, completely accurately) rude and entitled, is this. This includes actions like stalking the kids, taking semi-intimate photos of them, and harassing them online--yes, the entire show is about how the teens are mostly jerks and unfairly get away with everything because of their rich parents, but they're still ''kids''. Zoya is fifteen! (Not to mention she's only just arrived at Constance Billard and hasn't done anything whatsoever when Gossip Girl capitalizes on her to screw with Julien--and, in fact, due to her SoapboxSadie tendencies she's ''already'' the kind of person Kate claims to want to create.) Kate's assertion that this is "[effecting] real social change" instead of petty revenge seems mindbogglingly naive at best, self-deluding at worst.
* WTHCastingAgency: Following in the footsteps of shows like ''Series/{{Glee}}'' and ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'', Tavi Gevinson (25 years old) who plays new teacher Kate is either almost the same age as (Evan Mock, 24), or younger than (Thomas Doherty, 26; Zion Morenno, 26; Jordan Alexander, 27) the actors cast as her students.

** LGBT fans were ''very'' put off by the student/teacher plotline and all the attention it got. While eventually [[spoiler:it's shown to be an unhealthy abuse of power]], the show takes far too long treating it as just another relationship drama, so many don't make it that far. It runs headlong into an alienating ''conclusion'' as well, given that the only gay main character [[spoiler:is cemented as a serial statutory rapist and the bisexual main characters never apologize for creating relationship problems and simply make it all work with a threesome, [[UnfortunateImplications which is...]]]]