Line #25 WebVideo/KarolinaZebrowska


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3	Karolina Żebrowska (born November 25, 1993), also known as the Meme Mom, is a UsefulNotes/{{Pol\|and}}ish fashion historian and WebVideo maker.
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5	She creates comedic and educational (usually) English language Website/YouTube videos and sketches and often reviews historical fashion in modern {{period piece}}s and {{costume drama}}s. She's also written and published several books on such subjects.
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7	Her channel can be located [[https://www.youtube.com/@KarolinaZebrowskax at this link]].
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9	[[AC:Filmography]]
10	* ''Film/LucysTypewriter'' (2014)
11	* ''Film/ConfusionsOfAWastedYouth'' (2017)
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13	Compare WebVideo/BernadetteBanner and Creator/VasiBirchwood.
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15	!!Tropes used by Karolina Żebrowska:
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17	* BadPresent: In "adventures of a dissatisfied Victorian time traveller", a lady from the Victorian era travels to 2020. She finds everything--from the architecture to the fact people seem to be in their underwear--disappointing.
18	* BedsheetGhost: Miss Tatternickle is disappointed to realize her mysterious follower is a plain bed sheet ghost.
19	* CausticCritic: No amount of fashion ArtisticLicenseHistory in modern media escapes her sight and comments (the latter often accompanied by snark).
20	* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The Miss Tatternickle sketches have their names styled this way. For example "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtS20jH54hc Miss Tatternickle And The Mysterious Box]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsdiL3VFEqg Miss Tatternickle And The Graveyard Mystery]]".
21	* CostumePorn: While not the focus of every video Karolina has an extensive wardrobe of vintage clothing and homemade reproductions, and in some videos gets to show off multiple outfits as her characters interact with each other.
22	* CreepyCemetery: Miss Tatternickle prefers to spend her time hanging out in cemeteries, keeps track of her local monsters (which are scared of her) and is friends with spiders.
23	* {{Crossover}}: Karolina has guest-appeared in a video by Creator/VasiBirchwood [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f76dBH5kKoA on vintage vs historical fashion]].
24	* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
25	** She acts as UsefulNotes/MarieCurie in her video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwLcB1QEPm4 "Marie Curie Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions And Gets Utterly Disappointed"]]. Any time there's a legitimate question about her work her answer gets cut short.
26	** She acts as UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette in her video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ_MIMMKuuo "Marie Antoinette Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions (And Gets Utterly Disappointed)"]]. The first set of questions are about her death and she looks despairingly at the camera rather than answer. As the "interview" goes on she seems to slowly realize that her inaction was an issue.
27	* HollywoodCostuming: Discussed in several videos reviewing the costuming in historical dramas.
28	* HorrifyingTheHorror: Miss Tatternickle scares away the ghost that's been following her through the cemetery.
29	* IdenticalStranger: Fans of the channel often send in pictures of people that they think look like Karolina, and in "[[https://youtu.be/lIqSRfv5Nsw FINE, I'll review my doppelgangers]]" she goes through them. Karolina has a long face, and she thinks that most of the pictures are just women with long faces. However, while they don't look like her, she thinks that she could look like them with a bit of work.
30	* OfCorsetHurts: [[PetPeeveTrope Karolina detests Hollywood's obsession with this trope]], pointing out that actresses who complain about corsets in their costumes were forced into poorly fitted corsets, often tight laced despite that being rare in history, without the proper undergarments. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4FVq8MltI curb your corset stereotypes]]" is an entire video on this, and while she doesn't blame the actresses she hates that they've been given a false impression of what corsets were like for women in the eras their films are set in. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SyjG006KgM Climbing While Wearing An Edwardian Attire]]" Karolina goes climbing while wearing a corset to show that corsets do not prevent women from doing things.
31	* ProgressiveEraMontage: She has done three fashion timelapse videos about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t__RhUyZMDM real women from the 1900s to the 1940s]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrEPujmWufU&pp=ygUTMTAwIHllYXJzIG9mIHBvbGFuZA%3D%3D a century of Polish history]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pEmhf2PnOg the evolution of catwalk poses from the 1920s to today]].
32	* ReactionVideo: Karolina has a pained response to the extremely poorly done alterations in ''Say Yes to the Dress'' in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3N7le75voI&t=619s Everything Wrong With Those „Old Wedding Dress Remakes”]]".
33	* TheRoast: Karolina has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhN0XOyHO5g roasted costumes in period dramas]].
34	* StylisticSuck: Content creators usually try to avoid the sound of wind roaring across the microphone. In "[[https://youtu.be/6L69wxCZ1Rg Beaches in Poland be like]]", the sound of the wind roaring is the whole point.
35	* ThatCameOutWrong: In her "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgnn6Y3xdgE Breaking Down Tall Vampire Lady's Iconic Look]]" Karolina says ''"I did notice a lot of 1930s inspiration and if I was to date her--if I was to date her charact--if I was to assign the character to a particular time period"''.
36	* TimeTravel:
37	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhOIEe4xP3E the time travel agency seamstress]]" has an overworked seamstress trying to outfit time travelers with appropriate clothing for their destinations.
38	** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3qZGnaDLgc adventures of a dissatisfied Victorian time traveler]]" a Victorian time traveler is quite unimpressed with the modern world.
39	* YouTuberApologyParody: "[[https://youtu.be/qUDwQU9x818 a youtuber apology but it's a Salem witch trials accuser]]", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

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