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Who doesn’t get a little giddy when it’s that magical time of year again—Girl Scout cookie time? We all do. It’s an American rite of passage, basically. But one TikTok creator recently dropped a “very boomer hot take” that’s stirring up more than a few conversations: she thinks that grown-ups helping sell cookies on social media is totally missing the point.
In her video, she brings the heat and gets right to the point: “No more posting cookie links on your adult social feeds.” Because — and hear her out — if your kid isn’t the one knocking on doors, chatting up neighbors, or personally hustling those Thin Mints, are we really teaching them anything at all?
She specifically says she doesn’t think Girl Scouts should be able to sell cookies through their parents’ social media accounts. Now at this point, we all probably know what she means—one of our friends or acquaintances shares a link to their little girls’ cookie page, we buy them, the Girl Scouts organization ships them, and poof! A dozen boxes of Thin Mints can show up on our doorstep less than a week later. There’s zero fuss, but also zero human interaction.
“I know that it’s not, you know, 2003, whatever, anymore, and social media is a big thing,” she explains. “Totally get it. It just defeats the whole purpose of selling Girl Scout cookies.”
Carly, the TikTok mom in question, says that when she was a Girl Scout and her mom was her troop leader, her mom had her wear a button to school that said, “I sell Girl Scout cookies.” She then told her daughter to approach her friends, teachers and neighbors personally by asking, “Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?” with the order form.
“Like, that’s the whole point of selling the Girl Scout cookies,” she says. “And I just feel like it’s such a cop-out for the girls to be able to have their parent, adult, whoever post on their Facebook page.”
Now, before you roll your eyes and mutter “OK Boomer,” let’s be real:
Girl Scout cookie selling has changed. Folks can order them online now, which is super convenient, but some parents still feel like something intangible gets lost along the way when adults take the wheel. The system is set up so that if a Girl Scout still wants to sell them in-person, she can—which is great. And the girls can “create” and set up their own website with a custom url to sell them (aka Mom and Dad do all the work). But it’s just not the same.
A lot of commenters agree, saying they miss the good ol’ days when parents would bring the order form to work and set it out in the break room (ah, nostalgia). Though a few people said at the very least, these girls need to “set up out in front of a Walmart” like they did back in the day, lol. The Girl Scouts are a noble organization for sure, but they’re still in it for selling the most amount of cookies no matter what.
What do you think? Is this “boomer hot take” actually onto something, or are we just clutching our pearls for nostalgia’s sake?
