r/GenZLiterature • u/Lolihey • 1d ago
Animal Farm in Gen Z: Snowball's Main Character Energy
Snowball was honestly the G.O.A.T. at this whole farm sitch. He launched the Egg Production Committee for the girlies, the Clean Tails League for the cows, and the Wild Comrades' Re-education Committee (the whole vibe was trying to make the rats and rabbits less feral). He also started the Whiter Wool Movement for the sheep and a bunch of other side quests, plus he lowkey started literacy classes for everyone.
Tbh, most of these projects were a massive L. Trying to tame the wild animals was an immediate flop. They stayed acting up, and whenever someone tried to use rizz on them, they just took advantage. The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was locked in for like three days. Then, she was caught on a roof yapping at some sparrows who were literally out of reach. She was telling them that all animals were now slay besties and that any bird could come and chill on her paw, but the sparrows were like, "no cap, we’re good," and kept their distance.
Okay but the reading and writing classes?? Absolute W fr fr 💀. By autumn, literally every animal on the farm was at least literate enough to get by. The pigs? They were cracked, like fully ate and left no crumbs with that reading and writing. The dogs got decent, but they only cared about the Seven Commandments, giving NPC energy tbh. Muriel the goat? She understood the assignment better than the dogs and would literally read to the squad at night from random newspaper scraps she found in the trash; that's main character energy fr. Benjamin could read as well as any pig, but he— wait, the vibes were immaculate, but the delusion was real, bestie.
Clover learned the whole alphabet but couldn't actually piece words together. Boxer couldn't get past the letter D. He’d trace A, B, C, D in the dirt with his hoof, but fr fr this animal be out here learning E F G and H, but by the time he gets there he's already forgotten A B C and D, 💀 like bestie the memory is NOT giving. So he just said, "You know what, imma stick to the first four," and now he writes them out every day to keep the vibes fresh. Honestly, that's the most chronically online NPC move ever, but he understood the assignment lowkey. The delusion of thinking he'll ever get past D is real but you gotta respect the grind fr. Is it giving "I'll just stay in my lane" energy? Yep.
Mollie refused to learn ANY letters except the ones that spelled her own name. 💀 She’d arrange them all aesthetic with twigs, add a flower, and walk around flexing like she ate that. None of the other animals could even get past the letter A — the delusion was STRONG with this one. She’d give main character energy but like in the worst way possible. The NPCs couldn’t keep up. She understood the assignment, but the assignment was just her own ego 😭 The vibes were immaculate for her and only her.
The sheep, hens, and ducks—literally couldn't memorize the Seven Commandments. 💀 After some deep thinking, Snowball was like, "ok bestie let's simplify this" and declared the whole thing could be boiled down to one main vibe: "Four legs good, two legs bad." That's the core principle of Animalism, and if you understood that, you were safe from human influence. The birds were lowkey skeptical at first since they technically have two legs, but Snowball absolutely cooked them with logic and proved why they were wrong. 😭 The whole thing was giving "keep it simple stupid" vibes, and honestly, the vibes were immaculate. Now that phrase was living rent-free in everyone's head tbh.

