When the pandemic began, Rose moved from the UCLA dorms back in with her family in Orange County. By the end of November, the finished project had racked up 3.9 million likes and 16.8 million views on the social media platform TikTok . It took two months and more than 350 feet of tulle but, as Rose speculated on Instagram, sometimes creating is rewarding. While the debate over the Gen Z/millennial cusp rages on TikTok, Rose falls solidly into the first camp. “It’s a really, really tightknit community.”Rose wears her design of Effie’s butterfly dress from “The Hunger Games,” which took about 1,100 paper butterfly wings and two packs of hot glue to make.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 28, 2020 20:48 UTC