Universal things people like: nostalgia, living vicariously, witnessing rites of passage. But participation in these things also starts to feel a little off when the vicarious living is via very real teen people sharing their true lives on social media. Enter: prom season. Dress shopping, getting ready, and posing with your date are all current nostalgia bait traps. It’s a chance to reminisce, lament about the chiffon, three-tiered ruffle gown you wore, and wonder if you’d been born in the “minimalist clean girl” era how different your dress would have been. TikTok, in particular, has invited in a FaceTime-level feeling of content intimacy. Breeding the interesting reality that when prom season comes around, strangers on the internet give their unsolicited opinions on every teenager’s outfit. And the appeal of having one of your comments on a viral video rack in thousands of Likes might have led to an increase in berating teens under the guise of comedy, especially during prom season.…