"e-girl" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: e-boy"
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          "text": "Instagram is one main social media platform where e-girls post pictures or videos of themselves showing off their outfits and modeling them.",
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          "ref": "2019 October, Claire Clements, “Claire's Corner: The VSCO Phenomenon”, in The Sidekick, page 9:",
          "text": "Let the e-girls put hearts on their faces and dye their hair.",
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        "(Internet slang) A female member of the e-girl/e-boy subculture which emerged in the late 2010s, characterized by emo- and grunge-inspired fashion, and by heavy use of social media platforms (notably TikTok)."
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