the worst relationship in Gossip Girl: a deep dive

The experience of rewatching Gossip Girl was even more insane than I realised. Let’s talk about Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass — the couple that defined Gossip Girl for so many of us. But was it really love, or something far more toxic dressed up as romance? In this video, I’m breaking down their relationship through a psychological lens to unpack the manipulation, control, and blurred boundaries that were constantly romanticized. Was this the love story we were meant to idolize, or were we groomed into normalizing abuse?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments — do you think Chuck and Blair were ever truly in love, or just trauma bonded?

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Serena van der Woodsen – Played by Blake Lively
Blair Waldorf – Played by Leighton Meester
Dan Humphrey – Played by Penn Badgley
Nate Archibald – Played by Chace Crawford
Chuck Bass – Played by Ed Westwick
Jenny Humphrey – Played by Taylor Momsen
Vanessa Abrams – Played by Jessica Szohr
Lily van der Woodsen (later Bass) – Played by Kelly Rutherford
Rufus Humphrey – Played by Matthew Settle
Eric van der Woodsen – Played by Connor Paolo
Dorota Kishlovsky – Played by Zuzanna Szadkowski
Georgina Sparks – Played by Michelle Trachtenberg
Ivy Dickens/Charlie Rhodes – Played by Kaylee DeFer
Bart Bass – Played by Robert John Burke
Eleanor Waldorf – Played by Margaret Colin
Cyrus Rose – Played by Wallace Shawn

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