When Tavi Gevinson Instagrammed a sultry self-portrait earlier this week, it wasn’t just her more mature features that suggested that the now seventeen-year-old editor of alt-teen lifestyle website Rookie, was all grown-up.

It was the powerful statement, made by a Galaxie 500 T-shirt, signed for her by members of the shoe-gaze band, who have not released an album since 1991, five years before Tavi was born, and the caption ‘Yup, that’s me’, a Raven Baxter quote, taken from the opening credits of late 90s teen sit-com, That’s So Raven that told us she’d come a long way from being the fourteen-year-old cult-blogger who once caused a stir at a Dior Couture show. 

With these two simple symbols, Tavi completely encapsulates her generation – all early 90s nostalgia mixed with modern cultural reference that might seem less relevant to anyone over the age of 20. It’s daughter of Kurt and Courtney, Frances Bean Cobain, posting YouTube links to Bikini Kill videos on Twitter, or Buzzfeed speculating what your childhood looked like.

In posting this statement to her 95,997 Instagram followers, she says, ‘yup, that’s me’, the girl who understands what popular culture means to her online generation and readers of pieces such as ‘cool older sisters of 90s TV’, and ‘books we love about emulation, imitation and replication’ on her site, Rookie, showing that she’s not just some kid in couture anymore, but rather, one of the most interesting and important young editors around today.  

And it only took her five words and one T-shirt to say it.