kindofmagic
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i'd rather listen to mark talk about birds than read another page of the vegan debate
A Gnoment, if you will
jaymie
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How scandi!
adbreakover
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So I’ve had this on my mind for a while..it’s not necessarily only Anne this applies to, Lily too, and many of the old school youtubers surely. Here comes my rant.
I started watching Annes videos in my early teens, and now both she and I are married with kids. Somewhere along the way, I think the Newtons just fell completely out of touch with reality. It happened so slowly that it took me a good while to realize.. In the end, it was the overpriced planner that arrived in my mailbox three months into the year that did it for me..and from then on, in every video I watched she would always have at least one comment that threw me off by reveling how irrelevant she had become. In the time she’s been pushing adlinks for the past 10 years, I assume many in her audience, like me, have gotten an education and been working for a few years. I worked really hard to get my degree and now I go to the office, and put great effort in to making my living. “Working” from bed during my entire pregnancy, shuffling my weekend around on a weekly basis and going to “my eyebrow lady” or tailor (as if I have any of those) is not things I can consider actual work? Yet I manage to show up to the office with clothes that fit properly, eyebrows looking reasonable, my clothes aren’t wrinkled, my hair isn’t greasy and I occasional even put on some makeup. My baby is also doing well, so is my husband. And guess what? I miraculously manage to show up every day. What an achievement! Nope. It’s what most people manage to do five days a week, most weeks of the year. Every year. In the office, regardless of how many hours my baby had me up that night, I put on my best self and have to be professional. I have to apply myself and cooperate with people I don’t necessarily like all that much. Some I even dislike quite a bit, and I still manage to be professional about it. Do I deserve a medal? No. It’s normal.
All this while, Mawk quit his job because he didn’t feel like it, poor him. Now they’ve literally gone years without having to have any form of social interaction except the ones they actively choose or pay for. Why is it important to do things we don’t like? Because it builds resilience and helps making life enjoyable when things go well. They seem to have gotten into a uninspired rut they cant get out of, and I think this might have something to do with it. Knowing you’re able to finish work you don’t like with people you don’t like is really important to experience every once in a while. They never have to do work they don’t feel like doing, and it shows.
Most people in their season of life can’t go about even 20% of their day in the way the Newtons do. We wouldn’t have time. This would all be ok if it she was being real about it and admitted that they’re in a very rare and privileged position to both be home with Chops all day, only work when he naps, and at the same time do very expensive renovations. All paid for by cookies in our browsers and the minimum-effort-ads we watch(ed). Instead, she keeps going on about how she has to squeeze in bits and bobs, and how they have to be careful about spending. It’s infuriating. She knows very little about being frugal and she knows absolutely nothing about being busy. At this point, they live so socially isolated I genuinely don’t think she knows any better. Hanging out with Zoe isn’t going to help here….
She used to at least pretend she wanted to do good with her minimalism (now we know it was just because they didn’t have enough space in the flat), cookbook’s and her promises of brand representation. She also used to come across as genuinely excited about makeup/books/food, where as now it’s all a shit show with week old pasta, not minding the rats in her house (!!!) and toxic positivity giggles *ad.
What’s pissing me off about all this is that it’s only the past six month’s I’ve learned how adlinks actually work and I’m quite bitter about the money she’s earned off me without me really knowing. Obviously that’s on me, but I still feel like she’s capitalized on my naive trust I used to have in her.
I started watching Annes videos in my early teens, and now both she and I are married with kids. Somewhere along the way, I think the Newtons just fell completely out of touch with reality. It happened so slowly that it took me a good while to realize.. In the end, it was the overpriced planner that arrived in my mailbox three months into the year that did it for me..and from then on, in every video I watched she would always have at least one comment that threw me off by reveling how irrelevant she had become. In the time she’s been pushing adlinks for the past 10 years, I assume many in her audience, like me, have gotten an education and been working for a few years. I worked really hard to get my degree and now I go to the office, and put great effort in to making my living. “Working” from bed during my entire pregnancy, shuffling my weekend around on a weekly basis and going to “my eyebrow lady” or tailor (as if I have any of those) is not things I can consider actual work? Yet I manage to show up to the office with clothes that fit properly, eyebrows looking reasonable, my clothes aren’t wrinkled, my hair isn’t greasy and I occasional even put on some makeup. My baby is also doing well, so is my husband. And guess what? I miraculously manage to show up every day. What an achievement! Nope. It’s what most people manage to do five days a week, most weeks of the year. Every year. In the office, regardless of how many hours my baby had me up that night, I put on my best self and have to be professional. I have to apply myself and cooperate with people I don’t necessarily like all that much. Some I even dislike quite a bit, and I still manage to be professional about it. Do I deserve a medal? No. It’s normal.
All this while, Mawk quit his job because he didn’t feel like it, poor him. Now they’ve literally gone years without having to have any form of social interaction except the ones they actively choose or pay for. Why is it important to do things we don’t like? Because it builds resilience and helps making life enjoyable when things go well. They seem to have gotten into a uninspired rut they cant get out of, and I think this might have something to do with it. Knowing you’re able to finish work you don’t like with people you don’t like is really important to experience every once in a while. They never have to do work they don’t feel like doing, and it shows.
Most people in their season of life can’t go about even 20% of their day in the way the Newtons do. We wouldn’t have time. This would all be ok if it she was being real about it and admitted that they’re in a very rare and privileged position to both be home with Chops all day, only work when he naps, and at the same time do very expensive renovations. All paid for by cookies in our browsers and the minimum-effort-ads we watch(ed). Instead, she keeps going on about how she has to squeeze in bits and bobs, and how they have to be careful about spending. It’s infuriating. She knows very little about being frugal and she knows absolutely nothing about being busy. At this point, they live so socially isolated I genuinely don’t think she knows any better. Hanging out with Zoe isn’t going to help here….
She used to at least pretend she wanted to do good with her minimalism (now we know it was just because they didn’t have enough space in the flat), cookbook’s and her promises of brand representation. She also used to come across as genuinely excited about makeup/books/food, where as now it’s all a shit show with week old pasta, not minding the rats in her house (!!!) and toxic positivity giggles *ad.
What’s pissing me off about all this is that it’s only the past six month’s I’ve learned how adlinks actually work and I’m quite bitter about the money she’s earned off me without me really knowing. Obviously that’s on me, but I still feel like she’s capitalized on my naive trust I used to have in her.
jaymie
VIP Member
Earn his own fucking money?
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LittleBluebird
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Can we all agree that “her face is very face” is the next thread title?
ShoeGal
Member
Also unfollowed. I've been trying to conceive for four years and recently had an early miscarriage after my second round of IVF so I'm out. You never know what someone's been through to have a baby, but so many people have announced pregnancies recently it feels like the whole world is super fertile and rubbing it in my face. I wish Anna all the best but just know I won't be able to watch any more.
Pontiac_Bandit
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I can see it now...."AND WE'RE BACK! Oh my word, what a Christmas break - we all came down with gastro the week before Christmas and then I had food poisoning on New Year's Eve...let me tell you, I wasn't here for it! Luckily Ralph was excited to stay with his grandparents while we recuperated - I've linked up all the skincare I used to get me feeling WELL again, and there's also dupes for my ill-at-Chrimbo outfits. We're off on a short break now to get over the stress (without little man - thanks mum and dad!) but they'll be a new year fashion inspo guide coming in February so keep your eyes peeled!"
Lanavalentine
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I thought the idea of Anna and Mark banging couldn’t get worse, but then you add in Anna crying afterwards... I might have nightmares!
Imagine: just two huge eyebrows sobbing in the dark, while Mark ignores her and polishes his binoculars (not a euphemism) for a post-coital neighbourhood watch session. It’s probably so cold they can see their own breath, like a scene from The Exorcist. Then suddenly, Anna breaks the icy feeling by cheerily chirping “I had a hormonal moment! Let’s hope this is a pregnancy situation! I won’t be ovulating again for yonks!”.
Imagine: just two huge eyebrows sobbing in the dark, while Mark ignores her and polishes his binoculars (not a euphemism) for a post-coital neighbourhood watch session. It’s probably so cold they can see their own breath, like a scene from The Exorcist. Then suddenly, Anna breaks the icy feeling by cheerily chirping “I had a hormonal moment! Let’s hope this is a pregnancy situation! I won’t be ovulating again for yonks!”.
LittleBluebird
VIP Member
The Anna Edit #16 How Do I Affiliate Link War?
I turned off 3 mins into her vlog when she said that 'karma had been good to them' for getting pregnant so quickly. What a F up thing to say? It took me years to get pregnant - was that the result of 'bad karma'. Honestly, i used to really like her but last 6 months i've really gone off and today was the straw that broke the camels back for me.
OrangeDuvet
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Awww, this reminds me of the time when I was 10 and my mum was thanking me for her birthday present I got for her with the money she gave me. Felt so silly.
OrangeDuvet
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Dead
Random Thoughts:
- she literally looks like Shrek
- she has the most repetitive / predictable speech pattern I think I've ever known.
- she says "I feel like" every other sentence she no longer thinks. Just feels.
- can't get over the creases.
Enjoy me my embodiment of Anna:
- she literally looks like Shrek
- she has the most repetitive / predictable speech pattern I think I've ever known.
- she says "I feel like" every other sentence she no longer thinks. Just feels.
- can't get over the creases.
Enjoy me my embodiment of Anna:
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tteaspiller123
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"Hi everyone, hope you're all well! Starting off this video in the kitchen this morning because Mark just went outside in the garden to do his everyday bird feed and neighbour peep routine! So I thought why not, I am here for it, and I am having a little recipe moment here with you. Today we are making a very edited second breakfast moment, jam on toast! So, what you need to do is to just grab some of your capsule bread, I have this one that I saw, I think Allana uses it, then you insert *giggle break* the bread in your capsule toaster, we just got this one from Le Creuset in the sale, it works out really cheap in cost per toast after a while. When the toast is toasted hehehehehehehehehehe you just pop over to your capsule jam warderobe, I'll link my video on how to start a jam capsule warderobe here if you are interested! I think I will go for the beige squash flavoured one today that Totemé sent me in PR because oh my word those Scandinavians they're so cool, even their food tastes cool, me and Mark went to Copenhagen once and I can't wait to go back. So that's it you guys, I'm gonna have my little Scandinavian second breakfast routine moment and I'll see you tomorrow for another video that was actually filmed in March (or Mark as I say here at Chez Newton hehehehe) of last year. Bye!"
Oh I feel you! I’m 40 and trying for years and all I see is pregnant women. I’m happy for them but it kills me on some days. Only yesterday I’ve shopped baby accessories for 3 soon to be borns in my immediate circle plus both my boss and my colleague (in a super small company) have given birth in the last 2 months. It’s so hard to keep trying and giving them the happy faces they expect when showing you baby pics etc.
Sorry for the off topic post but it felt good to get this off my chest.
wanted to add: i am happy for everyone that is and wants to be pregnant. I would just want for it to hurt me less.
TheBabeWithThePower
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I've got to be honest, I really dislike the pregnancy speculation, especially the fact that it's mentioned constantly!
Her content has taken a nosedive, it does seem like something is going on with her but really who knows and the constant speculation doesn't sit well with me.
She could be pregnant, trying, have had a miscarriage, be battling any kind of health condition or not even thinking about kids right now but I just feel really uncomfortable with the deep analysis of every glimpse of her looking for a bump.
Her content has taken a nosedive, it does seem like something is going on with her but really who knows and the constant speculation doesn't sit well with me.
She could be pregnant, trying, have had a miscarriage, be battling any kind of health condition or not even thinking about kids right now but I just feel really uncomfortable with the deep analysis of every glimpse of her looking for a bump.
martaS
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OMG this is too good NOT to be entered in as an early thread title contender:
The Anna Edit #24 Her whole life edited into complete mediocrity