snarkvark

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rhe absolute cheek of asking people to subscribe to pay for her to create videos! right after buying a camper van, completely renovating it, not to mention entirely decorating a new rented flat! this woman is unbelievable. work with brands nad get them to sponsor your videos!!!
 
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Currently listening. :rolleyes:
Arrrgh! No one is forcing her to do this. If it causes anxiety, paranoia and agoraphobia (whilst lying in bed) then just don't do it. What is so hard to comprehend? Why do we have to keep going through this? šŸ˜©
Oh, never mind, you got over it in a day and now it's a really good week. Wish I found it that simple.
Existential angst, exhibitions, books, trouser tailoring, off to the "studio". Pretty standard I'd say. ;)
i had to watch this bit and im sorry if my post comes across as harsh but all i got from her day of "anxiety and paranoia" was how utterly privileged she is. it's like what you say @Soapy Dolphin -- wish i also had it that simple. to feel worthless, paranoid, and anxious until the walls cave in, and then having the opportunity to go to London and soak into a museum atmosphere. And much later have the complete privilege to be invited to lunch with a perfume company (is that right? Or is Loewe a clothing brand?) and then put on this fake humble persona of "oh hey guys you've invited the wrong person" and calling it imposter syndrome is just not done.

maybe my own jealous insecurities are showing (and i don't care if it is), but buying all the clever books in the world, trying to sound so "aware", but also acting like "*uwu* is this my life??????" is disgusting :sick: either you know your privilege or you don't. there is no in between. i cannot find myself sympathising with white women struggles, esp BB's when it's clearly fake. her MH struggles notwithstanding, if there is one person who can afford therapy, it's her. meanwhile i have to save up for a month's therapy and try to find a way to get a visa to the west for a better life, while being rejected for not having enough money in my account.

a person aware of their privilege who wants to do better will work on it without making a big scene of it. imagine having the chance to go to london to look at art whenever you want. imagine having that privilege. imagine having the privilege to just buy a bottle of susanne kauffman bath oil or whatever. imagine just dropping big bucks on household items with no care in the world about food. what really disgusts me is that BB is aware of her standing in the world, in her community and her industry yet all she cribs about is how influencing is icky. I have never been so triggered by anyone. Her girlboss gatekeep gaslight struggles are very obvious yet it's a shame that everything is masked under the guise of MH.

anyway, im sorry for the rant guys. i think i need a day off to go and weep in the corner.
 
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brerwhabbit

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While Lizzy and Brittany are both pretty annoying and I used to like Brittany a lot more initially, I have since switched. I find Lizzy annoying but *slightly* less duplicitous, less contrived. Brittany wants to appear in a certain light and at first it is convincing but over time you realize it is an carefully crafted act of smoke and mirrors. I suspect she lies about little things (in this latest video, I believe she did not buy those boots last year), is not forthcoming, and does not develop intimacy with the watcher by being more honest. Her house is likely quite a tip but she always shows the rooms that are pristine.

Yes, a certain amount of that is normal/forgivable/human but it's clear to me now that actually she is quite messy, likely due to the never ending stream of stuff coming in that she has to maintain. The mess would be more interesting in my mind. She only presents what she feels will appeal but in doing so becomes less appealing. This can be extrapolated to other areas. She only presents her life with Dean, her anxieties, she feels put her in a good light or buy her some sense of faux humility. But when it comes to how she really feels, how she really lives, that's absent. Not that she doesn't have a right to have boundaries or keep stuff private, she does. The fact remains though that the less you share and the less real you are the less relatable. It's a balance.

New paragraph. And breathe. Hahahaha.

I actually think Lizzy, as unintelligent as she sometimes sounds is more well read and studious than Brittany. Some of the most ditzy people in classes I've taken turn out to be the cleverest. I also think that much as a posh person can drive around in a 30 year old landrover with muddy boots, old furniture with mess everywhere and eyebrows that stick out at right angles to their faces and crooked teeth and say WHAT? instead of "pardon" (because they don't have aspirations of going places, they already are at that place), Lizzy is a bit like this, (not 100%, she's still insecure, she's still worries) feels less need to keep up appearances.

Not that she is posh but privileged in a way that is less tenuous perhaps. Brittany seems, and this is a total guess, like she worries incessantly about how she is perceived and whether she seems sophisticated enough. Brittany would never drive around in a black BMW with red interior (too flash). But Lizzy either doesn't know or is not fussed about whether that looks gauche. And as grossly tacky as that car was to me, is appealing in the sense that at least she doesn't pretend she doesn't like such "uncool" things. A well educated, well read person does not have to fill a bookshelf with books, they don't care, there's nothing to prove.

The super priveleged folks (over generations), whether we like it or not have the benefit of not worrying so much about what others think and this is why, I think, often their influencing is on a different level. Because they have time to be bored and money to burn, it's easier to inspire. You are not worried about keeping the lights on and you have the space to play around and if it goes pear shaped, well no biggie. It is the same with someone uber famous or more rebellious. Many times they are not worried about being tasteful which is way more fun.

As with people on the upper end, the same is true for the working class like my dad who also don't give a toss what others think. Get fucked if you don't like it is their attitude. Though my dad is very well educated, he's a Geordie from working class roots and will never be impressed by superficiality. Brittany is, (like me in this regard) decidedly middle class and though this will horrify her, she is the exact type of bougie, overly concerned with possessions and maintaining an image as the average social climbing, Essex type (no offense Essex, not everyone there is like this) just in another format. I suspect Brittany is priveleged but in a different way and there is something underlying that gives her more self doubt.

These are just musings and speculative. I don't see it as a negative necessarily that you are middle class and bougie. What I see as a negative is that you try desperately to project that you are not, that you are a cut above. Don't take it as all posh people are this, all working class people are this, all middle class people are this. I don't give one fig about class in my personal life but as a Brit born and bred who has lived abroad for most of their life I see this with new eyes now and find it interesting.

I recalibrate about it a lot, but I've realized over the years that the "coasters on the table","got to keep my plimsolls really white" type of person that Brittany is, are generally deeply insecure about their identity and place. This can be the enemy of creativity, having depth/being interesting. They are uncomfortable in their own skin and over compensate sometimes b/c it. Worrying about such things expends a lot of mental energy unnecessarily. I recall a child I worked with who when given shaving cream on a plastic mat to play with didn't want to get her hands dirty b/c mum wouldn't like that. It was important for her to play so this was a goal of therapy and get messy.

All this said, I think Brittany has ingredients there and if she did develop some awareness of this and was able to let go a little, she *might* be able to make inroads. I do think there are skills to recommend her, just currently, they are obstructed.
 
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Mrs McCarthy

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Hi Iā€™m sorry but I donā€™t think itā€™s totally fair to say she is wealthy and privileged. On her LinkedIn it seems she has worked mostly retail after art college and before blogging. Iā€™m not saying she has had it hard but I would her background is fairly ordinary, but sheā€™s just really cool and felt confident following the art path which led her to retail, instead of chasing something more corporate. I think her relationship with dean reflects this, and the fact that they live somewhere relatively ordinary and without a huge mortgage. Obviously now thanks to blogging she is able to buy higher end fashion etc, and she is educated, but I know many people like her from growing up and I wouldnā€™t say they are either wealthy or privileged. Just quite normal raised well without huge expectations...

Also I really like Brittany! Iā€™ve enjoyed her lot vlogs edited with good music and what was described as slow living. Even her fashion, which would look awful on me, doesnā€™t seem like a consumeristic reflection of labels. But sheā€™s definitely lucky she can pull it off being naturally very slim and petite lol.

I think I enjoy her YouTube more than her Instagram as she seems more down to earth on it. Itā€™s been interesting to follow her garden updates too, although the garden furniture was crazy expensive...

Even if I lived in London I wouldnā€™t be going out to soho or pubs in central. There are green spaces in London, even if gardens are rarer.
She is white and British. She has a job that allows her to work from home. She has a big house with a big garden. She has a lot of clothes including lots and lots of designer pieces. She is very privileged if you ask me!
 
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As for the sandals, I do wish people credited my dad, a retired biology teacher, who has been wearing these types of sandals since the 70s. With socks! That combined with a nice cardigan with elbow patches and his beard was quite a look.
 
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anonytub

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First time posting here. Hmm extremely interesting what I have read on this thread especially comments from people who have experienced her bullying and nasty nature (which I know to be true). Personally, i can guarantee she has an account here, obsesses over these comments and it wouldnā€™t surprise me if she wrote on here in reply to people throwing herself a bone but adding some ā€œbalanceā€ to not make it so obvious. Even in her very early days of Instagram she was copying accounts and other peopleā€™s lead. Which in itself wasnā€™t anything that out of the ordinary weā€™re all inspired on some level. But BB would never credit or acknowledge those she was copying, she would follow them at a distance whilst trying to absorb as much of them as she could (every minute detail like following all their friends personal accounts etc. Kind of like snaking her way in to the nest). When she was called out on it a few times she was NASTY! And I mean like really nasty. Iā€™d go as far as gaslighting the victim at the time. Making them out to be ā€œdelusionalā€ when my friend blocked her and tried to maintain some distance, she made fake accounts and clutched at other methods of contact, she wrote horrible passive tweets, she wrote fake nasty comments and thereā€™s evidence of this because someone I know actually traced the IP address which matched the IP address she was using for genuine commenting with her gmail email on blogger or whatever the platform add on was at the time.

i think someone else said it but for those that really donā€™t like her, donā€™t and avoid her entirely. I think sheā€™s done incredibly well for herself and carved out a niche a lot of people associate the aesthetic with her whether or not itā€˜s genuinely hers or not. I think if you take a step back, regardless of your opinions of everyone it speaks for itself. Influencers in the industry they have friends and she just really doesnā€™t,she made desperate attempts to be in with Lizzie at one point but Lizzie and Lindsey are just more natural. Iā€™m sure these girls get on at events but whoā€™s actually showing up in her life she never speaks about anyone. Lilly and Anna, Ameliana and estee.But BB is an outlier to me. I donā€™t wish anyone unwell in their life. These comments about her furnishing her new place with Ā£500 lamps and making herself feel better with Ā£1000 shoes. Itā€™s all well and good but unless you have soul and substance something that lights you up in life itā€™s all a bit empty and sad.
She to me is an extremely obsessive personality she takes someone and tries to compete with them by copying them but doing it better so to speak. And she chooses her targets well. Even the running thing which she goes on about so much now she only started that because of someone else and then used to deliberately try and out do them. the new video she has done is horrendous attempt at humour. Her self depreciation is awkward because sheā€™s the personality that wouldnt put anything on the internet she hasnā€™t obsessed over every inch of for days, so she obviously did think that was a funny foray into interesting content. Sheā€™s not naturally funny or able to pull off that kind of satire on any level. Itā€™s a huge rip off of Tamsin Amy on TikTok/insta trend who plays up to her middle class lifestyle with narrated videos talking obscenely about it.
Itā€™s all really sad but if anyone threatens her reality/curated perfection she becomes very unhinged and defensive. I donā€™t think sheā€™s truly comfortable with showing true emotion or the real BB and it just must be terribly exhausting keeping up appearances constantly. I think she needs to choose her camp if she wants to be a fashion influencer OR an ā€œinfluencerā€ that shares their lifestyle and truly reflects that. Also donā€™t buy her anything she says about mental health etc. how sheā€™s spoken to other people before and the psycho tendencies she will go to. The girl has some serious issues and Iā€™m glad sheā€™s addressing them with therapy.

 
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snarkvark

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I like her because I donā€™t think sheā€™s as vapid as other influencers & she does have hobbies & interests (running, reading, design, art, architecture). She is totally out of my league budget-wise but I donā€™t watch/follow her because sheā€™s relatable but because sheā€™s aspirational. I like that she makes considered choices with a consistent aesthetic & doesnā€™t jump on bandwagons like all the other insta-clones.
She is though, it's just BB seems more appealing and upmarket beause she's more Kinfolk and less high street. It's all very contrived and set up to make people aspire to this "perfect" lifestyle. She has expensive clothes, expensive homewares, expensive style. She stands out next to the usual infleuncer crowd because she isn't wearing loads of fast fashion. It's just a different kind of vapid.
 
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Just for fun I totalled up the prices for every outfit linked in the description box... Ā£15062.80 all in all šŸ˜³ And that's not an exact figure for each of those outfits because some she rewore shoes, didn't link her earrings etc. I know she will have paid or got discount for some of it but even so. The thing that plays on my mind the most is I bet that's not even the garment workers who made those trousers (for example) annual salary, and that's just based on maybe a couple of months gifting and/or purchases with discount?
 
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olsenrow

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Girl has a job now šŸ•ŗ
I am pleased that sheā€™s doing something fulfilling and thinking of her future unlike so many influencers who complain about how influencing is real work. But I canā€™t help but feel jealousy when she hasnā€™t worked for years and hasnā€™t had to, then lands a job people dream of. Iā€™m so jealous, Iā€™ve been trying to work in gallery curation for months but itā€™s so nepotistic and impossible without connections. Maybe I need to get off tattle and touch some grass.
 
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brerwhabbit

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I think in the last vlog she is starting to realize a few things - like she realizes the bookshelves don't need to be filled etc. The collaboration prospect is interesting with H&M (well she said it's a sister brand to Arket so maybe it's COS or And Other Stories)? I thought she was going to focus on supporting sustainable, slow, clean fashion? Oh well, I suppose right now, it's hard to be picky. She should pipe down about that stuff if she doesn't want to appear duplicitous maybe. The offers she will get for "collaborations" will be from larger companies who green wash at best. It's a hard and non-lucrative road to be a true activist about fashion and being anti-consumption while being a regular vlogger is an oxymoronic enterprise. Not that it isn't possible, just not if you want to make money.

I wonder if she is reading this? Surely not? Why put yourself through that? But she made a point of saying how boring she is (to get clamoring comments that she is not?) and the bookshelves don't need to be filled. I notice she has an ACNE magazine with Fran Lebowitz on the cover. That's from 2012. I highly doubt she knew who Fran was at that time. I did, because I'm old and I'm from NY (well, I'm English but I lived there for 15 years). I highly doubt she's read it, it looks pristine. It's the only one, just kind of lying there as if in a retail shop, not a home. She has a lot of "rules". Books can't be behind glass. Barrister bookshelves were made with glass to protect books. And who the heck cares? The glass doors are very "IKEA" though, I would remove them too.

There are general design concepts for sure that she probably picked up on when she was a visual merchandiser but they are meant to broken in my view - just a guideline. The overriding anxiety she has at home, which is hers alone and she can do what she wants with is on volume 11. No wonder she feels tired with all the work she has to do for the collaboration project. I'm not doubting that those projects are quite arduous. This why they (influencers) get paid so well - not as much as all the people collectively but far, far more than you would get working as one for a brand (usually, unless you're a big name). The company that hires you knows this and willing to pay that amount b/c it is actually cheaper for them.

And for influencers it is much leaner than going through all the red tape and opinions and meetings of a corporation. And they get something fresh. But, the stylist, prop manager, all those things she says she doesn't have, they don't get paid like you do at all. Them's the breaks babes you want the big bucks, you work hard. She could hire Dean (looks like she does already though, for free, LOL). To be fair, I don't think she is meaning to whine but it's not really easy to listen to and she should be aware this doesn't endear. A little bit is okay and human and relatable to an EXTENT but a whole vlog of "oh the pandemic, oh the work, oh my anxiety" well, you don't do that at a job, and this is a job (I sound like my mum now).

Someone earlier said she is really bringing something unique to style. Take a look at https://www.instagram.com/nordicstylereport/?hl=en (nordic style report). EVERY single apartment/flat on there is almost a carbon copy of hers. No joke, the sofa, the style of the apartment, the chairs, the fireplaces everything. Also, her look is pretty much the same. Except she is a scandi minfluencer crossed with Margaret Howell. A mixed breed of sorts with a little Korean (which is essentially knock offs of Celine and Scandi style proportioned for shorter folks - sorry Korea, there is more, I'm speaking of the brands BB likes). She is a fusion, but it's not radically different.

I quite like her mix. Scandinavian design by itself bores me to tears. She could do with a bit more British insouciance. We, as a country, make fashion more irreverent, interesting and fun. We bring the party to the snore-ee good taste of the continent/Scandinavia. She does have something, but I wouldn't go as far to say it is terribly unique. It's extremely trendy - not high street trendy, but of a certain mileau. They all remind me of the son in Schitt's Creek - you know when he's looking for his first job and he says "trend researcher or art curating? I've been told I have really good taste" Hahahahhahahaha!

I did trend research for 6 years and loved it - but it's a difficult job to get and I had 15+ years experience plus writing, plus being in the right place at the right time and the amount of people who thought my job was easy - well, when they tried to do it, they just regurgitated what was at stores already, out there and their inspiration boards were a mess. I would research history, art, science, all kinds of stuff to arrive at palettes and emerging trends. And it was an obsession that I worked 16 hours a day at (and loved it) - it's a job that's disappearing rapidly though. Only a few companies left that do it well and make money.

There's my novel for the week. I did break it up a bit this time. LOL. xo
 
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Brittany says she continuously justifies herself keeping hold of things she has no need for, just in case she ever fancies using them again.

Is that what happened to Dean? šŸ„²
 
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uhhhhhhcanwejust

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As someone who is on a medical leave for mental health issues stemming from my job, I can say that while we all suffer from mental health concerns, I think BB is using it as an excuse, as someone else mentioned. Does that sound harsh? Maybe. But truly, this woman has so much time, money to focus on herself. To be her best self. Instead she does a half-assed job of creating content and whinges. If say she cannot hold herself back from complaining online to complete strangers, then Dean and the friends at the studio should hold her back and take away her camera.. But my hunch is she can restrain herself and the whingeing is for the sycophantic followers to boost her and to have some talking points to sound cool and relevant to her desired circle who have to be either super busy building their art/businesses or are similarly influencers.

Her biggest issue seems to be not wanting to be labelled an influencer but wanting that lifestyle. Just be honest with yourself BB, accept it, embrace it and live in your truth free from blame. All of us without the opportunities, money and time would love to live with your excessive lifestyle and release ourselves from feeling aggrieved about the job title. Say what you mean, mean what you say. You're an influencer. Be authentic by embracing reality.

If you want a career change, make it happen, but do something. Don't pretend to be a "creative" when really you are an influencer. Wake up.
 
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