I’ve watched a couple of Haz’s videos this evening, including the holiday ones and I have to say I was really struck by how much more chilled and self confident she is than Ana. You can tell Ana is desperate to be like her (down to the freaking brown smoky eyeliner wow) but it’s so fake because she just doesn’t have the same energy. At all.
this doesn’t change how terrible their attitude to COVID is obviously. But I felt that Haz wasn’t putting on a big performance- she seemed genuinely grateful to have been given that holiday and just wanting to have fun, not caked in make up constantly, not shoving Ana in her vlogs for views. Ana by comparison is so cringe and comes across as painfully uncool (and I think she knows it).
What pissed me off the most was seeing Ana’s face and body truly unedited through Haz’s lens. She is selling her fans an outright lie. God. She looks NOTHING like her grid. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a girl having an untoned or ‘normal’ sized body but the deception is disgusting. She is asking her teen fans to aspire to body standards that don’t exist.
It has made me think Ana clearly has very low confidence in her own skin actually, and that she’s single white femaling Haz because she wants to be like her. It all comes across as arrogance but it’s quite sad. She needs to find a life outside all this superficial bs because its catching up to her, and I don’t think Haz or Byron truly care enough to catch her if she falls.
Essay over lol