It seems a lot of us has similar experiences when first encountering BLAB. For me it was late summer of 2019. I had just had a wonderful family trip to Disneyland. This was my first visit in over 20 years and it rekindled my childhood memories of Disneyland visits. On a whim, I got on Youtube and searched for Disneyland and got introduced to the world of Disney vloggers. I remember seeing Adam, Justin, FreshBaked, OA and BLAB, as well as the WDW vloggers.
During this time, I was watching the vlogs on my TV, and the YouTube SmartTV app did not support chats or comments, so I did not realized the "super chats" meant giving money to them (I still can't believe people would give them their hard earned money). I watched BLAB then mainly because of Spencer as I found Katie annoying when she screeches on the rides and how she hams it up when they appear in others' videos. After a few months, I just stopped watching Disney vlogs for no particular reason, it just seemed like the concept ran it course for me.
Then when the pandemic hit, and I (like others) had substantial changes in my life, I started to watch the Disney vlogs again. In particular, I saw BLAB's video of Disneyland's last day before closing. It was actually good, but everybody expected DL to be closed for a couple of weeks. Then I saw the infamous Knotts/mall parking lot spreader event. Though a lot of people were careless , BLAB stood out for me because they deleted every negative comment (including mine). This was the first time I realize they did that and also the first time I thought "These people are a-holes". And then came the non-stop whining and rants about not being able to go to Disneyland even they are fortunate enough to live by the beach. And then the rants against the protocols. And how they called themselves "essential workers" because they spread joy or something like that. And how Katie always interrupts Spencer during WHW chats. And knowing that Spencer is pissed but keeps quiet. It seems like Spencer gets more emasculated during each WHW and it was sad to see.
I never subscribed, but I stopped regularly watching them. I was so turned off on how they were not taking COVID seriously and how they entitled they feel. They still show up in my regular feed so once in a while I will tuned in. I saw when they went to Walt Disney World, Katie started with the waterworks. Honestly, people are dealing with serious issues, and all you cared about was to go to a Disney park. At some point also was the Lake Tahoe fiasco. I just could not take the pity party from the fallout from that. And then of course how they screwed Adam the Woo.
Now I think they are at their worst. There is this breathless thumbnail advertising being at Disneyland for Martin Luther King day. Where upon Katie disparages a black family on the Mark Twain. And how they were giving away a $30 prize as if it was a trip to Hawaii or something. But what really pisses me off is how they how they are all for masks now. In a video last summer, Katie said masks gave her anxiety. She always plays the anxiety card to shamelessly elicit sympathy.
It is also obvious that this forum is driving them crazy because they can't control it. The balding tires came up again, why? In the flat tire video, they said the damage to the tire was difficult to see (that was their excuse). Why are they bringing this up again? I did not see last night's chat, but it sounded like they repeated their lame excuse. No doubt they were responding to this thread. I mentioned in another post that other vloggers have Tattlelife threads, but somehow, it does not affect them like this forum affects BLAB.
I guess the bottom line is that a lot of us figured out they were fakes before we happened along this forum. But, for me at least, I never realized how really bad they are until I read the tea here. And that is why they lash out at the "haters in their basements" because they can't delete the comments here.
