throwing it back to yesterday when babs felt the need to explain that #ads are filmed in advance - like,
duh?! as if
anyone thought she did a baking session with ethan before school that morning
- but the way she has to send a proposal, which must be approved, then film the ad, make any requested edits and then have it approved by multiple different people before sharing. i was aware that was the process, obvs, but it still blows my mind that not only do the
ideas babs proposes for her #ad content get approved, but the actual ads she shares have been subjected to requested edits, and have then been approved by various employees from the brand?!
they must be absolutely desperate for influenzas to promote their products when they're approving ads of babs hanging rice on her washing line, ads where the pasta changes shape halfway thru - without asking her to refilm/edit the ad for continuity
- ads with her aggressively smashing up chocolate with her head or licking her lips with chocolate melted all over her face, or ads where she's flaunting her gunt, or promoting clothing while quite clearly wearing the wrong sizes. admittedly, much of the backlash her ads receive when brands then choose to share them on their own grids is based on her past behaviour with DV jokes etc, and are simply the result of the brands not doing proper research into the people they pay to advertise their goods, but a hell of a lot of the criticism and mockery is directly their own fault, having approved such poor quality content.
and in terms of the baking ad with ethan - obvs overlooking the lies she told about supposedly having paid for a motatos order, when it was obvs gifted for an #ad and the fact that babs, by her own admission,
never bakes - ethan is far more of a natural in terms of acting in ads than his sister, who is way too over the top and very much "look at me" - just. like. babs. babs has labelled erin a triple threat, and entirely overlooked her son's creative talents and abilities, which is such a shame, because he's musical, creative with his artwork and baking, imaginative with his love of magic etc, loves animals and also seems such a sweet, caring little soul - yet it's erin she's focused on, intent on living her own failed childhood dreams thru her daughter - while simultaneously setting poor erin up to fall flat on her face, constantly telling her she's a star, when her singing/dancing/acting skills are average at best. that poor girl is going to be totally humiliated at secondary school when she auditions for a play or talent contest etc, her overconfident "quiet little steven-like" soul auditioning for all the main roles, with babs cheering her on, and then being given a tiny, insignificant role, with babs FUMING and undoubtedly marching into the school to complain. sadly, the extreme over-confidence babs has instilled in erin by telling she's the absolute best is only going to exacerbate the bullying.
meanwhile, altho that ad was obviously scripted, ethan is such an enduring little guy, the #ad was far more watchable than her usual content, because he's such a cutie - and because she was fully clothed and didn't have food plastered all over her face, obvs. of the two kids, ethan has far more TT vibes than TT herself - he's totally overlooked and unappreciated by babs, but in the long run, i hope that will work in his favour as he escapes the hobbit house and builds a life for himself filled with people who respect and love him, and beyond the clawing grasp of his mother's tippexed talons.