When did Vlogmas become just opening Advent Calendar every day? Just like Christmas it seems Vlogmas has lots its true meaning.
It used to be something vloggers did for Christmas, basically vlogging every day in December (anyone remember Organised Like Jen / My Housewife Life?). It was about putting the decorations up, going to Christmas markets, wrapping presents, getting stressed lol, a daily dose of someone’s real life that you could maybe relate to
When did it become about just opening advent calendars? Just a lazy video a day (most probably pre-recorded in the space of one day) showing more unnecessary consumeristic waste.
Christmas has become commercial enough, without this new unnecessary trend (“tradition”).
Over on the Mrs M thread someone mentioned Fawn Figures it Out and I watched one of her videos (never heard of her before) and in it she showed over £700 worth of advent calendars that she was going to open “because that’s what vlogmas is about”. Where did she get that idea from? When did that become what vlogmas is about? Who made it so?
No wonder YouTube are cracking down on monetising videos that are “overly consumeristic”. Their platform has become one massive advertisement. I don’t mean the youtube ads themselves but all these money grabbing youtubers making videos showing the freebies they’ve got and sharing the link & discount code.
Stealth advertising at its worst. And totally against advertising standards.