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Yeah, better go to sleep Dakota
what a load of drivel
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Yeah, better go to sleep Dakota
what a load of drivelrubysdeadfly
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cost of living but make it aesthetic. Her starving artist act is so cringe, she's always travelling so clearly isn't short of money
bookishfrieze00
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saw this brought up briefly in the review mentioned previously, but Dakota's decision to put this in her obviously aesthetically curated video is genuinely really disgusting and exploitative
StatusWoe
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The good thing about the pre- social media years was that all this teenage-angst drivel would remain in personal notebooks until the authors turned 20, disposed of it safely and anonymously, and the outside world never had to witness the cringe.
liorer
Member
Sadly for fans of cringe everywhere, Dakota and Darcy broke up a while ago
Was going to make a post about Dakota’s syntactical and grammatical terrorism as seen in her breakup blog entry “Nowhere Girl Becomes Everywhere Girl,” (yes, she does somehow make the post itself even more cringe than the title) but everyone should just go read it.
I will leave you with this excerpt:
“Yesterday evening I stared into a mirror wondering if I was an awful person because I’ve moved on so fast until I learned my ex lover has made nightly habit of chasing drugs and fucking strangers and picking fights in bars (and then calling me over and over until I turn my phone off whilst I’m cradled in someone else’s arms). Listen, I know I said I like bad boys, ‘cause I’ve never been much good with the good ones, but I didn’t mean *this* bad.”
The drug-chasing stranger-fucking bar-fighting bad boy is depicted below:
Thuggish individuals being turned out from England’s private performing arts schools!
snottymole
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Usually just find the attempts to be edgy more or less amusing, but I find the lobotomy references to be in extraordinarily bad taste. It's just so...ugh. I guess that screenshot is from gasmask guy's social media? (I can't find it on Dakota's).
One thing that really intrigues me about Dakota is that she wants to be seen as an intellectual, a voracious reader, a writer, and an 'I'm just a girl/lobotomy-core' girl at the same time. But she's also a femme fatale who sleeps with older men/seduces her teachers, a simple Catholic girl from rural Australia, a hedonistic European aristocrat, someone who cares about social justice but is completely apolitical—the list goes on and on...Is it just me or is she trying to change her accent to sound less like she speaks English?
The video she did where she was sat in Jack Edwards’ room she kept stumbling on words that English speakers would know and say something like ‘how would you say that’ as if English wasn’t her first language
I think hanging around in Sicily has her thinking she’s now fully Italian
What she really wants is for business to send these items to her lol. I’ve seen this over and over again, an influencer will put up a story saying “omg where can I find this” as if google doesn’t exist and days later they were ~kindly~ sent whatever it is they wanted.
Also, her poetry book was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Awards, it’s not the most competitive category but I doubt she’ll win against bigger names unless there’s mass voting. Some of the book:
Again, all vibes and no substance. It’s a book made for teenage girls to annotate and take aesthetic pictures of, she’s no tortured artist.
liorer
Member
1. She says sobriety is “in”… when drinking wine is about 50% of her aesthetic (the rest of her aesthetic is misusing words, pretending to read, exposing her ass in awkward ways while performing for the male gaze, and queerbaiting)
2. She says vaping was “never in” but she smokes cigarettes to look edgy in half of her posts? So that means she disapproves of it on a purely aesthetic basis. Lmao of course
3. Bold of her to say veneers are out??? Dakota HAS VENEERS!
4. paraSYNthetic nervous system? Ouch. (It’s paraSYMPAthetic. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing this word or what it means. It’s the fact that she relentlessly uses words she doesn’t understand to seem intelligent. Dakota—it has the opposite effect).
rubysdeadfly
Chatty Member
The entire group are in their 20s cosplaying The Secret History, how are you 25 and pretending to have done a bacchanal when in reality you’ve sat round with ur rich friends and drank expensive wine. Get your own identity because because the Secret History is a satire on the people you’re trying to emulate
liorer
Member
Dakota claims she reads obsessively, writes obsessively. I wish that she would consult a dictionary and an IPA pronunciation guide obsessively instead. In her book haul video she was butchering every mid-level vocabulary word she came across.
She has an extremely weak grasp of English for a native speaker—just no natural facility with words and language whatsoever.
10:54 macabre as MACK-uh-buh (?? wtf)
11:45 diaspora as DEE-uh-spora. This was bordering on ignorant. It wasn’t just that she mispronounced it, which would be understandable for a lot of people, it was that she sounded it out making it clear it was her first time encountering the word. Has she literally never taken a history class? Hello, Jewish diaspora? African diaspora? Any of the million diasporas you might have learned about?
14:40 visceral as VISKeral (you can’t make this shit up)
16:32 recollections as RE-collections
20:19 calls herself a “frequenting visitor” of her local thrift store
22:15 “this has my utmost recommendation.” Totally ungrammatical.
24:50 amoral as AMoral, like how you would pronounce “amorous.” That one was as excruciating as VISKeral. It’s a-moral, as in without morals, Dakota. Isn’t that a word a devilish, hedonistic god-killer such as yourself should be familiar with?
She has an extremely weak grasp of English for a native speaker—just no natural facility with words and language whatsoever.
10:54 macabre as MACK-uh-buh (?? wtf)
11:45 diaspora as DEE-uh-spora. This was bordering on ignorant. It wasn’t just that she mispronounced it, which would be understandable for a lot of people, it was that she sounded it out making it clear it was her first time encountering the word. Has she literally never taken a history class? Hello, Jewish diaspora? African diaspora? Any of the million diasporas you might have learned about?
14:40 visceral as VISKeral (you can’t make this shit up)
16:32 recollections as RE-collections
20:19 calls herself a “frequenting visitor” of her local thrift store
22:15 “this has my utmost recommendation.” Totally ungrammatical.
24:50 amoral as AMoral, like how you would pronounce “amorous.” That one was as excruciating as VISKeral. It’s a-moral, as in without morals, Dakota. Isn’t that a word a devilish, hedonistic god-killer such as yourself should be familiar with?
"girls when their lifelong childhood crush on their girl best friend is the standard stifled queer experience"
... Can we fucking not? It really pisses me off when people, male or female, eroticise young girl's friendships. Just because you're gay or bi doesn't mean it's standard, nor do the rest of the girls who are just trying to traverse a world that sexualises their every move, often and especially not consensually, need more fuel poured on the 'oooh, girls prance around in their bras and kiss at sleepovers and in changing rooms, everyone knows it! go on! kiss for us!' fire that male fetishists love.
Also 'standard stifled queer experience'? Based on? Or is this another 'girl who is palpably obsessed with male attention simply says she's bi and talks about queer this and queer that because it scores her cool points even though she'll never actually be with a woman or see them as viable love interests'?
... Can we fucking not? It really pisses me off when people, male or female, eroticise young girl's friendships. Just because you're gay or bi doesn't mean it's standard, nor do the rest of the girls who are just trying to traverse a world that sexualises their every move, often and especially not consensually, need more fuel poured on the 'oooh, girls prance around in their bras and kiss at sleepovers and in changing rooms, everyone knows it! go on! kiss for us!' fire that male fetishists love.
Also 'standard stifled queer experience'? Based on? Or is this another 'girl who is palpably obsessed with male attention simply says she's bi and talks about queer this and queer that because it scores her cool points even though she'll never actually be with a woman or see them as viable love interests'?
She's is pretty much what would come out of a machine if you asked a hipster male who only drinks
single origin coffee to input his ideal girl - dead behind the eyes, blunt cut bob, and just the right amount of 'appealing to dudes' with the gratuitous lip touching and eye-fucking herselfThe God killing stuff is so funny to me, I can't even begin to take it seriously. That's the shit that makes me think, 'wow she's really not aware of how she sounds, is she?'.
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Gosh I don’t know how does she manage but her longer writing is more unbearable than the poetry. This was posted today.
There’s something so incredibly farcical about it. Not a single word comes from the person she actually is, she writes like the person she wants to be seen as and that’s what it makes it so bad.
Even her journaling reads like her hoping to have a Sylvia Plath/Virginia Woolf diaries moment as opposed to someone pouring their true private thoughts and feelings onto the page.
I remember she posted about someone asking where was her blouse (?) from and she said something along the lines of “I just want to read you poetry”. Girl… I promise you people are not following you for your art. It’s not a good sign when you know your literary career wouldn’t exist if your personal style was old jeans and a tank top.
I’ve commented here before the more she’s outside the influence of her weird wannabe friend group the more politically outspoken she becomes. She’s recently reposted a pro Palestine and an anti trump video on tiktok just as she’s in Australia by herself.
I truly think she’s your typical liberal white girl who supports gay rights and other non-threatening progressive issues and the whole retvrn religious shtick she’s been flirting with is largely due to how popular and “quircky” those things seem now, but you’re a grown woman now, not an impressionable teenager. Just how genuine are your political views when they’re shaped by some larpers you hang out with?
I truly think she’s your typical liberal white girl who supports gay rights and other non-threatening progressive issues and the whole retvrn religious shtick she’s been flirting with is largely due to how popular and “quircky” those things seem now, but you’re a grown woman now, not an impressionable teenager. Just how genuine are your political views when they’re shaped by some larpers you hang out with?
lizzie2707
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Oh wow I had no clue Dakota has a thread on here! This girl fucking baffles me - the whole ‘not like other girls’ thing is hilarious, I guess she didn’t have tumblr when she was 13 so needs to get it out of her system now. Her whole aesthetic screams ‘wants to seem mature and worldly’, which is pretty much the quickest way possible to demonstrate your immaturity tbh why are there so few booktubers like Emmie lol
velvetunderground
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This interaction is killing me lmao
