Yeah it's a weird move, her vids have always been in English. Maybe she's not bothered about her followers anymore but that would be odd as it does generate income for her.
aren't most of her viewers English speakers? I don't mind the German since im trying to learn it anyways, but I'd like to understand what she's saying lol
Yeah I think there are other lower profile ones out there who are decent, Astrid Franciszka (Paige's friend) comes to mind, but the common threads for all the likeable ones are: they're aware of their own privilege, they don't just study but get involved with other things and they're passionate about what they're learning (and this comes through in videos).She’s going to think you are me because I DM’ed her almost exactly the same thing yesterday!... so perhaps I just blown my cover but oh well
It’s astounding really, how her (and PaigeY) seem to be the only two, people like.
No, she really doesn't. Have you seen any of her videos? I'm just wondering because she constantly talks about her scholarships and about how she was able to finance everything.
I'm sorry, but that's really unfair and not true at all. The CDU welcomes refugees whereas the Tories try to deport every single one of them. This is not a fair comparison. Angela Merkel was part of the CDU, for example, and she is hardly super conservative or terrible. She welcomed more refugees when she was in power than pretty much any other nation in Europe so she is hardly a Tory.
agreed! i also feel like the way she talks on tiktok in general is more juvenile than on youtube? like a lot more slang, tiktok lingo, etc. and i get that it's a different platform (plus she might just be more confident in german/know more slang terms, etc. but i haven't really noticed it in her german yt videos) but still, the way she speaks sounds like she's a middle schooler trying to fit in sometimes imo. no hate to her, it's the platfrom and maybe she's also still trying to figure out how to speak to the camera in german, i just personally don't like it.
i mean why does she talk about liking mcdonalds? or german rap? or reading a court of something and something or whatever the book series is? idk her social media isn't super "professional" in that sense, especially her tiktok, so why not talk about an additional aspect?
yeah probably not, like i said before, she does have a large following on tiktok now which has been german-speaking from the start (i think?) and quickly surpassed her yt followers (within a couple months, after doing yt for years). those people probably also started following her ig, so yeah likely the majority of her ig followers is now german-speaking.Unfortunately, I don't think she will ever go hack to English again. Maybe in YouTube, but I don't think so. When she first started speaking only German on Instagram, I assumed that she would lose a large amount of her followers, which would hopefully make her go back to English. For some reason, this didn't happen (I don't understand, does everyone suddenly speak german?) so she has no reason to start speaking English again.
Holy cow! She definitely deserves it though, I'm lowkey proud of her. It looks like she has to work hard to get the grades she does and I really respect that.
Bit in bold: this is what doesn't seem right, she practically abandoned her very polite followers on Youtube during her final year, people who had watched her journey from the beginning, were rooting for her, she barely updated them during the past year and hasn't really explained herself or said "thanks but goodbye" to them. It just seems rude, to be honest. It would be different if she decided social media was over, but she's clearly on Instagram and TikTok a lot, so it's not a social media thing. I think she should do one more Youtube video acknowledging her fans and thanking them, and wrap up the channel if that's how she feels.
I never said she wasn't middle class? I'm so confused what you're trying to say here? What am I assuming?
Her graduation ig post with her mom said her scholarships didn't cover everything, so at the beginning of her degree her mom said that she'd manage to pay for it somehow and she kept that promise. That's the info i was going off of.
...yes she is? she's not superhuman or anything... what a strange statement. She absolutely worked hard yes, but she also got lucky and has had certain privileges (and that's fine!!! good for her! it just doesn't make any sense for us to deny that she did!)
... Designer is not the opposite of fast fashion. I mean I guess in the sense that it lasts longer because it's (hopefully) higher quality and doesn't follow trend cycles as quickly as fast fashion does? And some brands are obviously better than others but luxury fashion isn't automatically sustainable or ethical just because it's more expensive? If her goal was sustainability, she could be buying actually sustainable brands (before you claim I am criticizing her for not buying sustainable brands: I am not. I am just saying that since you brought up sustainability, if sustainability was her goal there'd be better options).
No it wasn't, at least that's not what you communicated. Your point was that it was an unfair comparison because of how Merkel (and the CDU) dealt with the refugee crisis. I don't think the comparison was unfair because I think that one aspect does not negate the fact that in a majority of topics, the CDU and Tories have similar views an and because I think Merkel's management of the refugee crisis does not accurately represent the entire party, especially not as off late. CDU and Tories are in a similar spot and therefore comparable, especially in a one-sentence online forum answer where someone is trying to contextualize where on the political spectrum the CDU is (in relation to UK parties).
