Eve Cornwell

[gossip_guy]

Really need someone to do a snarky rundown like that guy in the Ruby Granger thread. Far more fun than watching the video!

Consider this a late/early birthday present:

If the clickbaity title of 'i quit my dream job' wasn't a dead giveaway that Eve wants to really sell the self-importance of this monumental development (and that influencers are terminally incapable of using capital letters in video titles), then look at the state that Eve has been reduced to:

She's wearing comfortable clothes and lounging on the sofa! Life has clearly taken a dark turn. I mean, chilling on the couch in a onesie seems like the ideal gig, but by the sombre lighting and forlorn look on Eve's face, we can tell that she's dressed down because she's "going through some shit". But what could it be?

The inference will soon be clear: Eve has a severe case of everyone's-talking-about-me-on-the-internet-and-I'm-not-okay syndrome - a fictional affliction invented by YouTubers to help them feel very important and relevant.

She shows herself getting bombarded with website pop-ups, complete with a barrage of jarring error sounds. I think that stopped being a thing with Windows 98, but who am I to get in the way of Eve's existential crisis?

It's also the same article copied half a dozen times. "This life event is extra serious! I'm hearing about it from all angles! One place mentioned it!" Okay, Eve.

For some reason she's holding a notepad to take notes about herself.

After some footage of Eve posing pensively and running around the tube maskless while solemn poetry plays (not written or read by Eve) to show just how epic the life decisions are here, Eve's here to intro the video.

She whispers: "So today is gonna be an 'I quit my job' ASMR--I'M JOKING!"

Oh, the hilarity! And ASMR jokes only get funnier the more you tell them. Perhaps Eve will tell even more equally fresh, original and topical jokes in this video, too. Perhaps she'll joke about MySpace. Maybe she'll start introing videos with this:

After moving on from jokes that were barely amusing years ago before they were beating into the ground, Eve reveals that in December 2021, she quit her job. Shocking stuff indeed!

She mentions that she took a step back from social media in 2021. "Because GUURLL, I was working through things," she says, continuing to use overworn jokes and culturally-appropriated mannerisms from several years ago. So topical!

You probably noticed that she wasn't around much, Eve says.

Because of course, everyone put their life on hold and was frantically refreshing their feed waiting for Eve to come back while she was off living the legal life. Her absence left a void that simply could not be filled by every other Eve Chamberlain wannabe influencer doing the exact same thing.

Eve drives home her unique, irreplaceable personality and talent by peppering her sentences with that 'snatching at thin air' hand gesture that every influencer apparently believes they're legally required to do or they'll be removed from YouTube by the Google overlords.

But now she's quit her job, she can make even more of the same old shit. GET EXCITED, PEOPLE!

"That's what this video is. It's a REINTRODUCTION TO ME."

Um...no thanks. I've already seen enough of your self-absorbed, carbon copy influencer shtick. Please return to lawyering.

Sorry @YellowLadybird , I tried. She's just too annoying and conceited to endure for more than three minutes.

Godspeed, you Eve Cornwell Tattlers. You're far braver and made of much stronger stuff than I am.

 

[Franno1999]

hmmmmm....maybe start wearing a mask????? As you should be doing anyways on the tube???????? ffs

 

[MarinaScorpio]

I'm kinda annoyed by her video re her quitting her job. She's preaching to us and telling us how you have to think about what you want, to be happy, blah blah, etc. She forgot to mention that she actually works for a company that is owned by Linklaters. This isn't exactly the same as quitting your job, changing career and starting from scratch looking for a new job, being unemployed for a while, etc. She hasn't quite had to go through that struggle. Many of us stuck in unhappy jobs and careers can't afford to leave and start from 0. She was lucky that she managed to switch careers easily.

 

[doublepops]

Would it kill her to wear a mask on the Tube?
They were either going to or coming from Vee's launch party, I just cannot deal with people like her anymore. Wearing a mask on public transport is the least you can do right now, especially if you have an active social life as she does. Glad to see at least Jack is doing the bare minimum.

 

[ECH]

She's probably not using lesbian because the woke crowd would come after her for being sO tRaNsPhoBic.

Come on now, literally no one would do that. She's most likely using 'queer' because it's the word she feels describes her best or she's not settled on her identity - she may still be questioning if she's attracted to men or not before deciding on a label. It has nothing to do with being 'woke' or trying to avoid claims of transphobia, which she would literally not get if she decided she felt 'lesbian' described her best.

 

[Hot_Dogs_Or_Toes]

She's posting a video about leaving law tomorrow. She teased it on her Instagram stories

I can't wait to find out how much I can get off a skillshare membership using her discount code.

 

[gossip_guy]

for me, the title reminded me of those tumblr and aesthetic notes that girls take in school in which they write something like The Holocaust
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Sneak preview of her next video:

 

[xekatinaz]

It's happened to me on more than one occasion. Apparently I was a bigot for only wanting to date biological females. It's happened to my gay male friends as well, enough for me to say that it's endemic. Look up "cotton/boxer ceiling".

Maybe because you sounded like a Terf ? Just maybe.
This has nothing to do with being a lesbian.

Just checked your post history. You are obviously a huge terf and you know it. Trans women are women and some are lesbians too.

Eve’s identity is completely up to her and we have zero saying in this.

 

[biscuit142]

I know this isn’t a page about her girlfriend: but eve, maybe don’t post a picture of someone clearly going against the rules of travel on tfl. When there is a literal sign behind her saying to wear a mask. And infection rates are rapidly increasing.

 

[DietGossip]

I watched her video and it's nothing really new to me. I'm also beginning to really side eye people like Eve who spent so long pushing the productivity/study thing and are now going "but that was BAD because CAPITALISM" without saying "hey I heavily promoted and engaged with this and capitalised off the whole productivity movement and I was wrong, I'm sorry"

 

[Ihavenoidea]

Looks like Eves going back into the office again. It’s optional and I know her firm isn’t enforcing it yet.
Seems a bit desperate- like was she that bored at home.

Also side note Linklaters really need to revamp their offices jesus

I wouldn’t call her going to the office desperate. I am not a lawyer (but I am in an industry with very similar work/life balance if not worse) and going to the office is sometimes the best thing I can do for my sanity. It gets incredibly lonely and boring at home and there are always people to talk to in the office. If I am working until 1am I have to actually get home so that gives me a bit of break between work and sleep so that I have some time to get my brain ready for bed instead of just getting up from the chair and throwing myself on the bed. The setup is better because even though we got basically every electronic we need for home office it is still not the same as the full office setup. The other thing is that there is food in the office provided for us that I don’t have to cook, order or make any effort towards making and I think most big law firms also have this. These are just my reasons Eve could also have different ones but overall I don’t think going to the office is desperate.

 

[NooraCoora]

I'm so tired of people using AD(H)D as a synonym for "having trouble staying focused at times". Eve, you're in a 1-year relationship, you have plenty of longtime friends, you graduated with excellent grades, received excellent feedback and training contract offers from all of your former employers, and secured a training contract at one of the most renowned law firms in a super fast-paced environment. I highly doubt that at least some of those things would have been possible with an undiagnosed (!) AD(H)D. People like Eve who missuse the name of such a serious mental illness are responsible for the fact that way too many people still don't take AD(H)D seriously, and think it's an excuse for lazy people that aren't trying hard enough.

Sorry for my English. I'm not a native speaker. I just had to talk to anyone since that retweet made me cry my eyes out ever since I've seen it.

 

[DimpleFace]

I'm kinda annoyed by her video re her quitting her job. She's preaching to us and telling us how you have to think about what you want, to be happy, blah blah, etc. She forgot to mention that she actually works for a company that is owned by Linklaters. This isn't exactly the same as quitting your job, changing career and starting from scratch looking for a new job, being unemployed for a while, etc. She hasn't quite had to go through that struggle. Many of us stuck in unhappy jobs and careers can't afford to leave and start from 0. She was lucky that she managed to switch careers easily.

Also the privilege to be able to quit a 100k job isn’t afforded to most. A large reason why I like being in law is being to support my mum. It’s all well and good to say follow your dreams when you’ve got skillshare money and a middle class family to fall back on.

 

[ohrouge]

Yay she can finally stop the queerbating

is it queer baiting if you’re actually queer? seems a bit harsh

 

[aidil]

It’s Ali Abdaal all over again. These influencers get too big for their boots and forget the main reason people followed them was for their original career paths.

 

[YellowLadybird]

I do think the legal industry as a whole is too uptight to retain younger staff, at least in more traditional firms.

I see it in firms all the time, they're anti-work from home and technology generally and would rather micromanage everyone in an office and have endless meetings and a dress code when you could do it all at home in a tracksuit.

I know she shares a lot about herself online but everywhere has become a bit like that. LinkedIn these days is more baby announcements and sob stories than anything career-related.

Honestly, whatever you think of Eve's YT/Influencer content, she is clearly a hard working and motivated person.

I think she's the tip of the iceberg really and it'll come back to bite some of these companies if they don't adapt to the expectations of the upcoming Gen-Z who are not afraid to stand up for themselves and advocate for a work-life balance. No one should be working 80 hours a week and honestly, she's probably far better off in tech earning ~£50k (half of her previous) and being able to have a LIFE. Past a certain point, money doesn't do that much to make you happy. You can't buy more hours in the day or years of your life back.

 

[veronika.sunshine]

It's just ridiculous. She's using "queer" as a personality trait AND a fashion style. Good old "my first legal lookbook" video...

Also - how is "wearing stuff that is comfortable for you" and "wearing different style of clothes on different days" somehow specific to being queer? Surely Eve used to wear jeans some days and dresses on other days even before she thought of herself as queer?

 

[gossip_guy]

Why is in her mind being openly lgbtq = being unprofessional. Like I get that traditional business wear can be considered heteronormative (and generally not inclusive), but that doesn’t mean you have to sit on a table in your dirty ass converse for a talk?

Honestly she just sounds like a middle-aged teacher trying desperately to show the students that she's unique and cool and relatable but just looking like an out-of-touch embarrassment. Choosing to wear Converse to a business meeting isn't unique. It's the boardroom hipster cliché.

There's a line between being yourself in a professional setting and desperately trying to be unique, and she's several miles over that line. Nobody's going to care if she's gay, or refuses to wear a skirt and high heels, but the "I'm so cool" try-hardyness of slobbing around sitting on top of desks in the world's most commonly-worn sneakers doesn't come off as unique or authentic, it just makes you look like a douche.

 

[veronika.sunshine]

I feel like she's turned her whole personality into "wow look I have a girlfriend" now. I really loved her study/uni/life vlogs and videos and posts, she's great at editing and has a good taste in music, I always found her personality to be fun and quirky (in a likable way), I really enjoy her older videos, but the last three or four ones turned out to be sort of....bland? for me? Like I get it, people grow and change, that's fine. But I feel like her whole personality has now turned into "I have a girlfriend", "this is capitalism's fault " and "fuck the male gaze ", which, when repetitive, is quite boring tbh. I'm happy that she's happy, but it feels like there's nothing else now, her whole being is just about having a girlfriend?

 

[YellowLadybird]

Wish I'd seen this earlier but a wide range of interesting and varied comments on this Roll On Friday article...

One moment, please...

Good points made-
"I think legal cheek runs several credulous stories about what legal influencers eat for breakfast every week"
"Legal Cheek writers delete and alter the comments all the time at least on here people can say what they think and be honest."

"Was more suggesting legal influencers may not be as cut out for law as they proclaim, particularly after leaving within 4 months of qualifying…
I mean logically, their talents lie with marketing if they’ve built up such a fan base and converted so many people to follow their career choice."

I mean this is really the one that had me spitting out my tea and it's not even a comment, just the article itself:

Her move will come as a relief to some colleagues at Linklaters, one of whom told RollOnFriday, "there isn't a single person I know who works here who doesn't visibly cringe upon seeing her videos"

Absolutely savage.