I do feel for her a little with the video, she’s obviously very disappointed in her life and that she’s gained weight. Otherwise she wouldn’t feel the need to justify any of it.
But things like the tweets above and her snobby, conceited attitude just make any sympathy I would have for her disappear.
She’s very pretty, but I think over the years the compliments she has received have all gone to her head and as a result she thinks she’s much better than she actually is. It’s like that school girl attitude of “I’m pretty, therefore I am”. It gets very sad when you forget to develop a real personality in the process.
Tbh I didn't notice her weight gain until she pointed it out herself (I know I must be blind if everyone else noticed lol). I mean its totally understandable to grow into your curves as you get older, but it seems like Freddy has a hard time embracing her physical changes. Its not like she's even remotely big, or even anywhere near it. She's got a lovely figure but I think she has always wanted to maintain the figure she had when she was a teenager, which is unrealistic to most people tbh. Its just natural for our body to change as we grow older
I agree about the pretty comments getting to her head. Perhaps she feels the pressure to live up to the image that people have created of her--which is this pretty, Barbie princess. And she's afraid to ever lose out on the compliments cos she feels very validated by it, almost like her entire existence revolves around it. Someone needs to bring her back down to reality.
I just about found some time to watch her latest video. She actually revealed alot of details in it, I highly recommend anyone here to watch it if you're wanting to know more about her personal life.
My thoughts on her latest video: I kinda understand now why she only uploads once a week and why she always finds it 'stressful' to work. I imagine that Freddy is really trying to keep her personal life separate from YouTube, which is hard to do, so she's constantly thinking of content and scripts for her videos that do not reveal too much of her life or don't give her viewers much to criticize on. Prepping for her videos probably takes longer than some other YouTubers because she has to dissect every sentence in her video to make sure that she doesn't reveal too much unnecessary detail and that she doesn't say the 'wrong' thing. Her videos are fully rehearsed, and I think she plays up her sassy persona for her videos too. Uploading more than once a week gives her more work to do, as in she has to think of a suitable content and has to double her workload on dissecting her videos. These are just my assumptions.
In the video, she mentioned that she hasn't changed since 2018 and I chuckled at that. I don't think she changed for the better but some parts of her personality did get worse to date. She also mentioned that no one makes her laugh like Amy does, and I kinda felt for Josie when she said that cos Josie's comment in the video is the top comment (she said that she and Freddy should travel together again), imagine someone saying that ifo you when you expect to receive the same compliment. I would have imagined that with all the traveling together, Josie would be the one to make Freddy laugh the most, or even JJ, really.
Freddy said that she upped her YouTube game during the first few months of lockdown because 'there was nothing else to do' but it left her tired and stressed when she did that. So she is indirectly admitting that her work doesn't go much beyond answering emails and prancing around in her room?
I liked that she was more personal in this video because we don't get much of that from her regular videos. It did make me understand her a bit better, but it also showed me that she has failed to realize her privilege in working for herself. In the video, she mentioned all the trips she was able to go on for the past 2 years and I think she forgot just how lucky she is to be in a position where she can afford and is able to do so. I feel like she'd be a very hard person to work with in a corporate environment so thank goodness she's not in one.
She did reveal some very interesting information though, like how she loves her current relationship dynamic with JJ (they're currently long distance I think, I've always assumed that she's clingy in their relationship), JJ can work from anywhere (no one here knows whats his actual job is right? I assumed that he has to stay in a place where he can gain recognition and secure gigs as an artist), she wants to live alone and not together with JJ when she moves out (she wants to have the chance to live somewhere alone and independent for once in her life), she hasn't been ready to move out of her family home til recently (I wonder why though, I assumed she stayed in her parents' home to save up for her own property, which is also one of the reasons that she mentioned).
At the end of the video, she said that there will be many career changes for her in 2021. When she said that, the first thought that came to my mind is that she's going to launch her own line of a product, maybe clothes? Or launch a collection in collaboration with one of her favorite brands. Moving out of her parents' home is one change that some of us have already guessed. She said she feels like she has already reached the peak of her YouTube career (reaching 1 million subs which was her YT goal and having the honor of working with all her favourite brands), so I feel like the next big (plausible) career goal for her is to launch her own line of a product. She's moving away from her YT (not quitting altogether) and onto bigger goals which could also possibly mean acting? I mean I'm just pulling guesses out of my butt at this point
I'd be a super long post (than it already is LMAO) if I were to give every thought I have on the video. It was a pretty long video to go through (50 mins); I'd be super interested to know what you guys' thoughts are on it!