I have no idea who she is but I feel the exact same way from seeing the reel of her and sCam and Gabby on Instagram.
In the clip, the listener says she wants to go to a podcast meetup but doesn't want to ask her mum because her mum will call her weird and a stalker.
Fluently Forward straight away says to just lie and sCam and Gabby agree. They debate it saying something along the lines of "your an adult why does your mum need to know?!" and berated the listener for this but at no point did they consider that it could be minor who needs to ask they're mum for permission. They told the listener to lie and say your staying at a friend's house. It's so dangerous! If this listener is an underage girl and they've encouraged her to sneak out, lie to her mum and go to some unofficial meetup with online weirdos - it could go so very very wrong!!!
Then they circled back to the "stalker" part of the question and began skeptically wondering why your mum would consider you a stalker for wanting to go to a meetup with your favourite podcast host and automatically assumed the person was in fact a weirdo with a shrine built in their room.
Now maybe it's just me, but my mum (bless her) cannot wrap her head around influencers and YouTubers. She doesn't see them as "celebrities" or the kind of people who you'd want to meet or get an autograph of. When I was a teenager, it was the height of Gabby and Zoe's fame and the true beginnings of "YouTube fame". A "local" YouTuber was hosting a meetup (well they tweeted a McDonald's location and a time
) and I really wanted to go but my mum could see how sketchy it all seemed. It wasn't the YouTuber she was worried about but the fans. I hated her for it at the time but when I grew up a little more I understood it.
Bare in mind, my mum would drop me off at the bus stop to go with a mate to a concert and hand me cash and a fake ID but meeting internet strangers is too far for her
It's funny because if Gabby was as candid and brazen on her actual socials and YouTube she would get more engagement and more fans but instead she has to hide it behind a pay wall
it's a little backwards if you think about it - if she was as bold and candid in her free content, I'd joining the patreon to see what she's like "with friends" which is what she's promised the patreon content to be like.