Just leaving this here:
Basically The Secret is how all this manifestation junk started.
Vic is almost worse than Lydia. Lydia at least puts her whole awful self on display all at once. Someone with a brain and some critical thinking skills can easily tell that she’s a horrible and fake person after one or two videos. Vic, on the other hand, is really stealthy about it. She gets image control so makes sure to act all bubbly and saccharine in videos, with the veil dropping every once in a while. I imagine all these influencers have info on each other squirreled away so if one person speaks up, someone else can give some vague rebuttal in a video.
I’ve done some research on lab grown diamonds just out of curiosity and that’s kind of the conclusion I’ve come to. Vegan leather is plastic. Yes, there are some plant based ones but they aren’t that widely available and even most of the plant based options are still mixed with plastic. Lab grown diamonds, while probably better in terms of human rights, take A LOT of water and energy to create. So environmentally, since the process mimics what has happened over millions of years naturally, not so great.
Your best bet is to buy secondhand leather and preowned diamonds if you want to avoid all of the potential negative pitfalls of buying new