My personal take on their break:
They’ve just lost the vlogging capability. To be honest I enjoy a «boring» day of dog walks and garden centers, they just need to make it interesting. I don’t want to hear Cary’s manic rants about fake self love, I don’t want to hear about paint samples and colors 1 million times. They literarily have so much potential but just throw it away in some weird way.
Maybe the most clear example is their many a holidays lately. Which they note «people have complained about» - you know what James and Carys?
1) Your travel vlogs are such a wasted opportunity I don’t understand how it is possible. Nayla made more picturesque photos the 2-3 days she was there vs the 1 month you guys were there. A cheap china gift shop and a planned trip to a *TRAMPOLINE PARK* which ended in a meal at a random hotel? You were in the peach of the french riviera, go see some bleeping culture or history and make out a map of your dog walks and make the content interesting. It’s absolutely insane how you can pass out on these things. Gran Canaria, Mallorca - we see almost nothing from your travels, although in Mallorca *at least* you showed potential with the car drive. How about a map? Showing where you went? A little history on the tram? A stock photo to brighten it all up? I don’t want to see you at McD, a coffeshop, or ranting about tit in the hotel.
2) STOP RANTING, stop the 15 minute long completely uninteresting self love bullshit. I’d rather see you do work in the garden.
3) Stop it with the random and completely useless makeovers, like your bedroom, hallway, painting various areas and even the garden «do over» which took a green meadow into a stone desert with boring plants that will die off in the british winter. Do something proper, get educated and think about the potential of Amber + garden… You could have made a child friendly vegetable garden. You could have made a sand box. You could have made a home made swing and climbing-area (we got one for our daughters 1st birthday from her grand parents, it’s lovely and unique and you can choose paints, colors, plan it, incorporate it into your garden like YOU want). Everything is like «YAY WE WILL DO THIIIS» and then it ends up *making fart noise*.
4) Get a little educated. The sheer ignorance in more ways than one is insulting and somehow downright provocative. I know you love to hide behind «people just want a pause from reality when they watch our blog» - but you guys live in reality so it’s not possible. As long as you’re not making fictional movies, the war in Ukraine, global health crisises, global economic crisises, the climate crisis, environmental problems are here and they affect you guys too. You have a daughter, at least you could pretend to care about her future.
It comes off as very unreflected when they state that «other people complain about us, no matter what we do!! boohoooo» and not even one second looking into themselves and asking «could we be the problem? in all of the scenarios?».
100%, there were obvious opportunities for them, especially in France, I think that they planned doing stuff, but when they got there were just lazy as usual and continued with laziness that is there whole life. They do not even edit this
tit themselves, so the person editing must be professional and they have an outside view of the content, so to me they do not provide enough of anything to make an interesting vlog, plus they go on too long! Half hour max, with montages slipped in instead of the over explaining every single
bleeping thing, Carys is soooo repetitive and uses ridiculous words to describe the most basic of things, so what you have explained is definitely what they needed to do, spot on as far as I can see.
Also imo, James is a conceited, entitled
tit head. He sits there thinking he is in some way the master of the house who is responsible for the financial position they are in and it sickens me, he is a deluded little
tit, they both got lucky, but without Carys, James would just be a university drop out, let's be honest,if he had any sense or intelligence he would have completed his education, got a decent job to ensure he was contributing financially to their lifestyle. This to me is the reason he does the lions share of the housework, and this also enabled Carys to get more and more sedentary, him being by her side has encouraged her to be unhealthily reliant on him for every little thing. He really doess not bring anything to their vlogs and tbh, he is probably why Carys lost her way, as she has become too reliant on the whole couple vlogging and has forgotten that she was the person that interested people, she needs to find herself again to resolve her tanking popularity. Instead of hanging out of Carys large backside, giggling like a 5 year old girl, James needed to grow up and do something with his life, I mean did he really have to drop out too?
This break, although I think has been fully influenced by Elle Darbys cheek of the devil comeback, is something they both need to look at themselves and what they have become. As the vlogging life has been a double edged sword. It has given them great privilege, experiences and opportunity, yet mentally, and physically it has trapped them both. In short they both need a kick in the arse reality check. James does seriously need to get a job. When they come back Carys should try it on her own with James in the background again.