Her writing is starting to sound like those spam bots on social that claim you can make $100K months in the comments. Lmao, it has that same energy. I wonder how her old audiences feel who originally followed her for the language and travel content now see her posts doing hard sells for her programs. It would feel like a bait and switch to me and her whole insta page is unauthentic. You can smell the desperation and greed from a mile away.
Hi, just a lurker since the summer here, but I felt like sharing my thoughts on this.
I'm part of her old audience, and I really miss the Jasmine from the earlier days. Her simple routine videos and tips on language and productivity from her bedroom were a breath of fresh air and so inspiring, and I loved that she was sweet, soft-spoken, positive, studious, and encouraging her viewers to love themselves and improve themself. Simple times.
I'm dubious about the law of attraction, but I loved that she had a down-to-earth approach to it: It's not only about dreaming, it's important to take action and work diligently to get what you want or be where you want to be. She called it "inspired action" from a self-help book she read. It was so helpful.
I also liked discovering different cultures and countries through her travel vlogs. She really made a point on respecting the locals and speaking/ practicing the language with them. Also she enrolled in activities like a balinese ritual, cooking and art classes, visting monuments. That was so cool.
At some point it bothered me that she acted like a specialist as soon as she discovered something, like she doesn't give herself room to grow and really digest her experiences, before teaching them. So I was dubious about her wanting to become a coach so young, but I was also like "you do you girl, maybe she'll be an amazing coach". She also wrote a book in a really short time, and published it. Interested in possibly purchasing it I looked for reviews, weirdly enough at the time there was only one negative review, explaining that it was a lot of mumbo-jumbo and not the down-to-earth talk I liked from her videos so I didn't buy it. But I just thought she's young, she have time to learn how to write and create better books.
At first I was very happy for her when she got married earlier this year, maybe it was a bit naive to think that, but at the time it felt so magical, like she married the prince charming she always wanted to meet.
Looking back, I'm not so sure...
Her content started to slowly change, she started to update less frequently on youtube, and more on Instagram, and the completly quit her channel.
I liked her instagram content but at some point in the year the quality of her content dropped. It seemed to me that she pushed her programs more and more and Josh seemed friendly at first, but then I felt like he only was to sell something to his audience (also I noticed signs that he was hm, problematic). So anyway I slowly disengaged from their platform. It just doesn't seem as genuine as before.
I did watch Anna's Analysis then found this site too which showed/confirmed ugly sides... Which are disappointing...I'm particulary upset about Angel.
All that said now, I also worry about Jasmine. She really seems to have change in the 2 last years and more. If you think about it she really isolated herself from familly, friends apart from her husband. She seems to take most of the burden their finances which must be really stressful. The husband really doesn't seem that nice. I don't think he has a good influence on her. I also think the mumbo jumbo and the coach entrepreneur world and mindset has gone to her head. I see her as this young naïve girl who is now kinda detatched from reality? ( naïve - which is normal -you know jack$hit at this age, I'm older and I'm still dumb and clueless at times !!) I assume that she knows so little about men, red flags in a relationship, and what to *really* ask for in a healthy relationship.
I worry because she had bad depression before because she felt lonely
Before her therapy, I remember a moment in a bali vlog, she was singing in front of her miror and she looked soo sad... And now she's puts herself through isolation again. I know there's the pandemic, but she had the vaccine she could do social or cultural activities in a safe way.
I wish she could visit her family or that her mom could visit her at least.
It's so sad to me because all of this is so far away from her values and dreams she shared when she still had her own youtube chanel.
Her instagram is full of beautiful pictures but maybe it's just saving faces. If so she must be really feeling abashed...
Also, it still doesn't make sense to me that she would just abandon her channel she worked so hard for and was passionated in... I mean you can change of path but still...
That was long...Maybe I'm reading to much into things?
ps: sorry for mistakes I'm not a native english speaker