One thing about Kyle that consistently irritates me (and did pre covid nonsense when I enjoyed his content) is his use of plural pronouns. The Trackers do it too; lots of vloggers actually. "WE'RE going to MK today," "WE hit 100k subscribers," "send ornaments for OUR tree." It's a known manipulation technique that solidifies the parasocial connection Starri was referring to. With Kyle, it was just a matter of time before the facade crumbled. He could have genuinely been "including" his fans because he considered those relationships meaningful. His treatment of people like Phil, the way he handled covid, it all allowed true colors to show. There will always be people who are just more susceptible to that manipulation. That is NOT victim blaming. They don't deserve the negative fall out. But these grifters prey on people who feel lonely and want connection.
With Kyle, I enjoyed his content but there were red flags. He seemed to enjoy and appreciate his fans, and consider them friends, but I was always waiting to see if that was genuine or a ploy for views. It's pretty obvious now that he's fake as the rest.
And Jojo just needs to crawl under a rock. Every time someone calls him out, his reported "quarantine" period gets longer
![Face with tears of joy :joy: 😂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f602.png)
First it was five days, then he said he isolated for 10 (because Taco Bell and clickbait of the week's place are isolation), now it's "I quarantined for 15 days!!!"
We don't. As I've said before I'm not even convinced he had COVID. It may be that Omicron is a lot milder but he didn't appear to be anything like as sick as most of the cases I've seen.
After partygate if he told me water is wet I'd double-check.
Omicron has been way milder overall. The majority of the cases I've seen (in a professional capacity) haven't been more than the average cold. And let's remember- Kyle DID claim he was sick....and getting worse. Until the CDC announced a shortened quarantine period for asymptomatic people. Then he was miraculously fine with no more fake coughing fits haha