I think Darcy is people pleasing. Poor kid. I wonder if Louise would respect her wishes if she said she didn't want to be online. Not that it matters now; there's a bleeping gif of her.
Louise is nauseatingly insincere with her own goody two shoes act. I hope the kids make pals and ruin their clothes while playing like feral beasts.
i think Louise has proved already that she wouldn't respect Darcy's wishes if she asked not to have her photos shared on SM. when Darcy first started dancing, Louise immediately set her up her own dance account - obvs run by Louise, but in Darcy's name etc - full of photos and updates about her dancing and exams etc etc. it didn't last long, and she very quickly and unexpectedly deleted the account, explaining that Darcy had asked her to because sharing so many details about her dancing felt like a lot of pressure - y' know, with crowds of random strangers all over the world being so invested in her ballet grades etc, ofc that will place huge pressure on a child
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yet despite Darcy making it clear that she didn't want all the photos and her dancing shared - ateast not to such an extensive degree - Louise simply began sharing huge amounts of dance content her own account, forcing Darcy to pose in photo shoots in her tutu at every possible location and quickly labelled herself a "dance mum" to justify her decision, as she could claim it was all about
her, not the daughter who had asked for privacy, rather than respecting Darcy's wishes to keep quiet about her hobby and maybe sharing the occasional photo.
Darcy has been taught repeatedly that her mother doesn't care about whether she gives consent to have her photos plastered all over SM, and it's very clear that Darcy is very much a people pleaser, so having worked up the courage to ask her mother to stop sharing photos on her dance account, i doubt she'll bother trying to stand up for herself again - knowing full well her requests will be ignored. I genuinely feel sorry for Darcy in that she has been brought up in a way that sets her up to be walked all over and taken advantage of as she grows up - the opposite to how you'd expect a parent, especially one who works as an ambassador for the NSPCC, to actively be encouraging her to have the confidence to be assertive, and protect her from being used and exploited.