Just watching it now and think she’s definitely been reading here, she talks about how as an influencer people have been having a go at her for shopping in charity shops when she could pay to use/buy from an average high street store, which was a point brought up here. Says that it forces her to sanitise her content to suit everybody. Talking about her abusive childhood and how she reads negative comments about herself and believes in them in the same way she believed it when her stepmother said horrid insults to her. says she’s constantly in a state of self doubt over her decisions e.g. uploading a clothing haul when perhaps Pearl has enough clothes, visiting Harry Potter world despite people calling out for her to boycott JK Rowling. Wants to distance herself from the influencer label as a result. Lots of moaning about wanting YouTube to be like it was when she started in 2009. Aka basically when nothing was regulated like it is now and no one got called out for anything. Times change hun.
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t get the furore. Like it or not she chose this job, chose to make money off of YouTube - in that day and age that means she is an influencer. And yes she does need to be checking herself and making sure her content is ‘safe’ For an audience - her content is like television content it has to be regulated To a certain extent. Should she have to read horrible comments about herself and believe them, no, but comparing comments and criticism to the abuse she suffered doesn’t settle with me, it comes across as a bit ‘this happened to me so you can’t criticise me as it triggers me’. I get it, I really do and I sympathise with what she went through, but they aren’t comparable - she could easily not read comments, not visit here, or even switch off the camera and forget about this career for one a little less demanding.
Like she herself said there will be no pleasing EVERYBODY. Even in our discussion here we disagreed on the charity shop thing. I do wonder what Gleam does in this sort of situation. Tbh I would think they should be encouraging her not to look. Places like tattle can be good I think and I think gleam et al would do well by reading here to see how she is received ‘generally‘ (outside of the arse licking yes men) and advising her on tweaking her content as a result (wouldn’t be surprised if they do this already tbh) but other than that encouraging her not to seek it out, I mean we all have our Opinions on Louise and her content but she obviously does alright for them with her crafting and mummy days and other moaning shite.
...and tbh it makes her usage of Darcy And Pearl in ads worse. If she as a mother feels like this about YouTube and the expectations being a YouTuber has for her, what about her own daughter? What about Darcy’s expectations as a daughter working with her mother, ‘if I don’t do this advert mummy says we won’t have any money’