Unfortunately, people who worship Lydia are the ones who are lonely and unhappy and living vicariously through a bully because they admire her “assertiveness” ie. willingness to walk all over others. And they are projecting their own issues onto anyone who dares to burst their bubble. And that silly woman should wash her mouth with soap. Fleabag is a masterpiece, not a mindless YT channel that flogs tit to gullible people for personal gain.
I always look for something good in people and personally I don’t hate Lydia. I have some compassion for her because clearly her family didn’t instil a sense of kindness and self-esteem in her that would allow her to develop into something other than a raging narcissist. I’m also happy to see a young woman making money. We live in an exploitative economic system where lacking compassion is an advantage, so Lydia is just one tiny cog in a much larger machine. I also find her rather good on camera, she might have become a car crash in the last couple of years, with passive aggressive sniping, idiotic lisping and boring content, but she has presence and a kind of charisma, so I get why people watch her.
But like everyone has already pointed out, she has become so angry and entitled that her negative energy is spilling out of her. Her jealousy of anyone around her getting attention, compliments, anything nice, her voracious demand for praise and her lashing out when she doesn’t get it, her greed have made her channel not just borderline unwatchable but a bloody menace. I don’t dislike her personally, I‘m concerned enough about what she has come to represent that I felt the need to discuss it with others online. People who enable narcissists are so frustrating.