Hey everyone. I'm a long-time lurker here and this is my first post. I have to say, I have enjoyed many a night just reading the various threads on here and honestly think some of you guys are hilarious.
So I started watching Lydia's vlogs last year, actually the collection of bags video took me there and I thought she's chill, so I started watching her older content from her previous house. I guess what drew me to it was just a) a distraction from my work, b) I love committing to one channel/person/thing so I thought Lydia's vlogs would be a nice little escape from everything that was already going on in the world. I also found Ali to be a harmless and very attractive person and his own vlogs were kind of dull so I just enjoyed watching him over on Lydia's channel.
However, I followed her for her beauty and fashion content, and was not really into the home content. I thought she had a perfectly nice (new) house and the CONSTANT need to renovate couldn't help but make me feel like it was too much. But still, I took it as more of a personality trait of hers, and not really something that would put me off her entire channel. Do remember, I am from India and had just come back from a trip to London, which for want of a better word, was THE DREAM. So maybe I was in that frame of mind where I would have gulped any remotely British content shoved down my throat. I just wish I had discovered Rosie HW's YT then, would have saved me a lot of useless browsing over at Lydia's channel. ( for me, RHW is as good as it gets). Anyway. I did come across this forum earlier and I have to be honest, I thought it was just a bunch of mean girls trying to take down a relatively successful person. So I didn't give it too much of a thought after. BUT. Ever since she bought the Birkin and the boots and the belt. GOD. I have been turned off her channel and Instagram, and then there was the whole Hairgate and everything with Nicky Lazou and honestly, I am kind of ashamed to have watched her for so long (which is still less than most of you guys, so I can't even begin to imagine your rage).
Problematic behaviour by LMG:
1. Constant need to come off as wealthy. I can't relate to this. I don't know what kind of a void you have to have inside you to have this constant urge to buy more and more things or beg for more and more stuff and then try to come off as one of the landowning, manor-living but Aston driving kind of people. If you don't come from money, you can still hustle and do well for yourself. I have all the respect for that. But to me it constantly feels like she's trying to build a backstory for herself. I think she's way too influenced by The Crown and Downton Abbey and believes that she's honestly one of the characters!
2. HERMES bags, boots, belt. I remember Lydia mentioning in one of her videos that she likes the style of Hermes bags but can't justify the expense. I had immense respect for her at that moment because I thought that's a good sort of stand to take when everyone else is splurging on Birkins left right and centre. My problem with a Birkin or anything Hermes is that they make you CHOOSE the BESPOKE leather you want - crocodile, lizard, snake etc. and there have been videos as evidence of their cruel treatment of animals. So much so that Jane Birkin herself chose to distance herself from Hermes. (Hermes later said that the videos were apparently just a one-off). No shade to anyone who owns a Birkin, but I associate a Birkin with outright cold blooded murder. I can't understand the hypocrisy of having clean and vegan beauty products and cleaning products and things that are more convenient and then splurging on a Birkin. I just cannot.
3. As for her behaviour, I think she's just a bitchy mean girl under her woman empowering woke kind "ally" exterior. I think she likes seeing people fail and loves showing how she saved the day or paid for something or did something for someone. She literally puts her life out there for us to see and sells herself and her brand and her image and her products to us, and earns a Birkin worthy income, but one comment that is remotely against her view of things will turn her against you and have her hissing at you or blocking you or calling you a hater or an unhappy person. Let me try to explain the problem here. Actors. They are literally people acting to be someone else onscreen, and accept the constant media scrutiny and publicity and positive and negative opinions as a part of their job. This is when they are not blogging or vlogging their lives, but are in a way trying to (for want of a better word) hide their true self from us ( by acting as characters on screen). They understand that since they are what they are because of their viewers, they've to sort of accept everything that comes along with it. (I don't think stuff like a breach of privacy or abuse or stuff is included in this, I just am talking more in the context of opinions about them.) Now. Influencers or vloggers or whatever people like Lydia are, they are in a similar boat in the sense that they generate income by putting themselves out there. They show us what they eat, take us shopping with them, cry with us, vent to us, share that they are going on birth control with us, blah blah. But the moment someone is like "oh but could you tell me why you did this one thing.." or like ask genuine questions, it's like "you do you and let me do me". I mean. The hypocrisy! Don't ask us to "comment down below" with what we think when you can't fucking stomach it. I remember Carrie once saying that she thought that Tom Hardy is hot or has a nice bum or something and Lydia going like naah I don't think so. Or something. Imagine Tom Hardy then coming out with a video going "You do you and let me do me" or "you can just not watch my movies if you don't like me". I mean I hope I have made the hypocrisy and double standard clear?
4. More than anything I think Lydia is in a kind of race against time to become/stay relevant. She's what? 33-34? She probably has another one or 2 years of a career in front of her, the way she's going. I don't want this to come off as sexist in any way. The problem isn't that she's a woman, the problem is that she's Lydia. Brands will sooner or later realize that she's too old for this shit or that there's a younger fresher cheaper version of her available.
Thanks for reading, guys. All that stuff had to be said.
even though I do love little Porter though.
It was my perception that Lydia would fang behind Dee's back at her trying to 'fatten' Ali up with her homemade foods. I think it's apparent that Lydia strives to maintain her size 4 cinched in waist and likely looks down on anyone who doesn't aspire to this.
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