Anxiety, social anxiety, depression, even god forbid bipolar and BPD has become a YouTube badge of honour.A Youtuber called Zara has done a video about mental health and merchandising. Mainly how an earlier wave of youtubers spoke about mental health issues to raise awareness and now rather than destigmatising it is being trivialised. The channel is Dishwashing Liqwid.
People want to be like their fav YouTuber and say they have similar issues. It’s so dangerous, I remember over the last few years seeing ?oella’s comments sections and seeing kids contact her saying how similar they are, because they have anxiety.
The kids wouldn’t even know what anxiety was. It was very clear from their social media’s it was completely fabricated to let her know how much she’s “helped” them.
YouTube has so much to answer for but these YouTubers aren’t “ending stigma”
They’re creating a trend, in a twisted way they’re selling and promoting mental health issues like they would Zooflora.
There is nothing about Meldrums channel that is good or positive, this type of bandwagon content doesn’t shock me from her.
It also becomes a hall pass for her when she’s being called out.
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