i don’t think flossie is being strategic or calculated by posting about the fact she’s struggling. she’s been very open about her mental health struggles in the past such as her experiences with Bulimia. maybe she realised she became quite closed off to her viewers once she moved in with Olivia and had strayed from the flossie everyone loves, and she’s trying to get back to that by being open and honest. there’s absolutely no shame in someone sharing their struggles because at the end of the day a 13 year old girl who’s having a really rough time and feels really lonely might look up to flossie and realise she’s not the only one struggling. to me flossie is humanising herself as opposed to Olivia who is just so unrelatable now.
as for their falling out i honestly think living together for them was just a bad time. it was in the middle of a pandemic where they were stuck with eachother for the most part, probably had normal influencer drama between them and no space away from eachother. there’s probably been a weird tension between them since moving out and since olivia has gained all these new friends who bully flossie publicly, perhaps flossie made the decision to cut her off. if i had a friend who let people bully me online i can’t say i’d want them in my life. this might be the “sad changes” flossie was referring to in her latest video. we forget they’re normal girls who have the same problems we all do and they just don’t have the space to deal with it in a normal way. everyone does silly things and gets in fights with friends but for them, everything is aired out online. id hate to be an influencer for that reason alone lol. we obviously don’t know what’s really happened and i don’t think anyone will address it any time soon, they took how long to address the coke scandal (what a time to be alive). i do hope they’re both doing okay, but i can’t back olivia up for the way she seems to be tit stirring and letting her model friends treat flossie the way they have.
i also never really understood people saying flossie was trying to be like olivia. having blonde hair isn’t exactly unique and quirky, a lot of brunettes go blonde especially in the summer. and hers and olivias style is just what was popular at the time they dressed how the whole of tiktok dressed. if someone wants to give me any more examples then i’m more than happy to hear, but i don’t think that’s a reason to say olivia rightfully stopped being friends with flossie because she was weird and trying to steal her identity. it didn’t seem that way to me at all