Stumbled across this channel a week ago and this sh*tshow is fascinating for so many reasons.
The dishonesty is so blatant that its kind of offensive, especially cause they pretend to stand or rather sit on some sort of moral high ground.
I think that this is one reasons this freakshow is so appealing... so ethics aside, thats where they might deserve some credit
They make some blatantly delusional claim like "we adopt a kid ; were having normal sex; shane joins the military; shane is a karate blackbelt" and then they talk very vague about it waiting for the "ableist" responses to dunk on. They baiting with no shame
Its kind of great, they always nitpick comments that are mean spirited to deflect from the obvious lies they are frequently asked about in the comments.
Shane constantly flexing with his white bbc is a weird one.
But i wonder if there might be so much delusion that he actually believes to be the great partner/lover "alpha male personality" that they paint him to be
Sometimes good intentions might lead to a bad outcome, meaning, i can see from a young age everybody validating everything he did with the genuine goal to make him feel good. Its understandable to treat a disadvantaged child that has to miss out on a lot in life, with mainly positive affirmation even if "undeserved"
However, it is also depersonalizing and can be a root cause of narcissism and grandiosity.
Just some thoughts obviously, but thats another thing, this goofy mf's will never honestly admit what they really are about
As far as Hannah goes, while she loves her puppet husband for the great personality, Humor, and Intelligence and does not care about any physical aspects, she cares alot for her own appearance. Thats the whole freaking point of this circus. She seems to get real pleasure from thirst trapping over and over and then shaming the male audience for objectifying her. The nerve of her ...does she ever even act like a person? If you take away the fetish for our gnome on wheels and beeing kinda juicy, there is nothing left to describe about this bot-like Person.
Its a Projection Masterclass
I can't deny, they suck you into this strange, toxic world that is completely bonkers. And then they act like you are the crazy one, assisted by their "positive" community of mental patients.
Im happy i found this forum cause the comment section on yt blew my mind. Its even more interesting, usually i never spend so much time reading but i could not believe this sh!t
Its a good place to study toxic, manipulative rhetoric. A mob of bullies under the disguise of love and Virtue
Ok granted, some trolls either . But anyway, are this real human beeing???
Sry if i made some mistakes im not from the US but thx for this thread and all the comments in here that help mebget my faith in humanity back
Wow... you made some excellent observations (and conclusions IMO). So... "hello, hello, welcome to the
show"!
I can't really add much that you didn't already say, but I want to address this point. Regarding the "mainly positive affirmation, even if undeserved"... I picked up on that the first time I saw Shane. It was the "My Last Days" video which must have just appeared in my YT feed for me to watch it. That was pre-Hannah and pre-Spinraza when everyone was convinced Shane wouldn't live past 30. I got a definite "pity the poor, poor boy" vibe from his family and friends. I don't doubt their sincere sadness over the prospect of him dying young. From things I've learned, it's the old "if life gives you lemons, make lemonade theory," His father, Jon, saw his son as a potential source of income.
It's just an expectation in life that parents should not outlive their children. Parents grow old, and hopefully their child(ren) will be around to help care for them in their later years. But things have changed a lot in the few years since the MLD video. Now there are new drugs which purport to stop, if not reverse, many of the effects of SMA. If Shane had been born 25 years later, the limitations of his disease probably could have been stopped when he was functioning at a higher level than he does now. He would have probably benefitted from more physical therapy and wearing splints to keep his hands and wrists more flexible, but they let Shane, who was still a child, make his own decisions there. I've wondered if he ever had any regrets about that.
Seeing him interact with his family and friends in that first video, I got the impression they made a big fuss over things he said and did b/c that was their only expectation of him. Back then Shane himself came across as likable enough. Some here have observed that Hannah's physical interaction with Shane, e.g. cradling him in her arms in the pool or inside the house carrying him around like a baby, along with Shane continuously referring to himself as a "boy" gives people more of a mother-toddler vibe than one of equal adults in a committed marriage. And then there are the times when Hannah looks like she'd like to pop Shane in the teeth!
I'm reminded of this "thing" the past few years where "everyone gets a participation trophy" just b/c they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Competition isn't a bad thing. Anyone with any life experience surely realizes by now that there are "winners" and "not winners" (since saying "losers" is not PC). Competition drives people to work hard and do the best they can. Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose. Deal with it. Sadly we're now reaping the harvest this "entitlement" mindset has produced in today's crop of "snowflakes" who think the world owes them something. So many have no incentive to work or contribute to society. Admittedly that's painting with a broad brush. Not all are snowflakes. I hold out hope for the future, but this constant barrage of pearl-clutching by the #woke crowd isn't encouraging.
Obviously Shane can't do much of anything physical, but he can write and speak, although not always clearly, network (i.e. seek out and "sell" to the highest bidder), and from all appearances is enjoying the cushy, almost carefree life his condition and YT, Patreon, sponsorships, Hannah's parents' money, Shane's "salary" from his 501(c)(3) and "best-seller books," etc. provide, Not many "boys" under the age of 30 can brag about catching not one, not two, but THREE blonde "trophies" based solely on his "studliness" (and/or some money changing hands).
You have to remember that Shane was NEVER able-bodied, so when people pity him b/c he's as physically limited as he is, this has been his reality from birth. Like someone who's blind from birth who's never been able to see, Shane's never known what it's like to NOT be as physically limited as he is, so I think people tend to (wrongly) assume he's "lost out" on so much in life that he somehow "deserves" accolades and special treatment. Yes, he's lost out on things able-bodied people have experienced, but you can't really miss something you never had.
Hannah, especially, comes across as a PC dime-a-dozen, exhibitionist SJW walking around with the proverbial chip of "ableism" on her shoulder, just daring someone to knock it off. Most all her talk about "ableism," similar to the myth of "systemic racism," is baloney seemingly designed to elicit "pity" and, therefore, people throwing money at them b/c darn it! Shane & Hannah DESERVE it! Between his rugged good looks, uproarious sense of humor, wonderful singing voice (yes, their groupies often say that), and Hannah's deserved nomination for sainthood for doing all Shane's caregiving while never seeing it as anything more than "sexy time" and never needing any relief, I don't get the impression it's as big a deal to Shane as it is to Hannah. Shane seems convinced he's a talented writer (IMO he's not) and that he he's just SOOOO... funny, which he's not IMO either. Hannah seems more concerned with "keeping up appearances." (That's a not-so-subtle hat tip to the BBC comedy of that name.
)
Here's a news flash, Shane. In your writing and videos accompanied by your constant barrage of wiggling eyebrows over spreads of expensive restaurant food, the size of which could feed a small, 3rd-world country for a week, but that you can't possibly eat at all (note they never show that), accompanied by your wicked sense of humor <cough>, you come across as a silly, narcissistic, horny 13-year-old kid, certainly not a degreed-English major with college-level writing skills. Your attempts at humor are childish, often not very "family-friendly," and fail to rise to the level of the lowest "bar of humor." Also, the way you intentionally push Hannah's buttons under the guise of being "cute" is not "cute." It's offensive to hear any "man" demean and disrespect his wife like Shane does Hannah. It goes behind innocent teasing. Is this just something in her "contract" she has to endure?
We're told Shane's a professional, a "best-selling author" with a wickedly funny sense of humor who's hung like a horse. The sycophants in their YT comments gush over them both with what to me sound like disingenuous platitudes just so they don't hurt Shane's little feelings. Plus it's not PC or #woke to state the obvious. Not saying this applies to them, but it's possible to "buy" sets of YT comments that stroke your fragile egos. I still can't get over the number of "y'all are just so wonderful and inspiring" comments on their YT videos. I'm sure they quickly delete any comments that aren't on board with the whole "We
you 'guys' so much" theme.
It really is like watching an impending train wreck. You don't want to look, but you can't help yourself.