Remember Hannah's tirade during vlogmas about the people who called her out for behaving like a Karen when she received a speeding ticket in the mail? And how she felt betrayed because she sees her followers as friends or something? Well, it's kind of funny to compare that video with the "Stop Investigating our Pregnancy" video she and Shane did back in April. It's clear that they're less concerned about privacy and more annoyed about receiving negative feedback or even constructive criticism.
Please Stop Investigating Our Pregnancy, posted on April 23, 2021
Hannah @9:43: "I think we're not going to share what we're thinking and what we're doing until we're in a place where we can ignore those comments. Right now we're really excited and happy and we need it to wear off a little bit more until we can take the people being like, "You suck."
Shane: "Exactly, and I hope you're not disappointed by that. Hannah and I make every effort to share every aspect of our lives with you, and that comes with a cost. It's an emotional toll reading tonnes of criticism every time we say everything we're doing. There's this weird phenomenon where YouTubers...I think that our followers feel like you are our, like, best friends. And on one hand, that's great, like, we love that we can be authentic with you. But on the other hand, it leaves not a whole lot of room for us to have privacy.
Hannah: "AND not everyone that watches our videos feels that way. If we could just make this private to only the people who are supportive and wonderful we totally would and we could share everything and we would love that but obviously, when we're sharing with people who are wonderful we are also sharing with people who come to our channel to just say mean things, so."
Hannah is Finally Burnt Out, posted on December 11, 2021
Hannah @5:06: "The thing is, we film these videos as if we're talking to our friends. That's what we're doing. And we get a lot of feedback from people and it reinforces that and we feel like we're friends with you guys and you feel like you're friends with us and it's great. But when you talk to your friends and you get obnoxious, rude, nasty responses, you don't want to be friends anymore. Right? Like, there's only so many times that I can be like, omg I got a speeding ticket, which is a very normal reaction. In my friend group, we don't go, "You know what? I deserved that speeding ticket and I'm just going to be smiling and happy to pay to the law. WTF? So that's not what I'm going to say because I'm not talking to a police officer; I'm talking to a camera in my bedroom..." blah blah blah "I can't imagine going up to one of the friends I have in person and saying, "I got this speeding ticket and it's so annoying and them going, 'Get over it'. I wouldn't be friends with them anymore. Do you know what I'm saying? So now I have to make this video knowing that there are those people that I don't want to be friends with and I'm talking to them so it's just really difficult for me to talk to the people that are really nice and the people that I want to talk to and want to be friends with when I also know that the nasty people that I don't understand are on the other side."