Okay, been catching up and I have thoughts:
Charlie and Charlotte are both incredibly immature and were completely unprepared for the realities of trying to run social media accounts. MTV are incredibly bad at preparing people for this kind of attention and "fame"- if you can even call it fame in this case- so the blame doesn't completely lie on them, they are still teenagers after all. And we all remember how we were in ourselves at their age. They're making mistakes when they post so much about their lives, but they don't know that they should be withholding some information from people who are following them and being more careful about navigating sponsorships and gifting. Look at what happened to Elle Darby when she asked that offensive hotel in Ireland for a free stay. They've grown up with influencer culture, but on this website we are a bit more savvy when it comes to spotting influencer fakeness. It's not their fault they don't know that you don't ask for free things on your stories (this is mainly related to Charlie), because they've seen so many influencers post about the free stuff they get on their pages. They both perhaps need to take a step back and think about just how much of their lives they are sharing in a public space. It might be okay to share that you and your boyfriend have broken up and you're back with your ex in a private instagram to your friends, but Charlotte has too public an instagram for people to take these changes positively.
HOWEVER: trying to start tit with this website by posting about it ALWAYS backfires and ends up bringing more people who feel the same to these threads, people who might not be as nice as some of us who were already here are- don't think I saw this happen on this particular thread, but it will have happened on other people's threads. This isn't a website where people mindlessly troll (which we're not doing anyway because we leave our opinions on a site you have to register to use properly- so a semi-private space that is nothing to do with the person's posts on any social media), this is a website where we don't hold back and talk about what bothers us about problematic behaviour- in this case, a lot of us had concerns about how Charlotte was parenting her twins- which, yes of course it's horrible to hear that you might be doing something wrong as a parent, but I don't feel like most of us were coming from a place of nastiness or with a wish to troll her, a lot of us were genuinely concerned watching them not eat solid foods or be able to hold themselves up at an age they should be moving around a lot more. Which when you're the one posting these things to a public space, you should know people will have opinions. Because you can't stop people from having both positive and negative opinions about the things you post- again, something MTV SHOULD HAVE PREPARED ALL THESE GIRLS FOR WHEN THEY AGREED TO DO THE SHOW (I have a lot of issues with the lack of care shown by MTV, I've already expressed this in the Geordie Shore threads).
Also: we would never have found out about the ex boyfriend's involvement in the murder case if Charlotte had not answered that question in the Q&A.
A child can choke quicker than they can climb out of a highchair.
