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So I’ve had this on my mind for a while..it’s not necessarily only Anne this applies to, Lily too, and many of the old school youtubers surely. Here comes my rant.
I started watching Annes videos in my early teens, and now both she and I are married with kids. Somewhere along the way, I think the Newtons just fell completely out of touch with reality. It happened so slowly that it took me a good while to realize.. In the end, it was the overpriced planner that arrived in my mailbox three months into the year that did it for me..and from then on, in every video I watched she would always have at least one comment that threw me off by reveling how irrelevant she had become. In the time she’s been pushing adlinks for the past 10 years, I assume many in her audience, like me, have gotten an education and been working for a few years. I worked really hard to get my degree and now I go to the office, and put great effort in to making my living. “Working” from bed during my entire pregnancy, shuffling my weekend around on a weekly basis and going to “my eyebrow lady” or tailor (as if I have any of those) is not things I can consider actual work? Yet I manage to show up to the office with clothes that fit properly, eyebrows looking reasonable, my clothes aren’t wrinkled, my hair isn’t greasy and I occasional even put on some makeup. My baby is also doing well, so is my husband. And guess what? I miraculously manage to show up every day. What an achievement! Nope. It’s what most people manage to do five days a week, most weeks of the year. Every year. In the office, regardless of how many hours my baby had me up that night, I put on my best self and have to be professional. I have to apply myself and cooperate with people I don’t necessarily like all that much. Some I even dislike quite a bit, and I still manage to be professional about it. Do I deserve a medal? No. It’s normal.
All this while, Mawk quit his job because he didn’t feel like it, poor him. Now they’ve literally gone years without having to have any form of social interaction except the ones they actively choose or pay for. Why is it important to do things we don’t like? Because it builds resilience and helps making life enjoyable when things go well. They seem to have gotten into a uninspired rut they cant get out of, and I think this might have something to do with it. Knowing you’re able to finish work you don’t like with people you don’t like is really important to experience every once in a while. They never have to do work they don’t feel like doing, and it shows.
Most people in their season of life can’t go about even 20% of their day in the way the Newtons do. We wouldn’t have time. This would all be ok if it she was being real about it and admitted that they’re in a very rare and privileged position to both be home with Chops all day, only work when he naps, and at the same time do very expensive renovations. All paid for by cookies in our browsers and the minimum-effort-ads we watch(ed). Instead, she keeps going on about how she has to squeeze in bits and bobs, and how they have to be careful about spending. It’s infuriating. She knows very little about being frugal and she knows absolutely nothing about being busy. At this point, they live so socially isolated I genuinely don’t think she knows any better. Hanging out with Zoe isn’t going to help here….
She used to at least pretend she wanted to do good with her minimalism (now we know it was just because they didn’t have enough space in the flat), cookbook’s and her promises of brand representation. She also used to come across as genuinely excited about makeup/books/food, where as now it’s all a shit show with week old pasta, not minding the rats in her house (!!!) and toxic positivity giggles *ad.
What’s pissing me off about all this is that it’s only the past six month’s I’ve learned how adlinks actually work and I’m quite bitter about the money she’s earned off me without me really knowing. Obviously that’s on me, but I still feel like she’s capitalized on my naive trust I used to have in her.
I started watching Annes videos in my early teens, and now both she and I are married with kids. Somewhere along the way, I think the Newtons just fell completely out of touch with reality. It happened so slowly that it took me a good while to realize.. In the end, it was the overpriced planner that arrived in my mailbox three months into the year that did it for me..and from then on, in every video I watched she would always have at least one comment that threw me off by reveling how irrelevant she had become. In the time she’s been pushing adlinks for the past 10 years, I assume many in her audience, like me, have gotten an education and been working for a few years. I worked really hard to get my degree and now I go to the office, and put great effort in to making my living. “Working” from bed during my entire pregnancy, shuffling my weekend around on a weekly basis and going to “my eyebrow lady” or tailor (as if I have any of those) is not things I can consider actual work? Yet I manage to show up to the office with clothes that fit properly, eyebrows looking reasonable, my clothes aren’t wrinkled, my hair isn’t greasy and I occasional even put on some makeup. My baby is also doing well, so is my husband. And guess what? I miraculously manage to show up every day. What an achievement! Nope. It’s what most people manage to do five days a week, most weeks of the year. Every year. In the office, regardless of how many hours my baby had me up that night, I put on my best self and have to be professional. I have to apply myself and cooperate with people I don’t necessarily like all that much. Some I even dislike quite a bit, and I still manage to be professional about it. Do I deserve a medal? No. It’s normal.
All this while, Mawk quit his job because he didn’t feel like it, poor him. Now they’ve literally gone years without having to have any form of social interaction except the ones they actively choose or pay for. Why is it important to do things we don’t like? Because it builds resilience and helps making life enjoyable when things go well. They seem to have gotten into a uninspired rut they cant get out of, and I think this might have something to do with it. Knowing you’re able to finish work you don’t like with people you don’t like is really important to experience every once in a while. They never have to do work they don’t feel like doing, and it shows.
Most people in their season of life can’t go about even 20% of their day in the way the Newtons do. We wouldn’t have time. This would all be ok if it she was being real about it and admitted that they’re in a very rare and privileged position to both be home with Chops all day, only work when he naps, and at the same time do very expensive renovations. All paid for by cookies in our browsers and the minimum-effort-ads we watch(ed). Instead, she keeps going on about how she has to squeeze in bits and bobs, and how they have to be careful about spending. It’s infuriating. She knows very little about being frugal and she knows absolutely nothing about being busy. At this point, they live so socially isolated I genuinely don’t think she knows any better. Hanging out with Zoe isn’t going to help here….
She used to at least pretend she wanted to do good with her minimalism (now we know it was just because they didn’t have enough space in the flat), cookbook’s and her promises of brand representation. She also used to come across as genuinely excited about makeup/books/food, where as now it’s all a shit show with week old pasta, not minding the rats in her house (!!!) and toxic positivity giggles *ad.
What’s pissing me off about all this is that it’s only the past six month’s I’ve learned how adlinks actually work and I’m quite bitter about the money she’s earned off me without me really knowing. Obviously that’s on me, but I still feel like she’s capitalized on my naive trust I used to have in her.
we could chuck in an ‘Ad Break’ too to really reflect how shite her content is!