*Edited to clarify: meant to post this as a quote on buffalobarbie’s earlier, v insightful, comment about Anna being one dimensional and lacking substance. #tattlenovice
*This captures the essence of my main issue with Anna (apart from the other obvious issue of the annoying, often quite unnerving, Mark content). She seems bright, engaged, curious and with VAST resources at her fingertips (literally) - not just financially but in terms of her platform and the opportunity and responsibility it brings - and yet she is lazy and predictable in her ‘content’ and just oozes mono dimensional privilege. Endless ‘swipe up for the aff link’ and ‘here’s my latest top 10 beige X [insert predictable product category]’ drivel, interspersed with performative attempts to engage occasionally with issues that actually matter in the world, such as her tokenistic response to the outpouring of outrage following Sarah Everard’s murder. And the sacharine, facile comment on KJH’s IVF post.
Easy street Anna. What I really don’t understand is, assuming my impression is correct that Anna is kind in her heart, bright, and reasonably self-aware, how she doesn’t see that having built up a HUGE following of likely v engaged, thoughtful, millennial (mainly) women who see and take seriously their individual agency and power to play a part in the causes of equality and giving voice to communities who have been systematically disadvantaged for generations, she seems utterly vacuous in how she chucks out tokenistic, performative fluff on really important issues. Not to mention (more superficially) the poorly researched, rambling podcast.
Sorry for the rant. I’m fed up with ‘influencers’ and, with many including Anna in my view, the ‘take what we can (even if that does involve some hard ‘work’ sometimes) without grasping - and taking the opportunity of - the responsibilities of having a vast SM following. Cake and eat it.
*This captures the essence of my main issue with Anna (apart from the other obvious issue of the annoying, often quite unnerving, Mark content). She seems bright, engaged, curious and with VAST resources at her fingertips (literally) - not just financially but in terms of her platform and the opportunity and responsibility it brings - and yet she is lazy and predictable in her ‘content’ and just oozes mono dimensional privilege. Endless ‘swipe up for the aff link’ and ‘here’s my latest top 10 beige X [insert predictable product category]’ drivel, interspersed with performative attempts to engage occasionally with issues that actually matter in the world, such as her tokenistic response to the outpouring of outrage following Sarah Everard’s murder. And the sacharine, facile comment on KJH’s IVF post.
Easy street Anna. What I really don’t understand is, assuming my impression is correct that Anna is kind in her heart, bright, and reasonably self-aware, how she doesn’t see that having built up a HUGE following of likely v engaged, thoughtful, millennial (mainly) women who see and take seriously their individual agency and power to play a part in the causes of equality and giving voice to communities who have been systematically disadvantaged for generations, she seems utterly vacuous in how she chucks out tokenistic, performative fluff on really important issues. Not to mention (more superficially) the poorly researched, rambling podcast.
Sorry for the rant. I’m fed up with ‘influencers’ and, with many including Anna in my view, the ‘take what we can (even if that does involve some hard ‘work’ sometimes) without grasping - and taking the opportunity of - the responsibilities of having a vast SM following. Cake and eat it.
Look at this comment on Katie Jane Hughes’ post on IVF. duck off with your good vibes Anna, she just feels smug and dishonest to me