The Bucket List Family - they want your cash!

[Veronicacorningstone]

They’re actually pissing me off playing this victim card now saying everyone is being nasty - the only comments I saw were people quite rightly criticising them for baiting their fans with ‘tragic’ news in order to get views

the obsessed kiss-arse fans are even worse being vile to people and saying ‘social media isn’t their whole life they don’t owe you an explanation or an immediate update!’ No one is saying that you stupid bastards, for Garrett to post a story crying saying something bad had happened and give no other info for a few days is wrong when they are a family channel.

I’ve watched them for years but I’ve had to unfollow, I think the way they’ve behaved is actually disgusting and the audacity of them to now make out they’re being trolled, lol okay

soz for the Thursday morning rant

 

[Bora Bora Local]

I agree entirely. They are now getting angry at their fans because they baited everyone and then didn’t share an update.

I have also torn my ACL and you know, it hurts, it’s painful, but MYGOD they are acting like someone has died. Get over yourselves.

 

[DaisyDaisy87]

I’m surprised this thread hasn’t picked up more since the weekend to be honest. I always liked them but that video left a really bad taste in my mouth. Garrett was literally acting and using words like someone had died. If she’s hurt her leg then just say that. Someone commented saying that the language he used was more applicable to death, cancer and what’s going on in India right now rather than someone hurting their leg while skiing! Really cheap shot to get publicity. I hope they lose a lot of followers from that.

I actually think they deleted a lot of their Instagram comments as their YouTube ones seem to be a lot more angry!

 

[Bora Bora Local]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/bucket-list-family-accident-video buzzfeed have picked up on it !

Has anyone watched their most recent video?? If anything I think it makes last weeks worse. Jessica says herself she wasn’t in pain, she only got heli-lifted back to the hotel and went to the hospital the next day. Drove herself to survey (which concerns me with an ACL Tear, I legally couldn’t drive with mine as I wouldn’t have been able to do an emergency stop). So much for being in such a terrible situation they couldn’t update people.

 

[DaisyDaisy87]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/bucket-list-family-accident-video buzzfeed have picked up on it !

Has anyone watched their most recent video?? If anything I think it makes last weeks worse. Jessica says herself she wasn’t in pain, she only got heli-lifted back to the hotel and went to the hospital the next day. Drove herself to survey (which concerns me with an ACL Tear, I legally couldn’t drive with mine as I wouldn’t have been able to do an emergency stop). So much for being in such a terrible situation they couldn’t update people.

Oh this article is great I’m glad they picked up on it. Garrett seemed so strange on today’s stories. The whole thing has really revealed his true colours I think.

 

[Bora Bora Local]

He seemed totally bizarre?? Banging on about the audience being dumb or intelligent. I used to really enjoy them and their videos but they just seem money grabbing now

 

[Veronicacorningstone]

Totally agree - they might think their viewers are dumb for ‘not understanding’ they can’t update us 24/7 but in reality we’re not thick, we can quite clearly see how he drip fed information about a bad accident happening to try get their views up

and it all seemed totally over dramatic in the end, they could have just said Jess had a ski accident and hurt her leg but she’s fine we’ll update you later. I bet Garrett was giddy with glee thinking how he could use this for content despite having to work his way up a snowy mountain to get to his injured wife noticed he never dropped his selfie stick once

also if my husband made me drive myself to knee surgery whilst he just sat and filmed he’d be needing a trip to hospital too

 

[Bora Bora Local]

I agree, I mean I couldn’t drive when I tore mine, I literally couldn’t straighten my leg because of swelling. Totally ridiculous of them both.

 

[Cariad]

I agree, I mean I couldn’t drive when I tore mine, I literally couldn’t straighten my leg because of swelling. Totally ridiculous of them both.

I'd have thought Jess driving would have invalidated any car insurance ( automatic car or not!)...so irresponsible, how did Garrett get to / from hospital while Jess was in surgery? ....he surely couldn't have stayed at hospital all the time she was in surgery?

 

[quietasamouse]

Also, I just want to say that this accident probably happened about a month before the videos were posted, they don't post in real time, I remember when they were on a Disney cruise with some other youtubers who I follow, the other family did post in real time and BLF were about a month behind with their content. I get that, it's fair enough, but for Garrett to imply that he didn't have time to update because of it all, as if she'd just had the accident the day before, was bull. The BLF treat their followers so terribly, I can imagine Garrett just laughing at people meanly, they haven't done any self reflection over this, they're terrible. I love Jess actually and I wish that she would find the strength to put her foot down with Garrett and maybe even leave, although I doubt she would ever do that because of her faith.

 

[Cabrona66]

They give me the creeps. The dad skinny dips with the kids and in one recent IG story. He was carrying the youngest, Cali down to the beach to see sharks without any cloths on. I’ve seen a lot of inappropriate things from them but of course they put it on a IG story so it’s gone in 24 hours.

 

[cora]

I know this is a quiet thread, but over the past year or so the Bucketlist family just haven’t sat right with me. Their IG story today shows Garrett talking about abuse he experienced as a child, obviously horrific, but he is using this as bait to get people to sign up to “Bucketlist friends” to hear the whole story. Using a horrific experience like this for profit is so wrong in my opinion. Also using Jessica’s skiing injury as click bait pissed me off.
They used to be a lovely family to watch, really genuine, but they seem to have lost their way.

 

[Bora Bora Local]

I 100% agree, I think they’ve also been gallivanting around to different countries not really mentioning covid at all and just acting like
Things are back to normal when it isn’t. I’ve come close to unfollowing so often and I used to really enjoy them, they just seem money hungry.

 

[LLR]

I remember reading an article (not sure where) about a woman who had removed all the videos of her kids off YouTube because she found out that some of the ones that included them in swimwear had been embedded/put onto child porn sites. I've always found it weird how despite the fact they seem to try and come across as a wholesome Mormon family they come across quite the opposite (they don't talk religion much but they met as Mormon missionaries and mentioned trying to go to church every Sunday even if it wasn't always their denomination in earlier vlogs). The kids are always in the swim clothes, I'm not sure if I've seen a single video without them going swimming and Dorothy is rarely in an actual swimsuit it's almost always tiny bikinis. I used to enjoy their travel content but you've got to wonder who else is watching.

Maybe they don't care because views = money.

 

[Instawho?]

I know this is a quiet thread, but over the past year or so the Bucketlist family just haven’t sat right with me. Their IG story today shows Garrett talking about abuse he experienced as a child, obviously horrific, but he is using this as bait to get people to sign up to “Bucketlist friends” to hear the whole story. Using a horrific experience like this for profit is so wrong in my opinion. Also using Jessica’s skiing injury as click bait pissed me off.
They used to be a lovely family to watch, really genuine, but they seem to have lost their way.

I totally agree and searched their thread to see if anyone had said anything similar. For me that was incredibly triggering and then for the content to be hidden behind a pay wall. I think the whole thing is horrific. I don't follow them but it came up on my explore page as I must have seen their content before. For young people watching that, it is so so wrong. I could never imagine talking about such things but thinking, hang on I'll get people to pay to see this. This is next-level messed up social media conditioning if this is what content creators are resorting to. And for his wife to edit this deliberately to leave in scenes of distress for click bate wow!

 

[Grasshopper]

I follow them on insta, and was very surprised to follow their latest link, to find I had to pay. Not a chance....very surprised at the editing, done to suck us in ..

 

[Nayalove96]

Has anyone seen the video? I’m dying to know but there’s no way I’m paying

 

[Bora Bora Local]

Ahahaha same

 

[Bananabadger]

I am so glad this thread exists!

I have been following them for years (never participated or signed up for any of the stuff). Completely agree that the monetising of really serious stuff like Garrett’s experience of child abuse is horrific. And the exaggerating of Jess’s accident is extremely cynical.

On a much more trivial level, doesn’t matter nearly as much, I am uneasy about the way that the whole family is The Garrett Show & his massive vanity. Also, they think they’re so revolutionary but Garrett’s total obsession with getting the kids to do sports - diving, gymnastics etc - and push themselves physically is completely standard American Sports Dad. Do any of the kids ever read a book?
And all their gross Gap Yah/here we are with our unnamed Friends doing a happy tribal dance with/for pics whenever they’re in a country where the population is mainly black…

 

[Megatron1298]

It’s so unnatural. I remember Manila being super cautious and shy to do stuff and Garrett put so much pressure on him