but his Madrid antics come across as seedy, after him trading on an image of Beatrix Potter cottages and fluffy bunnies.
This is what I've found hilarious (which has apparently made some people very angry) and it is. Sad, but still hilarious. It's been pretty obvious from the beginning that with Stephanie as his beard he amassed a huge boomer following where only about 1% suspected he was even gay. Some of his earliest videos don't even take place where he's supposed to be Doing it Himselves. He and his entire family have been barely containing their contempt for the fans since day one, and still there are hundreds of them chiming in "good BOY" in his comments like thousands of mommys, mummys, grans and nans who think Steph and Michael would make an excellent couple. The Michael who was clear to me from the beginning (feel free to look back on my posts) was a partier really only comfortable on camera after a few cocktails and smoke breaks on the terrace.
Then he had to take his hangover back to Basmignee where he was ill-prepared to provide entertaining content for hundreds of thousands of brand new fans. In real time during a pandemic. Dude didn't even have a bank account to collect the money people were suddenly throwing at him. So he visited his grandma and showed off her dishes. Then he visited Beatrix Potter. Then he got a puppy. Then he got
mad, and
sad for the viewers. In the midst of all this, his whole damn family started their own youtube channels IN THE SAME HOUSE when there was barely enough content for one channel! Did his whole
bleeping family set the Christmas Star up for failure and he's rebelling with a
duck boi weekend? Maybe! Seems like there is a lot happening behind the scenes and this is not a family that appears to work well together, all stomping through the gravel alone following the best little doggies in the whole wide world. I stan Missy and Patton, but I probably would not be watching any of their channels if it wasn't for tattle. That's probably true for a lot of us. So they've got that going for them...
They should have collaborated on Doing it Ourselves as a family from the beginning. They have plenty of work and editing to divvy up between them so that Gwen doesn't have to make a mayonnaise salad for content.