I used to watch Hannah very occasionally years ago and, like a lot of people, stopped watching because of Stef. I really hate when a woman is doing well on YouTube just the way she is and then her partner has to get involved and suddenly all of their videos are just about making videos - the direction they want to take their videos in production wise or their new filming set up or whatever. It's just never that deep. These men come across as taking it upon themselves to mansplain something that a woman was perfectly successful at before, thinking they are elevating it, when they're actually just making it tedious and pretentious and self referential and it's just a bit parasitic of them. Just let women talk to women on YouTube about whatever they want in whatever way they want. Just allow them their own space. I don't care about the production values. I just want a space where I can watch women talking about whatever issues are affecting them and whatever is on their mind without having to sign up to deal with someone else's partner too to be honest.
Anyway, I saw this thread and went to have a look at what they were up to. I haven't made it all the way through their latest video yet because I was so nauseated by their privilege. The only reference they seem to make to the outrage around George Floyd's killing, the unprecedented conversation that has opened up, the countless other instances of racism and brutality that are finally being discussed on a wider scale, as well as the global pandemic that is raging, is to say that it's affecting their 'editing' and ability to 'connect' with their 'work' and their 'production.' There's a lot of people who wish they could take a 'sabbatical' from the reality of life at the moment but don't have the privilege too.
How strange to start a 'sit down' video and then cut to yourself talking about kinetic sand before going back to your 'sit down' navel gazing.
How utterly tone deaf to film yourself looking out of the window saying 'its a war zone out there' referring to the difficulty of 'acknowledging the wider world' without getting cancelled. Imagine thinking the war zone out there is how to navigate addressing a pandemic that disproportionately affecting black and minority ethnic folks and working class folk or the continued killing and brutalization of black bodies in your 'production' rather than those actual issues. I'm actually genuinely disgusted at them. Whatever work they claim to be doing to educate themselves isn't working. This is a sentiment that it is ignorant and privileged to express, even in a throwaway comment, but to spend hours producing some weird bit about it with yourself in a trilby is even more shocking. You'd think you'd question what you were doing at some point in that time. Wow.
They would be organic beans from the local farm shop though
Poor, poor Hannah, living in her rented 5 bedroom house whilst paying a team of builders to renovate their house for them. Someone set up another crowd funding page to help these hard working influencers out.
. They then attended a cream tea out in the countryside in the same vlog to contrast and I think they even titled the video ‘Heaven and Hell’.
