Vegans and Ex-vegans

[Winners_Song]

He’s just done a 7 day meals vlog and called it delightful dinners and medicinal meals Really so he’s calling one curry with white rice medicinal meals and delightful the rest are 3 hot dogs, the usual spag Bol, burgers in buns (first time ever making burgers) and assorted processed bits with a bag of salad, the cheek of this guy. Can he actually prepare anything from scratch or is he too busy watching telly all day and smoking fags. He’s got some nerve vlogging the same meals over & over, they’re what I eat in a day are no better, even more processed stuff. Unless you’re making food from scratch what is the point of showing people something you just got out the freezer week after week. And Jason says his partner is cooking lovely meals for him, this is what he serves up after Jason’s been at work all day. Most of the time it looks like stuff you’d give to kids, like chips and nuggets and just lazily filling up on bread. He can’t even be bothered to do some homemade soup for Jason when he’s ill or to take to work, what a lazy arse.

Someone mentioned about him always calling Jason me husband, I think thats about possessiveness, like someone’s gonna steal away Jason, he’s a nice guy but come on, although every time he says it he just reminds me of one of those old gossipy northern women from the 50s

Yes!!
I’ve made a thread for Paul and Jason here as I think they need one of their own now

Those Vegan Guys

Paul and Jason are the creators of the YouTube channel “Those Vegan Guys”. A married couple in Manchester, UK. Recently they’ve become more annoying and as such deserve their own thread! Join us ✌🏼 edit to add: to save you watching the weekly meals vlog, here’s some of Paul’s special...

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[LydiaDeetzHat]

I love Emily! She's so sweet and adorable, for some reason I just listen to hear talk about food for hours. Her sense of humor is a bit dry I think, I love it. She's very realistic indeed.
Who is vegan bodegacat?

New York based vegan Youtuber,, does what i eat in a week, taste tests, community fridge fills, tries new places to eat etc. very likeable and normal...

 

[Tom_Nook]

Sorry for the double post but just wanted to come here to say I watched Immy's latest video just now (the holiday prep video part 2), she looks so happy and so good? I feel like the move is doing wonders for her. I can't put my finger on it, but she looks lighter and glowing. I am just so happy for her.

I agree, I'm really enjoying her content at the minute and it's lovely to see her and her husband living together and enjoying life!

 

[Millennial Pink]

Just watching miles latest youtube, its weird to indicate quite heavily that his childhood was abusive and then not say anything directly

He's been doing that for years, I couldn't figure out if it was a close family member or a coach (or a coach who was a family member?) I don't know how I feel about youtubers breadcrumbing this sort of thing.

 

[emm]

I don't know if you guys had the displeasure of seeing Miles's Instagram Q&A, but there isn't a coherent sentence in sight. Run Miles before the "deep conversations" with your holistic girlfriend melt away what little is left of your brain.

him and his gf really seem to have gone insane tbh. he has also lost loads of weight which is worrying for someone who has admitted problems with food in tje past

 

[Miss polar]

I just think it’s so cheeky. More fool those who donated.

i wonder what they’ll be hinting at next for something that they desperately need but can’t afford.

 

[KawaiiSloth]

I really liked Helena Rose, but I cannot watch anymore. Having had an ED and severe depression... she looks so small and tiny and sick and it makes me so sad. She seems to have lost so much weight and being so unhealthy towards food. :/

She seemed to be a lot happier and healthier whilst she was at university, and since she left, things have just gone downhill. Does she even do anything besides YouTube?

 

[Tom_Nook]

Does anyone watch Vegan Beauty Girl? I quite like her content but the way she eats and pouts for the camera grates on me a bit.

Your comment is months old but I stumbled across it because I was searching to see if anyone had mentioned this exact thing already! I really like her but the pouting, especially while she's literally eating, is off-putting.

Anyone else sick of Sustainably Vegan's poorly or completely undisclosed ads?

Also yes, are we the same person noticed this with a lot of her videos recently!

 

[Millennial Pink]

Vegan Beauty Girl's latest video is an unboxing of the Holland and Barrett advent calendar with no AD or mention of the fact she was clearly sent it for review

She was very clearly reading from a script at points as well. At least she was critical in some places, made it feel a bit more genuine.

I would report some of these youtube channels who post undisclosed ads to ASA, but I don't think anything even happens?

 

[oshare]

I recall Miles saying once that it was better to be 10lbs underweight than overweight. I'm not even entirely sure that's true.. 10lbs underweight, that would be maintaining bmi of 16? I really don't think that is healthy, or healthier than 10lbs overweight. He has lost a lot of weight over past year, or 2? He looks older in the face sadly

Meh. I am about 5 kg underweight. It's fine honestly. It is what it is at this point. I have tried so many times to gain weight, and with success too!, but I find it difficult to eat that much more all the time to gain the weight and keep it on. As soon as I'm at that weight I'm so tired of "over"eating I start to eat like normal again and drop the weight again slowly but surely. At this point I'm just eating what I want without worrying. I suffer from lots of migraine, so I feel sick a lot, that's why it's difficult for me to eat extra food and calories. On days that I feel more hungry I do my best to eat more, but my weight has been pretty stable for the past few years, with only 2ish kg back and forth.
Personally I think it's different for everybody. Some people feel better and healthier at a bit lower weight and some people at a bit heigher weight. I know people who were a bit overweight and lost the weight (healthily) and suddenly got sick all the time, fatigued, MH problems and as soon as they regained the weight they started feeling like themselves again.
I wouldn't say one is healthier than the other to be honest. Sometimes I feel a bit fragile when there is a strong wind for example lol, but other times I'm happy I don't have to carry much weight around. I think Miles is wrong here and he's super fatphobic and so is his gf. I think that's where the real issue lies.

 

[Millennial Pink]

I have been wondering about this, too, but thankfully there are still many very normal vegans on youtube, too! I think they are just not so shouty about being vegan and therefore not gain as much traction. I follow a lot (if you want recommendations, I have plenty) and they are very normal!
I don't know any vegans IRL sadly enough, it's kind of lonely. I'm from a very rural (cow) farm heavy area. You know the type. They don't understand here.

Normal vegan people recs would be lovely. I used to follow quite a few, but so many of them ended up changing their content to stuff I wasn't interested in or disappearing...

 

[LydiaDeetzHat]

just off current topic but does anyone here watch Emily Ewing? I find her rather realistic ... also one I haven't seen on here is Vegan Bodegacat.. I find her very relatable ie she does food test videos and then actually eats the leftovers for the rest of the week etc like a normal person. she also does a series where she buys groceries for community fridges out of mostly her own money and she is not a very well off person..and her choices are always very well thought out

 

[Millennial Pink]

Not surprised by this to be honest. He always seemed a bit like a ... special type of person. If you know what I mean.

I will never understand why these people don't have private accounts. Why do this on your business account?

100% this. So many influencers and companies used their larger business platforms to spout all sorts of rubbish during the last few years. Fair enough, have a vent if you want, but you can do it anonymously/to a smaller audience.

 

[emm]

What kind of vaccination is the article/he even talking about?!

Literally makes 0nsense, on the scale of conspiracy theories (and there are some that I get do seem believable) this is up there with the flat earthers

 

[Lionsden]

Didn't Miles get especially weird after getting together with his gf? (Idk if they are still together/married/partners)
He was always a bit strange but I did enjoy his WIEIAD videos way way back, but at some point he just got soooo weird and had such strange takes I couldn't stand it anymore like completely crazy

Yes, he is still with Jil. I think they both have some pretty out there ideas on their own but bring out the worst in each other, too.

 

[Millennial Pink]

Your comment is months old but I stumbled across it because I was searching to see if anyone had mentioned this exact thing already! I really like her but the pouting, especially while she's literally eating, is off-putting.


Also yes, are we the same person noticed this with a lot of her videos recently!

At least it's not just me! VBG has now gone full-time influencer so my days of liking her are numbered. Happens with all of them.

 

[oshare]

This is congruent with his anti-vax stance and generally knowing better than scientists and medical professionals. I can't believe Miles' hubris led him into such a dangerous situation.

I can. It's not shocking to me. He always had a lot of medicine/herb(ish) issues. So i'm not surprised. His recklessness is surprising though. But at least he's open about it, I think that's brave. It's not easy to admit you're a fucking idiot. But it also means he wasn't honest before about him losing weight was only because he stopped medication. Like yeahhhh but also because you started taking dangerous crap stuff.
With his huge anti-vax and i-know-better-than-anyone-else stance, is this really unbelievable?

Honestly, he's a fucking idiot. He made a YT following primarily by offering a (probably pseudo) educated view on vegan nutrition, then he pulls shit like this. He shouldn't have any kind of platform, he thinks he knows better but look where it gets him.

I know he has a nutrition qualification of some sort, does anyone know if it's even legit? It's not like he's a dietician.

Agreed.
I don't think we can look up his creditials, but he said he worked in a hospital I believe? I do think he's educated, but I don't know how/where/how much. I don't want to discredit him without looking into it and I don't know how to.

 

[Millennial Pink]

I watched that Miles video about trans women in sports and while he had some valid points, the way he talked about how much he 'loved' women gave me the creeps. I've heard similar from creators before who end up being abusive. Not saying Miles is, but that section of the video made me uncomfortable.

 

[purple-rain]

I love Mina Rome, NikkiVegan, Veggiekins, East meets kitchen, Sarah's vegan kitchen, Gittemary Johansen, Good Eatings, Unnatural Vegan, Pickuplimes, Jess Beautician, Simnet Nutrition, sweet simple vegan...

You may not click with everybody, you can always check them out and see who you like. Probably forgetting some, but I think this is a good place to start.

Yeah I love Mina Rome, NikkiVegan, Veggiekins, Good Eatings, PUL and Jess too! I also like Melis Ustun, Cheap Lazy Vegan, Rainbow Plant Life and Sweetpotatosoul. Erin Rutherford isn't vegan but eats mostly plant-based and has such a refreshing approach to food.

 

[DietGossip]

Also sorry to disappoint anyone but it seems avantgardevegan and Simnett Nutrition are anti-vax as well :/

Wait when did Gaz say something antivax?