I’m kinda surprised there’s not more posts here! I used to love her in her Rome days when she was cooking, at language school, doing collabs with Cheryl and sarah Nourse and out with Anastasia every night (what happened to her?!)
I can’t believe the change in her, she looks SO sad. I haven’t read her books but from her YT she mentions an awful upbringing by her mom.
Think she’s from money on her dad side though, or she got a big payout from the plane crash she was in and that set her up!
She definitely had a falling out with Anastasiya sometime after moving back to Canada, and she (is this the right word to use here?) vagueposted as such in an entire video called "How to leave inauthentic relationships". She claims to have been used for her audience.
Zoey made a similar claim when she was still in her Rome days, and I know that it was about Itallish (aka Coral and Riccardo). She talked about collabing with people who were, in the end, only out to get clout from her audience. Like her channel gaining just under 60k subscribers since 2018 is really a thriving channel...
Anyway, Zoey was close with Coral and Riccardo and even attended their wedding. I've talked to them in the past on IG, talking about our experiences learning Italian and being in international relationships, and I passed along some resources to help Coral out. When I asked if they would collab with Zoey again in the future, they said that she basically ghosted them and they had no idea why she dropped out of their lives.
That doesn't sound to me like a "toxic friendship", and I don't understand why she feels the need to lie that people are just using her.
It's giving very illusions of grandeur.
Oh, and I should also point out that as far as QAnon stuff goes, I think Aaron Doughty was a big influence on Zoey in this kind of stuff. Her content around summer of 2020 I think was a lot of her talking in front of a whiteboard, which Aaron does.
Then she had him on the podcast she hosts with Lauren Saunders, The Lo and Zo Show.
When he was a guest he was saying "I'm not denying COVID is real, BUT the media is exaggerating the numbers and they say masks aren't really that effective. They were faking hospitals being full in Italy. It's obvious to me that there's some kind of agenda there. People are easier to control when they are separated by fear"
He goes on to say "The media is controlled by six major corporations... There's an old power dynamic of people who I believe have had control for a very long period of time." Just come out and say it's the Jews, already, we all know that that kind of language is just walking on eggshells around your antisemitism... From there he complains about taxes being high, he doesn't believe that taxes are actually funding public works (probably thinks they're being used to cover up aliens, another thing he touches on). This guy is batshit crazy, a literal conspiracy theorist and science denier, NO WONDER WHY he's basically one of Zoey's idols.
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she sounds so robotic and unnatural when speaking, it’s clearly to show off but she still can’t even get “buonsera” right.
