Its the strangest thing: as I'm trying to mentally process what's going on within the Interwebs (and - is there anyone on them that I could discuss this, w/o sounding like Gossiping Gertie?!) - the title of a Trace Adkins song came to my mind -- and, as it's appropriate for a title --
There is an early middle-aged mom on Youtube who makes videos - from Texas, yes. But lately she hasn't been uploading content. Considering she has a child who is now home for summer, I figured that was it ... but decided to check it out anyway, as she's had a few health issues now and again ... what I did find (on her Instagram) was a slew of supportive messages from others who watch her avidly for hauls, DIY, like so, to 'not listen to those haters and come back, please!'
What gossip? What haters?!! What's going on here???!
Even YouTubers are aware of the websites that exist solely to talk about YouTubers, by watchers - and generally in the content of the worst yellow journalism I've ever come across, more vile than even reality tv can be at times! ... That said - very occasionally certain places provide information you cannot find anywhere else, like --
What gossip? What haters?!! What's going on here???!
Oh sure there was plenty: one I said "well duh ..."; one I said "ok, yeah, I thought so, BUT! .."; but the third disturbed me tremendously and is where I'd want to sit down and have a chinwag with another person who avidly watches YouTube -whether or not they're her fan.
I figure this may be my better option, so here it goes:
The first thing she was being lambasted for was not using her real name. Well duh ... an awful lot of people do that online, for privacy reasons, mainly - so, no foul here! In fact I kind of figured that one out, since the name she has been using, is 99% heard as a middle name.
Next, was the whole thing around her recently moving ...Ok, sure: as someone who has both rented and owned places to live in, I kind of cued in that this house she said she was BUYING, was actually more so of a RENTAL. I didn't get too fluffed about it, attributing it again to the whole privacy type of issue ... but several of these 'online investigators' did. What they found was that the house she was living in when she moved (another "I own it" that was really a rental) she had to move because the landlord sold it ... now, I started to get uneasy. While I didn't like her veering off subject to go into great talking vlogs about the guy next door who was making her life miserable - and while I thought that she was overblowing it, allowing him to chase her out of such a nice place for stuff that was yes annoying and possibly even a shade criminal, but not even anything that would land you on the show Nightmare Neighbor -- so now you're telling me she completely made that story up?! THAT WAS ALL A LIE, INCLUDING YOUR SO-CALLED VIDEOTAPE EVIDENCE OF JUST HOW BAD THIS GUY WAS, AS WELL AS THAT YOU HAD TO CALL THE COPS ON HIM?!!
But then there was the coup de gras -- When people started screaming on and ON about her 'fake giveaways', just the title of such things didn't make the least bit of sense to me: of course she's had giveaways! No, I haven't won one - well, I have only gone for the ones I REALLY wanted, so I wasn't very often in the running - but - she's always announced a winner, so - c'mon, how can they be --- People had screen shots, account information, etc, etc, etc, that showed a clear line : that every person who won a giveaway - people who often times were regular commentators who had decent things to say on her channel, so that if you comment-scroll you'd recognize the name - were FAKE ACCOUNTS SHE HAD SET-UP. So - in other words - she never actually gave anything anyway, only pretended to do so, in a polluted haze of a fake person ;-
Whether or not I like them, personally subscribe to them, I can understand alot of things that happen online - like people protecting their privacy even as they thrust themselves into the "it lives forever!", very un-private, world of the Internet ..... but what I can't understand, can't condone, in any part of my life, is blatant lying. And - from what I'm reading - that's what we've got here --
-- Let's see how this plays out. I'm still subbed to her, because sometimes people do surprise you IN A GOOD WAY and make a video - "Ok, true confessions time!" --
But -- you know what, now? Two things are occurring to me now as I type this out --
A. Is this why God has kept placing her and her daughter on my heart to pray for them?!! I figured God knew what that was all about, but I honestly couldn't imagine why someone upper-middle-class, living a life with no chronic illnesses or anything - but sure God ok sure I'll pray +
B. Would I be able to believe anything that came out of her mouth, now?! Hmmm .....
My jury is still out .
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