![]() I understand that a lot of things we buy are not always entirely ethical and it's impossible to know all of the manufacturing details used by each company, it's exhausting sometimes to be conscious consumers. I was honestly dumbfounded, she talks about empowering women and how proud she is of her culture and buys shoes from a woman that employs and subcontracts companies that use women under slave like conditions to make these shoes, and on top of that her father is blatantly racists towards people of Mexican descent. She prefaced the purchase in her vlog by saying she doesn't want to make it personal. I watched her videos every know and then but I stopped watching her videos and unsubscribed when she talked about going to DSW and got a pair of Ivanka Trump shoes. I find that she lacks authenticity and can be very disingenuous. That kind of thing encapsulates why she bugs me so much. Remember her collab with Colourpop and how she made her quad "Be the Change"? She went on this long thing about how she was so inspired about "being the change" you want to see in the world that she made a transformer shade to represent that concept and it had this undertone of a greater message and making the world a better place but it was strange to me she would capitalize on the notion of social good and not at least donate some of the proceeds to a charity? Or say something specific in her message to anchor it? Something about the way she marketed it really pointed at the fact that this was supposed to be a fundraiser for something and I looked and I was surprised to find it wasn't. I feel for her, because I can tell she is working through some very painful things but her lack of authenticity and the sense that she is trying really hard to convey a message irks me. Her waxing poetic about life reads generic and overbearing. And I really appreciate that she has a channel for her Spanish-speaking viewers, that is legit awesome. I can see her appeal to some, in that she is sunny and positive, and she is articulate which I appreciate so much. It's just so much clearly cultivated extra, maybe to brand herself or something. And she has any manner of small tics that bug - her intro, her outro, her sound effects, "you guyyysssss," her catch phrases, etc. DUDE, NO ONE CARES.just move on! It's not that cute or silly and it just makes her come off as.I dunno.disingenious? affected? I also find her need to be positive all the time this rare form of aggressive, actually. She does it sometimes when she talks about something she thinks is silly, like buying a face mask bc a cupcake was on the packaging, and then going on for three minutes about how we all must be judging her, don't judge me you guys, ok please don't judge. It's just normal behavior, no need to make a show!! I dunno if that makes sense. She does this very annoying thing of cultivating personality by exaggerating and self-referencing her many quirks.which are not quirks at all. I don't like being spoken down to, and I often felt this way watching her vids. But I think all of this informs her manner of presentation, which just comes off as condescending and pedantic. And I know at one point she was a teacher, which is also great. There is no doubt she is a very smart girl, and I admire all that she says she did while she was a student. But.I just don't like her and find that she is even less of a helpful "guru" now that her channel is half beauty/ half minutia-I-don't-care-about vlogs. I wish her and her family the best - divorce is incredibly difficult and it saddens me to think about her young children experiencing this. I don't even want to listen to my best friend talk her about her day for an hour straight! (haha jk I will listen to her, but even that can stretch it sometimes). ![]() I see the time markers on her vlogs and I just don't understand how anyone could think their day-today needs to be captured in that much detail. ![]() I felt this way before the divorce, and now I don't even bother. Those are my super eloquent thoughts about her. ![]()
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