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ashley viola
Добавлен 15 дек 2006
On this channel I tackle social issues through a lens of pop culture. In my quest to build a more sustainable, educated and inclusive society, we discuss topics like overconsumption, toxic trends, classism, exploitation, beauty, misogyny, and so much more.
Let’s engage with media critically together and challenge systems of power that seek to keep us in a cycle of mindless consumption, greed and apathy ❤️.
The Wellness Industry is a SCAM
#health #wellness #overconsumption
The health and wellness industry is rife with scams from ineffective and sometimes even dangerous supplements like green powders and vitamins to gimmicky viral gadgets like the $500 LED infrared face mask. These health and wellness products are often expensive and out of reach for most. In this video I discuss how the commodification of health and wellness has led to countless useless items proliferating social media such as Bloom green powders, flat tummy tea, skinny gummies and more.
Sources:
Attendees Shocked to Find That GOOP’s $5,700 Wellness Summit Was a Rip-Off
www.thecut.com/2019/07/goop-uk-wellness-summit.html
Jade Eggs, Bee Stings and More of Gwynet...
The health and wellness industry is rife with scams from ineffective and sometimes even dangerous supplements like green powders and vitamins to gimmicky viral gadgets like the $500 LED infrared face mask. These health and wellness products are often expensive and out of reach for most. In this video I discuss how the commodification of health and wellness has led to countless useless items proliferating social media such as Bloom green powders, flat tummy tea, skinny gummies and more.
Sources:
Attendees Shocked to Find That GOOP’s $5,700 Wellness Summit Was a Rip-Off
www.thecut.com/2019/07/goop-uk-wellness-summit.html
Jade Eggs, Bee Stings and More of Gwynet...
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TikTok is Making You HATE Your Face
Просмотров 26 тыс.День назад
#overconsumption #amazonmusthaves #selfcare TikTok beauty trends just keep getting worse. Trends like “morning shed” feature young women using bizarre items like mouth tape, chin straps and eye patches overnight to preserve their beauty. This insatiable appetite for beauty is dangerous and teaching young women to fixate over every flaw, creating a beauty standard that is impossible to keep up w...
Mukbangs Are DANGEROUS Overconsumption
Просмотров 35 тыс.21 день назад
#mukbang #mukbangers #overconsumption Mukbang food influencers are wasting food for clout and money. This disgusting display of rage bait is a slap in the face to millions of Americans who are currently struggling to afford groceries and people across the globe suffering from food insecurity. In this video, I discuss how mukbangs normalize the overconsumption of food and normalize wastefulness....
'Fridgescaping' is Unhinged Consumerism
Просмотров 22 тыс.Месяц назад
#fridgescaping #overconsumption #restocking Fridgescaping is the newest TikTok fridge trend in which people are decorating the insides of their fridges with items like candles, picture frames, flowers and other odds and ends. Fridgescape enthusiasts are restocking their fridges every week and decorating them with new themes like Bridgerton themed fridges, Halloween themed fridges and fall theme...
The "I'm Just A Girl" Trend is Glorifying Overconsumption & Irresponsibility
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Get 25% off on Paired premium! Start your 7-day free trial by clicking the link here: www.paired.com/ashley25 #imjustagirl #overconsumption #girlmath “I’m just a girl” is the latest viral trend sweeping across TikTok. In the same vain of “girl dinner,” “girl math,” and “girl hobby,” “I’m just a girl” normalizes the infantilization of women and superficial indulgence through overconsumption of b...
Tech Overconsumption and iPhone Hysteria
Просмотров 80 тыс.Месяц назад
#overconsumption #consumerism #iphone16 With the recent release of the iPhone 16, technology overconsumption is out of control. Our insatiable appetite for technology products from companies like Apple and beyond is yet another reminder of the powerful influence of consumer capitalism on our lives. In this video, I dive into how our desire to always have the latest and greatest technology produ...
Luxury Brands Are A SCAM
Просмотров 129 тыс.2 месяца назад
#luxurybrands #overconsumption #deinfluencing Luxury brands are conning people into spending insane amounts of money through deceptive manipulation tactics. Brands like LVMH, a fashion conglomerate that owns Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi and many others are one such brand that marks up their items significantly through clever marketing and leveraging celebrities and luxury influencers to...
Erewhon Hauls Are Out-Of-Touch Overconsumption
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#erewhon #overconsumption #consumerism Erewhon, dubbed as the “most expensive grocery store in the world” and the “most expensive grocery store in America" has gone viral after a series of celebrities including, Hailey Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, and Kendall Jenner launched smoothies in collaboration with the supermarket chain. With exorbitantly-priced items like $25 water, $30 ice and $20 smoot...
Crumbl Cookie Overconsumption Must Be STOPPED
Просмотров 309 тыс.3 месяца назад
#crumblcookies #overconsumption #consumerism Crumbl Cookies is one of the fastest-growing food chains in the country. With influencers flocking to try their “cookies of the week” in droves the food chain has only grown in popularity. But despite all of their success, they’ve found themselves marred in numerous controversies. These include fines for child labor violations and various claims of e...
Influencers Are Destroying Your Brain
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#deinfluencing #overconsumption #influencers Influencers have created brands centered around overconsumption, being out of touch, and an obsession of superficial aesthetics, among other things that are quite frankly destroying your brain. From product hauls to proliferating diet culture to ruining tourism to normalizing botox and fillers, to lying to their followers to get them to buy more, muc...
Temu is Even WORSE Than You Thought
Просмотров 167 тыс.3 месяца назад
#temu #overconsumption #deinfluencing The online shopping platform, Temu has come under fire for a number of alleged unsavory practices. The e-commerce site which promotes overconsumption has been accused of forced labor, spying on customers and stealing money from customers’ bank accounts among other offenses. In this video essay, I do a deep dive into Temu and its questionable ethics and why ...
Influencer PR Packages & the Normalization of HOARDING
Просмотров 64 тыс.4 месяца назад
#overconsumption #deinfluencing #consumerism Influencers who promote “PR packages” or "PR unboxings" are proliferating overconsumption and destroying the environment in the process. In this video, I discuss the short lifecycle of PR products, the wastefulness of the packaging and how influencers have normalized hoarding on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. These boxes, filled with free produ...
‘Amazon Must-Haves’ Must Be Stopped
Просмотров 177 тыс.4 месяца назад
#overconsumption #deinflueincing #amazonmusthaves Amazon ‘must haves’ and Amazon products ‘you didn’t know you needed’ have continued to spread across social media platforms. This has caused many people to engage in Amazon hauls where they buy heaps of wasteful products being endorsed by influencers under Amazon’s influencer program using affiliate links. In this video, I discuss the massive ov...
Trad Wives and Performative Domestic Labor
Просмотров 37 тыс.4 месяца назад
#tradwives #tradwife #toxicfemininity ‘Trad Wives’ are taking the Internet by storm. With popular influencers like Nara Smith, Ballerina Farm and Estee Williams, trad wives are promoting patriarchal, 1950’s housewives values to the modern world. The 'trad wife' trend is a carefully constructed illusion that exploits nostalgia and traditional values for commercial gain. But many of these women a...
TikTok ‘Femininity Coaches’ Are Manipulating You
Просмотров 37 тыс.5 месяцев назад
TikTok ‘Femininity Coaches’ Are Manipulating You
Family Vloggers Are More TOXIC Than Ever
Просмотров 34 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Family Vloggers Are More TOXIC Than Ever
Are You A ‘Clean Girl’ Or ‘That Girl’ Or Do You Just Have No Personality?
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Are You A ‘Clean Girl’ Or ‘That Girl’ Or Do You Just Have No Personality?
‘Veneer Techs’ of TikTok Must Be Stopped
Просмотров 31 тыс.6 месяцев назад
‘Veneer Techs’ of TikTok Must Be Stopped
The Trader Joe’s Mini Tote Bag Trend is Peak Overconsumption
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The Trader Joe’s Mini Tote Bag Trend is Peak Overconsumption
Ozempic and the Unhealthy Obsession With Thinness
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Ozempic and the Unhealthy Obsession With Thinness
‘Cleantok,’ Restock Content & The Performance of Cleanliness
Просмотров 279 тыс.7 месяцев назад
‘Cleantok,’ Restock Content & The Performance of Cleanliness
How Beauty Advertisements Manipulate You Into Nonstop Consumerism
Просмотров 54 тыс.8 месяцев назад
How Beauty Advertisements Manipulate You Into Nonstop Consumerism
“Self-Care” Is Expensive and Selling You Overconsumption
Просмотров 490 тыс.8 месяцев назад
“Self-Care” Is Expensive and Selling You Overconsumption
BetterHelp is Bad For Your Mental Health
Просмотров 151 тыс.8 месяцев назад
BetterHelp is Bad For Your Mental Health
The Affordable Housing Crisis Is Worse Than You Think
Просмотров 15 тыс.9 месяцев назад
The Affordable Housing Crisis Is Worse Than You Think
'Sad Beige Moms' on TikTok Have Gone TOO FAR
Просмотров 124 тыс.9 месяцев назад
'Sad Beige Moms' on TikTok Have Gone TOO FAR
10-Year Old’s Taking Over Sephora is DANGEROUS
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10-Year Old’s Taking Over Sephora is DANGEROUS
The Stanley Cup Obsession is a Dystopian Nightmare
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The Stanley Cup Obsession is a Dystopian Nightmare
How America Keeps Its Citizens Uneducated
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How America Keeps Its Citizens Uneducated
Gen Alpha Can't Read And It's Worse Than You Think
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Gen Alpha Can't Read And It's Worse Than You Think
10 months after your video, the uneducated voted for a felon.
Probably can't read the Tik Tok posts.🤢🤮
Feed the sheep B's and keep them stupid and they will fight your wars., and work for peanuts..the capitalist mantra.
If you know, you know 🙄
Kids can’t read for a lot of reasons but I think that the fact their parents and maybe even grandparents can’t read The dumbing down of America has been happening for decades.
I have always had super thin lips like my father. Never even occurred to me to change them!
Everyone is starting to look the same, and are getting injections and fillers rather than developing personality and outside interests. That's what makes you attractive!!
AH WTF IS A SMARTPHONE. REALLY. 70+ ???????????????????????????
PRISON SLAVE WORK SHOULD BE ILLEGAL PERIOD.
IT TOOK ME 55 YEARS TO LEARN WHAT YOU PREACH. WTF?
I WAS GOING TO POST ANOTHER COMMENT, BUT DAMN WE ARE FUCKED. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. AND THE ELITES DO NOT WANT US TO HAVE IT.
I CAME FROM A ALL WHITE COMMUNITY, SUN DOWNER TOWN, MY MOTHER WAS AS RACIST AS YOU COULD EVER THINK. THE 1ST BLACK MEN I HAD EVER MET WAS WHEN I JOINED THE U.S. ARMY. THIS WAS BACK IN 74. I WAS THE ONLY WHITE PERSON IN A 8 MAN BAY IN BASIC. 6 OF THEM WERE FROM WELL TO DO FAMILIES. THERE LEVEL OF EDUCATION WAS UNREAL. IT WAS THE 1ST TIME I HEARD THE TERM "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER". OF THE 7, 6 WERE TOLD IF YOU DO NOT SERVE YOUR COUNTRY YOU WILL NOT GET AN ADHERENCE! ONE WAS A MUSIC PRODUCERS SON. ONE WAS SPENDING ALL HIS LEAVE GOING TO CHICAGO TO STAND TRIAL FOR KILLING HIS STEP DAD, HE WAS THE SMARTEST OF THEM ALL. HE WAS FOUND INNOCENT FOR SELF DEFENSE OF HIS MOTHER. BOTTOM LINE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER AND IT SCARES THE HELL OUT OF THESE SO CALLED BILLIONAIRES.
If you want a real natural "cleanse," take about 4 tablespoons of castor oil for 2 days straight. It's much more effective and less expensive than those teas etc.👍
This is why I’m glad I went to a gifted school. You were cooked if you couldn’t read in kindergarten
While I believe in this. I am in 5th grade and all of my friends are on at least a 7th grade level and the district tested me saying I should skip grades. However, my 4 year old sister still does not know how to read and throws a fit when she doesn’t get her iPad.
I like clean ingredients but these prices are insane. The owners have to be laughing
I AM 70 AND CORP. AMERICA DISTROYED MY DREAMS. I AM JUST A CLONE. I WAS JUST ALLOWED TO MAKE PRODUCTS TO MAKE THE RICH RICHER. I HAVE BEEN DEAD FOR OVER 50 YEARS. CORP AMERICA FK U.
AMERICANS ARE STUPID POSTED BY AN AMERICAN. AVERAGE READING LEVEL 7TH OR 8TH GRADE. PUT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN HEAD TO HEAD WITH AN AVERAGE EUROPEAN WITH THE SAME TEST AND WE WILL LOOSE EVERY TIME. POSTED BY A DUMB AMERICAN. DUH.
Schools have become the stand-in/ pseudo-parent for many households. It's why I will homeschool. I know that my intellect and understanding of critical thinking is well enough to educate a child to an appropriate standard. My only weakness is math, which I can just teach myself or get a tutor to help with areas I am weak in. I am a disabled veteran so I get a monthly income for the rest of my life that is enough to never need to work. I am also a single-mom. My father cannot fathom why I wont just send my son to school when hes old enough and get a job to make even more money. I am beyond blessed to give my every waking moment to my son, despite how challenging it can be (especially now that he's 2), and so I would like to essentiallt earn my wage and try to do what I wish my parents could have done for me by giving my son a tailored education. My father made 13k a month when I was a child yet he forced my moyher to work to pay for a $900 apartment while he drove a $60k Ferrari around. And due to the lack of input in my education I dropped out of G&T. So many opportunities were sacrified due to selfishness. My son's education will be different. He will not have to self-teach from documentaries or educational books to suplement his understanding of science and history like I had to. I'm jsut glad I had the drive, despite my refusal to do homework and only barely pass every clase due to lack of motivation in school. We need to adopt many aspects of the the Finnish school system- forst by raising salaries and then by making becoming a teacher as prestigious as becoming a doctor. Not only should teachers be educated to a higher degree than they currently are, but there should be a vetting process where they are voted in by a teacher panel (if I remember correctly that's how Finland does it.) I would suggest waiving the extra education that current trachers will need for one or two generations while slowly rising the standards to qualify to where they need to be. Also giving possible temporary tax breaks or government benefits to aid these teachers as they are reaching those standards may help. Those who have yet to obtain their credentials wouldnt be included. But I am not an expert on economics and the like so I may just be ignorant in my concept of how it could be done. 😊
These beauty influencers with 10+ step beauty routines will not have a good time some 10-20 years from now with all that chemical warfare on their skin. Once your care routines extend to 6 or 7 or more steps, you're doing more harm than good by mixing together so many chemicals
Some interesting points. One correction: most social media users are NOT in the US. Europe has more Facebook users than the US and same for most social media
There’s actually research backing up the LED therapy. Just bc you don’t like it doesn’t make it a scam
This epidemic has been going on for YEARS. It's weird how people are only now calling it an epidemic. Covid occurring is understandable but what about all the other things humans dealt in the past like ww1, 2, Spanish flu, ect. Yes, covid affected our mental health and social skills but we can't blame it forever. Covid was 4 years ago. And soon will be a decade since covid occured. I think the problem with loneliness right now is people knowing the root of their problem, yet having not effort to find solutions and expect someone else to pick up the pieces for them. Alot of people wanna blame others for their loneliness but at some point, you'll have to wonder who's really at fault here... some people are often in a victim mentality as well and dismisses other people's struggles because they have something they don't which is why I often find it hard to sympathize with people going throught loneliness. As someone who used to go through too and is trying to expand my social life and have more fun in high school and with family lm noticing that allt of us are too focused on the problem but not looking for a solution which is why they grow bitter and envy of others. We need stop making videos that constantly explains the issues and start making one's that revolve around solutions.
To kill a mockingbird is my favourite book 😭😭😭
Trump openly stated ' I love stupid people!'
Thank you Ashley!!! This is EVERYTHING I HAVE SAID FOR YEARS. If you dumb down the masses, you can control them because they believe anything without checking facts. People have lost their critical thinking skills.
do you ever wonder why THEY are rich?
I can’t lie… I would definitely try leaving a face mask on over night😂😂😂
Your comment about the Pelaton bike's monthly subscription and how we don't own anything anymore, we rent made me think of how so many of us were tricked into giving up our DVD (physically owned media) for the promise of a few streaming services carrying most of it. And now streaming just keeps fracturing into more and more subscriptions, and now we own literally nothing.
I had the highest grade in my English class BECAUSE I could read at an adult level. I still love reading and can read for hours at a time without being bored
A discussion I'm not seeing on here is that the average job now requires significantly more intellectual energy than previous generations. Therefore, parents are attempting to function in constant burnout. An additional argument is that the current school structure is severely outdated, especially when we consider AI technology.
*In America, its new president in 2025, will ACTUALLY WANT TO GET RID OF THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.*
*In America, 82 Nobel Prize Winners (in physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine} can endorse in a letter a particular candidate, who would go on to lose to a candidate who declared, "I love the poorly educated."*
Symptoms not systems- love it. So true
Thank you for talking about the social determinants of health. A lot of video essays critique the wellness industry but miss these very fundamental factors. The wellness industry idealizes a certain lifestyle and socioeconomic status.
Ooh what you said about beauty getting you in the door but not getting you anywhere if you don't have anything else to offer hit different. I feel like so often a lot of emphasis is put on beauty to receive things. better treatment, attention from men, connections. But, in reality, those things can only get you so far and you need to have the personality etc to back it up.
I’ve been watching your videos all day!!! I love how genuine and to the point you are, no bullshit, just straight into the influencer insanity. Big fan!!!
As a gen alpha born with a higher iq I was born with a love for reading! I’m in high school and can read at a college reading level,I’m in honors English, and I speak very well for my age so seeing how uh- stupid other people of my age are it’s kind of crazy
True there is no federal funding but there is private grants for kids with disabilities to go to private or charter schools
So this „education system“ was the perfect set up for the 2024 election…
Okay here's what education should be applied Most doctors do pay for their equipment Especially private physicians In the pursuit of happiness the entire movie explains that Also I forgot the other stuff you named but they also have to pay for their own equipment as well Also salesman have to pay for their own equipment no matter what their equipment may be
Agreed!
It's not the education system Thank bush because everyone was left behind by many other countries. That's why we are here now.
I think we all need a reminder every now and then that when it comes to wellness, we need to curate our lives that best suits US. Not turning and relying on influencers. Because I know that Bloom is kind of annoying. And some other powders and mixes too. It’s hard for me to explain right now, but there’s a chance that maybe, just maybe someone might actually genuinely likes Bloom. And might even use it because it’s what makes them happy, not because for the attention or money. But of course it’s not ideal for everyone, and shouldn’t really be marketed as a ‘Must have’ for the masses. Some people can really do well with just the simple basic, reasonably priced wellness stuff or makeup. Some people just don’t need all the fancy stuff and the powder. Because we are all not the same, so different things will work out for each of us. Yet it’s like social media in the self-care and wellness section really seems to want all of us to be confined in some kind of box and follow the same trends. Slowly conditioned to think we need X, when we actually don’t. But also, I’m not saying that we should all have to get the cheap options. I mean just, we should be able to get things that are both accessible and reasonable, while at the same time is good for us. And overtime maybe if people have enough money. If they can slowly make their goal to be able to get something more high quality to truly improve their quality of life, then I think that’s pretty alright.
im a gen alpha and is this true my lexile is 1400 is that behind I'm in early middle school like I feel bad being gen alpha because I've never even played a pixel game like you do not know how much i want to play POKEMON BlACK AND WHITE RIGHT NOW BUT I DONT KNOW HOW TO EMULATEEEE RAAAHHH I mean predominantly in my school people think that this school is too easy... I mean it might be bc I go to a private school but I feel bad for y'all American citizens your whole nation is cooked (I would cry but I'm on Mac) also is tuition common in the United States bc half the ppl in my school are going to at least 1 hr tuition per week. also I feel bad for you guys bc inflation is exploding radically. sry for this rant session but I needed to vent! (ignore the bad grammar this was rushed my screen time was abt to end)
THE DEEP STATE WANTS US UNEDUCATED AND DUMB THE BELIEVE THAT WAY WE ARE EASIER TO CONTROL
I’m in high school and have taken three classes in the psychology vein of study and I bet I could absolutely solo the average “licensed betterhelp therapist”
I remember my younger sibling coming home from school and saying that over half of her grade couldn’t read, so the teacher threatened them with more homework. The struggle is real.
I have an idea for restock/consumerist influencers: backpack stocking for homeless people. Stock it with nice toiletries, pretty bags to organize, coordinating charging kit and water bottles, durable and comfortable blankets, whatever floats their boat. Still focused on purchasing and coordinating, but actually useful to someone.
These random people in LA are dropping millions of dollars on glorified cauliflower and things with names even I do not understand, while I have an iPad taped to my wall for a TV. Surprisingly, I think I’m happier with my life than most of these influencers.