People confessing their truths on TIK TOK before it being banned has the same vibe as when everyone starts confessing before the plane is about to crash in movies and then it doesn't fall but everyone has already revealed their secrets
Exactly! Not only that, they dismiss us by saying it's silly or that we're "too online" for calling them out on things we know are fake. But that's exactly why we call them out. Excusing their behavior once won’t make them think "oh my followers are so young/nice! I should stop lying to them." Instead, they'll think "hmm, they let me get away with this. How much further can I push it?" While we keep telling ourselves how dumb we are to believe their obviously fake videos/blogs, they keep pushing the limit. Over time it could reach a point where even we adults won't be able to tell whether they're faking or not. And when (that's if) they eventually get caught, they'll just say "Well.... I thought it was obvious we were faking!" And it goes on. At the end of the day, only these influencers and their sponsors benefit from us letting them off the hook.
true, but as an 11-12 year old I realized it was fake because of the style of these videos. like they talked not how people talk irl, everything was too “exciting” and polished. never realized they rented houses and bought their gifts but still, I knew it was a perfected, glamorized version of their lives. however, people I follow now at 22 talk like real people (not like performers), they seem genuine, their surroundings look realistic and it could all be fake too and I would never know lol
Children don't have the skills adults have to decipher what's real and what isn't! Creators with young audiences need to take that into consideration before posting!!
Something that’s crazy to think about is that Cristine (simplynailogical) called out many of these lifestyle creators years ago! And she actually got a fair amount of hate for it, but she was right!!! I remember her pointing out how weird it was for these creators to make back to school videos when they themselves hadn’t been in school for years…
It's literally gaslighting??? "Oh, you saw that video I posted showing how real and relatable I am and ACTUALLY believed it? You're dumb" that's literally the message.
This is not "literally gaslighting". You can't gaslight someone you don't even have a personal relationship with. Also lying to children is also not gaslighting unless you know them personally and you're trying to manipulate them by making them not trust themselves. If I say to a kid "Santa is real" I'm not gaslighting them
@ConnieTheo if you tell kids Santa is real and then treat them like idiots for not knowing Santa is not actually real, of course it is not gaslighting! 🤓
@@xsanchezcx Still not gaslighting because you're not systematically doing it to manipulate them. Also, like I said, a personal relationship is required for it to be gaslighting. I don't get why adults are acting shocked by the revelations in those tiktoks. If they still believed those videos were authentic, maybe they are a bit gullible. You can't believe Santa is real at 25 without a few people calling you stupid
I found it funny when they exposed themselves like half of them are not Instagram or RUclips. Like ok, TikTok will be taken down, but your other app will stay and you will be call out their lol😂
Yeah it's like, don't u want to continue ur platform?? With the same username? 😅 Not too bright but maybe some of them feel some guilt about being so fake
Influencers saying ‘I thought we all knew it was fake’ is such a cop out. If we all knew, we wouldnt have watched and they know that. They’re just saying that to avoid accountability. What they mean is “yeah, we all lied to you and made you feel bad about yourself and held you to a very high standard that we dont even hold ourselves to”
@@yellowsnoww.LMFAO RIGHT I forget which one but there was literally a video where she forgot to put a poster in and switched it out half way through when she realized 😭
the fake house reminded me of how dan and phil used to have two identical apartments for mental separations reasons but fans started to figure it out and it sounded like an insane conspiracy theory but once they did not feel the reason to have two apartments they just told us and now joke about it
@@epicgirl65060 in case you're not in the loop: they adressed it in the Dystopia Daily episode with Phil. They rented two apartments from one landlord, one being below the other. That way the top apartment could be "life", the bottom one "work". So it's not really a "fake apartment", but more like a "double apartment" where they just did not say that the filming locations were not their living spaces. The floorplan stalkers definitely came to the totally wrong conclusions with their conspiracy theory, though - even if it was in small parts correct.
I have just recently started to unpack that its actually not realistic to own a home and travel then world at 24 after growing up believing that I would be living like that lol
Lmao, it can be realistic, but only for rich people. I've come to the same conclusion that I will have to work a shit ton before affording a vacation and house - the woes of gen z 😭
I mean I have started to unpack that I can't afford rent and am still economically dependent on my family at thirty ... Some of this is just that the economy is fucked it's not all the lies you were sold by an influencer (sometimes it's the lies you were sold by your parents being able to buy a house and start a family when they were your age)
Gustaf Genz made a good video on their relationship. Aaron was groomed upon meeting her on the set of "Nowhere Boy", which Sam was directing. In other words, he was dating his boss which is a big no go already. Dated AND got engaged both in 2009. He was 18. They're not very public about the inside of their marriage (probably at the hand of Sam because she knows its both morally and ethically wrong), so there's not much else to know.
You talking about Emma Chamberlain suddenly reminded me of Joana Ceddia. I think part of her appeal was how down to earth she was, she still went to college and spoke very realistically about how youtube wasn't a viable long term career plan for her. She sadly left RUclips and i feel weird about watching reposts from others 'cause she erased her online presence for a reason, but just hope she's doing well now
She hearted a comment I made on one of her videos… broke my heart when I couldn’t go back and see how she thought I was funny:( I know issme, but I miss her all the time
I miss her too!! It was so long ago… does anyone remember why she left? Was it the popularity that was getting to her? Or her eczema?? I really can’t remember. Help a girl out
Nikki said in a recent video that "RUclips was known for being over produced" and all I could think of was yeah, to youtubers, not their audience?!?!?!? I just think its crazy to think you're primarily very young audience knows everything you're doing is fake when they clearly don't
What the hell was she talking about? Over produced in comparison to what? Her familys home videos? I mean just like Nicole said, the thing everyone watched before RUclips was TV so especially in the earlier days the thing about RUclips was how real and just ppl filming themselves and uploading it. The amount of production being close to zero. And if it became over produced, maybe she should ask herself how much of a driving force for that she was herself instead of acting like it was all just the medium itself, not the actual people who were uploading on it!
It’s funny she says that too because the appeal of older RUclips was the fact that it was so home made and simple. To say it was very over produced during 2012-2015 is crazy cause that literally was the era of just pick up ur phone and hit record.
Idk about all the other stuff but I fully understand having sets to film your RUclips videos in so you don’t have millions of people seeing your actual bedroom every week. Dan and Phil did the same thing and I’m sure there are many others as well. I think it’s a healthy work/life balance choice for creators who can afford it.
But the girly youtubers would do room tours and stuff like that, so we believed it was their real room and they owned all of that stuff. Now maybe they bought the furniture and decorations themselves but maybe they just rented it
@@helingunes955 either way, they paid for it, so it was theres. in this instance, it was just room decor ideas, whether they actually spent time in the room or not is not really a big deal
@@itsmikki44 of course it is. it changes the entire "vibe" of the person. im aware its completely parasocial and i personally am not affected by any of those influencers but their branding was fake, it is a big deal to their fans who feel they were lied to
@@spookeymo you're assuming that just because they had a set bedroom and a real bedroom, they have different vibes. they probably have similar vibes, just one that's more personal to them
I think there is a difference between thinking something was a bit performative vs thinking it was all a lie, like I just thought they'd lie about filters or makeup but not the entire video lol.
Exactly! Like curated means that there was some truth, not that literally everything was a lie. By 13 I knew that they didn’t live like that every day but I still assumed there was some truths to it especially since it was literally their job.
Girl you talking about protecting our grandparents from Facebook is so accurate my grandpa literally thinks he’s dating Lainey Wilson online. My mom and all of us have tried to tell him it’s not her but he doesn’t believe us. He’s even given them money too
God this is so real. I used to watch Meredith Foster (before she joined a cult) and would constantly compare myself to her… as a middle schooler… while she is fully 10-15 years older than me. I’m giving my younger self a hug w/ this video
this is the same energy as brands being forced to put “not actual size” or food disclaimers on products. like if you’re making money off of being an influencer, I feel like you need to disclaim
As somebody who is/was too much of a geriatric millennial to fall for the fake lifestyle blogging, I know this pain. Women’s magazines convinced 10 y.o. Me that I was a failure for having visible pores, no one is safe. The “omg I thought we all knew it was fake” feels like a further level of gaslighting; back then you felt bad because you didn’t measure up to a lie, now you get to feel bad because the influencers you grew up with just called you stupid for believing them.
This is the exact reason my kids are not allowed on RUclips or any social media. Kids cannot even begin to comprehend the content they are watching…. They can’t distinguish between real and fake.
Honestly kudos to you on that one. Algorithms can also prey on kids lack of knowledge of political subtext. I remember when I was a kid on the internet in the late 2000s, I liked some graphic that said “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” I had no idea that was a political slogan used to oppose gun control. I just read it as a statement on humans’ capacity for violence and depravity. Because there wasn’t algorithmically driven content back then, nothing happened. If a kid today did the same thing, the algorithm would start leading them down the path of rightwing radicalization
"I thought we all knew that it was fake" meanwhile the whole appeal of influencers was supposed to be that they were so much more "real" and "authentic" than traditional media. They said that was the explanation for the whole influencer phenomena in the first place
its crazy to me that anyone would say its "obviously fake" bc like. is the whole point of social media and the internet NOT that we're all real people? wasn't that the whole point? broadcast yourself??? obviously we know NOW that the internet is the new medium but back when TV was still relevant, posting online was supposed to be an authentic alternative. the authenticity is what originally gave it its value compared to normal celebrities
This was well said, Nicole! I started watching all those same RUclipsrs when I was 10, and it really is so odd to see them reveal different things. The kicker for me is they all branded themselves as "relatable"...it was built into everything they did because that was the RUclips culture. So I don't get the dissonance between trying so hard to be relatable and then turning around saying "I thought we all knew this wasn't real." I thought "real" was the whole point????? My bad.
14:39 the thing that REALLY got me was gabi saying her and nikki fought constantly- i would watch them every day wish i was that close with my older sister 🙂
My little polish heart skipped a beat when you started speaking in polish and the bible refrence?? i was not ready. Talk to me dirty (in polish) more, please
it is so interesting that these influencers reactions to having their entire way of life put at risk is to spill the beans and start confessing... makes me wonder what kind of guilt they are dealing with and if maybe they secretly want it to all blow up
Something that made me feel really dumb when it was pointed out because like. wow yeah that is obvious, but I just didn’t think about it: they’ve got to get up and set up the whole camera to film themselves getting out of bed in the morning for morning routines
the being gen z but portraying as a millennial is so real. im an 02 baby but I always watched the content/tv shows for the generation above me. I never correlated the two but now it makes sense 😭
finding out all of these people were in their early twenties is INSANE! I’m 22 and I actually can’t imagine making lifestyle videos pretending to be in hs… to lie to your child audiences and create such unrealistic standards, is so not cool!
If they were an online store, from which you received a really bad product and their answer was the same “I thought you knew how expectations/reality works”… you can see how it’s all a SCAM
As someone who also grew up in Niki and Gabi’s area, when I met Gabi(multiple times) she was always really rude, and the stories I’ve heard about them pre-fame are really upsetting as a long time fan
im 24 and grew up low-income. i didn't compare myself to the lifestyle creators i watched in the 2010s because i never compared myself to people i consider celebrities, including microcelebrities on the internet. but i very much believed everything in the videos was real because they had access to money and a network that i couldn't even dream of. i don't feel hurt necessarily in hearing that these creators all lied, but i wish they had been more forthcoming about how they used their fame and wealth--how far it went, what was actually important to them--but why would kids be interested in that over aspirational, over-the-top, lavish content?
Yes! I knew it wasn’t realistic for me or anyone I knew but also their job was literally have a fun rich life and post about it what is there to lie about
I’ve watching Niki and Gabi for 10 years now. They’ve maintained their ENTIRE career by making “exposing the truth” and “owning up to lies” videos since 2017. Still kinda like Niki, but since they’ve both started sponsoring fast-fashion companies… that’s icky. I don’t really like their major materialism anymore either. Moved on to watching gaming RUclipsrs and have been MUCH happier since :)
Yeah, I was just thinking a similar thing. I haven’t watched one of their videos in a while, but I definitely remember them going through a similar situation in which they said basically everything they did was scripted/fake and how they weren’t doing that anymore. Sounds like they never really did end up changing….
They are a meeesssy pair of sisters. Granted its on me, i keep watching their vids, but i cant stop because they genuinely look like they have a looot of issues that needs to be addressed. And every tine they complain about the hate and try to clarify that they are the subjects of ridicule, they have the full story not us and that they’re better now, that the bad rumours are wrong, they then would do stuff that makes me question them more 😂
As much as you hear about how much stuff on the internet is fake, I didn't process the full extent of it until this happened. Btw you're SO pretty Nicole, and your skin is always GLOWING! I need a makeup tutorial!
i am 22 and god this is so true, i watched a lot of mia, nicki and gaby, alisha marie, eva ect and like always aspired to have that life style or be a girl the way they were being a girl and never felt like i was enough bc their videos were so surreal and elaborate and i would constantly be comparing myself to them even though i was like 10 or 11 and they were like double that or more
I grew up with trichotillomania and looking back, a lot of my insecurity came from how popular hair extensions were in that era. Lifestyle girlies were going to "hair appointments" and coming out with so much hair. All of them had extensions, but I was a child so I never clocked it. I sometimes wonder if my "default" image of hair is based on these heads full of extensions (which I'm still trying to unlearn as a 28 year old). When I got older and realized what was happening, I got extensions too because I thought it was soooo normal for everyone to do?? Pretty sure it made my hair worse and my self esteem even lower. I AM SO GLAD YOU MADE THIS VIDEO. Thank you for how many times you mentioned that we were children. Sending big hugs to our 10-year-old selves :')
I was going to close the video tab as Nicole was saying goodbye but then I realized I couldn't bring myself to leave until I heard the catchy outro song bc my mind is poisoned
I have no one to talk to about it, so ill say it here: I follow Niki on Instagram, she also appears on my fyp on TikTok. And I didn't have a particular reaction to her confessions - my overall opinions on her as an influencer are pretty complicated and sometimes contradictory. But I was so surprised to see the initial positive reaction to her admitting her lies! And she almost frames it as if she's doing us... a favor, trying to be relatable and stay relevant. Like "I'm one of you, guys! That's why I share this with you!". Which... makes zerooo sense to me. Now, I also don't believe strong negative emotional reactions are healthy in such cases. But she's literally being praised for telling the truth after she has created the lie itself. It's so manipulative in a way. Yet, continuing this train of thought, I'm not shocked it's working since it's a common technique to gain influence over a mass of people - create a problem that didn't exist before and solve it first. You're a hero now. All in all, I find it unjust how she didn't face any consequences for her lies and for breaking the trust of the parasocial bond between her and her core audience.
PLEASE tell me im not the only one who tried those DIYS and they flopped or looked sooo bad... i always knew there was some sense of falseness and class gap but had NO IDEA how they made those diys look good and how they did them so easily! paved the way for 5 minute crafts for realllll...
RUclips launched when I was in HS (ooof I’m old I guess) but I felt this way about teen magazines for so loooooooong, esp re: routines and food people eat. It’s wild and sad
Also, can we talk about how it’s not normal how different influencers look from year to year. Like it’s actually really shocking whenever you go back and look at some influencers old posts/videos
when i saw niki’s videos i really didn’t think much of it because i was watching these videos as a portuguese teenager in a random portuguese town and nothing about those videos were relatable to me, but i do remember thinking they had much more fun lives than i did. i think i just associated that with them being american due to the whole belief us non-americans have in our teens that the US is this amazing cool place to grow up in sold by american media everywhere, but if we think about it… they were very much a part of this american media i’m talking about !!
very interesting to hear you talk about this. when i was a teenager and watched those videos, i was also in a really bad mental state, constantly putting myself down and thinking im not good enough. im just now realising that also had a lot to do with the content i was watching. like you said, we thought it was realistic, so we were constantly comparing ourselves to it and falling short. as i grew older, i learned to accommodate for my needs better, i also have more female friends than i had back then, and we're all talking openly about our struggles. i dont have this unrealistic idea of where i should be anymore. i just learned to be a lot kinder with myself, and that its okay if my life doesnt look as perfect amd glamorous as those influencers'. but it is indeed a weird feeling to find out even their lives werent 😅
I feel a little healed with them admitting everything was fake. Because now I still don’t feel like I failed. I would rather know now than the lie be continued. They obvi shouldn’t have lied in the first place but they did, so here we are.
"I thought we all knew that these videos were just for entertainment" youtube has a category tag that those creators can add to their content if it's not lifestyle and it's just for entertainment. I've never seen a disclaimer on their content saying "for entertainment purposes only" I also believed a lot of lifestyle videos and thought they did most of the things they showed every day. I had my doubts about some things, like how often people actually use products from sponsorships, or if they actually like the product, or if they'd purchase it themselves if it wasn't gifted to them, but .... I appreciate everyone who's talking about it now.
Your voice is nice to listen to AND you speak smart stuff. When i was younger i watched all those routine videos and thought to myslef "i just have to be like them and everything in my life will work out"
I’m the exact same age as Niki and Gabi and I always knew how old they were. I really got into Gabi’s social media in particular, since she gave me the confidence to embrace the traditionally “girly” pink, purple and pastel blue aesthetic which I had always loved, and still do (though I’ve always indulged in other styles as well, often feminine looks of different colour schemes (including classic blacks) and relaxed street styles) but I never got into her and Niki’s lifestyle content itself that much. It always felt so contrived, so did Gabi in many respects as well, I just loved her look and theme (and again, I still do). I remember not being able to shake how false and oddly quickly dated it felt. Right on the turn of 2020 before the pandemic, with them still posting “back to school” videos that seemed like the same as those from 2014 and I KNEW they turned 25 that year, it just felt strange. I’m not surprised how much she, Niki and others were blatantly lying, nothing about the facade of social media has shocked me since I discovered the prevalence of yachting in social media/the entertainment industry generally (if you know, you know).
You saying that you're Gen Z gave me whiplash---I'm gonna be 21 next month and for some reason it feels astronomical that I am the same generation as such a wise self aware lady 😭
When I watched those back to school videos as a kid I knew they weren’t real because everyone who made them looked old to me💀 (“old” as in older than university age)
i feel like we're inching closer to the end of the "influencer" because not only is social media becoming right-winged and driving people away, but there is also a fatigue growing from constantly consuming content. (p.s. my heart skipped when i saw the fontaines d.c romance album in the back)
girl i swear i’m listening but i haven’t seen a video of yours in a good while and you are glowing, this makeup looks so incredible on you, please let me know what products you’re using
I actually cannot relate to your sentiment, probably because I was older when RUclips started popping off and so I wasn’t as naive. Kids or young teens figuring out the internet and all its content must be so challenging. Can’t imagine the constant anxiety parents must face when children get in contact with connected devices.
17:23 A lot of kids (myself included) were so trusting in these content creators to tell the truth and be somewhat realistic with their videos, that years later learning half their content was staged definitely feels like a betrayal. Maybe not a very big or intense one, but there's a feeling of disappointment nonetheless.
This video was honestly so cathartic for me simply because I, even to this day as an Gen-Z adult, compare myself to a lot of these influencers online. I know a lot of people do. It began when I was a kid watching RUclips and thinking that all these people’s lives looked perfect and that I “needed” the things they had to be perfect too, like she was saying in the video. It harmed me in a lot of ways I don’t think I realized until recently. The fact that a lot of people are coming to the same realization that SO many things on the internet are fake for the sake of entertainment and popularity is good, because we were literal children when we were first exposed, and so of course we idealized and idolized these people’s lives because we didn’t know any better. I hope people who were exposed to those things and were made to feel like they weren’t good enough because they didn’t have this “perfect” lifestyle of a lot of influencers can have the same catharsis in knowing that they don’t have to have those things/do those things to have a good, fulfilling life🙏🏼
It’s worse bc they were old enough to know that their young audiences didn’t have the comprehension skills to understand everything was staged! I mean get the bag, but all these older gen influencers trying to say everyone knew it was fake feels a bit disingenuous 😅
The comment about having a millennial sense of humor because of watching millennial content as a kid is SO relatable. Before I could access RUclips I watched buzzfeed videos CONSTANTLY so i believe I’ve been mentally modified to find millennial humor funny
This was such a good video girl I related heavilyyyy. RUclips was my main source of entertainment especially when I aged out of a lot of the Disney/Nickelodeon shows. I feel like these RUclipsrs fed my perfectionism tendencies. I’m an adult now and have been able to shift my mindset to see things more realistically but I’d be lying if I didn’t say consuming this content from a young age wasn’t a reason I struggled with the need to be perfect all the time growing up.
You and I being from the same area and the same age. Truly your content hits me the closest and you feel like an actual friend (I do understand parasocial relationships lol). I hope you’re taking things day by day right now and still taking care of yourself! Thank you for showing up for us lovely! 💖🖤
as a 30 year old, i don't know any of these influencers, but also, WTF. this is the kind of stuff that makes me so glad that my brain was just slightly more developed before this content became popular. i will also say, even though i didn't grow up watching influencers, i still compared myself to "hilary duff's morning routine" in seventeen magazine or whatever. so because of marketing, we were and are always going to be comparing ourselves to each other, but with social media, that comparison feels so much more visceral and personal
As an elder millennial, we were deeply disillusioned by magazines like Cosmopolitan, Cosmo teen and Seventeen. I legit thought highschool was going to be just like the movie Clueless... as if.
you will sometimes share small things about your life (ex: believing everything you are told when you are a child) and my ocd ass is like oh hey me too wai-
19:59 this is exactly why i only trust reddit for any type of recommendations. (still, with only a grain of salt) Most subs have rules against affiliate links & people generally tell their whole life story, experience & reasoning behind why they like/use a product/service/etc.
I grew up watching ALOT of these RUclipsrs you’ve spoken about today, however I feel like I don’t feel as deceived because as an Indian, I felt like yeah this is how life in the states must be like. My only other comparison was a show like friends, and I thought nothing was untrue! I 100% believed that I can’t relate simply because I’m from a different country.
People confessing their truths on TIK TOK before it being banned has the same vibe as when everyone starts confessing before the plane is about to crash in movies and then it doesn't fall but everyone has already revealed their secrets
this is so funny and accurate
like in Almost Famous lol
@@ihatemickiegee exactly the scene I had in mind
Except Alot of the confessions were a joke
lmaooo that’s too true
“I thought you knew it was fake” is a crazy thing to say when they’re a lifestyle influencer for literal children
Exactly! Not only that, they dismiss us by saying it's silly or that we're "too online" for calling them out on things we know are fake. But that's exactly why we call them out. Excusing their behavior once won’t make them think "oh my followers are so young/nice! I should stop lying to them." Instead, they'll think "hmm, they let me get away with this. How much further can I push it?" While we keep telling ourselves how dumb we are to believe their obviously fake videos/blogs, they keep pushing the limit. Over time it could reach a point where even we adults won't be able to tell whether they're faking or not. And when (that's if) they eventually get caught, they'll just say "Well.... I thought it was obvious we were faking!" And it goes on.
At the end of the day, only these influencers and their sponsors benefit from us letting them off the hook.
true, but as an 11-12 year old I realized it was fake because of the style of these videos. like they talked not how people talk irl, everything was too “exciting” and polished. never realized they rented houses and bought their gifts but still, I knew it was a perfected, glamorized version of their lives. however, people I follow now at 22 talk like real people (not like performers), they seem genuine, their surroundings look realistic and it could all be fake too and I would never know lol
Children don't have the skills adults have to decipher what's real and what isn't! Creators with young audiences need to take that into consideration before posting!!
also!! even when ppl would call them out for lying for content, the influencer would double down and continue to lie lmao
@Eurobeat_fani feel like they do take into consideration. they know it’s easier to lie to a child, that’s why they do it
Something that’s crazy to think about is that Cristine (simplynailogical) called out many of these lifestyle creators years ago! And she actually got a fair amount of hate for it, but she was right!!!
I remember her pointing out how weird it was for these creators to make back to school videos when they themselves hadn’t been in school for years…
i remember that!!!
love cristine
I love her and ben, I miss the podcast 💔😭
YESS OMG SIMPLY MENTIONED I LOVE HER SMMM (also not to be that guy but it's "cristine" with no "h" lol)
we stan the tea and nail polish queen Christine❤
I honestly loved the confessions that were clearly fake, like “we were never married and these are not our kids” and stuff like that, it was hilarious
Yeah the people memeing it made me cackle.
Yes! Peet Montzingo saying his mom and him were actually actors was hilarious to me. Absolutely hilarious. People believed it too!
It's literally gaslighting???
"Oh, you saw that video I posted showing how real and relatable I am and ACTUALLY believed it? You're dumb" that's literally the message.
This is not "literally gaslighting". You can't gaslight someone you don't even have a personal relationship with. Also lying to children is also not gaslighting unless you know them personally and you're trying to manipulate them by making them not trust themselves. If I say to a kid "Santa is real" I'm not gaslighting them
@ConnieTheo if you tell kids Santa is real and then treat them like idiots for not knowing Santa is not actually real, of course it is not gaslighting! 🤓
@@xsanchezcx Still not gaslighting because you're not systematically doing it to manipulate them. Also, like I said, a personal relationship is required for it to be gaslighting.
I don't get why adults are acting shocked by the revelations in those tiktoks. If they still believed those videos were authentic, maybe they are a bit gullible. You can't believe Santa is real at 25 without a few people calling you stupid
That’s not gaslighting
I agree!!! It's very manipulative.
Pretending to live in LA is CRAZYYYY
Yes that is so bizarre
Like me as a child would not gaf is you live in la or not💀💀I would only get it excited if it meant more collabs or something
I found it funny when they exposed themselves like half of them are not Instagram or RUclips. Like ok, TikTok will be taken down, but your other app will stay and you will be call out their lol😂
Yeah it's like, don't u want to continue ur platform?? With the same username? 😅 Not too bright but maybe some of them feel some guilt about being so fake
I cannot believe they did that stupid thing, they don’t only work on TikTok and if TikTok had been taken down then…? Where were they going to work at?
So dumb lol
im not on tiktok but i saw so many of these videos on freaking instagram. like you do realize this one isnt even going away?
Why does no one seem to understand that they js wanted to reveal the secret, they knew they wouldn’t be done and have no response
Influencers saying ‘I thought we all knew it was fake’ is such a cop out. If we all knew, we wouldnt have watched and they know that. They’re just saying that to avoid accountability. What they mean is “yeah, we all lied to you and made you feel bad about yourself and held you to a very high standard that we dont even hold ourselves to”
No one can make you feel bad about yourself. Take accountability that you enjoyed believing the lie
@@natalierose1072 Bootlicker much? Lets hold the liars accountable
i also thought everyone kinda knew that
Man I also thought people knew it was fake wow this fake relationship y’all have with influencers is really powerful
Mm or maybe you’re js not that smart, we knew it was fake
GREEN SCREEN?!???!
Nvm i kept watching
lmao my reaction immediately bc i was like ?!!! i stg she showed the trisha poster under her bed at one point
Yall are so gullible😭😭
Dw it’s not a green screen💀
@@yellowsnoww.LMFAO RIGHT I forget which one but there was literally a video where she forgot to put a poster in and switched it out half way through when she realized 😭
I love that you can tell that this was your genuine reaction from the (edited) tag at the top 😂 that would be shocking if it was true though lol
the fake house reminded me of how dan and phil used to have two identical apartments for mental separations reasons but fans started to figure it out and it sounded like an insane conspiracy theory but once they did not feel the reason to have two apartments they just told us and now joke about it
god i love them so much their entire tour has been so healing and a total counter to this entire trend
WTF I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS REAL
@@epicgirl65060 bestie look up 'finally telling the truth video' it's something to behold
@@epicgirl65060 in case you're not in the loop: they adressed it in the Dystopia Daily episode with Phil.
They rented two apartments from one landlord, one being below the other. That way the top apartment could be "life", the bottom one "work".
So it's not really a "fake apartment", but more like a "double apartment" where they just did not say that the filming locations were not their living spaces.
The floorplan stalkers definitely came to the totally wrong conclusions with their conspiracy theory, though - even if it was in small parts correct.
I have just recently started to unpack that its actually not realistic to own a home and travel then world at 24 after growing up believing that I would be living like that lol
Lmao, it can be realistic, but only for rich people. I've come to the same conclusion that I will have to work a shit ton before affording a vacation and house - the woes of gen z 😭
I mean I have started to unpack that I can't afford rent and am still economically dependent on my family at thirty ... Some of this is just that the economy is fucked it's not all the lies you were sold by an influencer (sometimes it's the lies you were sold by your parents being able to buy a house and start a family when they were your age)
@@arbyswitch5580 well yes of course, but this video was about influencers lol
@abbymarks4504 true true I'm just feeling cynical
“I thought we all knew it was fake” says the influencer in her million dollar home, paid for by the fact that we all thought it was real
this! lol
NICOLE! DO A CHRONICALLY ONLINE GIRL EXPLAINS AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON MARRIAGE BC IM SO CONFUSED!
PLS
@melaniesalphabetgirl LIKE I NEED IT.. IM SO CONFUSED
Gustaf Genz made a good video on their relationship. Aaron was groomed upon meeting her on the set of "Nowhere Boy", which Sam was directing. In other words, he was dating his boss which is a big no go already. Dated AND got engaged both in 2009. He was 18. They're not very public about the inside of their marriage (probably at the hand of Sam because she knows its both morally and ethically wrong), so there's not much else to know.
@irisie oh ew... wtf
@@irisie I heard she has a daughter who is closer in age with Aaron than the age gap between Aaron and his wife, is that true?
You talking about Emma Chamberlain suddenly reminded me of Joana Ceddia. I think part of her appeal was how down to earth she was, she still went to college and spoke very realistically about how youtube wasn't a viable long term career plan for her.
She sadly left RUclips and i feel weird about watching reposts from others 'cause she erased her online presence for a reason, but just hope she's doing well now
I know!!!! I miss her :(
She was sooo funny
thisss omg I miss her videos they were such a comfort:(
i miss her sm, i hope she’s recovering well from tsw
She hearted a comment I made on one of her videos… broke my heart when I couldn’t go back and see how she thought I was funny:( I know issme, but I miss her all the time
I miss her too!! It was so long ago… does anyone remember why she left? Was it the popularity that was getting to her? Or her eczema?? I really can’t remember. Help a girl out
Nikki said in a recent video that "RUclips was known for being over produced" and all I could think of was yeah, to youtubers, not their audience?!?!?!? I just think its crazy to think you're primarily very young audience knows everything you're doing is fake when they clearly don't
What the hell was she talking about? Over produced in comparison to what? Her familys home videos? I mean just like Nicole said, the thing everyone watched before RUclips was TV so especially in the earlier days the thing about RUclips was how real and just ppl filming themselves and uploading it. The amount of production being close to zero. And if it became over produced, maybe she should ask herself how much of a driving force for that she was herself instead of acting like it was all just the medium itself, not the actual people who were uploading on it!
Taking advantage of these naive people and then turning around and mocking them for falling for the con is so awful. Like dude, that’s your FANBASE! 😩
Literally like dude wtf I feel my whole RUclips kid life was a lie but I mean I feel like that’s kinda a universal thing nowadays
It’s funny she says that too because the appeal of older RUclips was the fact that it was so home made and simple. To say it was very over produced during 2012-2015 is crazy cause that literally was the era of just pick up ur phone and hit record.
Idk about all the other stuff but I fully understand having sets to film your RUclips videos in so you don’t have millions of people seeing your actual bedroom every week. Dan and Phil did the same thing and I’m sure there are many others as well. I think it’s a healthy work/life balance choice for creators who can afford it.
Dan and Phil makes total sense, those fans are so creepy
But the girly youtubers would do room tours and stuff like that, so we believed it was their real room and they owned all of that stuff. Now maybe they bought the furniture and decorations themselves but maybe they just rented it
@@helingunes955 either way, they paid for it, so it was theres. in this instance, it was just room decor ideas, whether they actually spent time in the room or not is not really a big deal
@@itsmikki44 of course it is. it changes the entire "vibe" of the person. im aware its completely parasocial and i personally am not affected by any of those influencers but their branding was fake, it is a big deal to their fans who feel they were lied to
@@spookeymo you're assuming that just because they had a set bedroom and a real bedroom, they have different vibes. they probably have similar vibes, just one that's more personal to them
I think there is a difference between thinking something was a bit performative vs thinking it was all a lie, like I just thought they'd lie about filters or makeup but not the entire video lol.
Exactly! Like curated means that there was some truth, not that literally everything was a lie. By 13 I knew that they didn’t live like that every day but I still assumed there was some truths to it especially since it was literally their job.
Girl you talking about protecting our grandparents from Facebook is so accurate my grandpa literally thinks he’s dating Lainey Wilson online. My mom and all of us have tried to tell him it’s not her but he doesn’t believe us. He’s even given them money too
the people who scam elders online are the cruelest… i hope you guys find a solution to this
just in time for my ipad kid dinner
I can't tell if this is a hilarious joke at your own expense, or literally just a parent who puts on Nicole Rafiee for their kids for dinner
@@lupakajsalisa3652 they are the iPad kid 🎉 hope this helps
"I thought we all knew." Girl you knew bc you were the one lying. Why would any of us just know that?
The fact all of this happened because of a family guy sound is insane💀
God this is so real. I used to watch Meredith Foster (before she joined a cult) and would constantly compare myself to her… as a middle schooler… while she is fully 10-15 years older than me. I’m giving my younger self a hug w/ this video
she joined a cult?? wow i had no idea
@ no, she just became a Christian
Omg yes I went to a meet and greet of hers when I was younger and have a picture somewhere 🤣🤣
same
I totally forgot that she existed but you TOOK ME BACK. Crazy.
this is the same energy as brands being forced to put “not actual size” or food disclaimers on products. like if you’re making money off of being an influencer, I feel like you need to disclaim
As somebody who is/was too much of a geriatric millennial to fall for the fake lifestyle blogging, I know this pain. Women’s magazines convinced 10 y.o. Me that I was a failure for having visible pores, no one is safe. The “omg I thought we all knew it was fake” feels like a further level of gaslighting; back then you felt bad because you didn’t measure up to a lie, now you get to feel bad because the influencers you grew up with just called you stupid for believing them.
This is the exact reason my kids are not allowed on RUclips or any social media. Kids cannot even begin to comprehend the content they are watching…. They can’t distinguish between real and fake.
Honestly kudos to you on that one. Algorithms can also prey on kids lack of knowledge of political subtext. I remember when I was a kid on the internet in the late 2000s, I liked some graphic that said “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” I had no idea that was a political slogan used to oppose gun control. I just read it as a statement on humans’ capacity for violence and depravity. Because there wasn’t algorithmically driven content back then, nothing happened. If a kid today did the same thing, the algorithm would start leading them down the path of rightwing radicalization
"I thought we all knew that it was fake" meanwhile the whole appeal of influencers was supposed to be that they were so much more "real" and "authentic" than traditional media. They said that was the explanation for the whole influencer phenomena in the first place
a fresh nicole rafiee video to watch while i eat dinner. perfect timing
omg twinning! I'm also eating dinner and watching this video
its crazy to me that anyone would say its "obviously fake" bc like. is the whole point of social media and the internet NOT that we're all real people? wasn't that the whole point? broadcast yourself??? obviously we know NOW that the internet is the new medium but back when TV was still relevant, posting online was supposed to be an authentic alternative. the authenticity is what originally gave it its value compared to normal celebrities
girl you are GLOWING
This was well said, Nicole! I started watching all those same RUclipsrs when I was 10, and it really is so odd to see them reveal different things. The kicker for me is they all branded themselves as "relatable"...it was built into everything they did because that was the RUclips culture. So I don't get the dissonance between trying so hard to be relatable and then turning around saying "I thought we all knew this wasn't real." I thought "real" was the whole point????? My bad.
14:39 the thing that REALLY got me was gabi saying her and nikki fought constantly- i would watch them every day wish i was that close with my older sister 🙂
My little polish heart skipped a beat when you started speaking in polish and the bible refrence?? i was not ready. Talk to me dirty (in polish) more, please
Yeah the polish jumpscare took me out tbh 10/10
right???
Ikr I had no clue she was Polish??? I was doing my chores and then I heard an aggressive niewierny Tomasz😭😭
it is so interesting that these influencers reactions to having their entire way of life put at risk is to spill the beans and start confessing... makes me wonder what kind of guilt they are dealing with and if maybe they secretly want it to all blow up
Something that made me feel really dumb when it was pointed out because like. wow yeah that is obvious, but I just didn’t think about it: they’ve got to get up and set up the whole camera to film themselves getting out of bed in the morning for morning routines
same
the being gen z but portraying as a millennial is so real. im an 02 baby but I always watched the content/tv shows for the generation above me. I never correlated the two but now it makes sense 😭
finding out all of these people were in their early twenties is INSANE! I’m 22 and I actually can’t imagine making lifestyle videos pretending to be in hs… to lie to your child audiences and create such unrealistic standards, is so not cool!
If they were an online store, from which you received a really bad product and their answer was the same “I thought you knew how expectations/reality works”… you can see how it’s all a SCAM
Gabbie Hanna and the kenza cosmetics thing 😂
As someone who also grew up in Niki and Gabi’s area, when I met Gabi(multiple times) she was always really rude, and the stories I’ve heard about them pre-fame are really upsetting as a long time fan
"the internet is very curated" girl you're the one doing the curating
im 24 and grew up low-income. i didn't compare myself to the lifestyle creators i watched in the 2010s because i never compared myself to people i consider celebrities, including microcelebrities on the internet. but i very much believed everything in the videos was real because they had access to money and a network that i couldn't even dream of. i don't feel hurt necessarily in hearing that these creators all lied, but i wish they had been more forthcoming about how they used their fame and wealth--how far it went, what was actually important to them--but why would kids be interested in that over aspirational, over-the-top, lavish content?
cause kids love that! I feel like over the top stuff is exactly what kids love cause it feels cool and important.
Yes! I knew it wasn’t realistic for me or anyone I knew but also their job was literally have a fun rich life and post about it what is there to lie about
I’m so glad you brought up aspyn ovard trying to gaslight everyone like she didn’t literally make a living out of other people wanting to be like her.
I’ve watching Niki and Gabi for 10 years now. They’ve maintained their ENTIRE career by making “exposing the truth” and “owning up to lies” videos since 2017. Still kinda like Niki, but since they’ve both started sponsoring fast-fashion companies… that’s icky. I don’t really like their major materialism anymore either. Moved on to watching gaming RUclipsrs and have been MUCH happier since :)
Yeah, I was just thinking a similar thing. I haven’t watched one of their videos in a while, but I definitely remember them going through a similar situation in which they said basically everything they did was scripted/fake and how they weren’t doing that anymore. Sounds like they never really did end up changing….
They are a meeesssy pair of sisters. Granted its on me, i keep watching their vids, but i cant stop because they genuinely look like they have a looot of issues that needs to be addressed. And every tine they complain about the hate and try to clarify that they are the subjects of ridicule, they have the full story not us and that they’re better now, that the bad rumours are wrong, they then would do stuff that makes me question them more 😂
aspyn really stuck with me because i lived in the same town as her, so i felt a LOT of confusion on why my life wasn’t like her when i was growing up
As much as you hear about how much stuff on the internet is fake, I didn't process the full extent of it until this happened. Btw you're SO pretty Nicole, and your skin is always GLOWING! I need a makeup tutorial!
Your content is genuinely my favorite on the internet please know that
girl if that's you in your pfp you're sooo pretty
@ I’m gonna cry thank you ☹️ genuinely made my night
@@irisieyou too hello?!?!? We got all sorts of baddies in this comment section
Your name ia gorgeous btw, if ayda is ur name
@@grimsyn8174 yes for real!!!
i am 22 and god this is so true, i watched a lot of mia, nicki and gaby, alisha marie, eva ect and like always aspired to have that life style or be a girl the way they were being a girl and never felt like i was enough bc their videos were so surreal and elaborate and i would constantly be comparing myself to them even though i was like 10 or 11 and they were like double that or more
mother has fed us on this blessed sunday 🙏
I hope all these "confessions" trends get us out of our phones and off the internet
I grew up with trichotillomania and looking back, a lot of my insecurity came from how popular hair extensions were in that era. Lifestyle girlies were going to "hair appointments" and coming out with so much hair. All of them had extensions, but I was a child so I never clocked it. I sometimes wonder if my "default" image of hair is based on these heads full of extensions (which I'm still trying to unlearn as a 28 year old). When I got older and realized what was happening, I got extensions too because I thought it was soooo normal for everyone to do?? Pretty sure it made my hair worse and my self esteem even lower.
I AM SO GLAD YOU MADE THIS VIDEO. Thank you for how many times you mentioned that we were children. Sending big hugs to our 10-year-old selves :')
“Freely the banana girl, I don’t want to talk about it” sums up my childhood in so many ways 😂🥹👍
I was going to close the video tab as Nicole was saying goodbye but then I realized I couldn't bring myself to leave until I heard the catchy outro song bc my mind is poisoned
this is so real cause i actually sing along every time
I have no one to talk to about it, so ill say it here: I follow Niki on Instagram, she also appears on my fyp on TikTok. And I didn't have a particular reaction to her confessions - my overall opinions on her as an influencer are pretty complicated and sometimes contradictory. But I was so surprised to see the initial positive reaction to her admitting her lies! And she almost frames it as if she's doing us... a favor, trying to be relatable and stay relevant. Like "I'm one of you, guys! That's why I share this with you!". Which... makes zerooo sense to me. Now, I also don't believe strong negative emotional reactions are healthy in such cases. But she's literally being praised for telling the truth after she has created the lie itself. It's so manipulative in a way. Yet, continuing this train of thought, I'm not shocked it's working since it's a common technique to gain influence over a mass of people - create a problem that didn't exist before and solve it first. You're a hero now. All in all, I find it unjust how she didn't face any consequences for her lies and for breaking the trust of the parasocial bond between her and her core audience.
My granmum is so incompetent with technology and the internet she doesnt even have a facebook, and I’m thankful of that every day
PLEASE tell me im not the only one who tried those DIYS and they flopped or looked sooo bad... i always knew there was some sense of falseness and class gap but had NO IDEA how they made those diys look good and how they did them so easily! paved the way for 5 minute crafts for realllll...
21:37 o wow that polish out of the blue got me real scared
omg me to!!
I thought it was czech or slovak at first , cuz we also say that, but same i did not expect that
And at 21:37 it doesnt get more polish than that
@@janekmaciejewski490 omg that's GOLD
No literally I immediately thought, ‘that *has* to be Polish right?’ The pronunciation was perfect!!
RUclips launched when I was in HS (ooof I’m old I guess) but I felt this way about teen magazines for so loooooooong, esp re: routines and food people eat. It’s wild and sad
10:30 as a Disney fan who worked at Disney World, it was actually cool to see how things worked behind the curtain.
Agreed! Never worked there but I love all the behind the scenes content I can get!
Off topic but you’re glowing… like you look so beautiful it’s insane
Also, can we talk about how it’s not normal how different influencers look from year to year. Like it’s actually really shocking whenever you go back and look at some influencers old posts/videos
when i saw niki’s videos i really didn’t think much of it because i was watching these videos as a portuguese teenager in a random portuguese town and nothing about those videos were relatable to me, but i do remember thinking they had much more fun lives than i did.
i think i just associated that with them being american due to the whole belief us non-americans have in our teens that the US is this amazing cool place to grow up in sold by american media everywhere, but if we think about it… they were very much a part of this american media i’m talking about !!
very interesting to hear you talk about this. when i was a teenager and watched those videos, i was also in a really bad mental state, constantly putting myself down and thinking im not good enough. im just now realising that also had a lot to do with the content i was watching. like you said, we thought it was realistic, so we were constantly comparing ourselves to it and falling short. as i grew older, i learned to accommodate for my needs better, i also have more female friends than i had back then, and we're all talking openly about our struggles. i dont have this unrealistic idea of where i should be anymore. i just learned to be a lot kinder with myself, and that its okay if my life doesnt look as perfect amd glamorous as those influencers'. but it is indeed a weird feeling to find out even their lives werent 😅
I feel a little healed with them admitting everything was fake. Because now I still don’t feel like I failed. I would rather know now than the lie be continued. They obvi shouldn’t have lied in the first place but they did, so here we are.
"I thought we all knew that these videos were just for entertainment" youtube has a category tag that those creators can add to their content if it's not lifestyle and it's just for entertainment. I've never seen a disclaimer on their content saying "for entertainment purposes only"
I also believed a lot of lifestyle videos and thought they did most of the things they showed every day. I had my doubts about some things, like how often people actually use products from sponsorships, or if they actually like the product, or if they'd purchase it themselves if it wasn't gifted to them, but .... I appreciate everyone who's talking about it now.
Your voice is nice to listen to AND you speak smart stuff. When i was younger i watched all those routine videos and thought to myslef "i just have to be like them and everything in my life will work out"
I’m the exact same age as Niki and Gabi and I always knew how old they were. I really got into Gabi’s social media in particular, since she gave me the confidence to embrace the traditionally “girly” pink, purple and pastel blue aesthetic which I had always loved, and still do (though I’ve always indulged in other styles as well, often feminine looks of different colour schemes (including classic blacks) and relaxed street styles) but I never got into her and Niki’s lifestyle content itself that much. It always felt so contrived, so did Gabi in many respects as well, I just loved her look and theme (and again, I still do). I remember not being able to shake how false and oddly quickly dated it felt. Right on the turn of 2020 before the pandemic, with them still posting “back to school” videos that seemed like the same as those from 2014 and I KNEW they turned 25 that year, it just felt strange. I’m not surprised how much she, Niki and others were blatantly lying, nothing about the facade of social media has shocked me since I discovered the prevalence of yachting in social media/the entertainment industry generally (if you know, you know).
3:26 same thing happened to me in middle school with my dance teacher, why were those years so dark for all of us
You saying that you're Gen Z gave me whiplash---I'm gonna be 21 next month and for some reason it feels astronomical that I am the same generation as such a wise self aware lady 😭
lol isn’t she only like 24??
@noelleh.2374 IS SHE??? DID I AGE HER???
I think gen z is like 29 at the eldest rn
@@4_everman She's 25
I can’t tell if this is a backhanded compliment or not
When I watched those back to school videos as a kid I knew they weren’t real because everyone who made them looked old to me💀 (“old” as in older than university age)
This conversation is so important and healing too. Little me wasn't alone in those feelings < 3
You unlocked a memory for me. I used to watch Nicki and Gabby videos all the time and completely forgot😂
i feel like we're inching closer to the end of the "influencer" because not only is social media becoming right-winged and driving people away, but there is also a fatigue growing from constantly consuming content.
(p.s. my heart skipped when i saw the fontaines d.c romance album in the back)
the way I’ve been watching you since the temple university days and you have truly come so far
9:50 "And who set that system up?"
got this notification right in the middle of salem's vid BWUAHAHAA
girl me too lol
girl i swear i’m listening but i haven’t seen a video of yours in a good while and you are glowing, this makeup looks so incredible on you, please let me know what products you’re using
7:42 actually pretty smart if you don’t want your audience to know where you live for safety reasons
I actually cannot relate to your sentiment, probably because I was older when RUclips started popping off and so I wasn’t as naive. Kids or young teens figuring out the internet and all its content must be so challenging. Can’t imagine the constant anxiety parents must face when children get in contact with connected devices.
17:23 A lot of kids (myself included) were so trusting in these content creators to tell the truth and be somewhat realistic with their videos, that years later learning half their content was staged definitely feels like a betrayal. Maybe not a very big or intense one, but there's a feeling of disappointment nonetheless.
This video was honestly so cathartic for me simply because I, even to this day as an Gen-Z adult, compare myself to a lot of these influencers online. I know a lot of people do. It began when I was a kid watching RUclips and thinking that all these people’s lives looked perfect and that I “needed” the things they had to be perfect too, like she was saying in the video. It harmed me in a lot of ways I don’t think I realized until recently. The fact that a lot of people are coming to the same realization that SO many things on the internet are fake for the sake of entertainment and popularity is good, because we were literal children when we were first exposed, and so of course we idealized and idolized these people’s lives because we didn’t know any better. I hope people who were exposed to those things and were made to feel like they weren’t good enough because they didn’t have this “perfect” lifestyle of a lot of influencers can have the same catharsis in knowing that they don’t have to have those things/do those things to have a good, fulfilling life🙏🏼
as someone of a similar age to these early influencers, they absolutely knew better at the time
you really hit us with the theremin vibrato voice in 10:25 lmao
omg you look so STUNNINGGGG never looked more beautiful fr
skin brows highlight bronzer lips you devoured this look
No fr I watched the sponsor this time cause I was shocked by her face card
Absolutely GGLLLOOOWWINGGG! ✨
her makeup looks SO GOOD its unbelievable and i need a tutorial stat
It’s worse bc they were old enough to know that their young audiences didn’t have the comprehension skills to understand everything was staged! I mean get the bag, but all these older gen influencers trying to say everyone knew it was fake feels a bit disingenuous 😅
The comment about having a millennial sense of humor because of watching millennial content as a kid is SO relatable. Before I could access RUclips I watched buzzfeed videos CONSTANTLY so i believe I’ve been mentally modified to find millennial humor funny
This was such a good video girl I related heavilyyyy. RUclips was my main source of entertainment especially when I aged out of a lot of the Disney/Nickelodeon shows. I feel like these RUclipsrs fed my perfectionism tendencies. I’m an adult now and have been able to shift my mindset to see things more realistically but I’d be lying if I didn’t say consuming this content from a young age wasn’t a reason I struggled with the need to be perfect all the time growing up.
You and I being from the same area and the same age. Truly your content hits me the closest and you feel like an actual friend (I do understand parasocial relationships lol). I hope you’re taking things day by day right now and still taking care of yourself! Thank you for showing up for us lovely! 💖🖤
as a 30 year old, i don't know any of these influencers, but also, WTF. this is the kind of stuff that makes me so glad that my brain was just slightly more developed before this content became popular. i will also say, even though i didn't grow up watching influencers, i still compared myself to "hilary duff's morning routine" in seventeen magazine or whatever. so because of marketing, we were and are always going to be comparing ourselves to each other, but with social media, that comparison feels so much more visceral and personal
As an elder millennial, we were deeply disillusioned by magazines like Cosmopolitan, Cosmo teen and Seventeen. I legit thought highschool was going to be just like the movie Clueless... as if.
There was so many times where they defended themselves against people saying it was fake and they were specifically telling us it was real!
you will sometimes share small things about your life (ex: believing everything you are told when you are a child) and my ocd ass is like oh hey me too wai-
'Chronically online girl' insists upon itself 😭
you articulated my thoughts so well I love this kind of commentary
OMG I'm Polish and I have to say that your accent is AMAZING! Really I'm so impressed. You killed the "niewierny tomasz" line.
Nicoleee, the comment about having a single mom and Christmas not looking like theirs is sooo REAL! so hard for me growing up but thank you!
19:59 this is exactly why i only trust reddit for any type of recommendations. (still, with only a grain of salt) Most subs have rules against affiliate links & people generally tell their whole life story, experience & reasoning behind why they like/use a product/service/etc.
btw girl you are GLOWINGGGG LIKE A GODDESS✨✨✨
2:41 JENNXPENN MENTION
Did they think that we would say "it's okay it's no big deal." Lol
Everytime I think you hit your peak beauty, you prove me wrong😭 you’re actually glowing.
I grew up watching ALOT of these RUclipsrs you’ve spoken about today, however I feel like I don’t feel as deceived because as an Indian, I felt like yeah this is how life in the states must be like. My only other comparison was a show like friends, and I thought nothing was untrue! I 100% believed that I can’t relate simply because I’m from a different country.