Telling people that "They didn't want this job" was really frustrating to watch because people would kill to have the job and opportunities she has, but I could also tell that she made that video in quite an emotional state. The comment she was replying to discredited all the effort she has put in up until that point, being invalidated in that way would upset anyone. Being an influencer, in comparison to other jobs, is not hard but it doesn't mean it's easy either.
Soo uhh why don’t all of these people do it then? If u have a smart phone you’re halfway there. Ppl get famous on tik tok for the bare minimum. Post a thirst trap with the right hashtags and you can go viral overnight. Ppl are acting like it’s impossible to become an influencer. It’s not. Not on tik tok. Learn how the algorithm works and you’re golden. You don’t have 20 min. To film a short clip to post? It’s not RUclips. It’s tik tok. There’s no overhead. There’s no need for editing or organizing a script… look at Khaby Lame dude… I mean, ppl are really offended over something they can do in the time it takes them to post about how triggered they are. All the time these ppl spend scrolling thru tik tok. Could be spent making them. Just do it. If u have access to tik tok u have the means to become an influencer.
And I agree with everything else you said by the way. Someone invalidating your experience and feelings never feels good and if you are already having a tough day that could easily be enough to trigger a response like this. Ppl are just so unforgiving and hypocritical these days. How about have some compassion and empathy and put yourselves in her shoes and see how you would feel it’s not hard to be understanding and mindful of others.
@@ShermanVonGee People have to like you (or your content) (or want to hate you) to want to keep up with you in order for you to become an influencer and have more than a handful of viral videos. You won’t get a following without some level of charisma, controversy or interesting dialogue. There are people I know who have posted content for years and have never gone viral. So no, not everyone can be an influencer. Many people in the world don’t have enough engaging personalities to be interesting enough to establish a following like all influencers do. I have people in my life who I know that if they ever wanted to pursue social media as a career, they would make a killing. Others who actively post (and yes, on tiktok) and attempt to become viral who will never do so because they are not someone who a great majority of people would want to subscribe to.
My dad was born and raised in Brooklyn and had a super thick accent before going to law school. He worked hard to get rid of his accent so people would take him seriously, especially in Court. I’m not surprised she tried to tone down her accent for radio.
Toning down an accent is different to completely changing it though. When people tone down their accent you can still hear bits and pieces of their old accent coming through in certain words or phrases. There was none of that in her old accent. Her Boston accent is very clearly fake. At the very least she over exaggerates it to the extreme. The first time I heard her talk about her "scaaaaaars" I knew that accent was not real.
I don't want to discredit the mental toll that influencing can take on Mikayla but i think it is equally, maybe more exhausting to grapple with the existential horror that is having to work until you're old and your body literally gives out just to survive in our society, statistically likely to experience poverty while doing so. If the mental toll is too heavy a burden, she could retire at 24, no problems but I and billions of other people don't just get to give it up. I do agree, though, that the hate she received is intense and useless. I hope she learns new perspectives and I hope she wasn't too distressed by all the hate.
Yeah, sometimes it's frustrating to hear people complain about a well paying and flexible jobs. I get sometimes people just want to vent, and every job has it's challenges. I have a progressive chronic pain disorder so my options are really limited. I'm at a job that undervalues me, overworks me, and my boss constantly pressures me to push my physical limitations and my coworkers aren't that understanding because I "look fine". But, I need a job, and I've been looking for a better one but it'sreally disheartening. I'd love a job that I could do from home, at my own pace.
I honestly think she was probably having a really stressful work day & that comment potentially sent her over the edge. Unfortunately for her, she posted an impulsive, very insensitive video about it & it's on the internet forever now.
This might sound so shady, but the reason her comment was so offensive is because, objectively speaking, she isn’t responsible for someone’s life. I’m studying to be a lawyer and while I love it I find myself constantly questioning if I’m ready to work after I graduate, I mean, my job will literally be to defend someone, whether it be with a contractor or because of a crime, that’s someone’s life that will be in my hands. I mean, comments like these are so incentive when we consider we are coming out of a pandemic where doctors and nurses had to move out of their homes and leave their families, or restaurant and grocery workers had to be bullied daily because they needed to enforce protocol, etc., these are human lives people have to deal with in a daily basis, and not digital personas on social media. I know most other careers aren’t as dramatically life or death but they all have in common that they are meant to improve a person’s quality of life and most involve actually interacting with people. The reality is, people in entertainment, because it’s not just influencers, don’t interact with people they are supposedly helping, especially on social media the chances of meeting them are quite low. I can understand it gets lonely and stressful, and all I’ve said is not to say they can’t struggle, but I do believe it’s a little tone deaf to say “people don’t want this job” or “this job is hard” because when I go to an influencers page it’s because I want to distract myself from “the real world” not get lectured by someone who lives in a house I probably will never afford. I do feel for her if she thinks she’s struggling and I believe she said those things in the heat of the moment, but regardless she needed to get a reality check because I do believe somewhere along the line she lost touch.
My job left me with several serious injuries that disabled me at 36 it was extremely physically taxing on the body and now I’ve had 11 surgeries very serious surgeries in 7 yrs, those comments came from a very entitled narcissistic out of touch person.
I'm not saying being an influencer is easy but claiming that her 8 hours of work are harder than my mum's 12 hours of work in a hospital makes my blood boil. I work a 9 to 5 from home and I would never claim my job is hard to millions of people who more than likely have much harder jobs than me. I didn't know her before that video and I don't want to know her after.
Being a content creator is significantly easier than ANY blue collar job. Work any blue collar job for extended periods it’s FAR more exhausting than being an influencer. Creators seriously have no idea privileged they really are. By far being an influencer now more than ever is the path of least resistance.
@@fluxifyme not really comparing apples to oranges I'd rather be an influencer than an employee at a company I don't even care about. Being an influencer is little easier than a blue collar job. You are right in the sense that both have different stresses but I'd rather quit my job and do things online
@@kokobopjammer2571 you CAN, is the thing. It is an option for most, if not all, individuals with a smart phone and all of the biggest influencers generally speaking started out making content or videos as a hobby whilst holding down a part, full, and/or 9 to 5 job.
I don't think anyone takes into account the amount of constant hate influencers get and how hard that would be to deal with every single day. Every little thing they say can be taken out of context. At any given time someones little feelings could get hurt and their whole career is over . Ive worked my ass off my whole life and yes it would be great to be your own boss and be an influencer but on the other hand you don't just get to clock out and be done. You're under a constant microscope that I don't think any of us can really compare to unless we've actually done it.
I have a south London accent and was once called ghetto during an acting class. I wanna go into performing arts and spent the next few years speaking with a posher accent until I snapped out of it. I do sometimes still find myself slipping back into a more RP accent especially at work but will consciously stop myself because it’s part of who I am and not something to be ashamed of.
similarly, private school ruined my south//east london accent. now a few years later, ive noticed the more tired i am the more east i sound 😭. its been weirdly emotionally difficult regaining my original accent because fr however small the differences are some part of me still feels like a fake and idk if it should fuck w my sense of self as much as it does❤️
It’s just in very poor taste to whine about how hard it is to be an influencer, just as you say it’s a job that comes with a lot of privilege. I’ve never heard of this woman before but I just felt like watching you put on your makeup cause it’s so soothing 💖
As someone from Boston I know the difference between New York, Boston, and New Jersey but I totally see how someone outside of those areas would think they’re all the same.
@Essiggurke …….. no crap. I was saying the accents can seem similar/hard to distinguish if you aren’t from the area (in the video she mentions not knowing which one it was). Not that they are the same place……
You're 100% correct about her accent. There's a lot of bias against certain accents in certain industries (now, but especially in the past) certain accents have specific connotations but also it's encouraged because some accents aren't as easy to understand. Like if you're going into telemarketing, news/weather anchor, etc. Especially east coast type accents (New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, so on). Personally I like hearing different accents lol.
!!!!! and the south! ive had so many teachers and professors i really admire tell me that my accent makes me sound uneducated. i had an interview for a job i didn't get and the interviewers note said that he "didn't like the way i sounded." Its real unfortunate.
I will say as someone who is born and raised by Southerners, it was aggrevaging growing up with a new York accent due to my SPEECH THERAPIST having a strong NY accent. My speech impediment had no chance being fixed by someone who wasn't even saying words correctly herself. I've had to fake a texas accent until it slowly stuck to stop the comments
My boss was from Boston. He usually toned it down (he was an OPs VP in Los Angeles) Unless he was talking to a friend or pissed. Then it was full on Boston accent 😅
I hate when people call out accents in the US, I have a Chicana accent, but I live in Texas and can't speak with my natural accent cause there's rampant prejudice and racism here. I also work in Big Tech, so my Customer Service voice uses a Bay Area California accent and dialect. When I'm interacting with Texans that have the Texan accent, I will use that accent. In normal situations where I can't gauge the level of "safe" I am I will use the California accent with a brush of my Texan accent. However, when I know I am safe, around my peers, speaking Spanish, English, and Spanglish, I use my regular accent. So when I see people being all like "their accent changes their a fake" I'm like oh so you're just saying you don't have to hide your accent so people will receive you well in public. Alternatively, when I am speaking Spanish and English I will forget English words, same with Spanish when I have been speaking English... This does not mean we're faking it means being multilingual is hard and confusing.
I feel this. I had to fake my Texan accent to hide a horrible speech impediment and NY accent due to my speech therapist having one. But when I'm with family I do naturally fall into a more Spanish accent without meaning to. Or when I get emotional or angry or excited my speech impediment comes out. And I hate it. But I do mask it with the Texan one
I think the issue with having a job as an influencer is that she has shown so much of her life (buying a house at such a young age, her full closet full of designer items, and constantly being sent free expensive makeup products) and then to come on there and say that she works a 9-5 job and NO ONE ELSE could handle it was not said well. I personally work 7-5, and have been struggling to pay my mortgage and have a customer service oriented job which means I’m getting yelled at for the majority of the day. I think influencers in general have had to work very hard and I don’t think that their job is any less hard then mine, but telling her followers how hard her job is without knowing their situation and while also showcasing her designer life is in bad taste - especially during the pandemic. I think something else that people were probably upset with is that with a lot of influencers it takes them so long to get any kind of brand deals or following and from what we all see it looks like she blew up overnight basically. I bet there are a lot of her followers who are working a “9-5 job” and still trying to put out content even though they’re not getting paid anything for it.
I'm from Argentina, I live in Buenos Aires. I'm 26 and have been a doctor for one year now. I work as an on-call doctor, 40hs a week. I make around $800 USD a month. I have one of the most ungrateful jobs in healthcare, patients have attacked me for unreasonable things, I attend emergencies and throat aches and it offends me SO MUCH that ppl who can make their own schedule and are able to buy a house at 24 while I'm struggling to even sustain myself financially, I think people should think before they talk and develop EMPATHY, she grew her TikTok during a freaking PANDEMIC, when some people were having a really hard time. I dare ANYONE who thinks they're capable, to accompany me for one of my 12 hour shifts, and THEN tell me if they still think that what they do is harder
I don't think the changing accents is weird. I graduated from university with a degree in communication, and during radio class you were requared to use a neutral accent.
I really trust Allie Glines and Jessica Braun when it comes to makeup recommendations and reviews. 100% recommend them! I bought 10+ products they recommended and their review matched the products performance, pigmentation etc.
Jessica Braun is great for dupes and drugstore makeup! Allie Glines is ok, my skin is just so dry that her preferences don't work for me as much. Amanda Z is one of my favorites tho!
@@XxCørpsegirlXx same lol. I'd watch a handful of 10+ vids and read at least 3 articles on the product I wanna buy then look for the product description. I think for myself for about an entire month then I'm fine buying it if it's matching my standards.
“Taken out of context”? No babe the way they took it was the correct context. mikayla was complaining about how hard she works and directly comparing it to 9-5s. She DID think she works harder than anyone else. Also just a reminder for everyone: once it’s on the internet it’s forever. Even if you delete it.
No babe. She was responding to a comment telling her to get a “real job” and to “try a 9 to 5” and her response was that she simply worked from 6:30 am to 5 pm, all day, just like a 9 to 5. Just because it’s not your typical job doesn’t mean it’s not work. Not to mention she never once said her job was harder than all of the other jobs.
couldn’t agree more, like a 9-5 can be mentally and physically draining ESPECIALLY when you feel like your work isn’t paying as much as the effort you feel like you’re putting in. It’s easy to say ‘yeah I work a 9-5 job too as an influencer and it’s soooo draining’ when you’re sitting in a 2 million dollar mansion, where as people are working exactly the same hours and can’t even afford to buy a house, or some people working the same hours, just as hard and still have to use things like food banks because they can’t afford to feed their family
She's had a real job. She's worked in customer service. She knows your job is hard. She wouldn't film it again, regardless, because she feels badly. Your comment feels goofy.
Mikayla bffr about using filters 😂 At my old makeup retail store, people would swear up and down that she doesn’t use filters and I’m like “Skin has texture, nobody’s skin is that perfect”.
I think what also annoyed people about her comments about her being an influencer was that she make comments on Jaclyn Hill's tiktok something about 'must be nice to just open pr boxes all day'
I think what many influencers mean when they say the job is hard is probably the mental drain that happens from being online 24/7 and being exposed to constant opinions about yourself. That is probably very exhausting. It’s definitely hard to empathize if you never experienced it, like me neither I‘m not internet famous but I try to built my art brand through social media and it is mentally draining and I do nowhere near as much on social media as influencers cause I work and go to uni. That being said the payment for the work you do is absolutely incredible if you are big and that’s what others mean when they say it’s an easy job. Like would I sell my soul for having such easy money? Kinda yeah hahaha just to escape capitalisms hell
i didn’t know anything about her except that one acne tiktok, but you made this really interesting to watch 😗 i love your accent and voice it’s really calming to listen to!
I think she’s young and slightly immature, not being malicious, but hopefully she can learn and grow and I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt that she learned from her missteps.
idk, knowing my mom works from 11am to 9pm and gets the same amount a month that mikayla gets for like one post and hear her say that rubs me the wrong way, i mean yeah it is very tiring and she has every right to feel that way, but just the way she said it. . . yikes
I'm from RI (MA's neighbor) and went to undergrad with Mikayla (I'm 2 years older) and I'm genuinely amazed by her success. I didn't know her like that but given that Bryant is only about 4000 students and she worked the front desk of the student center on campus, I saw her all the time and had many mutual friends. As far as her accent goes, I never heard her talk so IDK lol but based on her accent, I'd say she's from Southeastern MA (Fall River, New Bedford) which is NOT Boston. People outside of RI/MA tend to categorize any town in MA as Boston even though that's not accurate at all!
I recently commented on a tik tok to tell a girl that she needed to tag it #ad and she made fun of me in the comments along with other people who said the same thing I did. Makes me laugh bc im old enough to not care, but also mad bc they need to disclose ads bc its so scummy
I changed my birth control after being on it for 5 years and I am absolutely riddled with acne. The same as I was ten years ago when I was 14 🥲 my skin was so amazing... but I'd rather have acne than a stroke lol
@@nora4642 thank you this gives me hope 😭 my back and my chin are in ruins right now 😭 I had cystic acne from 14 years old 😅 it's been ten years surely I should be growing out of it soon 😂
@@IamCarol233 I have to say, looking back now to when I made this comment, my skin has settled down a lot!!! Still flares up when I eat certain things, but it's improved over time! Yay 🥰
Yeah I definitely get both sides. She did come off as out of touch in her video telling people "you don't want this job, trust me" when you make as much money as you make as an influencer. But the internet definitely has a tendency to overreact and be so cutthroat towards people, who, in the grand scheme of things haven't done anything to deserve this amount of vitriol. Idk, imagine having this many people be so brutal towards you for saying somehting out of touch and annoying. So, I do agree with you on the part where we should give people more grace instead of going so hard right away.
I have London British, Texas American, LA girl next door accent all mixed up and I'm from South Asia. What's the deal with them being so unchill and raging on accents 😭 so lame
@@jacklynheath3780 even so. I pick up accents/slang from my friends who are from different part of the country/world all the time, I really don't see what's wrong with that. it's just natural for humans to imitate what they're exposed to, especially in the social sense
There’s nothing “wrong” with it. It’s just that certain accents have a certain connotation. I say “Brooklyn Accent” and most people think of Italian man in his 40s saying “whatch where ya goin!! I’m wawkin ere!!” It’s similar to how places with less representation will see black people as scary, desi people as “IT people”/scammers, and east Asians as “good at math” stereotypes
Exactly this like even in my native language it's very common to switch between accents depending on who you speak to. Is that not a kind of universal thing?
Regarding the mental health issues that come with being an influencer, almost every job, especially if you work with people, can be so hard on you mentally, and so much harder to afford mental health care, since the pay is much less. I understand Mikayla’s feelings, I don’t think she was malicious or anything like that, I just think it was a bit out of touch.
Some of her videos pass through my feed, and some does really interest me since im into makeup. but TBH, I was actually really surprised learning that she's just 24. I thought she was a few years my senior and i'm almost in my mid 30s. no hate for mikayla, just saying.
A lot of people who want to go into radio/news end up moving from places like Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee (places with distinctive regional accents) to Colorado, where I live. We “don’t have an accent” here- more so it doesn’t have that regional recognition that say, someone from Brooklyn or Alabama might. It sucks, but it’s the reality.
It’s the way she didn’t even discuss the racial slur she used or anything… her silence speaks volumes.. she’s definitely not the nicest person she portrays to be
angelika babe I AM from nj born and raised, still living here, and i promise YOUUU her accent does not come from here nor do i as a fellow nj person claim her. sure people may think of nj from maybe the jersey shore show or NY but new york is a whole separate state and she exaggerates her voice soo much. anyways love you and thanks for pumping out quality over quantity content
we’d have to cancel almost every other beauty influencer lmao. i agree it’s a little shady but ultimately it’s on the public to be smart enough to understand that people don’t have airbrushed flawless skin in real life. skin had texture, acne, acne scars, fine lines, hyperpigmentation, etc and we know that.
Yeah idk something about this girl that I don’t like. She seems very fake and annoying. Part of the reason I can’t stand TikTok is because I’m always shown vids of her and others I can’t stand because I love makeup and looking at new things but I wish it was just certain people. Perhaps why I stick to RUclips on my subscriptions. Anyhoo, loved your look!!! Gorgeous!
The one thing that made my Spidey senses go off were her talking about her ED/body image issues; I know recovery is different on everyone, and I am not here to shame what people have gone through, but a lot of her past does not line up, especially when it came to talking about bodybuilding, and lifting heavy, and then leading to her first experience p*rging, like, it sounded like someone that was trying to shame the sport without holding one self accountable, and still hold the angle of “woe is me” when reminiscing over being a smaller size. and as a former binger who not got into bodybuilding, as well as someone who went off of birth control and got their hormones back in check, it’s not clicking.
I just found your yt channel while scrolling through my recommend! I love the way you go about topics and talk as it it’s a actual conversation and not a video:)
I don’t follow her so I picked a random video. She uses a filter DURING application. Looks like a basic beautifying one. Smoothing etc then she takes the filter off for the super quick reveal.
Mikayla and I live in the same state, and MA accents are super strong. I lived in Boston until I was about 10, and when I moved to New Hampshire I was made fun of a lot for the way I sound. It’s a love or hate type of accent 🤣
I visited Boston when I was 15 (my dad is a Red Sox fan so of course we had to go see a game). Out of every city I've been to in the US Boston is still one of my favorite places! Accents and all, I couldn't get enough! Also, people aren't lying when they say that pizza is better on the east coast lol.
Mikayla said that she never had a youtube channel. Someone else was uploading her content from tiktok onto youtube. But I don’t believe for a second that she doesn’t use photoshop. Can I just say that there’s no influencer on earth who doesn’t use some kind of facetune or photoshop.
She’s always rubbed me the wrong way, with the photoshop and undisclosed brand deals. Editing photos when you’re selling products is just not ok. Denying filters is also not ok, to me. Not disclosing promos… that’s just shady. I blocked her a long time ago lol
I for one actually did go out and get that nars concealer in Chantilly after seeing the tutorial. Took me hours of combing the net like a stalker to get the shade name because she and I have the same complexion and at that price I needed to get it right the first time. I have cystic eczema and I have to say the trick really works
How about try working for retail, being on your feet all day with only 15 minutes of break and 30 minutes for lunch and also having to put up with ruthless management and entitled customers. Only to get paid minimum wage. Yeah I doubt she’s ever worked hard labor for little pay. I guarantee you she wouldn’t last and hard work isn’t meant for people like her. She’d either quit the same day or she’d be fired.
Honestly, this whole situation just shows how toxic TikTok is. Regardless of what you do on the platform, you get hate, but I’ve also seen recently how mucho toxic positivity there is in the platform, like much more than on other platforms, and I’ve found it a bit frustrating and makes the app a bit unbearable. When the whole drama with Mikayla happened some TikToks talked about how it’s not her problem she feels bad but societies problem, so if we have to be angry at society, which is valid, but that doesn’t mean we can’t feel some type of way about a thing said by an influencer which was problematic or simply give constructive criticism (like with the jones rode and Meredith situation). I get people want to “protect” their favourite content creators, and this may sound harsh but the faster people realise these influencers don’t care about you but your money, the easier it will be to see these people as human beings who can make mistakes and be problematic. Idk just some thoughts I had.
Honestly I hate when people think you can’t complain about something because someone has it harder. Same with kiddos. I have four kids and it’s extremely difficult..but when someone with one child says it’s difficult I don’t discredit it. Both can be hard. Of course she has privledge but if you’ve watched any of her videos you know she’s thankful and knows that as well! She was having a bad day and stressed and said her job was hard. I’m sure it is. Jobs are hard in different ways. I’ve been a medical assistant running around working 15 hours a day. It was HARD. Now I work from home salary making wayyyy more money with way less work and sometimes I still complain that my job is hard. 🤷🏻♀️
Literally like I don't get why some people are so mad at her like they never complain. Istg the standard public figures have to hold themselves to is impossible and extremely unfair
At the end of the day it’s one of those I wish she would’ve waited and collected herself. I do think she came off very entitled tho, I get her struggling and I understand that there are difficulties with the job, but she has a lot of opportunities and financial security that some people may and/or will never have.
I’m from the northeast near Boston. I’ve always felt like she played up the accent to stand out. Idk maybe it’s because I’ve never cared too much about her, but it just feels forced
Honestly taking something she said a year and a half ago and pretending like she said it today with the circumstances she has now is ridiculous. Obviously a year and a half ago she was not in her two million dollar home with Chanel bags . What I took from it is that as an influencer you’re a business owner and it’s more difficult than people often think. Is it the hardest job? No it isn’t but I’m not going to pretend like she hasn’t worked hard and made sacrifices to be where she is today. She apologized for how insensitive it came off and that’s good enough for me. There is always going to be someone who works harder for less money. It doesn’t mean we can’t be human and have a moment when we complain or get upset especially when someone is trying to diminish our hard work. (This isn’t an attack on what you were saying just to make that clear. It’s how I felt towards people who were so outraged by her comments)
I completely agree with so much of what you’ve said. I don’t dislike Mikayla at all I think she seems lovely and I think she’s got a very mature outlook on the world for a woman of her age. But I haven’t trusted her in a long time. For ages it seemed every product she reviewed she loved and lately I feel as though she’s realised as she gets more successful she gets less relatable and is doing videos like the La Mer one, where she over the top says it’s not worth it and she wouldn’t recommend it for that price tag, to seem more relatable. There’s other that come to mind also. Does this make her an awful person? Absolutely not but as you have said I take a lot of what she says with a pinch of salt
the thing with her job is that she wanted to cut down on content or projects she could. the pay is absolutely unbelievable so she is in a position to control her workload. as well as all the other perks - flexibility/working from home/PR/events etc
So I’m rewatching your old vids and I’m howling because agessss ago I asked what that mascara was…. Still haven’t got it 😂😂 maybe this summer I will treat myself to a CT haul! Xxx
matilda on video is the only “beauty influencer” i trust because she never recommends product she only shares the information and searching about it which i appreciate
I just hope in the near future us as consumers stop developing these parasocial relationships with content creators. Our favs aren’t all that we see on screen, but they are still human. Just gotta give courtesy and respect unwarranted more often
i went to college in the south and it is 100% accurate that in radio/communications studies they do make you tone down your accent to sound more “neutral and professional” it’s not even her choice really. you won’t get a job on the air without doing it.
I'm from the midwest, specifically the Chicago area, and it's so interesting how there's so many different types of American accents. I can definitely tell when someone is from New England/east coast or the deep south because their accents are a lot stronger. I feel like the further west you go, it's a lot harder to tell if someone has an accent because it all starts to sound like a generic American accent. For me personally, I don't think I have an accent, but my dad's side of the family is from Wisconsin and Minnesota and they have more of a Canadian sounding accent.
Unpopular opinion, but here we go. Was Mikayla insensitive when she made a video about her job being hard? Absolutely. But I also think everyone is entitled to complain about their job at least once a year. I worked all sorts of jobs, 13 hour retail days with super low pay, desk jobs, management of sorts etc. Now I have a great job in customer service, but do I get burned out sometimes and complain? Absolutely. There's always someone who has it worse, doesn't mean that your feelings about your current situation are invalid. It's a different story if you're ungrateful & unappreciative of the privileges you have, but to me Mikayla's "apology" seemed genuine and venting is necessary sometimes to keep pushing. Maybe the internet is not the best place for it.
Exactly she could of done something so mutch worse I don't enjoy her but there are mutch more influencers that have done worse haha no one is always gonna love thier job every job even if you love it can make you frustrated in some way and I think she was just frustrated and tired and a lot of people could relate
The ' costumer service voice ' thing sounds legit to me. I noticed myself that I curse or mix Dutch and English a lot when I talk normally but not when I'm using my customer service voice
I can't watch her because her voice is like nails on a chalkboard. In general I don't like her. She's done nothing wrong. I think that if you want to be professional stop cussing and being obnoxious. She does filter. She was filtering her body too.
"kids watch you" is a good argument on its own bc she doesn't curate her content for kids specifically she simply gears it to people who want to wear makeup
The accent thing, just- agh. Listen. I'm French Canadian. I'm from Québec. I have a THICK accent for someone my age. I sound like my parents, and my grandparents - all lower class people, also from different regions, and you chuck the English in there too and it makes for *quite* the accent. From the second we start school, we are taught to tone down our accent. We are taught that, if of we speak with a thick accent, we're not speaking correctly. That we're butchering the holy French language. Historically, being French Canadian stereotypically equaled poor and uneducated. Since the 60s, Québec has tried to grow the furthest away from that as possible, and one of the things they've decided to double down on to acheive said distance, is the toning down of French Canadian accent, to assimilate to the French accent, because the thicker the accent, typically the further away you lived from cities, the less educated you were, the poorer your family was, and you most likely worked the fields until you died. And we're not a poor, uneducated nation. /s We ALL know France has a "holier than thou" mentality, and Québec falls for it. It wants to be more like France. Québec is insecure in itself, as much as it scream it isn't. It's insecure in its accent, meaning it's insecure in its history. So they teach us to be insecure too. During presentations, during job interviews, in any situation you need to seem proper, you are taught to tone down the accent, because it makes you sound smarter, more educated, more upper class. If you don't, you'll hear about it. If you're on TV or the radio and you don't tone down your accent, you will be harassed and bullied across the internet for "not speaking correctly." For not sounding "Frenchier." Unless you're a 60+ yr old man, then the accent is charming. 🙄 So as someone with a thick accent, taught my entire life that I speak poorly, all because of the circumstances my family and I were born into, I'm taught I need to be less me, and more... them, more like the French, because they're just OH SO BETTER than us. I've given myself the goal to stop toning it down. And loooord... I'm probably poor, but I am smart, I am educated, and I definitely know how to speak my damn language. If anyone goes back and finds things I've done, they'll notice my accent is less intense than my real one, and all of this is why. Even my English Canadian accent is incredibly thick, my lilt is STRONG, and if you listen to it the past, it's because I made myself more normal, to avoid judgment. So yeah. Toning down one's accent isn't being fake, it's to protect oneself and to assimilate to survive in a world of prejudice and judgment.
I’m from Germany and I speak French. When I was 16, I went to Québec and lived there for 6 months. Even though my French is pretty good (I’ve lived in France before, I had a French nanny as a child and I also had French lessons in school) it was sooo hard for me to understand the accent. I don’t want to be disrespectful by any means and I definitely do not support people being discriminated against because of their accent, but maybe you can see where I’m coming from with this: for people that are not native speakers which there are a lot of in North America and even for native speakers, really thick accents can really make life so much harder. Sometimes I was unable to even understand the simplest sentences and a lot of times I was left out of conversations because some people’s accents were so thick that I was unable to follow the conversations. I used to love the French language before and I chose to live in Québec for that time to improve my skills. But my experiences were so frustrating that I almost wanted to leave. I think that in some situations, a “neutral” accent or just toning down the accent a little bit can be beneficial for a lot of people. It does not necessarily mean that people want to shame accents or anything.
@@meretc I'm very aware others have a hard time understanding us. We're reminded by the French about it, constantly. But. If you tell me that we should have a "neutral accent," then you should tell the Irish, Scottish, Americans and English-speaking Canadians to sound more English, more like they're from England. You should tell the Central and South American countries that speak Spanish to sound more like Spain. You should tell Brazil to sound more like Portugal. Or why can't France be the one to meet us halfway? Do you see where I'm coming from? The reason one doesn't understand our accent, it's because they've never been acclimated to it, just like many don't understand a Scottish accent, because they've never spent any time around it. Erasing our accent is erasing our history. We have the old French accent. It's not only Canada that has it, it's the French-speaking parts of the US as well, of which many arent aware that the US has a French-speaking population, especially in south, and that French used to be illegal in some states, like Alabama, because they saw French as lower class and wanted it to be eradicated, so that's why there's not a big community left. But they're there. The reason we sound the way we do, is because we were cut off from France when their accent changed after the French Revolution. Their accent went their way, ours went its way as well. French-speaking Canada has enough to deal with, with English-speaking Canada's colonizer mentality, since Britain took over. Even today, I've seen people openly talk about wanting to put us in concentration camps. There are such a things as francophobia, French-bashing and Quebec-bashing. I'm aware indigenous peoples have dealt with WAY worse. But what I'm saying is that we know. We know you can't understand us, but keep the same energy for the others as well. You're asking us to assimilate, to not *be us*. We've been asked that since the 1760s. I'm not laying my guns down anytime soon. 🤷🏻♀️
My cousin is from NYC and has a strong accent and she also got her degree in communications for radio studio but also is pursuing acting. She was also told about toning down her accent for other roles and jobs in the entertainment business. Mikayla has a strong New England accent, which not a lot of people are crazy about in my country. I can see how she can get made fun of for it and wanted to hide it. As far as her being tired at times for working full time on videos, I think she has the right to feel the way she does to an extent. Everyone has a job that over time is draining your energy and makes you miserable. Taking time away and going on vacation can help but sometimes therapy is an option some need more. She’s said she’s been depressed and not feeling well mentally. Yes, she makes a ton of money now but she has worked at Ulta Beauty which is a crappy job and I know because I used to work there too. I work as a vet assistant now and while I get full health benefits, I don’t make a lot. I can’t afford a house, new car or luxury items like she can.
I love the "ugh I'm offending people now" you're absolutely not! Everyone everywhere has an accent n it's kinda cool to hear so many different ones. I live in Pennsylvania in the states and I have a coal region accent and don't think I have one but yet I know I sound different than someone like her who's from the new England states.
I could be mistaken but I do think mickayla was working at Ulta, there was a TikTok she made where she filmed herself leaving it. I wanna say this was when she was still living at home and had not met her fiancé. Retail can be hard depending on the ethics n policy of the store or bc of direct management, so that could be one of her job experiences?
What makeup brushes are you using? Yes I’m with you on the cringe factor of sex talk during a makeup routine 😖 I don’t want my daughters in their early teens to hear that from someone they could possibly look up to, it’s just a bit trashy to me🤷🏼♀️
i get what you’re saying but ultimately she’s an adult and she can talk about adult things. if you don’t want your daughters hearing those things from her, don’t allow them to watch her. you can’t expect adults to censor themselves because you don’t want your kids to hear certain things. that’s lowkey on you love. i do see what you’re saying though and there are plenty of make up artists on social media who don’t talk about mature topics that i’m sure your daughters would like.
@@ariannadshae oh ya I know, I don’t expect anyone to censor themselves, it’s their channel they can do what they please, sometimes it’s just weird to hear I guess, I don’t watch Mikayla and I don’t think my daughters do either. I just hope they watch more ‘G rated’ RUclipsrs as they are still young lol
I use to get made fun of because I had an accent when j was younger since English is my third language . So I’ve been hiding my accent ever since. Now I don’t much but I use to get bullied a lot. This stuck with me a lot!!!
Telling people that "They didn't want this job" was really frustrating to watch because people would kill to have the job and opportunities she has, but I could also tell that she made that video in quite an emotional state. The comment she was replying to discredited all the effort she has put in up until that point, being invalidated in that way would upset anyone. Being an influencer, in comparison to other jobs, is not hard but it doesn't mean it's easy either.
i completely agree!!
Soo uhh why don’t all of these people do it then? If u have a smart phone you’re halfway there. Ppl get famous on tik tok for the bare minimum. Post a thirst trap with the right hashtags and you can go viral overnight. Ppl are acting like it’s impossible to become an influencer. It’s not. Not on tik tok. Learn how the algorithm works and you’re golden. You don’t have 20 min. To film a short clip to post? It’s not RUclips. It’s tik tok. There’s no overhead. There’s no need for editing or organizing a script… look at Khaby Lame dude… I mean, ppl are really offended over something they can do in the time it takes them to post about how triggered they are. All the time these ppl spend scrolling thru tik tok. Could be spent making them. Just do it. If u have access to tik tok u have the means to become an influencer.
And I agree with everything else you said by the way. Someone invalidating your experience and feelings never feels good and if you are already having a tough day that could easily be enough to trigger a response like this. Ppl are just so unforgiving and hypocritical these days. How about have some compassion and empathy and put yourselves in her shoes and see how you would feel it’s not hard to be understanding and mindful of others.
@@ShermanVonGee People have to like you (or your content) (or want to hate you) to want to keep up with you in order for you to become an influencer and have more than a handful of viral videos. You won’t get a following without some level of charisma, controversy or interesting dialogue. There are people I know who have posted content for years and have never gone viral. So no, not everyone can be an influencer. Many people in the world don’t have enough engaging personalities to be interesting enough to establish a following like all influencers do.
I have people in my life who I know that if they ever wanted to pursue social media as a career, they would make a killing. Others who actively post (and yes, on tiktok) and attempt to become viral who will never do so because they are not someone who a great majority of people would want to subscribe to.
@@angelikamakeup she worked at ulta and when her tiktok started to blow up she quit
My dad was born and raised in Brooklyn and had a super thick accent before going to law school. He worked hard to get rid of his accent so people would take him seriously, especially in Court. I’m not surprised she tried to tone down her accent for radio.
I still think she looks like she should have a British accent for some reason lol
Yea ppl act like code switching doesn’t exist like you wouldn’t talk to your boss for a potential job how you talk your home girl
my familys from staten island n i work in a restaurant. i understand your dads wish to tone down the accent
except that excuse makes ZERO sense for where she's from. the radio hosts in Boston ABSOLUTELY pride themselves as sounding as boston as possible.
Toning down an accent is different to completely changing it though. When people tone down their accent you can still hear bits and pieces of their old accent coming through in certain words or phrases. There was none of that in her old accent. Her Boston accent is very clearly fake. At the very least she over exaggerates it to the extreme. The first time I heard her talk about her "scaaaaaars" I knew that accent was not real.
I don't want to discredit the mental toll that influencing can take on Mikayla but i think it is equally, maybe more exhausting to grapple with the existential horror that is having to work until you're old and your body literally gives out just to survive in our society, statistically likely to experience poverty while doing so. If the mental toll is too heavy a burden, she could retire at 24, no problems but I and billions of other people don't just get to give it up. I do agree, though, that the hate she received is intense and useless. I hope she learns new perspectives and I hope she wasn't too distressed by all the hate.
Yeah, sometimes it's frustrating to hear people complain about a well paying and flexible jobs. I get sometimes people just want to vent, and every job has it's challenges. I have a progressive chronic pain disorder so my options are really limited. I'm at a job that undervalues me, overworks me, and my boss constantly pressures me to push my physical limitations and my coworkers aren't that understanding because I "look fine". But, I need a job, and I've been looking for a better one but it'sreally disheartening. I'd love a job that I could do from home, at my own pace.
I honestly think she was probably having a really stressful work day & that comment potentially sent her over the edge. Unfortunately for her, she posted an impulsive, very insensitive video about it & it's on the internet forever now.
@@prickhead exactly. the internet is brutal 😭
This might sound so shady, but the reason her comment was so offensive is because, objectively speaking, she isn’t responsible for someone’s life. I’m studying to be a lawyer and while I love it I find myself constantly questioning if I’m ready to work after I graduate, I mean, my job will literally be to defend someone, whether it be with a contractor or because of a crime, that’s someone’s life that will be in my hands. I mean, comments like these are so incentive when we consider we are coming out of a pandemic where doctors and nurses had to move out of their homes and leave their families, or restaurant and grocery workers had to be bullied daily because they needed to enforce protocol, etc., these are human lives people have to deal with in a daily basis, and not digital personas on social media.
I know most other careers aren’t as dramatically life or death but they all have in common that they are meant to improve a person’s quality of life and most involve actually interacting with people. The reality is, people in entertainment, because it’s not just influencers, don’t interact with people they are supposedly helping, especially on social media the chances of meeting them are quite low. I can understand it gets lonely and stressful, and all I’ve said is not to say they can’t struggle, but I do believe it’s a little tone deaf to say “people don’t want this job” or “this job is hard” because when I go to an influencers page it’s because I want to distract myself from “the real world” not get lectured by someone who lives in a house I probably will never afford.
I do feel for her if she thinks she’s struggling and I believe she said those things in the heat of the moment, but regardless she needed to get a reality check because I do believe somewhere along the line she lost touch.
My job left me with several serious injuries that disabled me at 36 it was extremely physically taxing on the body and now I’ve had 11 surgeries very serious surgeries in 7 yrs, those comments came from a very entitled narcissistic out of touch person.
I'm not saying being an influencer is easy but claiming that her 8 hours of work are harder than my mum's 12 hours of work in a hospital makes my blood boil. I work a 9 to 5 from home and I would never claim my job is hard to millions of people who more than likely have much harder jobs than me. I didn't know her before that video and I don't want to know her after.
She never said that.
She literally never said that her work was harder than yours or your mothers. She said it was difficult period.
@@annieslegend In context, I believe that's what she meant.
@@Mikayla_Games24 it’s not. She explained it.
@@annieslegend Huh? does she know her mum?
Being a content creator is significantly easier than ANY blue collar job. Work any blue collar job for extended periods it’s FAR more exhausting than being an influencer. Creators seriously have no idea privileged they really are. By far being an influencer now more than ever is the path of least resistance.
Can't compare apples to oranges. Both titles have different stresses.
@@fluxifyme not really comparing apples to oranges
I'd rather be an influencer than an employee at a company I don't even care about. Being an influencer is little easier than a blue collar job. You are right in the sense that both have different stresses but I'd rather quit my job and do things online
@@fluxifyme you sound uneducated 😅
@@kokobopjammer2571 you CAN, is the thing. It is an option for most, if not all, individuals with a smart phone and all of the biggest influencers generally speaking started out making content or videos as a hobby whilst holding down a part, full, and/or 9 to 5 job.
I don't think anyone takes into account the amount of constant hate influencers get and how hard that would be to deal with every single day. Every little thing they say can be taken out of context. At any given time someones little feelings could get hurt and their whole career is over . Ive worked my ass off my whole life and yes it would be great to be your own boss and be an influencer but on the other hand you don't just get to clock out and be done. You're under a constant microscope that I don't think any of us can really compare to unless we've actually done it.
I have a south London accent and was once called ghetto during an acting class. I wanna go into performing arts and spent the next few years speaking with a posher accent until I snapped out of it. I do sometimes still find myself slipping back into a more RP accent especially at work but will consciously stop myself because it’s part of who I am and not something to be ashamed of.
similarly, private school ruined my south//east london accent. now a few years later, ive noticed the more tired i am the more east i sound 😭. its been weirdly emotionally difficult regaining my original accent because fr however small the differences are some part of me still feels like a fake and idk if it should fuck w my sense of self as much as it does❤️
also im not rly sure why ppls accents are such a point of interest and criticism like “oo u sound different”. hmm.
It’s just in very poor taste to whine about how hard it is to be an influencer, just as you say it’s a job that comes with a lot of privilege. I’ve never heard of this woman before but I just felt like watching you put on your makeup cause it’s so soothing 💖
As someone from Boston I know the difference between New York, Boston, and New Jersey but I totally see how someone outside of those areas would think they’re all the same.
@Essiggurke …….. no crap. I was saying the accents can seem similar/hard to distinguish if you aren’t from the area (in the video she mentions not knowing which one it was). Not that they are the same place……
@Essiggurke if you didn't watch the video to know the context of this comment just say that.
Quite the same how Americans can’t tell the difference between English accents from different parts of England
You're 100% correct about her accent. There's a lot of bias against certain accents in certain industries (now, but especially in the past) certain accents have specific connotations but also it's encouraged because some accents aren't as easy to understand. Like if you're going into telemarketing, news/weather anchor, etc. Especially east coast type accents (New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, so on). Personally I like hearing different accents lol.
!!!!! and the south! ive had so many teachers and professors i really admire tell me that my accent makes me sound uneducated. i had an interview for a job i didn't get and the interviewers note said that he "didn't like the way i sounded." Its real unfortunate.
I will say as someone who is born and raised by Southerners, it was aggrevaging growing up with a new York accent due to my SPEECH THERAPIST having a strong NY accent. My speech impediment had no chance being fixed by someone who wasn't even saying words correctly herself. I've had to fake a texas accent until it slowly stuck to stop the comments
My boss was from Boston. He usually toned it down (he was an OPs VP in Los Angeles)
Unless he was talking to a friend or pissed. Then it was full on Boston accent 😅
At first glace, I thought it was a drama video but then saw the channel name and got excited for a new deep-dive, loving this content 💛💛💛💛
thank you 💗
@@criticalchild2400 why did you care enough to reply to a comment from almost 13 days ago?
I hate when people call out accents in the US, I have a Chicana accent, but I live in Texas and can't speak with my natural accent cause there's rampant prejudice and racism here.
I also work in Big Tech, so my Customer Service voice uses a Bay Area California accent and dialect.
When I'm interacting with Texans that have the Texan accent, I will use that accent.
In normal situations where I can't gauge the level of "safe" I am I will use the California accent with a brush of my Texan accent.
However, when I know I am safe, around my peers, speaking Spanish, English, and Spanglish, I use my regular accent.
So when I see people being all like "their accent changes their a fake" I'm like oh so you're just saying you don't have to hide your accent so people will receive you well in public.
Alternatively, when I am speaking Spanish and English I will forget English words, same with Spanish when I have been speaking English... This does not mean we're faking it means being multilingual is hard and confusing.
I feel this. I had to fake my Texan accent to hide a horrible speech impediment and NY accent due to my speech therapist having one. But when I'm with family I do naturally fall into a more Spanish accent without meaning to. Or when I get emotional or angry or excited my speech impediment comes out. And I hate it. But I do mask it with the Texan one
I think the issue with having a job as an influencer is that she has shown so much of her life (buying a house at such a young age, her full closet full of designer items, and constantly being sent free expensive makeup products) and then to come on there and say that she works a 9-5 job and NO ONE ELSE could handle it was not said well. I personally work 7-5, and have been struggling to pay my mortgage and have a customer service oriented job which means I’m getting yelled at for the majority of the day. I think influencers in general have had to work very hard and I don’t think that their job is any less hard then mine, but telling her followers how hard her job is without knowing their situation and while also showcasing her designer life is in bad taste - especially during the pandemic. I think something else that people were probably upset with is that with a lot of influencers it takes them so long to get any kind of brand deals or following and from what we all see it looks like she blew up overnight basically. I bet there are a lot of her followers who are working a “9-5 job” and still trying to put out content even though they’re not getting paid anything for it.
"That is a fact...for me...that's a fact for me in my head.... allegedly" me writing research papers
I'm from Argentina, I live in Buenos Aires. I'm 26 and have been a doctor for one year now. I work as an on-call doctor, 40hs a week. I make around $800 USD a month. I have one of the most ungrateful jobs in healthcare, patients have attacked me for unreasonable things, I attend emergencies and throat aches and it offends me SO MUCH that ppl who can make their own schedule and are able to buy a house at 24 while I'm struggling to even sustain myself financially, I think people should think before they talk and develop EMPATHY, she grew her TikTok during a freaking PANDEMIC, when some people were having a really hard time.
I dare ANYONE who thinks they're capable, to accompany me for one of my 12 hour shifts, and THEN tell me if they still think that what they do is harder
I don't think the changing accents is weird. I graduated from university with a degree in communication, and during radio class you were requared to use a neutral accent.
I really trust Allie Glines and Jessica Braun when it comes to makeup recommendations and reviews. 100% recommend them!
I bought 10+ products they recommended and their review matched the products performance, pigmentation etc.
Another I would recommend is Julia Adams ! She’s amazing ✨
Jessica Braun is great for dupes and drugstore makeup! Allie Glines is ok, my skin is just so dry that her preferences don't work for me as much. Amanda Z is one of my favorites tho!
I love Angelica Nyquivist (I can’t spell it but she’s brutally honest)
I don't trust anyone
@@XxCørpsegirlXx same lol. I'd watch a handful of 10+ vids and read at least 3 articles on the product I wanna buy then look for the product description. I think for myself for about an entire month then I'm fine buying it if it's matching my standards.
“Taken out of context”? No babe the way they took it was the correct context. mikayla was complaining about how hard she works and directly comparing it to 9-5s. She DID think she works harder than anyone else. Also just a reminder for everyone: once it’s on the internet it’s forever. Even if you delete it.
No babe. She was responding to a comment telling her to get a “real job” and to “try a 9 to 5” and her response was that she simply worked from 6:30 am to 5 pm, all day, just like a 9 to 5. Just because it’s not your typical job doesn’t mean it’s not work. Not to mention she never once said her job was harder than all of the other jobs.
@@ItsCasuallyHannah 27:05
She literally said so lmfao
@@ItsCasuallyHannah lol she’s doesn’t care you exist sis you don’t need to lie to defend her 😭
couldn’t agree more, like a 9-5 can be mentally and physically draining ESPECIALLY when you feel like your work isn’t paying as much as the effort you feel like you’re putting in. It’s easy to say ‘yeah I work a 9-5 job too as an influencer and it’s soooo draining’ when you’re sitting in a 2 million dollar mansion, where as people are working exactly the same hours and can’t even afford to buy a house, or some people working the same hours, just as hard and still have to use things like food banks because they can’t afford to feed their family
She never said it was harder than regular 9-5’s?
I dare Mikayla to switch with me and work a busy day at starbucks as a barista, and then sit down and film that video again haha
Yes exactly! This job isn’t “easy” but definitely more enjoyable than the 10 hour retail shifts I did before 🥴
Not just that she also said it was okay for make up companies like Jaclyn Hill Cosmetics to exclude BIPOC ppl in their launches.
Lol the thing is that Mikayla used to work at Ulta
Oooo hard . Piss off
She's had a real job. She's worked in customer service. She knows your job is hard. She wouldn't film it again, regardless, because she feels badly. Your comment feels goofy.
Lol given the “Mascara Gate” drama, this aged wildly
Mikayla bffr about using filters 😂 At my old makeup retail store, people would swear up and down that she doesn’t use filters and I’m like “Skin has texture, nobody’s skin is that perfect”.
I think what also annoyed people about her comments about her being an influencer was that she make comments on Jaclyn Hill's tiktok something about 'must be nice to just open pr boxes all day'
Yesss we have another video from Angelika ❤really needed this!
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You're right not everyone can be an influencer. It's a popularity contest essentially.
She is in meetings from noon to 5? After waking up early and working for several hours? Sounds like a normal work day to me
"I just got done a 5:15" or whatever time it was. I used to stay locked into my desk, from 7:30-7:30, then commute 40 minutes home lol
love the longer videos, cant wait to watch xx
thank you ❤️
I think what many influencers mean when they say the job is hard is probably the mental drain that happens from being online 24/7 and being exposed to constant opinions about yourself. That is probably very exhausting. It’s definitely hard to empathize if you never experienced it, like me neither I‘m not internet famous but I try to built my art brand through social media and it is mentally draining and I do nowhere near as much on social media as influencers cause I work and go to uni.
That being said the payment for the work you do is absolutely incredible if you are big and that’s what others mean when they say it’s an easy job. Like would I sell my soul for having such easy money? Kinda yeah hahaha just to escape capitalisms hell
the funniest thing is like influencing is most likely harder than my job yes but you also get paid like 700x more than me
i didn’t know anything about her except that one acne tiktok, but you made this really interesting to watch 😗 i love your accent and voice it’s really calming to listen to!
“That is a fact for me in my head” lol love you
this aged perfectly
I think she’s young and slightly immature, not being malicious, but hopefully she can learn and grow and I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt that she learned from her missteps.
that’s what i think! x
I don't think she's that young, she easily looks 35... you know at that age you shouldn't be this immature.
@@karly.asshhh she’s in her 20s…
idk, knowing my mom works from 11am to 9pm and gets the same amount a month that mikayla gets for like one post and hear her say that rubs me the wrong way, i mean yeah it is very tiring and she has every right to feel that way, but just the way she said it. . . yikes
I'm from RI (MA's neighbor) and went to undergrad with Mikayla (I'm 2 years older) and I'm genuinely amazed by her success. I didn't know her like that but given that Bryant is only about 4000 students and she worked the front desk of the student center on campus, I saw her all the time and had many mutual friends. As far as her accent goes, I never heard her talk so IDK lol but based on her accent, I'd say she's from Southeastern MA (Fall River, New Bedford) which is NOT Boston. People outside of RI/MA tend to categorize any town in MA as Boston even though that's not accurate at all!
I recently commented on a tik tok to tell a girl that she needed to tag it #ad and she made fun of me in the comments along with other people who said the same thing I did. Makes me laugh bc im old enough to not care, but also mad bc they need to disclose ads bc its so scummy
And I will say I know it was an ad bc im an internet veteran too (im 22) but also because she responded to someone else by saying "ugh fine #ad
It’s literally the law 😂
I changed my birth control after being on it for 5 years and I am absolutely riddled with acne. The same as I was ten years ago when I was 14 🥲 my skin was so amazing... but I'd rather have acne than a stroke lol
I quit birth control and have the WORST acne but 5-6 months in, it’s getting better!!!!
@@nora4642 thank you this gives me hope 😭 my back and my chin are in ruins right now 😭 I had cystic acne from 14 years old 😅 it's been ten years surely I should be growing out of it soon 😂
@@ellaisboring it’s just a time thing (unfortunately) also read the book in the Flo !!
same 😢
@@IamCarol233 I have to say, looking back now to when I made this comment, my skin has settled down a lot!!! Still flares up when I eat certain things, but it's improved over time! Yay 🥰
Yeah I definitely get both sides. She did come off as out of touch in her video telling people "you don't want this job, trust me" when you make as much money as you make as an influencer. But the internet definitely has a tendency to overreact and be so cutthroat towards people, who, in the grand scheme of things haven't done anything to deserve this amount of vitriol. Idk, imagine having this many people be so brutal towards you for saying somehting out of touch and annoying. So, I do agree with you on the part where we should give people more grace instead of going so hard right away.
I don’t appreciate people using “‘mental illness” as a reason to justify acting like a fool.
as a non-english person the fact people are attacking her on her accent is so funny to me lmao, like mine changes everyday what's the big deal💀💀
I have London British, Texas American, LA girl next door accent all mixed up and I'm from South Asia. What's the deal with them being so unchill and raging on accents 😭 so lame
Because it’s a second language for you. This is the only one she’s ever spoken
@@jacklynheath3780 even so. I pick up accents/slang from my friends who are from different part of the country/world all the time, I really don't see what's wrong with that. it's just natural for humans to imitate what they're exposed to, especially in the social sense
There’s nothing “wrong” with it. It’s just that certain accents have a certain connotation. I say “Brooklyn Accent” and most people think of Italian man in his 40s saying “whatch where ya goin!! I’m wawkin ere!!”
It’s similar to how places with less representation will see black people as scary, desi people as “IT people”/scammers, and east Asians as “good at math” stereotypes
Exactly this like even in my native language it's very common to switch between accents depending on who you speak to. Is that not a kind of universal thing?
Regarding the mental health issues that come with being an influencer, almost every job, especially if you work with people, can be so hard on you mentally, and so much harder to afford mental health care, since the pay is much less. I understand Mikayla’s feelings, I don’t think she was malicious or anything like that, I just think it was a bit out of touch.
Some of her videos pass through my feed, and some does really interest me since im into makeup. but TBH, I was actually really surprised learning that she's just 24. I thought she was a few years my senior and i'm almost in my mid 30s. no hate for mikayla, just saying.
Oh wow I didn’t know she was that young!
I know, I thought she was in her early 30s or late 20s. 😮
I'm 35 I thought she was around my age
A lot of people who want to go into radio/news end up moving from places like Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee (places with distinctive regional accents) to Colorado, where I live. We “don’t have an accent” here- more so it doesn’t have that regional recognition that say, someone from Brooklyn or Alabama might. It sucks, but it’s the reality.
Always a joy to watch your videos and hear your takes on current events!
Lol I was raised in Boston and I have never will never trust someone with a townie accent
I've literally commented that but I deleted it glad I'm not alone
yeah with makeup i don’t buy something just because a influencer likes it. i agree i just watch it because it’s entertaining
It’s the way she didn’t even discuss the racial slur she used or anything… her silence speaks volumes.. she’s definitely not the nicest person she portrays to be
And if she apologized to Jaclyn then she shoulda deleted those nasty comments bc it was so easy for everyone to find…
angelika babe I AM from nj born and raised, still living here, and i promise YOUUU her accent does not come from here nor do i as a fellow nj person claim her. sure people may think of nj from maybe the jersey shore show or NY but new york is a whole separate state and she exaggerates her voice soo much. anyways love you and thanks for pumping out quality over quantity content
She needs to get cancled for using filters while selling & advertising makeup.
we’d have to cancel almost every other beauty influencer lmao. i agree it’s a little shady but ultimately it’s on the public to be smart enough to understand that people don’t have airbrushed flawless skin in real life. skin had texture, acne, acne scars, fine lines, hyperpigmentation, etc and we know that.
Yeah idk something about this girl that I don’t like. She seems very fake and annoying. Part of the reason I can’t stand TikTok is because I’m always shown vids of her and others I can’t stand because I love makeup and looking at new things but I wish it was just certain people. Perhaps why I stick to RUclips on my subscriptions. Anyhoo, loved your look!!! Gorgeous!
The one thing that made my Spidey senses go off were her talking about her ED/body image issues; I know recovery is different on everyone, and I am not here to shame what people have gone through, but a lot of her past does not line up, especially when it came to talking about bodybuilding, and lifting heavy, and then leading to her first experience p*rging, like, it sounded like someone that was trying to shame the sport without holding one self accountable, and still hold the angle of “woe is me” when reminiscing over being a smaller size. and as a former binger who not got into bodybuilding, as well as someone who went off of birth control and got their hormones back in check, it’s not clicking.
I’m from where she is…. And nobody talks like that around here lol. Literally NOBODY.
I just found your yt channel while scrolling through my recommend! I love the way you go about topics and talk as it it’s a actual conversation and not a video:)
I don’t follow her so I picked a random video. She uses a filter DURING application. Looks like a basic beautifying one. Smoothing etc then she takes the filter off for the super quick reveal.
Mikayla and I live in the same state, and MA accents are super strong. I lived in Boston until I was about 10, and when I moved to New Hampshire I was made fun of a lot for the way I sound. It’s a love or hate type of accent 🤣
I visited Boston when I was 15 (my dad is a Red Sox fan so of course we had to go see a game). Out of every city I've been to in the US Boston is still one of my favorite places! Accents and all, I couldn't get enough! Also, people aren't lying when they say that pizza is better on the east coast lol.
@@frumtheground if you ever come back you’ve got to give Regina’s pizza a try!! Bostons finest
@@Colbybartley omg will do! Thanks for the recommendation!
Watched this video while eating my dinner. Great content as per usual.
thank you! x
Thank God for this!! I’ve been WAITING for you to post. Omg. Thank you.😊
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can’t remember makeup on tiktok but The Coldest Bottle definitely had undisclosed ads all over the platform.
when i saw this girl at ulta next to rihanna i was wtf thats Mikayla . I couldn’t believe it . She abuses the face app way too much
Love the longer content!
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Mikayla said that she never had a youtube channel. Someone else was uploading her content from tiktok onto youtube. But I don’t believe for a second that she doesn’t use photoshop. Can I just say that there’s no influencer on earth who doesn’t use some kind of facetune or photoshop.
Robert Welsh zooms in, shows his pores, and detests filters.
She’s always rubbed me the wrong way, with the photoshop and undisclosed brand deals. Editing photos when you’re selling products is just not ok. Denying filters is also not ok, to me. Not disclosing promos… that’s just shady. I blocked her a long time ago lol
I for one actually did go out and get that nars concealer in Chantilly after seeing the tutorial. Took me hours of combing the net like a stalker to get the shade name because she and I have the same complexion and at that price I needed to get it right the first time. I have cystic eczema and I have to say the trick really works
Rest in piece here for the tea. She will was an OG tea Channel
How about try working for retail, being on your feet all day with only 15 minutes of break and 30 minutes for lunch and also having to put up with ruthless management and entitled customers. Only to get paid minimum wage. Yeah I doubt she’s ever worked hard labor for little pay. I guarantee you she wouldn’t last and hard work isn’t meant for people like her. She’d either quit the same day or she’d be fired.
I absolutely love how you explained this situation. Such a positive view point and hope being held for Mikayla.
She's 2 years younger than me? I thought for sure that she was in her 30's.
Honestly, this whole situation just shows how toxic TikTok is. Regardless of what you do on the platform, you get hate, but I’ve also seen recently how mucho toxic positivity there is in the platform, like much more than on other platforms, and I’ve found it a bit frustrating and makes the app a bit unbearable. When the whole drama with Mikayla happened some TikToks talked about how it’s not her problem she feels bad but societies problem, so if we have to be angry at society, which is valid, but that doesn’t mean we can’t feel some type of way about a thing said by an influencer which was problematic or simply give constructive criticism (like with the jones rode and Meredith situation). I get people want to “protect” their favourite content creators, and this may sound harsh but the faster people realise these influencers don’t care about you but your money, the easier it will be to see these people as human beings who can make mistakes and be problematic. Idk just some thoughts I had.
Honestly I hate when people think you can’t complain about something because someone has it harder. Same with kiddos. I have four kids and it’s extremely difficult..but when someone with one child says it’s difficult I don’t discredit it. Both can be hard. Of course she has privledge but if you’ve watched any of her videos you know she’s thankful and knows that as well! She was having a bad day and stressed and said her job was hard. I’m sure it is. Jobs are hard in different ways. I’ve been a medical assistant running around working 15 hours a day. It was HARD. Now I work from home salary making wayyyy more money with way less work and sometimes I still complain that my job is hard. 🤷🏻♀️
Literally like I don't get why some people are so mad at her like they never complain. Istg the standard public figures have to hold themselves to is impossible and extremely unfair
At the end of the day it’s one of those I wish she would’ve waited and collected herself. I do think she came off very entitled tho, I get her struggling and I understand that there are difficulties with the job, but she has a lot of opportunities and financial security that some people may and/or will never have.
I’m from the northeast near Boston. I’ve always felt like she played up the accent to stand out. Idk maybe it’s because I’ve never cared too much about her, but it just feels forced
Honestly taking something she said a year and a half ago and pretending like she said it today with the circumstances she has now is ridiculous. Obviously a year and a half ago she was not in her two million dollar home with Chanel bags . What I took from it is that as an influencer you’re a business owner and it’s more difficult than people often think. Is it the hardest job? No it isn’t but I’m not going to pretend like she hasn’t worked hard and made sacrifices to be where she is today. She apologized for how insensitive it came off and that’s good enough for me. There is always going to be someone who works harder for less money. It doesn’t mean we can’t be human and have a moment when we complain or get upset especially when someone is trying to diminish our hard work. (This isn’t an attack on what you were saying just to make that clear. It’s how I felt towards people who were so outraged by her comments)
I completely agree with so much of what you’ve said. I don’t dislike Mikayla at all I think she seems lovely and I think she’s got a very mature outlook on the world for a woman of her age. But I haven’t trusted her in a long time. For ages it seemed every product she reviewed she loved and lately I feel as though she’s realised as she gets more successful she gets less relatable and is doing videos like the La Mer one, where she over the top says it’s not worth it and she wouldn’t recommend it for that price tag, to seem more relatable. There’s other that come to mind also. Does this make her an awful person? Absolutely not but as you have said I take a lot of what she says with a pinch of salt
ooooh lowk been waiting for this one :o
the thing with her job is that she wanted to cut down on content or projects she could. the pay is absolutely unbelievable so she is in a position to control her workload. as well as all the other perks - flexibility/working from home/PR/events etc
This channel is my comfort zone
thank you ❤️
So I’m rewatching your old vids and I’m howling because agessss ago I asked what that mascara was…. Still haven’t got it 😂😂 maybe this summer I will treat myself to a CT haul! Xxx
im just shocked she’s 24… i thought she was older
matilda on video is the only “beauty influencer” i trust because she never recommends product she only shares the information and searching about it which i appreciate
I just hope in the near future us as consumers stop developing these parasocial relationships with content creators. Our favs aren’t all that we see on screen, but they are still human. Just gotta give courtesy and respect unwarranted more often
I've been subscribed for years and actively watch and ive been unsubbed? bizzare
Girl that is the biggest beauty blender I have ever seen. 🤣
i went to college in the south and it is 100% accurate that in radio/communications studies they do make you tone down your accent to sound more “neutral and professional” it’s not even her choice really. you won’t get a job on the air without doing it.
I love your reactions 😭
I'm from the midwest, specifically the Chicago area, and it's so interesting how there's so many different types of American accents. I can definitely tell when someone is from New England/east coast or the deep south because their accents are a lot stronger. I feel like the further west you go, it's a lot harder to tell if someone has an accent because it all starts to sound like a generic American accent. For me personally, I don't think I have an accent, but my dad's side of the family is from Wisconsin and Minnesota and they have more of a Canadian sounding accent.
Unpopular opinion, but here we go. Was Mikayla insensitive when she made a video about her job being hard? Absolutely. But I also think everyone is entitled to complain about their job at least once a year.
I worked all sorts of jobs, 13 hour retail days with super low pay, desk jobs, management of sorts etc. Now I have a great job in customer service, but do I get burned out sometimes and complain? Absolutely. There's always someone who has it worse, doesn't mean that your feelings about your current situation are invalid. It's a different story if you're ungrateful & unappreciative of the privileges you have, but to me Mikayla's "apology" seemed genuine and venting is necessary sometimes to keep pushing. Maybe the internet is not the best place for it.
Exactly she could of done something so mutch worse I don't enjoy her but there are mutch more influencers that have done worse haha no one is always gonna love thier job every job even if you love it can make you frustrated in some way and I think she was just frustrated and tired and a lot of people could relate
The ' costumer service voice ' thing sounds legit to me. I noticed myself that I curse or mix Dutch and English a lot when I talk normally but not when I'm using my customer service voice
I can't watch her because her voice is like nails on a chalkboard. In general I don't like her. She's done nothing wrong. I think that if you want to be professional stop cussing and being obnoxious. She does filter. She was filtering her body too.
Thank you! Her voice drives me insane and I just can’t with the obnoxiousness.
Finally someone said it, it’s not the accent, her voice is just extremely unpleasant.
@@BloodSweatandFears My ears get anxiety every time I hear her talk.
love the content shift!
ps the sharp contour line distracted me so much I kept waiting for you to blend out the bottom edge...
omg im so excited for this video, but i gotta save it for tomorrow when im working to really savour it 100% lol
"kids watch you" is a good argument on its own bc she doesn't curate her content for kids specifically she simply gears it to people who want to wear makeup
The accent thing, just- agh. Listen.
I'm French Canadian. I'm from Québec. I have a THICK accent for someone my age. I sound like my parents, and my grandparents - all lower class people, also from different regions, and you chuck the English in there too and it makes for *quite* the accent.
From the second we start school, we are taught to tone down our accent. We are taught that, if of we speak with a thick accent, we're not speaking correctly. That we're butchering the holy French language.
Historically, being French Canadian stereotypically equaled poor and uneducated. Since the 60s, Québec has tried to grow the furthest away from that as possible, and one of the things they've decided to double down on to acheive said distance, is the toning down of French Canadian accent, to assimilate to the French accent, because the thicker the accent, typically the further away you lived from cities, the less educated you were, the poorer your family was, and you most likely worked the fields until you died.
And we're not a poor, uneducated nation. /s
We ALL know France has a "holier than thou" mentality, and Québec falls for it. It wants to be more like France. Québec is insecure in itself, as much as it scream it isn't. It's insecure in its accent, meaning it's insecure in its history. So they teach us to be insecure too.
During presentations, during job interviews, in any situation you need to seem proper, you are taught to tone down the accent, because it makes you sound smarter, more educated, more upper class. If you don't, you'll hear about it. If you're on TV or the radio and you don't tone down your accent, you will be harassed and bullied across the internet for "not speaking correctly." For not sounding "Frenchier." Unless you're a 60+ yr old man, then the accent is charming. 🙄
So as someone with a thick accent, taught my entire life that I speak poorly, all because of the circumstances my family and I were born into, I'm taught I need to be less me, and more... them, more like the French, because they're just OH SO BETTER than us.
I've given myself the goal to stop toning it down. And loooord...
I'm probably poor, but I am smart, I am educated, and I definitely know how to speak my damn language. If anyone goes back and finds things I've done, they'll notice my accent is less intense than my real one, and all of this is why. Even my English Canadian accent is incredibly thick, my lilt is STRONG, and if you listen to it the past, it's because I made myself more normal, to avoid judgment.
So yeah. Toning down one's accent isn't being fake, it's to protect oneself and to assimilate to survive in a world of prejudice and judgment.
I’m from Germany and I speak French.
When I was 16, I went to Québec and lived there for 6 months.
Even though my French is pretty good (I’ve lived in France before, I had a French nanny as a child and I also had French lessons in school) it was sooo hard for me to understand the accent. I don’t want to be disrespectful by any means and I definitely do not support people being discriminated against because of their accent, but maybe you can see where I’m coming from with this: for people that are not native speakers which there are a lot of in North America and even for native speakers, really thick accents can really make life so much harder. Sometimes I was unable to even understand the simplest sentences and a lot of times I was left out of conversations because some people’s accents were so thick that I was unable to follow the conversations.
I used to love the French language before and I chose to live in Québec for that time to improve my skills. But my experiences were so frustrating that I almost wanted to leave.
I think that in some situations, a “neutral” accent or just toning down the accent a little bit can be beneficial for a lot of people. It does not necessarily mean that people want to shame accents or anything.
@@meretc I'm very aware others have a hard time understanding us. We're reminded by the French about it, constantly. But. If you tell me that we should have a "neutral accent," then you should tell the Irish, Scottish, Americans and English-speaking Canadians to sound more English, more like they're from England. You should tell the Central and South American countries that speak Spanish to sound more like Spain. You should tell Brazil to sound more like Portugal. Or why can't France be the one to meet us halfway?
Do you see where I'm coming from? The reason one doesn't understand our accent, it's because they've never been acclimated to it, just like many don't understand a Scottish accent, because they've never spent any time around it.
Erasing our accent is erasing our history. We have the old French accent. It's not only Canada that has it, it's the French-speaking parts of the US as well, of which many arent aware that the US has a French-speaking population, especially in south, and that French used to be illegal in some states, like Alabama, because they saw French as lower class and wanted it to be eradicated, so that's why there's not a big community left. But they're there. The reason we sound the way we do, is because we were cut off from France when their accent changed after the French Revolution. Their accent went their way, ours went its way as well.
French-speaking Canada has enough to deal with, with English-speaking Canada's colonizer mentality, since Britain took over. Even today, I've seen people openly talk about wanting to put us in concentration camps. There are such a things as francophobia, French-bashing and Quebec-bashing. I'm aware indigenous peoples have dealt with WAY worse. But what I'm saying is that we know. We know you can't understand us, but keep the same energy for the others as well. You're asking us to assimilate, to not *be us*. We've been asked that since the 1760s. I'm not laying my guns down anytime soon. 🤷🏻♀️
@@meretc congratulations
i can’t believe the “try being an influencer for a day” is her how does she keep getting away with bs 💀
I’ve been waitttinggg for this video lmao
My cousin is from NYC and has a strong accent and she also got her degree in communications for radio studio but also is pursuing acting. She was also told about toning down her accent for other roles and jobs in the entertainment business. Mikayla has a strong New England accent, which not a lot of people are crazy about in my country. I can see how she can get made fun of for it and wanted to hide it. As far as her being tired at times for working full time on videos, I think she has the right to feel the way she does to an extent. Everyone has a job that over time is draining your energy and makes you miserable. Taking time away and going on vacation can help but sometimes therapy is an option some need more. She’s said she’s been depressed and not feeling well mentally. Yes, she makes a ton of money now but she has worked at Ulta Beauty which is a crappy job and I know because I used to work there too. I work as a vet assistant now and while I get full health benefits, I don’t make a lot. I can’t afford a house, new car or luxury items like she can.
I love the "ugh I'm offending people now" you're absolutely not! Everyone everywhere has an accent n it's kinda cool to hear so many different ones. I live in Pennsylvania in the states and I have a coal region accent and don't think I have one but yet I know I sound different than someone like her who's from the new England states.
I could be mistaken but I do think mickayla was working at Ulta, there was a TikTok she made where she filmed herself leaving it. I wanna say this was when she was still living at home and had not met her fiancé. Retail can be hard depending on the ethics n policy of the store or bc of direct management, so that could be one of her job experiences?
I think her accent is over exaggerated and I can’t listen to it.
What makeup brushes are you using? Yes I’m with you on the cringe factor of sex talk during a makeup routine 😖 I don’t want my daughters in their early teens to hear that from someone they could possibly look up to, it’s just a bit trashy to me🤷🏼♀️
mainly sigma!
i get what you’re saying but ultimately she’s an adult and she can talk about adult things. if you don’t want your daughters hearing those things from her, don’t allow them to watch her. you can’t expect adults to censor themselves because you don’t want your kids to hear certain things. that’s lowkey on you love. i do see what you’re saying though and there are plenty of make up artists on social media who don’t talk about mature topics that i’m sure your daughters would like.
Adults can talk about things on the internet you can't stop them
@@ariannadshae oh ya I know, I don’t expect anyone to censor themselves, it’s their channel they can do what they please, sometimes it’s just weird to hear I guess, I don’t watch Mikayla and I don’t think my daughters do either. I just hope they watch more ‘G rated’ RUclipsrs as they are still young lol
@@Huh-pi2op you are absolutely right! If the topic gets weird I just change it, no big deal
I use to get made fun of because I had an accent when j was younger since English is my third language . So I’ve been hiding my accent ever since. Now I don’t much but I use to get bullied a lot. This stuck with me a lot!!!
Ahhhh I can’t wait to watchhhhhh
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the average 7/11 employee works harder than the hardest working youtuber
I’m from the Boston area and cannot stand her “accent”, it sounds extremely forced to me.