Welcome to another episode of Single Mom Musings, because when you don’t have much of a social life, it gives you plenty of time to think – about EVERYthing.
I’m not one that really followed the YouTube girlies back in the day, so I’m kind of newer to the whole conversation about when influencers become unrelatable. But I think there’s a little bit of context and nuance missing from this conversation. It’s common knowledge at this point that Tik Tok and YouTube are essentially competitors to a Netflix or Hulu. So the people you follow on these platforms, it’s not because they’re your friends or you know them in real life. They are like characters and you are watching their content as entertainment.
So when your favorite influencers become “unrelatable” I really don’t think jealousy is a big piece of it. I mean, maybe it’s a part of it, but I don’t think that’s really the case at hand. It’s a matter of your favorite character, who may have the same personality being put in a different plot with different scenarios.
For example, Game of Thrones. I think everyone who loves Game of Thrones all unanimously loves seasons one through seven. And it’s pretty common knowledge that people hated season eight. The characters remained same characters, but what the writers had them do, the situations they put them in, the decisions that they made changed and weren’t what people thought they should be. So many people hate the story, even though the characters were the same people.
When you look at someone like a Jackie Aina, or a Monet, it’s not necessarily that oh, I’m jealous because now they have all these things. It’s that when you first started watching the story, the plot lines were a lot different. They weren’t taking private jets, and going to concerts last minute, and that’s not why you started watching that character.
Now, it may feel like a personal attack. Because you know, these are real people. This is akin to reality TV, but when you put yourself in the viewers’ mindset, it’s literally just a matter of your content has shifted. Now the only part that’s really kind of hater ish on the part of the viewers is the fact that they feel the need to tell the content creators that when they could simply just scroll by and stop watching, but I don’t think we should lambaste people for maybe not liking the creators’ content once they get on and the plotline changes, because we do that with all of the content that we watch.
If the plot doesn’t follow the line that we think it should – we turn the channel.
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