Jumping back in this one cuz
Taylor Alesia's recent return made me think about it.
That's not a joke. She literally made that video.
It's basically the same issue we've been talking about in this thread, but instead of selling sexiness and complaining about being sexualized (
ahem Daisy Keech), she's apparently just going to pretend it's not sexiness at all. Literally a church worship outfit try-on haul, complete with ass shaking for the camera and an upskirt shot within the first 15 seconds. I actually kind of have to admire the boldness.
Apparently instead of continuing to hop back and forth over the fence, she's decided to try and straddle it? She's flipped back and forth a number of times over the years (of course she's not the only one). There's multiple videos of her saying she's going to quit, or she quits and makes a video when she comes back.
I mean, it's not hard to figure...You catch all the shit that comes with being an e-thot, not only from anonymous strangers, but your parents and family and other people you know. And if they're religious, they're telling you you're hurting the lord and going to hell and whatever other guilt tripping. I imagine that shit will start to weigh on you after a while, so you back away and stop.
But then all that attention and views and likes and social media interaction dopamine hits dry up too, along with any money you were making from it...and that starts to sting as well. You can pray all you want, but God ain't paying the rent on that swanky apartment. So you start up again. It's like a drug habit. Her video at the beginning of the month was yet another "why I walked away" video. She's done that at least two times before.
She's tried the classic "have your cake and eat it too" thing at least a couple times by trying to maintain the attention (and money) by spinning into some other shtick like self-help advice and such...anything she wouldn't be guilted for. But nothing sells like sex, and that's where all her attention came from in the first place.
Her "advice" shtick
I actually posted about this part a while back in her thread, but it disappeared in forum reorg and purgings. whitedogjake posted:
I can see both sides...
Like you said, this girl and others like her won the genetic lottery and I don't blame them for exploiting it and capitalizing on it, just like professional athletes and GQ models. I want to say one in a million but that's not really honest. More like one in a hundred thousand. Perfect face, perfect hair, perfect body, and big round tits that seem to defy gravity. All of this with no plastic surgery. Extremely rare.
And coming up with new content is exhausting because any "fashion and lifestyle" youtuber has done all of the usual videos twice and run out of ideas in a few months.
Now here's where they get no respect from me....
They are spoiled rotten, entitled children who want and expect everything to be handed to them. They have skated through life on their looks alone and are usually dumb as rocks. Most of these girls come from wealthy families and are the children of equally stupid trophy wives. They have done nothing, and accomplished nothing, to deserve the blessings and opportunities that seem to just fall in their lap. As soon as they start making any money, they blow it on creating this grand luxurious facade called "living your best life". And its all bullshit. Its all fake.
They give advise and try to act like they've got it all figured out, but they don't know shit. They have no real life experience and their personal lives are usually a train wreck. And they have "people" for everything. They have social media managers, entertainment managers, personal assistants, website admins and video editors, stylists, photographers, videographers, and the list goes on... And then they complain about how hard they work, stress, anxiety, mental health, and needing to take time off... Give me a fucking break... All you have to do is eat right, work out, take good photos, and not get pregnant... That's it.
Now I understand that things are changing. Youtube is becoming more family and advertiser friendly, and revenue streams are drying up so you have to look elsewhere like patreon. But here's where you're fucking up. You're promising paying customers that you will upload content on a regular schedule and you're not delivering. And if you are expecting people to pay, then you have to give them content that they can't get for free on youtube (unless they are only paying one or two dollars a month).
My response was that it's hard to blame them. They're still pretty young, and it's not their fault that things fall into their lap. As he mentioned, they had nothing to do with it. They were born with the genetics and the wealthy family. So yeah, you're going to have advantages that others don't. That's just reality.
Where I'm definitely with him is the giving advice part. You give people a little attention and they all of a sudden think they're worth listening to or are qualified to advise others. But again, it's not completely their fault because when you have literally hundreds of kids writing to you every single day telling you how great you are and
asking you for advice, it's pretty difficult to not start to believe you
are pretty special and worthy of offering guidance, particularly if you're basically a kid yourself. Fully matured adults easily get a big head and can even grow to a full-blown messiah complex...imagine how easy it is for a teen/early-20something to be fooled into thinking they know everything. Hell, by the time they're 16, most people already think they know everything anyway. Imagine having (literally) millions of followers hanging on your every word. I dare you to not be affected by it.
As for the not delivering, I don't know if she or these other chicks promise an actual schedule, it's more vague things like "I'll be posting more regularly from now on." And I don't think any quantity was specifically promised to patrons on Patreon. Certainly not on YouTube, where the viewers are paying nothing anyway.
What gets me is the fact that these are the people
she's now asking for help from... Her audience is literally girls aged 11–16 who tune in to fawn over her every word because she's pretty, and boys aged 9–99 who tune in to watch her on mute because she's pretty hot. These girls watch her and worship her religiously, and claim it's because she has such a positive message and has helped them through tough times... but in reality she's their "pretty friend" who makes them feel good by association. Guaranteed, you put her exact same words into the body of an ugly girl and almost none of these "tayliens" would be watching, let alone being so fanatical.
And as if it wasn't bad enough that young impressionable children are taking their cues from someone who's literally only a few years older than them, with zero life experience, and offering little more than her looks... Now this chick as asking THEM for advice. As great as technology is, this is one of the drawbacks. It's the blind leading the blind, on steroids.
And it's all simply because she pretty and says she loves them. Seriously...even the girls.
Just listen to how many of them explicitly mention her looks as one of the reasons they like her.
They don't even realize they're doing it, but females objectify females just as much, if not more than males.
It makes them feel good because it's someone saying she loves them, and it's meaningful love because she matters because she's popular because she's pretty.
That's actually another point to leave on... women bitch all the time about being objectified by men, and how men are so superficial. But pay attention in the future to how women compliment other women. No matter what it is...even if they're just talking them up as a good candidate for a job, or introducing them to receive an award...they're going to mention something about the woman's looks.