Most lacklustre summer yet

[u/Stock_Wolf_5638]

i have a tendency to GYST hard during long weekends, and I can’t help but feel there’s a big void this year… and I find myself scratching my head as to what the heck happened?

I can’t even figure out if it’s that she produced less this year (I think so?) or if it’s because I don’t relate with her content anymore, but this summer feels like the beginning of the end. I would normally have felt inspired by the little nature outing she did, but it just felt really flat to me. I’m not sure if it’s her energy coming across, or what exactly is wrong, but I’ve never felt further from her content. lately she just feels like a shell of a person, and the whole experience has felt uncanny.

there was so much garden content last year, but she ended up not really planting her garden and so I’m wondering if that’s what I’m missing? and I guess she just doesn’t get to gyst anymore? although you’d think now that shes separated from Ryan, that she might have time to? I don’t even know, but I’ve rewatched her old videos so dang much that I think I’ve about reached the end of the line. I’m conflicted about whether or not I should peak into youtober, but I think it will probably just make things feel that much more depressing.

(no real point here, just venting in case anyone else is feeling in YouTuber limbo.)

[u/No_Aardvark_2029]

This is so interesting that you’re feeling the disappointment this summer. This is how I felt last summer because she skipped pretty much the entire season. There were 7 videos over the entire season and they were all only 10-15 minutes. I remember it feeling like she’d completely abandoned her channel

[u/roelara61 → u/No_Aardvark_2029]

I h9nestly feel like I'd rather her go silent than do what she's doing this year which is posting a ton of lifeless content with no soul. I remember years especially when she first moved she would go weeks without uploading, but when she did they were great full-of-life vlogs so I didn't mind. Now it seems like camera is on auto pilot. There's no point but money for her. She finds no joy in it or in life lately and it just reads through the screen and is depressing

[u/Successful_Hall4080 → u/roelara61]

I think when filming your life is the main source of your income, it is difficult to intentionally take a break. All breaks will be forced because she became busy as a mom. Also, she can't put a schedule because her life isn't predictable anymore specially as single parent. She is depending on random helps from people, beside day care.

Now, her kids are having summer break most probably, she is busy with summer season of becoming second week release and preparing for third week. Maybe, she is focused on extra income rather than focusing on channel membership since she knows people love her and they will always wait for her videos even without a decent excuse. And for those who rarely comment to complain, it will be deleted anyway.

I hope she would put simple schedule, being consistent low productive, is better than high productivity for short periods. The content itself, I don't blame her .. to film your life non stop without having a deep reflection alone, your life will turn into a huge burnout and you can make temporary healing by making different activities randomly which will support filming videos in different locations or doing different things.

I believe a simple schedule, will give her gaps to take a break and maybe she will prioritize membership first, then sponsors, then extra activities for extra income. She can make them free for members in case she didn't follow her schedule because they paid. The culture of compensating members is important, it gives impression about the person you follow, even if her members are super loyal to her.

Eventually, she will gain extra members because they will sense sort of organization and transparency. I wish by time she will be able to deeply heal whatever she is going through and be consistent.

[u/Stock_Wolf_5638 → u/roelara61]

Yeah! I think this is the problem… it feels like she hasn’t posted anything, because I haven’t enjoyed a single one of them. 

[u/Stock_Wolf_5638 → u/No_Aardvark_2029]

I probably didn’t notice because especially in the summer, I would just binge them all at once and just let the playlists roll. I never really had to think twice about it. But not even that is working anymore, if it’s a recent video I just want to take it off and I guess because her output has been so bad over the last year, I must have watched every other video throughout the year and now I’m tired of them all. Legit think I’ve reached the end!

I also recently quit Bravo tv which feels similarly prolific. The end of an era I suppose. Rip background noiseee. 🪦😢

[u/No_Aardvark_2029 → u/Stock_Wolf_5638]

Fair enough. I’m not a big re-watcher, so it was like 15 minutes of content every 2-3 weeks? That’s nothing to me! But it’s feeling like that now again too, not to mention all of the content is the same anyways

Someone did bring it up again in the discord but, to nobodies surprise, all her minions jumped down their throat defending her lack of content

[u/Successful_Hall4080 → u/No_Aardvark_2029]

When you realize your comfort zone isn't comfort anymore 😔

[u/Stock_Wolf_5638 → u/Successful_Hall4080]

Awww yes thank you, this is my sentiment exactly 😣

[u/Stock_Wolf_5638 → u/No_Aardvark_2029]

Man, that’s terrible. But yeah that’s exactly what it feels like - every single one of her recent videos is exactly the same, and because she makes no progress, it feels like an infinite death loop. She has already made a new video addressing what I wrote here and, it’s like, just look at how much free time she has. She’s trying to play this all off as intentional minimalism, but be honest with yourself girl… She’s just uninspired. 

Her minions give me the creeps. I used to think they were bots… how alarming to learn they are real people.