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Today she’s telling us how she’s afraid of the Bermuda Triangle and quicksand as she gives us the no makeup, messy hair version of Sarah. She’s been sporting this look a lot since getting home from LA.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So now she's scamming Gen X nostalgia for her own? She 100% has seen some of the Gen X memes going around about quicksand (Neverending Story in particular),Bermuda Triangle and sasquatch.

I've never seen someone have absolutely no interests or personality of their own before. And not a single hobby! It's truly bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is bizarre. She’s like a flat, grey river rock. It’s just there, nothing special about it and not really interesting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

And she's always discovering memes and trends long after everyone else is over it and posting about them like they're her own idea/interest and brand new. For an "influencer" She's the biggest late to the party follower I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I’ve said this too before. She’s always so late to trends. It’s pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Shopping. That’s her only hobby. It’s the only thing she does consistently. Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

She was at the bloody mall again this morning!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I wonder if she makes notes of talking points for the week like:

Monday

  • Talk about jundies and jorts (make sure to get the slang in)
  • Pretend to remember that they are actually called Bermuda shorts to use as the intro to my funny Bermuda Triangle and quicksand fear that I saw people talking about online.
  • Find and get the screenshots of the Bermuda Triangle and quicksand information ahead of time so I can have a flow to the stories. FInsih with a scary article to reinforce to my audience that they too should be scared.

Because honestly how can you talk about so much useless and pointless shit with screenshots and articles if you aren't planning for the week?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

100% She’s about as spontaneous as a carefully planned murder. All of this is planned ahead of time, and she carries it through the week to get engagement in her stories.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

If she's following the online trends, she'll next add in about how she "thought she'd be catching on fire a lot more!!!!" because of the stop-drop-roll we learned in schools in the 80s and 90s. And then she'll probably circle back to house hippos for a touch of Canadian quirk. Woof.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

She’s giving hardcore “like ohmygawwwd did you knowwww that if you’re flying in like, a plane. You can just, like …disappear? Like ohmagawd you guyssss. It’s like, terrifying and like, yeah. Also like I’m afraid of like, the grrrouuunnddd now, because like, you can also like, fall into it. Like…totally. I saw it on, like, Ripley’s. Totally trippy. “

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

That’s exactly what she’s giving. She loves to play the ditzy blonde and it’s very unattractive and anti-women.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh but you guys....look at those big doe eyes and can't you tell she is fearful and needs support and attention 🥺

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Right? She looks so innocent, no way she's a manipulative, grifting bitch 🙄

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only thing people will ever get lost in, are those god awful eyebrows. Her brow tech should work for Jim Henson

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

She has to be the most boring influencer ever. She has no personality, no real interests, nothing between her ears. She’s just a sponge and sucks up any interest or news stories she sees on Instagram and makes it all about her. She truly needs to be made irrelevant, how do people even follow this woman and think she’s worthy of what she has?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

My take is that she appeals to what I'd normally refer to as "low information" people. People who get their news from headlines (and never read the whole article EVER), believe in clickbait, are too busy to stop and learn about anything in any real way. It's because she's one of those people.

They're impulsive, probably bored with their life, always looking for a quick fix or 'hack'.

Maybe they're moms who feel out of the loop and want a cool friend to look up to and make them feel included.

Maybe it's as simple as they're someone who just wants a light laugh now and then (that's what got me hooked) and think that her little bites of 'vulnerability' are genuine and not just a set-up for her next sale.

This type of person is generally suspicious of things that make them think critically and just want the biggest pay off with the lowest amount of effort. They're not looking at the zoom-out of what she's doing because they're distracted by her minute-to-minute updates.

And she's one of those people, too. She's flitting between trends, topics, dopamine rushes, and instructions from her management company — she's trained herself to have zero attention span, so she doles out 'information' in that same fashion. And her followers eat it up, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

I've never seen someone with such a lack of self-awareness but pretends to be otherwise. It’s painful to witness. I cannot imagine having to be in any relationship with her. At all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile her face shape is a filter

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know what would be amazing? If she found a style that flattered her body and just wore those things…ie not Bermuda shorts…ie not string bikinis. ie not just copying people way after it’s relevant. ie having an identity. !!!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Such a good point. She always copies what other people do and then makes it her entire personality. She’s incapable of finding her own identity.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Riveting content. Changing the world, one stupid post at a time..... She's not even valid anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like her Bermuda triangle bikini?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Thank god for the Bermuda Triangle and Quicksand info today! Remind me how old this moron is again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Here's that huge forehead and delicate little chin, and facial proportions she's literally never had in real life 😆