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to not understand zoella and the popularity of a video showing how to ice digestives

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hikitty · 28/12/2014 20:27

Quick & Easy DIY Christmas Treats | Zoella:

I'm probably just old, but seriously are teenagers these days so useless at cooking that a video of putting icing on a digestive and snapping a candy Kane in half then filling with chocolate is informative?

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fluffling · 29/12/2014 22:54

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NettleTea · 29/12/2014 22:58

Thank you fluffling - my daughter has been very excited to have new subscribers!

Bunbaker · 29/12/2014 23:03

I showed your post to DD fluffling and she knew all about the people you mentioned.

She doesn't like Zoella and finds her annoying, but supports the Youtubers who raise awareness and lots of money for various charities.

auntpetunia · 29/12/2014 23:17

Oh god I had to go to Amity Fest a night of you tube bloggers in October with DD 12. It was HELL a bunch of uninteresting twenty something's talking shite and 1000s of screaming teens, the noise was unbearable and the content of the "show" dire.
I also had to see MIRANDASINGS she was amazing.

WyrdByrd · 29/12/2014 23:46

I was introduced to Zoella today by my 10yo DD.

Can't say as I paid a huge amount of attention but I was impressed by her very well groomed but sensible eyebrows!

It's good to read the 'reviews' on here.

My friends daughter is a bit older than mine and is a fan of Charlieissocoollike. I watched a few and thought they were quite good but not for my own DD just yet.

Aside from Zoella, she's more interested in StampyLongnose atm Grin !

NettleTea · 29/12/2014 23:52

Im quite interested in Stampylongnose Wink Blush

Petitgrain · 30/12/2014 11:18

Have pm'd you Nettle

Lilicat1013 · 30/12/2014 12:54

I am generally not in to vBloggers but the review ones are really helpful. Sometimes I need to check in detail if a toy will be suitable for my autistic son before I buy it so I check for You Tube reviews. There is a little boy who does Thomas & Friends Take N Play reviews, he is very sweet and does in to lots of detail so is really helpful.

EddieStobbart · 30/12/2014 13:20

Just had a look at the link. Spells is just a Blue Peter presenter with make up tips. 20 years ago she would have been presenting Tiswas with Michaela Strachan.

EddieStobbart · 30/12/2014 13:21

Spells?? Zoella...

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ImTakingTheEssence · 30/12/2014 14:47

Ahh Zoella drives me nuts shes just too nice. I like the weird ones like Bunny/ graveyard girl, Melon lady, Jenna Marbles and Trisha Paytas.

IHaveBrilloHair · 30/12/2014 15:04

Dd loves lots of them, shes particularly keen on Ali A and Pewdie Pie, she's 13

GatoradeMeBitch · 30/12/2014 16:03

I found the gurugossiper site... Are they really all that bad? I seem to agree with a lot of opinions there. It's like MN but YouTube focused. I think I may have found my second online home Grin

GatoradeMeBitch · 30/12/2014 16:08

And yy to the Saccone-Joly stuff. There is something disturbing about that family. Probably just the very fact that in a world where people panic about who may have taken a picture of their dc on the high street, this pair have basically gifted their kids to the internet. They are real live Trumans. It makes me uncomfortable to know that one day these kids will realize that thousands of people have watched footage of them every single day of their lives. Who knows how that will affect them. And also I've just read that they will be taking the toddlers on a 'world tour' next year.

It's nuts that YouTube viewers can now be protected from advertising by stealth, but there are no child labour laws or health and safety laws that can protect these small children.

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mswibble · 30/12/2014 16:35

Gatorade - I just don't know why anyone who claims to hate someone or a YouTube Channel so much will then watch them everyday just to make horrible comments and tear them to shreds ... that seems to be the point of GG. Just don't bloody watch it if its so terrible, instead they seem to take perverse pleasure in winding themselves up. I ventured onto GG a few times but I cannot understand that mindset so I choose not to read their hate filled rants! Its fun guessing which comments on YouTube come from GGers though.

I'm not a cheerleader for the SJs and definitely would not be in the market for one of their meet ups (unlike some GGers who seemed to have the time and the inclination to go - or was that just talk?), I personally wouldn't put my child out there on the internet but then I wouldn't do lots of things that others do. I wouldn't put myself on YouTube as its totally not my thing and there are too many horrible, bitter people sat behind their keyboards just waiting to crucify someone they have never met, before moving onto the next one.

GatoradeMeBitch · 30/12/2014 16:47

But that's the thing isn't it, I wouldn't put myself on YouTube either. Perhaps Amelia Saccone Joly wouldn't put herself on YouTube, but she hasn't been given any choice in that. Imagine finding out tonight that you've had a secret camera broadcasting 20 random minutes of your day to an audience of thousands your whole life, and it's been done to you by the people who are supposed to love and protect you. It's awful.

Yes, some of those sub forums look a bit obsessive and over-invested, but I'm glad that counter point exists. Otherwise it would just be endless fawning comments from teenagers on their videos. I don't know who the 'best family ever' is, but I definitely know that whoever they are, they do not rely on their infants for income.

Smitten1981 · 30/12/2014 18:59

Guru Gossiper seems to be full of people winding themselves up because they love to hate certain people. If you don't like Zoella/ The Saccone Jolys then don't watch them and certainly don't discuss them in obsessive detail. I've pretty much stopped watching both these channels recently but I would never watch something I didn't like just so I could slag it off. What's the point?
I especially liked the 'I can't stand Zoella but I'll take one for the team and go to her book launch so I can report back how awful it was'. Suggests to me the majority of posters there are of school age.

stardusty5 · 30/12/2014 19:42

After reading this thread I went looking for some beauty, reviewey, lifestyley YouTube channels that were a little more age appropriate for me, and maybe for some of you fellow YouTube users. While I haven't yet found a British one that isn't sickly, I do like The Small Things Blog. She is a mum and seems to have some accessible make up tutorials and reasonably priced reviews. Worth a subscribe if anyone is that way inclined.

NettleTea · 31/12/2014 16:05

OOh I will point DD at those Stardusty, she loves the make up tutorials.

Spoke to my great aunt about Vlogging yesterday and she just really couldnt get her head around it, no more than can my mother.

They both say 'oooh its a fad, people will get fed up with it'

I have pointed out that much the same was siad about both the radio and the television when they were first introduced. Its just a new media.

At least if you become popular, although acknowledging it probably takes a while, it will be down to what you produce, rather than because your dad worked in the industry, your mum introduced you to the right people, or some old geezer from up high deemed that you were the 'right sort'

The internet levels the playing field for an awful lot of people

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