AIBU to watch some of the mummy vloggers and be grateful for my life rather than aspiring to theirs...

[MakingPlans21]

Emily Norris spoke with quite an Essex accent, three years later she sounds Canadian even though she has lived in Essex all that time. And don’t get me started on the way she mops the floor with bare feet and the soles are filthy. Conversely, how she stands on her kids’ beds in her slippers, that she has worn outdoors, to make them. Why? This is supposed to be aspirational?

Lucy Jessica Carter comes across really odd. It’s like she’s reading from a really bad script. And thinks she is brilliant at styling and interiors but... well...

James and Carys are going to be insufferable now they have had a baby. James is so patronising and comes across as controlling. And the pair of them are so spoilt.

The Saccone-Jolys... where do I start?

I know I’m supporting them when I watch them but I love to watch and cringe! Guilty pleasure.

*with daftness that

dont worry op....this place is a bit weird sometimes

who recommended the 'this gathered nest'? I'm falling down a rabbit hole,what an amazing family. Angela is really lovely too. I would love her lifestyle

Nice house, flush bank accounts, sounds good to me

I’m puzzled by the extreme reactions of some to a bit of chatter about mummy vloggers. It’s brought out the weirdos who want to defend them no matter what while claiming they don’t watch/care.
A difference of opinion does not make a weird person - it's weird to continue watching these influencer's when you think little of them.
You're getting angry at anyone who doesn't agree.

Posted to soon. You're policing the thread. 👮‍♀️

I’ve watched the saccone jolys. They do seem to exploit their children for views. Some of the things have been awful, the remote control thing. They constantly talk about their son wearing dresses and heels for views. I think there needs to be some laws protecting kids from their parents using them this way. It’s become so ‘normal’. The Inghams, I wouldn’t even know where to start with them. The children seem lovely but there’s so much wrong. It really sad and I think these children are going to have some real issues when they get older. I’ve seen the Fizz Family too who also seem a bit strange.

Don’t worry OP. I’ve recently started posting (after years lurking) that some posters don’t start threads (so aren’t ever in the firing line) but love to come on a thread and make a mocking comments, thinly disguised as smug superiority. I find it bizarre! But then they’ve got a mumsnet reputation to uphold so perhaps that’s why!

@bishbashbosh99

Honestly can't believe people watch these attention seeking liars

Have you seen the obvious troll threads on here? People get incredibly involved with them, cheerleading and nominations for classics.

@1AngelicFruitCake

Don’t worry OP. I’ve recently started posting (after years lurking) that some posters don’t start threads (so aren’t ever in the firing line) but love to come on a thread and make a mocking comments, thinly disguised as smug superiority. I find it bizarre! But then they’ve got a mumsnet reputation to uphold so perhaps that’s why!

Why would anyone want to start a thread that puts them ‘in the firing line’ unless they wanted to press some buttons?

Perhaps ‘firing line’ is the wrong phrase but starting a thread is sharing your opinion a lot something, opening yourself up to criticism. Since taking the plunge to stop lurking and start posting (starting my own and replying to others) I’m noticing posters who never seem to start their own threads but seem to delight in swooping in and making digs at the OP just to sound superior.

@1AngelicFruitCake

Perhaps ‘firing line’ is the wrong phrase but starting a thread is sharing your opinion a lot something, opening yourself up to criticism. Since taking the plunge to stop lurking and start posting (starting my own and replying to others) I’m noticing posters who never seem to start their own threads but seem to delight in swooping in and making digs at the OP just to sound superior.

This all seems a bit familiar, going on about ‘you can’t comment on other people’s threads unless you start your own’ . 🤔 Lately it keeps coming up...

Are you a prolific thread starter yourself?

Never heard of any of these. Never watched a blogger, v'logger anything, assuming I'm not missing anything then?

I don’t know who any of those are apart from the Saccone Joly lot. Only know them as seen them talked about on here, they started popping up on my tiktok feed but I worked out how to block them. 👍😁

I don’t understand it...so they’re not famous for anything before the videos? But just ordinary people making videos of their ordinary, boring, day to day lives? I can barely find time to mop my own floor, why on Earth would I want to watch a video of someone mopping theirs?

I don’t need interior design tips from a nobody Essex girl. 🤷‍♀️

Not really, I’m trying to start more threads, but I have said this once before. A name was coming up on my thread and I realised they were doing similar on other people’s. There’s a difference between expressing a different opinion and doing it in such a way that there’s a nastiness to it.

@1AngelicFruitCake

Not really, I’m trying to start more threads, but I have said this once before. A name was coming up on my thread and I realised they were doing similar on other people’s. There’s a difference between expressing a different opinion and doing it in such a way that there’s a nastiness to it.

Just hit the report button if there’s nastiness.

I don’t think there’s a requirement to start threads unless posters have something to actually say? Some OPs are genuinely especially in AIBU and it’s difficult to know what responses they are after half the time.

I used to watch a fair bit of YouTube when I was younger, it used to be lighthearted and mainly fun 'challenges' or relatable vlogs; there was a fair amount of creativity put into it. It's crap now, people tend to just vlog their boring days, and sell their children out for free #gifted crap. It must be exhausting for them- trying to keep curating content, whilst showing off how much money they now have but trying to remain reliable. Not confined to mums and dad's imo, but YT has definitely had its day.

I understand that and I know I’m being awkward thinking posters should start threads! I admit, Sometimes I’ve read threads and made a harsher comment to my usual posting style because I’ve been so taken aback by what I’ve read.

I just think that there are some prolific users who must really thrive on making OPs sound stupid whilst making themselves feel superior, I’ve seen it with one poster too often for it to be a coincidence.

@Bluebird2021@1AngelicFruitCake thanks for the heads up. Sorry you’ve encountered the bad apples. Is it like a school playground on here? One poster decides, for whatever small reason, they don’t like someone and then follows them around making nasty comments and sly digs?

[quote MakingPlans21]**@Bluebird2021@1AngelicFruitCake thanks for the heads up. Sorry you’ve encountered the bad apples. Is it like a school playground on here? One poster decides, for whatever small reason, they don’t like someone and then follows them around making nasty comments and sly digs?[/quote]
It’s ok 😄 and sorry for detailing your thread.

Back to your thread, I don’t know the ones you named but I always so saw what will happen when these cute little children become teenagers!

[quote MakingPlans21]**@Bluebird2021@1AngelicFruitCake thanks for the heads up. Sorry you’ve encountered the bad apples. Is it like a school playground on here? One poster decides, for whatever small reason, they don’t like someone and then follows them around making nasty comments and sly digs?[/quote]
It isn't like a school playground at all. 'Bad apples'? it's the same as RL really, all sorts of people on here and you aren't going to like them all, or even recognise them all.

'Nasty comments' or 'sly digs' can be reported. As can goady threads etc.

Back to your thread, I don’t know the ones you named but I always so saw what will happen when these cute little children become teenagers!

I am not familiar with any of the vloggers mentioned but I do wonder about the children too. I dip in and out of Stacey Solomon and Mrs Hinch's Instagram and the children feature daily. They are young and amenable currently but wonder how they'll look back on it or suddenly decide enough's enough one day.

@Sparklingbrook

Back to your thread, I don’t know the ones you named but I always so saw what will happen when these cute little children become teenagers!

I am not familiar with any of the vloggers mentioned but I do wonder about the children too. I dip in and out of Stacey Solomon and Mrs Hinch's Instagram and the children feature daily. They are young and amenable currently but wonder how they'll look back on it or suddenly decide enough's enough one day.

I agree. Every part of their life documented. I know someone on Facebook who has a son who was a child model so she’d post loads of photos of him (seemed a bit mean on her other children!) but now he’s a teenager I’ve noticed she rarely posts photos of him.

Bit off topic but I do really admire the slebs that keep their children away from the public eye. Davina has managed it also Georgia Tennant.

For the vloggers it must be weird that the general public see so much of your family life (or the version of it that you put out) imagine going to school and other children knowing what you did the night before/at the weekend because they saw it all. Or your Mum and Dad being all zany and that.

I have never seen any of these people, but to watch them just to be glad you’re not them? Erm. Weird

Regular posters name change to post an OP.
Posters with a different opinion are not bad apples. You've brought it back to the playground.
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