Do you think Chantal knows her marriage is fake like everyone here, hence why the certificate is off limits, or does she believe it is real?
I think she knows it started fake, but she's desperate, egotistical and naïve enough to think he's fallen for her.
Hear me out:
The Nadar stuff was incredibly revealing, but it wasn't until the Pumped Up Kicks stream that I realized a few things:
1) She has no sense of proportion when it comes to the gravity her own or other people's words/actions. She pressed charges on the guy and he gave her an STD but it was still "I said sorry now you say sorry and we'll be all good."
She's show that if she
wants to forgive someone, she can forgive anything.
If she wants to hate someone, then
anything they do, even if it has nothing to do with her, is the worst thing you could ever do to another human and she will never let it go.
"I said sorry, now you say sorry and we'll be good"
"Shut up, he didn't rape me. How could someone I love rape me?"
2) She truly and honestly believes she's beautiful, desirable and sexy. I thought before this she was just putting on a show and overcompensating because she legitimately looks like an egg someone stuck googly eyes on, but watching her eye fuck the camera while drunkenly dancing in and around her chair didn't really seem like a joke to me but more a sincere attempt to show how sexy she can be (barf)
"You think you're going to find hotter and better than me?"
"You can say I'm fat, but I'm not ugly."
3) She will say out loud that she knows its a grift, that he's using her for money, that everyone is telling her about the pay-day-cycle and even as she's sending him money she will not truly believe it.
"Somebody just told me you called me a piece of shit. No I'm not going to call the police but it hurts my feelings. Why would you say that? How can you say that about somebody you love?"
"I think he does love me...a little bit."
Going by all this, and seeing extreme examples of her delusional thinking, her excuses for herself (and others) and her narcissism I think:
Chantal made an agreement with Salah that she would give him money (I've heard 10k being floated around) and he wouldn't have to work (or would "work" through her youtube channel) as long as she could call him her husband.
He agreed (and she got lucky this wasn't a scam to steal her passport or organs) and she went over, knowing this was a business deal but truly believing that once he saw her he'd fall in love for real.
"All you had to do was fake love me and I would have given you the world."
Salah is dumb as a sack of bricks, but he found a mark who was even dumber and he no doubt caught on to this and played into it. That's when I believe she started thinking it was real, that when he said "I love you" or "You're so beautiful." that he meant it, but really he knew he could just do the bare minimum and he could collect her pay while being out all hours of the night and doing as he pleased.
Everytime she fussed, he'd just say another "I love you", drop off a sack of greased junk food and lock her in while he enjoyed his freedom.
But the deal was "husband", not boyfriend, and I do believe he got one of those temporary marriages and told her it was just like a real marriage, or it would be at least to the two of them until they could get a permanent marriage.
I think, just like she knows Nadar was only in it for the money, part of her brain knows its not real but the delusional part that wants to believe it is so badly overrides this.
Have you ever heard about the two guys that faked killing a bigfoot and when they were found out they said they did it because they really do believe in the monster but knew most people didn't so they wanted to show the world fake proof and get more people believing and hunting so they COULD find the real one?
I always think of that when I hear Chantal marriage certificates, loopholes, ceremonies and anniversary dates. She's convinced its real and creates all these lies, excuses and fake proof because she knows no one else does and wants to convince them its real to bide time
until it actually is.
There was a shift though, after the Thailand stuff, where she suddenly stopped defending and started saying things like "who cares about if our marriage is real?" and "Even if it wasn't, what does it matter."
I have my suspicions about that trip, about how actually having to live together in one hotel room may have been a bit of a reality check, that some truths may have been told or some facades dropped.
I also believe they have not had sex, or if they ever had it only just happened on this trip home as part of the renewed bargain to forgive him being found out. I don't think Chantal enjoys sex at all, so Salah probably just had to make a couple of plausible excuses as to why they can't either involving religion or culture or some shit and she's just as happy with her proxy; fast food. Him bring her food, feeding her, wiping her face, all of that brings her more joy than trying to figure out what's a fold and what's a hole on her. Unless she needs to prove sexual contact to others to repair a damaged ego I doubt she ever pushed the issue.
This is all just my speculation as a newcomer though, you guys can probably poke all kinds of holes in this theory haha.
Some blond guy with very gay shoulders just did a video on her that came out right as shitgate started.
If you're talking about Tom Harlock, it's a really good synopsis of the mess that is Chantal since the beginning of her channel (and it's 50 minutes long, whereas some others go on for hours).
There is nothing about ScatGate, which was only beginning at the time he posted.
Thanks! I will watch this today
Edit:
I guess what I'm really confused about is how she thought THIS guy was the one--this shit lover rapist women hating ragepig would fool everybody forever. And it happened SO FAST. Where in a new Tinder conversation do the shit/slave/sex/farts turn into marriage?
I don't think they'd talked sex at all. Chantal only care about his looks and age; it's all she talks about with him and its the only thing she knows about him. Whenever she's using him as a weapon against other women it's always "where is your man?" and if they have one "Where is your HANDSOME, YOUNG man?"
I've compared her to Boogie2988 before but he's in the same type of relationship; he pays a young girl who he thinks other men would find attractive to essentially be his bragging point and prove to the internet that he has sex and women want him. He physically can't have sex and has such low testosterone that it's doubtful he even desires it, but he will spend every last dime convincing other men online that he fucks LA 10's every night.
The woman? Boogie doesn't care who she is. In fact he's had a few different sugar babies and has never been able to name any of their qualities past them being "hot" and (allegedly) loving him.
Salah was simply the first guy to respond that Foodie thought was "hot" enough. Personality and preferences be damned.