AL has compulsivity issues, clearly. She's buying love. In her mind if she showers Destiny, who clearly is childlike and simple, with tons of gifts Destiny won't leave her.
But I can't buy the idea that she's "buying" love by spoiling Destiny... I cant get over the idea that she does it mainly for herself, to feel good about herself. Earlier in the thread someone posted a screenshot of Destiny's mom being alerted about Amberlynn being crazy, and Destiny's mom made some allusions to having "her fears confirmed" and this was all just before they moved out of Destiny's mom's house. I could imagine that Destiny's mom has made some effort to separate the two of them, and I could imagine Amberlynn is buying all this stuff to spoil Destiny and keep her distracted, but it's not about buying "love", I think it's about Amberlynn thinking she needs to have a girlfriend, needs to have all this stuff, needs to be quirky, needs to have all these quirky pets, needs to have this certain life.
Amberlynn even said in the video they might get a SECOND ROUND of Christmas presents on Black Friday... That's just insanely bizarre. And she had a ROOM FULL of presents. I mean my family, we get each other one "good (expensive present that we know the other wants)" and a bunch of cheap shit just so we have lots of stuff to open, but end up giving each other the gifts back and returning half of them just because I guess we're honest about, "Oh I don't need, want this, thank you for thinking of me though."
I think people are weirded out by it because they do recognize this behavior, and "spoiling someone" is to an extent about "buying love" but it's usually kind of a manipulation tactic, or maybe desperation. But I think usually it's done over a period of time, you "randomly" bring home unsolicited presents, or continuously "treat" the other person... Doing it all at once is excessive and takes it up to the next level of creepy. Especially since she seems to always express that she's randomly doing this during times where Destiny is just desperate for affection. She explains here that she was doing something, Destiny randomly came up and started dancing with her, so when Amberlynn got tired of that she broke out the Christmas presents! In another video Amberlynn is doing something and Destiny comes up and starts trying to kiss on her and Amberlynn gives her this look, and then politely reciprocates but the general vibe is kinda like "Woah get away from me please!" I think Amberlynn sent her off to do something that time, too. It definitely is kind of like a mother/daughter/"I'm vicariously living the childhood I wish I had through you" thing.
Seeing that room full of presents REALLY kind of disturbed me in a way that I havent really experienced before in my life. It's like a disturbing grappling match between existentialism, consumerism, and my own humanity. Really, all this crap is just junk.
