I've not been able to comment much the past week, so I'll just babble about stuff:
She is literally at the craziest we have ever seen her. Her Q + A was a tapestry of lies, half-truths, omissions, and crackpot thoughts. Her "stuff everyone doesn't admit to" was a psychotic blueprint for being utterly out of touch with all of humanity. The food portions are bigger than ever. Her lack of interest or concern regarding her surgery is at an all time high. Her dumpster diving is crazy too, but is also fairly understandable and even slightly laudable.
Chantal has never truly wanted to be the grossest, filthiest, most gluttonous slob on YouTube. She'll do it, and such behavior probably has been a coping mechanism in her own real life; I bet when kids teased her at school, she'd just crank up the grossness to shut them out and shut them up. But that is a defensive posture and it is the ultimate default position for her.
When views are good, she starts having ambition. She really wants to be an influencer that people admire and worship, which is both dumb and delusional at the same time, but (as hard as it is for her to comprehend it) she is dumb.
This ambition she gets is very limited in scope, largely because as a 'creator' she is utterly uninspired, and...well, dumb.
So her previous attempts at becoming something more than a circus fat lady with an attitude included murder mysteries, true crime, videogaming, travelogues, karaoke songs, makeup tutorials, and food reviews. We can even look at her fad diet fiascoes as part of this same impulse; she wants to influence, and is dissatisfied just being a big fat laughingstock.
That she has turned to dumpster diving is about as pure poetic justice as one could write, and ole Clotso just bumbled her way in, after ('natch) seeing something on YouTube to ape.
If she could actually stick with it, if she were capable of learning something, if she understood the focus should be on the diving not on her, and if she had any sense about camerawork, this could be a great YouTube series. The world's dumbest, most obnoxious supperfatty roots around in garbage! On paper, it looks great.
As an added bonus, this is easily the most exercise she has gotten in years, even if she just stands at the edge with a mechanical picker. It gets her out of the house for reasons not involving food, which is good. It gives her something to do, and she might just learn something from it, even if it is just how a rat learns a maze to find the cheese.
However, knowing Clotso as well as we do, we know she'll fuck it all up, and laziness wins over all.
But for once, I am rooting for the success of one of her spin-off series. This has the potential to be great in unexpected ways, until it all falls apart.