I have to say I’m both impressed she lasted this long before phase 2, but also a little disappointed that we didn’t get to hear more about her good vibrations.
I suspect that even Chantal, as dimwitted and ignorant as she is, knew all the "high-vibrations foods" stuff was woo-woo bullshit. Same with her disappointingly brief encounter with that " ghost from the future" Medical Medium dude whose book was all the rage (well, that and following his advice would have meant actually reading a book).
For a content creator, she really doesn’t understand who pays the bills.
Your audience, Chantal. YOUR AUDIENCE PAYS YOUR BILLS. If you are a creator, then you depend on pleasing your audience to pay your bills.
A stand-up comedian doesn’t get to say “I just want to stand up and read my shopping list out loud because I enjoy it. You don’t get to complain! If you don’t like it, leave!”
They will lose their audience if they do that. And people watching them WILL complain. and they will attract a new audience of people who specifically are there to make fun of them, and if they don’t go back to comedy, then they are stuck amusing the people making fun of them, or losing the job and their livelihood.
You create content and need an audience to get paid. You depend on your audience to pay your bills and “I want to do whatever I feel like and get paid to film it” is not a business model. If you piss off your audience, ask them for accountability then turn around and pull the rug out from under them over and over, yeah, they will complain.
A real creator knows they have a relationship with their audience, and does their best to nurture and grow it and not betray its trust.
A real creator also knows that their audience is going to seek them out for various reasons. Ideally, most are there because they find you genuinely entertaining and like you, and what you do. But unless your content is completely inoffensive (say, gardening or craft instruction videos), you're also going to end up with hatewatchers. And Chantal, being a massively obese slob who likes devouring fast food, and does so on-camera for an audience, is guaranteed to attract hatewatchers.
Chantal's putting her noxious, gluttonous, unwashed self out there on video, farts and bad table manners and all, for the world to see. But she can't dictate her audience's responses--or their reasons for watching her. She can't enjoy the asspatters and enablers without also having to deal with the hatewatchers who are there to laugh at her because she's disgusting. She wants the former, but not the latter, and reality doesn't work that way--which
infuriates her.
If you're going to put yourself in the public eye in any capacity and stay sane, you have to learn to let the haters say what they will and not be bothered by it. Engage with the fans in a positive way, and ignore everyone else. But even fans are going to give you a lot of irritating unsolicited advice if they see you struggling, and if you don't want that, you have to either ignore it--or not make your struggles public in the first place.
Chantal has total control over what we see of her life. She can record whatever the fuck she wants--and then edit out anything she knows will fire up the haters, or bring on the unwanted advice. She can read a shitty comment--and choose not to type a response. She can block haters if she wants--or shrug their comments off, because after all, their views pay as well as the fans'. But she never learns this, and I don't think she ever will, because her life is so fucking empty I think she'd be bored out of her mind if all the haters left.
And on top of that, she needs something or somebody to oppose, to push back against, to defy. The haters tell her what to do, and her inner toddler stomps her feet and says, "I don't wanna! Can't make me! I do what I want!"
There’s quite a few try hard 20-somethings on twitter that like to call themselves “spooky” and seem to think liking Halloween is a personality trait
Even bigger try-hards are the 30- and 40-somethings who think liking Halloween is a personality trait. Not surprisingly, there's a lot of overlap with "Obsessed with Disney" on that try-hard Venn diagram.
