Regarding her fishy behavior this week...
She mass privatized her weight loss videos en masse last year, when she decided she wanted to bring "consistency" to her channel and only feature mukbangs. At the time, it seemed more due to a desire to eliminate viewers who wanted to cheer on her weightloss; those types pissed her off royally because they held her accountable. It was a clean sweep: only gluttony videos remained. Her timeline on Social Blade is one of the most exceptional there; you can see her weird privatization rampages and the views they cost her in a neat little graph.
At some point, she decided to de-privatize them again. "They are part of my journey" was the explanation at the time,, perhaps assuming that every moment of her 'journey' was worth documenting. At the time, I suspected a more mercenary motivation was afoot: that her lost back catalogue views were decimating her bottom line, which any middle schooler could have predicted.
I do think she may be trying to cover up evidence of her eating disorder by deleting stuff now, which is kind of like an alcoholic hiding the liquor bottle but showing up for work falling-down drunk. She deleted "Fast Food Funeral" in a spiteful rage triggered by Milk Tea's video, but she had gotten heat over that video ever since the first day (which, typical of her, involved a deception of uploading out of sequence so that she could cheat on her resolution before even announcing it), so she doesn't mind deleting it even though it is one of her bigger moneymakers.
She does seem to be in the "weight loss" part of her cycle, but we have reached the point where dieting means eating meatloaf. She can't even go through the motions of a two-day diet anymore; she just can't control herself that long anymore, and probably never could in the first place. So, for this reason, she may also be having second thoughts about her binge videos.
What strikes me is how desultory and empty her videos have become. On a basic level, even she can't see the point of making videos anymore, except that she desperately needs the money and the illusion of "friends" to share her secrets with and pretend she misses when she's gone. She is back to delaying uploads, which is always what happens when winter starts approaching; like a reptile, her metabolism slows to near zero when the weather gets cold and nothing ever gets done.
The big question on my mind is how long and hard are the activist faction of her haydurs going to push? She can delete random videos like Fast Food Funeral, only to have more incriminating evidence from another of her videos parsed in the next haydur video. She will be playing whack-a-mole for a long time, reducing her bottom line with each deletion, always unsure if AdSense arbitrarily brings down the banhammer on her head. Heheh, she's gonna be pretty neurotic for some time. I wonder what a new health problem on top might do to her?
The big difference between this year and previous years is that the stakes are higher than before; she needs to keep the moolah flowing and her safety net is much smaller with Bibi gone. A wrong move by her could really fuck up the equation. Muahaha, sucks to be her right now....
