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- Apr 18, 2020
Sally the librarian returns!
Chloe has lost a lot of confidence in her acting. Her nervousness/apprehension is palpable and it‘s having a big overall impact on her performance- she knows she is being watched with scrutiny and it shows. That’s the cringiest element of these ‘post-scandal’ videos for me: you can feel her discomfort through the screen. The LARP is clearly no longer the fun activity it used to be, I can imagine that she finds the attention more nerve-wracking than satisfying these days, and is mainly just hanging on for the coin. I doubt she has very many friends in real life anymore, the cringe is too strong, IRL Chloe is likely pretty miserable.
It’s quite interesting casting an eye over her previous videos and seeing the difference. In the meet the girls video way back in early 2019, she was really having a ball playing out all her OCs. These were the golden days for Chloe (late 2018-mid 2019), her following was significantly smaller but already very dedicated. People were buying her shit and sending fan mail, she had collabs with other DID creators, she was starting to make money, she was full of fresh ideas, she met Nan. When she hit 100,000 subscribers during this period she even made a video crediting her channel and followers with saving her life. In videos made during this time she is full of confidence, relaxed, there’s a sparkling glee in her eyes, smiles and laughs in abundance, her OCs are more dynamic and varied.
Now she just looks dead inside. Her content is very, very dull: nothing but back-to-back monotonous ”you are valid” platitudes read in an empty voice that is so desperate to sound caring. The garish makeup fails to spice things up- her ‘look’ for the life with alters video paired with those wide, starey eyes made for some genuinely quite unsettling imagery. I have no clue how she saw herself in post and still thought it was a good shout. Lighting equipment visibly reflected in any vlogger’s eyes always adds an uncanny quality of artificiality to their presence, it really doesn’t help Chloe’s alters appear any less contrived.
She’s particularly struggling with (or has entirely given up on) keeping up the different facial expressions, gestures, body language she originally assigned to each alter, although this has always been inconsistent. It’s just much worse now. There is very little that distinguishes her OCs at all since her come back, aside from the odd idiosyncratic quirk she throws in from time to time, e.g. Kyle’s awkward elbow. In the most recent video her Sally voice fluctuates a lot: the prim and proper high pitch keeps sinking back to Chloe’s natural tone and speaking style, and then she hikes it back up again in the next clip, repeatedly. The up-right posture deflates almost immediately. All in all, not very convincing theatrics. There were similar issues in Kyle’s comebacks: inconsistencies with accent, pronunciation etc. Chloe likely reads her dedicated subreddit (now largely sceptical of her) and a handful of retards there pointed out that Kyle didn’t come across as authentic, some suggesting that might have been because ‘Nin was co-conscious’ (ffs). So the addition of the ’Nin co-conscious’ caption in this new video tells me that she is quite aware of her unconvincing performance upon editing. It’s a convenient if clumsy explanation for those incongruities.
The switch at the end, as others have said, is painful. Were this decontextualised I would have thought she was imitating someone doing smack. If Nin was co-conscious i.e. present some or the whole of the time, what logic would justify Nin’s confusion when she starts ‘fronting’, if any of this were real? I kind of don’t care for making this sort of point usually because it implies that Chloe’s pantomime would be believable if she just tightened up her storyline a bit, which is not the case.
I think Chloe is not having a fun time right now and I don’t have an inkling of sympathy for her. Perhaps, if it‘s all getting too much, it’s time for her to pick up a part-time cocaine habit to gear things back up again, she can likely afford it. Many a talentless entertainer has dabbled with snow in an attempt to render their dying career less depressing and laborious. After all, instant confidence and a direct injection of vitality into your performance, what’s not to love? Plus, when it all inevitably falls horribly apart :
It’s a win-win situation all round
edit: added words/formatting
Chloe has lost a lot of confidence in her acting. Her nervousness/apprehension is palpable and it‘s having a big overall impact on her performance- she knows she is being watched with scrutiny and it shows. That’s the cringiest element of these ‘post-scandal’ videos for me: you can feel her discomfort through the screen. The LARP is clearly no longer the fun activity it used to be, I can imagine that she finds the attention more nerve-wracking than satisfying these days, and is mainly just hanging on for the coin. I doubt she has very many friends in real life anymore, the cringe is too strong, IRL Chloe is likely pretty miserable.
It’s quite interesting casting an eye over her previous videos and seeing the difference. In the meet the girls video way back in early 2019, she was really having a ball playing out all her OCs. These were the golden days for Chloe (late 2018-mid 2019), her following was significantly smaller but already very dedicated. People were buying her shit and sending fan mail, she had collabs with other DID creators, she was starting to make money, she was full of fresh ideas, she met Nan. When she hit 100,000 subscribers during this period she even made a video crediting her channel and followers with saving her life. In videos made during this time she is full of confidence, relaxed, there’s a sparkling glee in her eyes, smiles and laughs in abundance, her OCs are more dynamic and varied.
Now she just looks dead inside. Her content is very, very dull: nothing but back-to-back monotonous ”you are valid” platitudes read in an empty voice that is so desperate to sound caring. The garish makeup fails to spice things up- her ‘look’ for the life with alters video paired with those wide, starey eyes made for some genuinely quite unsettling imagery. I have no clue how she saw herself in post and still thought it was a good shout. Lighting equipment visibly reflected in any vlogger’s eyes always adds an uncanny quality of artificiality to their presence, it really doesn’t help Chloe’s alters appear any less contrived.
She’s particularly struggling with (or has entirely given up on) keeping up the different facial expressions, gestures, body language she originally assigned to each alter, although this has always been inconsistent. It’s just much worse now. There is very little that distinguishes her OCs at all since her come back, aside from the odd idiosyncratic quirk she throws in from time to time, e.g. Kyle’s awkward elbow. In the most recent video her Sally voice fluctuates a lot: the prim and proper high pitch keeps sinking back to Chloe’s natural tone and speaking style, and then she hikes it back up again in the next clip, repeatedly. The up-right posture deflates almost immediately. All in all, not very convincing theatrics. There were similar issues in Kyle’s comebacks: inconsistencies with accent, pronunciation etc. Chloe likely reads her dedicated subreddit (now largely sceptical of her) and a handful of retards there pointed out that Kyle didn’t come across as authentic, some suggesting that might have been because ‘Nin was co-conscious’ (ffs). So the addition of the ’Nin co-conscious’ caption in this new video tells me that she is quite aware of her unconvincing performance upon editing. It’s a convenient if clumsy explanation for those incongruities.
The switch at the end, as others have said, is painful. Were this decontextualised I would have thought she was imitating someone doing smack. If Nin was co-conscious i.e. present some or the whole of the time, what logic would justify Nin’s confusion when she starts ‘fronting’, if any of this were real? I kind of don’t care for making this sort of point usually because it implies that Chloe’s pantomime would be believable if she just tightened up her storyline a bit, which is not the case.
I think Chloe is not having a fun time right now and I don’t have an inkling of sympathy for her. Perhaps, if it‘s all getting too much, it’s time for her to pick up a part-time cocaine habit to gear things back up again, she can likely afford it. Many a talentless entertainer has dabbled with snow in an attempt to render their dying career less depressing and laborious. After all, instant confidence and a direct injection of vitality into your performance, what’s not to love? Plus, when it all inevitably falls horribly apart :
- Extra pity points for Chloe when she admits to her audience that
she’s a junkieshe has a junkie alter... - ... providing a fresh dramatic subject matter to delve into,
- and a new affliction to add to her expert-by-experience CV.
It’s a win-win situation all round
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