I've been following Amberlynn since before she had a forum here, and it was just a single thread. Right now I'm having a true and honest spaghetti-spilling moment, so please bear with me gorls
I used to think that she really did want to lose weight but that she just didn't want to work for it, hence her repeated failures.
At this point I think I'm changing my mind. I'm starting to think she doesn't mind one bit being as heavy and unhealthy as she is. I'm starting to feel like the only thing she really wants out of life is constant praise, love, approval, etc. and that the only reason she "wants to lose weight" is to get that praise. Her unhappiness derives only from the disapproval and criticisms that drive her nuts, and NOT from her sad station in life.
It's not about weighing less to fat AL. Nope. It's not about being healthier, looking better, being able to do things, living to see age 40, and so on. I'm starting to believe Amberlynn doesn't care about any of that at all. She just wants to be loved and admired constantly (which, needless to say is not a realistic or healthy life goal for anyone) but in order to do that she needs to be a weight loss success, a youtube inspiration... or at the very least, to appear as if she is "trying."
When she first started her channel, the feedback was almost entirely niceties and asspats. The only real "criticism" she got would be drive-by trolls posting "lol u fat" comments on her videos. As time went on and genuine criticisms started popping up is I think when she began to feel uncomfortable. She was no longer being praised just for "trying" (she wasn't trying even in her earliest videos, it's just that she didn't have money to binge as much back then; Krystle's parents pretty much controlled what she ate).
It's kind of like how she only went to college because Casey's mom told her that in order to stay with their family she had to either work or go to school. Amber never actually gave a fuck about school. She wasn't actually proud of attending college and earning those straight A's (lol that's a laah anyway) and she didn't actually feel bad about dropping out. She only wanted the approval and asspats she got from upholding the illusion of "trying."
I think that's why even her failures bore me now. It's why even this MLM absurdity hardly warranted a raised eyebrow from me. She's not a tragic figure because she's not really trying (and failing) she's just failing and that doesn't bother her even a little bit.