You're born to a couple of meth heads/drunks, and you get yoinked into foster care/a group home (and you use the terms interchangeably). The parents there suck SO BADLY that they try to limit your food intake because you're a fat fucking child who needs to have it limited. You whine incessantly until you get what you want because they just want you to shut the fuck up: food. This is tried again, along with giving you skim milk instead of full fat, and "force-feeding" you yogurt by simply offering it to you instead of the usual sugar-filled junk cereal. You routinely sneak food from the kitchen, eat multiple boxes of Girl Scout cookies, eat more than one lunch at school. Oh, did I mention that you're also a malignant narcissist and pathological liar?
You're now an adult, legally, so The System washes its hands of you. Out you go into the world. But now there's no one around to take care of you and your fat fucking ass when you whine. Man, that blows. Work - real work - is for peasants, not for highly intelligent gals like yourself. You may not know or care where Russia is on a map, but you've learned at least one thing: people are suckers for hard luck stories. So you start casting your net, finally reeling in someone. You march into their life, landing on their couch. You realize that this person, and their single mother, aren't what you had in mind, so you start casting out that net once more. Who cares if you treat these people poorly? They're vulnerable to it, probably used to it, and they ain't white, so who cares?
Finally, you get a bite. The next mark is a little awkward, but hey, aren't we all from time to time? You exit the current situation and head off into wow, so much better! The mark and their family have some money, they're not terribly demanding (even if they do eventually start making noise about working or heading to school), and you've found your space. For now. That whole "Hey, when you getting a job?" thing isn't something you want to do, and you don't want to go to school, because who wants to relive that? But your act gets crusty for them, and they tell you to take a hike. They do give you some time, though, and even keep you on the family cell phone plan for the time being, because, well, you're a hard luck story, aren't you?
Eventually, you move out and once again, you find someone to glom onto. You're just not into the single life. Someone might thing you're not attractive if you're not with someone. That'd be terrible, because you know you are. You practice duck lips to the camera so many times it's second nature! Isn't that what all the hot chicks do? The current mark has a job! And a car! And is fat, so won't mind eating out almost every night! And is not weird about the grotesque thing your body has turned into! Bonanza!
You while away the years with the current mark: first hanging out at one job with them, then getting an actual, honest-to-god GOVERNMENT job with them. Isn't it great? You can watch them and be with them 24/7. Eventually, the YouTube channel you started years ago starts picking up. It helps that the current mark doesn't have some strange behavior thing going on, because my god, how lame was that to not be talkative, even if you do love the sound of your own voice and think you're more intelligent than anyone you've come into contact with in your life? Not so THIS mark. Loud, brash, hypersexual innuendo, racist... feels like an extension of yourself! Then they suggest that you focus on your YouTube career and stop working at the secret government offices doing secret government stuff. Even if you did spend a third of the time in the bathroom, it still meant leaving the comfort of your own home, and that's for peasants. This must be heaven.
Then you notice something weird going on with this mark. They're getting awfully mouthy with you, like they don't know their place in your universe. When you take your shots at them in order to make sure they - and your audience - know that you are the superior being, they take one right back! When the camera's off, you be sure to let them have it and tell them they can't do that. They have the temerity to disagree with you, and your audience is openly speculating that there's trouble brewing. The mark finally kicks you to he curb, but you talk them into still sleeping in the bed with you, thinking that if you can exert that bit of control over them, they'll realize their mistake and start taking corrective action to get themselves back into the order the universe, or at you, dictates.
But your manipulation radar is broken, and badly this time, and the mark still says seeya. Now you have to find yet another, and get them trained, pronto! You continue with the fiction that all is well while you try to hook someone. It gets more difficult each time, because each time you're even fatter than you were, so it has to be someone local, and who is willing to come get you, because why learn to drive if you can get people to act like chauffeurs? Finally! You get someone, they come to get you and your stuff, and you realize you've landed with a bunch of dim-sounding country hicks. Well, it's a place to land, anyway, until the previous mark comes to their senses and retrieves you.
After awhile, the ground rules - your ground rules - are in place, you pay the rent, and in return, your stuff slowly takes over the house, with no one really objecting until you are banned from one of the bathrooms. Your YouTube career kicks into overdrive, and the money just flows in by the barrel. Truly, THIS must be heaven. you convince the newest mark to quit their job. In return, you buy them whatever they want, which seems to be graphic tshirts and baseball hats. They will drive anywhere for you or with you, have no problem running out to pick up takeout for you, and will even take you to The Cheesecake Factory - happiest place on earth for real! - two hours away even when they're exhausted.
Then, with a shocking immediacy, suddenly, the mark's attention is not fully on you. Their mom has cancer and is terminal. Sucks for them, but more importantly, sucks for you, because they are dividing their attention. There's only one solution to this: finally pay attention to an issue you've been talking about often enough that people will ask about and offer advice, the poor souls, but not so often that they expect you to rush off to the hospital. you save that for when you're ready to launch your plan. While the mark is off at their mom's place, spending time with the dying woman, you text them and tell them you think you have cancer, too. Ha, take THAT, dying matriarch! You take that issue you've been talking about occasionally, and make it front page news by posting up a bloody image guaranteed to get everyone's attention. They whisk you away to the ER, where they have the audacity to want to actually examine you. Like, whuuut? This is not in the plan!
They tell you they want to do an emergency procedure, and then you should go to a specialist. Shocked, you agree, and then wait for a call from them as to the status of what they removed. They do call, and say something to you but you zone out fairly immediately, thinking about how this will fit into the overall narrative. You absent-mindedly hang up and then start breathing heavily. Or more heavily than you usually do, anyway. You inform the crackers that you h-h-h-ave c-c-c-caan-n-n-cancer and they may the appropriate noises. You tell them you need to tell YouTube, and while they may think this is a little odd, they're used to it, so they go about their business. You decide on the spot that this would be a great time to move to the big city of Lexington! UberEats and DoorDash exist there! It's like civilization and you're ready for that after being stuck in this do-nothing, podunk town long enough. It further isolates your mark from their family and their lifelong friends in one fell swoop. Genuis!
You do the video and upload it to YouTube, then start figuring out how to tell the mark. And maybe, just maybe, you can get dear old Mama Meth to come do things for you, since she didn't do shit for you when you were growing up, so let's face it, the bitch owes you. You land in the civilized city of Lexington, in a very nice, upscale apartment right in the middle of everything! you do the thing with your ladybits, deciding that no matter how often you've said you are not talking about your health or weight ever again on your channel, you're definitely using this! And you do.
People have the nerve to question your story. But whatever, people have been questioning the things you do and say for years now, and it's made you so happy: haters have made you rich relative to how you grew up, and who knows where it could go from here? You get through surgery and recovery and things go right back to normal, even after the mark's mother finally croaks, and good riddance to that ungrateful bitch, right? Now you don't have to sit for a ride for hours back and forth to the mark's hick family events any longer.
Once again, you're blindsided: your faithful mark dumps you! How dare they! Well, they're just going to have to pay half the rent, then, even though you talked them into quitting their previous job, currently has no job, and only has access to your money, despite you having to pay rent anyway, with them there or not. You hop on the internet immediately, and find the next mark, but there's a bad omen: they do not want to be shown on the YouTube channel. At all.
Beggars and choosers, though, so you pull them in. They move in while the previous mark is still there, because you can't be sure when the previous mark will leave and you really just don't want to be alone, even though the new mark isn't exactly what you expected. The previous mark quickly moves out, good riddance. You discover that the new mark was serious about the "no YouTube" part, which you think is crazy and still hope to change at some point. Until then, you'll continue to film when out, making sure the new mark isn't in the frame. Because everyone who has watched your videos knows you want to lose weight (wink wink), the new mark wants to help you with that, so the two of you can go places and do things that regular people do,. Regular people are peasants, though, and its so comfy sitting at home while other people cook food and bring it to you. Life is good! The peasants keep whining about content, but that's what you're giving them. What's not to like about stuff you can do sitting down? It isn't like you can just go trotting off somewhere, after all.
Eventually, though, the noise from the current mark and the peasants makes you find a local-ish weight loss surgery clinic, get the info, and actually go - ugh - to sit through some stupid presentation. Combine this with the current mark's previous curiosity about your lack of followup appointments for your "cancer", and they've turned out to be a bit annoying. But if another useful fiction is required, though, you'll just do that: you attend the seminar, calling it an "appointment" with the weight loss clinic in your videos. There was, however, a spy alongst the peasants, who let it spill that it was an information seminar about everything involved with WLS, which sounded pretty gross when you stopped to think about it at all beyond how to clickbait it. You can explain it away later, though. For now, you need to pretend to like home cooking, but that means you get to do things like grocery hauls! Buying food, cooking some of it, pretending to love all of it? This could go on for many months! And the peasants love the idea of you losing weight and then undergoing WLS. Win-win. You, though, are not so sure about losing weight or the prospect of WLS and the loose, droopy skin that would result. No, that does not sound fun at all, and life's about having fun!
But you're finding lately that the Lego sets and scratch art and diamond paintings are not settling the natives. You're now pretty much out of pre-recorded material and you don't have the ability to film anything outside the apartment that doesn't involve walking, because the current mark works and doesn't want to quit. True, they work from home, but they're not willing to drop everything at a moment's notice to take you somewhere. You could take an Uber, but views are down - way down, if you're being honest, and who needs that? - and spending money on an Uber when that would buy more takeout seems like a terrible idea.
So you go all in on the WLS saga. Hopefully that, combined with clickbaiting your so very traumatic childhood will keep things going and eventually, the channel will rebound, even if you do put on 40 pounds (wink wink) between December and April, of which 15 pounds (wink wink) is between February and April. The peasants will never be able to tell, and even if most of them leave, that's just a great opportunity to draw in new peasants to work for you. It takes almost a year, sometimes longer, for peasants to recognize how you cycle through things. Ah, the sweet smell of new blood and more money. This must be heaven!