This video is deceptively deep. She didn't intend it to be, obviously it's a filler type video but there's a fair bit to unpack. Or maybe my tism is just on and poppin' today.
The whole point of these "shopping spree" videos is to buy what you've "always wanted." What this means to most people who aren't millionaires: "
Let's go buy all those junky or gimmicky impulse things that you see all the time and you 'want' but you never actually buy because you know it would be a foolish purchase". So I guess it could be fun to let loose and buy a bunch of shiny crap that caught your eye and you know it's crap. I get it.
It's really funny to me because this premise is the complete opposite of how Amberlynn lives her life. It's a (potentially) interesting video idea when carried out by people for whom this r.etarded experience
would be a novelty. But, for Amberlynn? ALL
SHE
DOES
is buy/eat everything that catches her eye, like a toddler. She never does the "
oh that's cute, it would be dumb to buy it though" thing. EVER. It makes no sense for her to film this style of video because
every trip to wommart is a hedonistic spree.
Something else I find funny is that in classic miss-the-point-harder Amberlynn fashion, it's clear by this haul that she didn't want to "waste" any money when again,
that's the point of doing this type of video. Instead she drilled it into Becky's head to buy practical items (hence there being so many hygeine products--btw it's hilarious that she got a bunch of
hygeine stuff for a "buy what you've always wanted" video I see you, dry gorl
. That's why she got so many lipsticks that are practically the same color and one is literally the same product she already owns that is her favorite. Something you've always wanted, huh, dummy? This bitch handed Becky one of her lipsticks for comparison and said "get me five more just like this, babe"
See, even though being conscientious defeats the entire purpose of this kind of video, Amberlynn was determined to make every dollar count in her mind. Err, that is, to make sure
Becky made every dollar count. To her, none of it was wasteful because she knows from experience that the lipstick, for example, is something she'd use up (she won't, actually, but in theory she could). That's also why she bought a bottle of nail polish, but not a whacky glitter or unusual shade. She got classic red which, in her mind, she can use up so it's not money "wasted." Do you see a pattern here? It ALL has to be practical to her reasoning; never mind that she hasn't been practical with money a day in her life. Why is she suddenly so concerned with wasting money? Given her spending on past hauls, Amberlynn has thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars straight into the trash. This video is analogous to the iconic fatty trope of "Eat fast food for every single meal BUT MAKE SURE TO GET DIET COKE TO CANCEL IT OUT"
For a video like this, a lot of girls might buy that holographic mini backpack. Yeah it's hideous but "lol shiny, we're having fun gorls!" For Amberlynn though, her development is so arrested that she struggles with object permeance--which, IIRC, is a milestone
for infants. If it's not in front of her she doesn't know it's there, much less know that she "wants" it. This is another reason why all of the items in her haul are so mundane. If you asked Amberlynn to make a list of what she wanted but she was not allowed to break eye contact with you while thinking, she couldn't come up with a single thing she has "always wanted." She'd come up with orange chicken. To put it another way, the lack of any items in this haul that would be novel to her is just more proof that she didn't set foot in that store.
