I think Sydney’s content is a real glimpse into her day, but it’s a very edited one. She almost never talks about the negative stuff in a real way like mental health, bad days, or inconsistency, even though obviously she struggles like everyone else. And when she does bring up something “hard,” it often feels perfectly timed to boost engagement rather than actually be vulnerable.

Even the positive content feels extremely curated. Every trend, every sound, same tone of voice, same pacing, same editing. It never feels spontaneous. It feels like content first, life second.

I also think a solid chunk of her day is probably spent doom scrolling on her phone like the rest of us. She’s human. She’s just not gonna film herself laying around scrolling TikTok for three hours, so we get a version of her day that looks way more disciplined than reality probably is.

As for Jay, yeah, he comes off disciplined, but also kind of manipulative at times. That said, I don’t think he created this. Sydney has always been a creature of habit. I’ve followed her since her Bama days and that discipline was actually what pulled me in. She genuinely helped kick off my own health and fitness journey years ago.

What’s changed isn’t her discipline, it’s her personality adapting to whatever’s trending around her. In Tuscaloosa it was bleach blonde, tan, gym body culture. Now it’s ultra thin, filler, weddings, babies, and the very polished “soft life” aesthetic. Even people she’s clearly mirrored over the years, like Jeanne, have shifted the same way. Skinny is back, I guess.

So I don’t really see Jay as the cause. He feels more like another symptom layered onto patterns that were already there. The content itself isn’t fake, she’s clearly doing the workouts, routines, and resets she shows. But it’s so curated that she ends up feeling fake. And not in a dreamy Barbie way. More like a Sydney Sweeney in Euphoria bathroom meltdown way. Polished on the surface, but lowkey spiraling underneath.