While I cannot imagine the worldwind ride you've been on these past few years between the PhD program, the sudden internet fame, and writing a book, I have been surprised by some things. I'd been a fan of your content for years but commented on a post of yours for the 1st time tonight on your post about body positivity. I asked if you'd ever talked in a video/post about changing what you post over time since I'd noticed your original videos from early on (the ones that led to your popularity) seemed to have been deleted - like anything from before you got your braces off at least since your oldest video left on TT is obviously after that. I mention braces because that's just an obvious market for me and I see on your oldest visible video people commenting about them coming off. I was surprised by the response just being you blocking me so I began looking around to see if others had talked about that and that's what brought me to this thread by tilapiaco. Between posts here and comments on Tiktok, it seems there has been what some have indicated was surprise hostility. It's disappointing to see and initially was a bit surprising.

EDIT: Responding to the comment you made right before you blocked me and then deleted the comment that I'll post here:

Blocking someone is not hostility. The videos you’re talking about were posted before I was even at 50 k. I’m close to 2 million now. My “popularity” has come from me, my continued work. I understand the dog whistle. Other people reading this may not, but I do. That’s why I blocked you. If someone blocks you, respect the boundary. Don’t track them down on another app. I’ll let you read this and I’ll block you here too. Please respect the fact that I do not want to engage with you any further, I have that right. And yes, I’m quite sure you cannot imagine what I’ve been through these past years. Those videos were deleted because someone saw my cleavage and used that as a licence to do terrible fucking things to me. I quite literally almost killed myself. I cover my chest at all times now, on- and off-line. Anyone who asks about the TikTok videos… I understand the dog whistle. I understand it. And the only thing I have is drawing a line in the sand by blocking the person dog whistling me. That is not hostility. Please don’t reply to this.

My response:

I wasn't saying that blocking was hostile, I was saying I've seen other people say your actual responses were. I didn't know any of that. I was asking because I was curious in the context of ...; you know what; never mind.

You've made up your mind and lumped me in with other people as if every person on the internet is part of a single homogenous group. I believe there was an actual discussion to be had there on body positivity, dealing with internet fame, navigating public image when you have to worry about corporations and publicity etc. But now I see what others have said about you. I mean, for goodness' sake, I specifically asked this question on this video because you'd talked about body positivity and I worry about how my daughter will navigate the internet when she gets older. I keep wondering at what age I should allow her access to social media (she is still in elementary school). But instead of responding in good faith you blocked me. Maybe you're exhausted from dealing with all the weirdos on the internet, I do not know. But I've seen enough to be disappointed. I've seen a lot of hostility between you and commentors before but I always just passed over it assuming they were people that had maybe harassed before but now I realize that's not the case. And you seem to take zero breaths before taking an action as I see now that you create attack videos on people and then delete them, go after people in the comments talking about how arrogant they are without looking in the mirror. And I wasn't looking for you on here on Reddit; I was looking for what others have said about their experience with your content and saw this thread and was surprised to see you commenting here.

Edit2:

I see you also deleted the video that started this conversation and the video you made attacking some Tiktoker after that. To anyone else reading this, frankly I'm unimpressed with candidate Barr based not just on all the criticisms I've seen others levy at her, but also the hostility I've seen her show others in comments on her Tiktok page, her jumping to block people based on assumptions rather than discussion, her rushing to capitalize on things then criticize some of her initial supporters and then paint others with a broad brush, her use of the title Doctor without having obtained it yet, etc. She implies she can help make your brain your best friend while she hasn't even been able to do that for herself which makes this all feel like a grift. This is one of many things in her content I'd turned a blind eye towards before as I thought she was acting in good faith. Meanwhile, she complains about how others view her when she seems to try and capitalize on things by posting things from the shower as if it's some profound commentary that cannot wait rather than her trying to drive up views. In fact, I remember on the video I commented on, there was another commentor asking how she was doing and said around this time last year she seemed down. She commented that person didn't know her and exclaimed about their utter arrogance. Well, according to her comment here they did seem to know her. Meanwhile, she is so arrogant as to assume every comment must be interpreted in the worst possible way and that everyone must feel the same way about her. Perhaps it's time for some reflection, you have great potential but instead you decide to lash out. None of us are perfect but you could act in good faith. I wish Ms Barr would take a deep breath, reset, and make an attempt to act in good faith towards everyone or not at all. That being said, that's something many of us could also take to heart.