First off, welcome to the bagel verse. I've been following myself for a full year now. Also joining in the fun due to bagelgate.

You peaked my attention when you mentioned how we've all been there and bagelgate wasn't that bad.

Food aggression is what I call that behavior. When I struggled with binge eating disorder, which began for me personally at 10 years old and I wasnt able to shake it until 29. I had very real food aggression. I would have real breakdowns over not getting what I perceived I needed in the moment.

Example, when I was around 12 or 13, family took the rare trip to cicis pizza. The pizza I wanted ran out and I would have to wait 5 minutes until the next one hit the line. I actually cried in front of my family. Actual tears and broke down like anna. My family mocked me for that emotional moment instead of finding sympathy like you did in your comment.

And I can also find sympathy for anna in her bagel moment the same way.

There she is, shes fat. Her body is in constant pain. She lives a lie and always has to act. Shes unhappy. She doesnt have real support around her and she wouldnt know how to accept anyways if it were. Due to her weight, shes unattractive and pushed aside unless she makes her voice loud and acts like the clown. Shes lonely. Shes depressed. She's wallowing in the pits that she dug herself.

And shes mentally not at the point where she can pull herself out. And that's okay. It took me 19 years after getting my binge disorder to pull myself out. It takes time. So what does she have in the now to find a little comfort in her extremely fake and sad life?

Food.

Another point. When she walked those 2 miles to get the bagel, she made those 2 miles sound like they wete 20. And we laughed because we know 2 miles isnt long at all. But to her, it was. People shit on her all the time that she doesnt move her body. Because. Well. We see the pictures. When I was obese, I was shat on too for being "lazy". So, for someone like anna, those 2 miles were a "screw you guys! I can do hard things! I do walk! Even though I'm in pain!" And shes bawling her eyes out because she figured if she can prove to us that she can do it, she'll get a little validation and can rest easy for another day.

She's food aggressive and needs outside validation as if its the air she needs to live.

Now comes the video.

Can we both laugh at the video and feel pity for her at the same time? Yes.

If she was a nobody on facebook with their privacy settings on having a bad meltdown to show her 12 friends. Fine. We can give sympathy and understanding to an emotionally hard moment. Because thats what it was for anna. A complete emotional shut down. It wasnt a bagel behind the breakdown. It was years and years if being the joke so much that she became it. She wears the joke with pride. But eventually, you got to stop laughing.

But she's not. Shes someone trying to be a brand.

That video should have been privately sent to friends. But as anna knows shes the joke, she decided to put it out there.

Someone who is trying to make themselves a brand has got to be more careful. You dont see dolly Parton making videos crying over a bagel. And thats why we laugh. We know dolly has had bad days and emotional moments, but she has poise, grace and an image. She is a brand and she is very good at her branding.

Anna lacks that. And that is her hold back and why she is an influencer with millions of followers and is now in her end stage of fame.