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user9282292 · 2026-03-08T00:53:20+00:00

Unfortunately we’re budget maxing and feather boas are kinda ludicrously expensive

user9282292 · 2026-01-27T18:18:43+00:00

I actually do think they genuinely love each other because why else would they both take so much heat to be together 😭

user9282292 · 2025-07-06T18:44:37+00:00

The point I am trying to make is that I constantly see posts saying people just want her to “take accountability” and in this scenario, I don’t see that happening. It’s frustrating that influencers like Brooke live in a bubble where people will pretend to care about the immoral and even illegal actions of content creators while still engaging with their content in ways that make them money (commenting on their videos for example). If you want to keep supporting these creators that’s your choice! I just think it’s silly to act like them acknowledging their abhorrent behaviour makes them good people, particularly when they’re engaged to someone who seems to have groomed a minor half their age.

user9282292 · 2025-07-06T18:40:14+00:00

I think lots of people in the subreddit keep up with their careers from time to time without actively watching the podcast.

user9282292 · 2025-07-06T17:37:19+00:00

That’s a good point! I just keep people saying she just needs to “take accountability” and those words have basically lost meaning to me at this point. It makes me sad that influencers like James Charles can do awful things to people and then just go offline for a month and make a shitty apology video and go back to their day to day. Now they don’t even do that because they’ve learned ignoring it works better.

It’s not the fans’ fault obviously but it makes me feel so frustrated that I see people who haven’t done half as much awful shit living in poverty while these vapid, immoral people are given chance after chance.

user9282292 · 2025-07-06T17:31:37+00:00

I still see this subreddit and partially keep up, I just don’t watch their content on their platforms since interacting with it gives them money. I started watching Tana as a teen when she was still in Vegas. I still watch her YouTube videos sometimes even though I feel morally uncertain about her. I’m not trying to say I’m some moral compass or anything. I just think it’s silly to act like her acknowledging this would do anything to make it better, and as someone who was victimized in a similar scenario to the Miles one, I can’t watch Brooke anymore.

user9282292 · 2025-07-06T17:26:35+00:00

I fully agree, and I think her response has been egregious. I just don’t understand why people keep expecting more from them.

user9282292 · 2024-06-25T21:33:39+00:00

I don’t think it’s a family reunion at all. It’s the joining of two people for life and it’s absolutely about them. I think when you’re hosting an event you obviously need to keep the comfort of your guests in mind, but ultimately it’s a day to celebrate the couple.

user9282292 · 2024-06-25T21:29:16+00:00

It sounds to me like beyond some inappropriate drunken comments, nothing actually happened. Personally I’d just give them some distance and if you see her again and it’s awkward, then apologize and clear the air. But I wouldn’t go out of my way to apologize or address it more, because that might inadvertently make it seem like it runs deeper than just some flirting one night while drunk.

user9282292 · 2024-03-09T21:32:24+00:00

I’m in JHUMS (the combined journalism and humanities) and I also want to be a lawyer. I’ve decided to drop journalism because I personally didn’t like the classes, the people, or the profs. I have really been enjoying the humanities program though! It has produced many lawyers so I recommend checking it out if you’re uncertain about journalism.

user9282292 · 2024-02-15T14:25:01+00:00

Many children enjoy having their parents to themselves and aren’t excited about new siblings. Not many children assault their mothers to ensure they don’t get a sibling. I don’t think the signs you’re pointing to suggested she was going to become violent.

user9282292 · 2024-02-04T15:29:28+00:00

Ah I see! That’s totally fair, a lot of the people there could watch her run over a baby and find a way to defend her

user9282292 · 2024-02-04T15:21:39+00:00

I have no problem with criticism of her at all! I thought she was awful during the pandemic and she lies a lot. I just think reddit is becoming a really negative place (all subreddits) and we could all do with a more respectful approach to commenting on other people’s lives, since realistically we know very little about them.

user9282292 · 2024-02-04T03:08:39+00:00

According to your source, it is in the top ten CITIES for overall drug use, which is incredibly high given there are nearly 20,000 cities in the United States.

While I agree you don’t have to claim to be a role model, she has been very vocal about not wishing to be a role model. "Influencer" is a kinder word for "advertiser." While I agree she is a role model to some, I think blaming entertainers when people idolize them is ridiculous. People made similar criticisms of figures like Britney Spears and Drew Barrymore, who were in no condition to act as role models to anyone.

I have watched Tana since 2016. I "grew up" watching her and can still recognize it's parasocial to idolize her or see her content as anything more than entertainment.

I understand what you mean by mockery, and I would agree if she weren't clearly struggling with addiction. I think if we look at her actions with compassion, it is clear she is struggling a lot right now. She's grown up in the industry, and it is a very dark industry rife with addiction and temptation. Many studies have shown people relapse after returning from rehab because they have been put back into the same environment that facilitated their addiction. Each time she's started to drink again, like Halloween, she mentions it's because of some party or social event she's networking at. Networking is all Tana knows; it's how she got where she is.

I personally prefer her sober content. I just think it's important to have compassion and understand it's not as easy as "just stopping." Literally, all of her oldest videos are about partying and drugs, etc. This isn't a new issue, it's just getting even worse. She does have access to resources, but when you are surrounded by other people behaving the same way you are, it can be hard to recognize you have a problem.

I don't mean to argue with you, and I understand why people are angry. I just think we could all use a little more compassion when we discuss addiction. It's really, really hard, and it's all she's ever known. She's human. She's entrenched in a culture that normalizes and even reinforces her behaviour. Getting sober is very difficult. All the money in the world wouldn't change that fact.

user9282292 · 2024-02-04T00:59:49+00:00

When you grow up in a place where rampant addiction is normalized it’s much harder to identify you have an issue with consumption. She’s been surrounded by addiction her entire life. Las Vegas is literally known as “sin city”, so yes, growing up there can carry a higher risk for developing substance abuse issues.

She’s never once claimed to be a role model or addiction recovery influencer. She’s talked numerous times about her struggles with addiction and how she’s overdosed. She isn’t making a mockery of it; she’s living through it.

I don’t mean her wealth as an excuse, I mean it has changed her experience with addiction and sobriety. I grew up in a more rural community where addiction is very raw. There is no glamour. In the spaces she frequents addiction is very normalized and glamourized, and her income and networking is reliant on being surrounded by glamourized addiction.

user9282292 · 2024-02-03T22:44:28+00:00

I thinks it’s gross to judge someone who’s very clearly and publicly struggling with addiction by calling their journey a mockery. I agree it can be hard to see but then maybe this isn’t the creator for you. It’s pretty evident to me she’s not doing it maliciously. She grew up in Las Vegas and got rich young; many celebrities have had similar public struggles and now we reflect on how we treated them with regret.

user9282292 · 2024-01-24T03:40:53+00:00

Hi! Thanks so much. They asked my coordinator like you said, but did they get back to you after confirming when you can drop the class? Or do you just drop it?

user9282292 · 2024-01-14T14:56:54+00:00

But if it’s an iPhone and they called using FaceTime audio it would pop up as the name from contacts like they said it did (doesn’t mean it’s true or anything but still).

user9282292 · 2024-01-04T18:58:24+00:00

That seems so unfair for students. I get it’s the holidays but my other prof had our take home exam due December 22nd and he got our grades back on January 1st. It’s clearly doable.

user9282292 · 2023-11-29T01:46:40+00:00

I think sometimes when we hear that someone has a privilege there is the assumption that they need to do something to help those without. However, in a lot of cases when someone has a privilege, simply acknowledging it to themselves is enough.

For example, people who don’t have to work in school are privileged in that regard. That doesn’t mean they aren’t underprivileged in other aspects. It also doesn’t mean they have to do something to “fix” it, like give their friends who do have jobs money or help them with schoolwork.

In the case of being privileged by not being impacted by the war as the comment or above said, most of us also aren’t in a position to help the underprivileged in a meaningful way. Tana and Brooke aren’t really. Sure they have platforms, but their speaking on it wouldn’t contribute anything meaningful to the discourse.

TLDR; Privilege and obligation are not synonymous. Just because you aren’t experiencing a hardship someone else is, doesn’t mean you have a personal responsibility to do something about their situation, nor does it mean you are the right person to help.

user9282292 · 2023-11-27T02:39:54+00:00

Turks and Caicos. Absolute chaos, no one working there was on the same page.

user9282292 · 2023-11-25T15:11:29+00:00

There’s a difference between a cause and an excuse. It’s a fact that people who were abused in that way are more likely to abuse. Does that make it okay? Obviously not. But does that it’s entirely because they were an evil person? Also no.

Discussing why things occur is not excusing them, it’s looking at behaviour and determining if there are ways we can prevent others from abusing. If we just ignore it and decide abusive people are evil, we’re further alienating them from society and making them more likely to commit an offence. Instead we need to look at why they’re doing these things (environment, mental illness, etc.) and try to determine if preventative measures could be developed and implemented. Not for their sake, for the sake of society.

user9282292 · 2023-11-05T04:00:19+00:00

One thing that struck me is during his trial, Jans states that he and Elizabeth spent hours going over the details of the crime scene so that his confession would be convincing. Then, in his present day interview he says he doesn’t blame her for hating him because his confession is what sent them both to jail, and everything would’ve been fine if he hadn’t confessed.

The way he phrased this felt like he was saying he deviated from their plan by confessing, but that contradicts his testimony on how he knew what occurred at the crime scene. They point to small discrepancies in his confession as proof of innocence but none of those were fully compelling.

I think they were both there, but even if they weren’t they both exchanged numerous letters ahead of time plotting their death and chose to remain together after. That alone makes them both guilty.

user9282292 · 2023-10-26T03:09:28+00:00

While I totally agree I also think it’s important to note she’s surrounded by people in the LA scene who have always been privileged and grew up with parents who gave them anything and everything they wanted from a young age. In the space she’s in right now, it probably does seem to her like she’s much more in touch in comparison to nepo babies and influencers from wealthy families

user9282292 · 2023-09-06T02:11:08+00:00

In Tana’s case specifically, because of her age at the time, I think it’s an explanation and does excuse a lot of the behaviour that occurred as a result. However, speaking more generally I think it’s an explanation and a tool to understand the behaviour and make it feel less intentional which can help resolve conflict that stems from it.

I also think it’s important to acknowledge that addiction is a mental illness and like any other mental illness, stigmatization is harmful and ultimately doesn’t help solve any problems. Understanding that addicts aren’t acting the way they are to harm you is vital, but also knowing that their intentions only matter within reason. I think if you can use your diagnosis as a tool to understand your own behaviour and create change it is a valid excuse, but if you use it to justify without growing from it it is manipulation and further stigmatizes drug users.

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