It's crazy to me that some of these YouTube gurus are thirty-something and still living in a world where drama is fun to create. It's oddly entertaining to watch those "Tea Spill" videos on YouTube where they break down every Tweet, every video and every palette launch gone wrong to give the audience the full scoop.
There was a point in time where I myself, watched about twenty of them in a row without shame. It's hard to admit that these "drama" videos are addicting and it's fun to watch somebody else's life that doesn't quite feel like your own.
The thing we need to recognize with these platforms is that most of these gurus have surprisingly young audiences. I'm not talking about even high-schoolers, I'm talking middle-schoolers. So, what are we trying to teach young kids? That starting chaos and hurting others is the "cool" thing to do? I will never get it.
Multiple beauty gurus have started online feuds with each other that have gone on for years, and publicly. I don't think that everyone should be supporting this unhealthy way of going about relationships that might've ended. Instead of publicly humiliating people we aren't close with and shaming them on social media, why don't we focus on what we ourselves did wrong in the relationship? Because last time I checked, a relationship is a two-way street.
All in all, I don't think this article will ever stop these drama channels from finding out everything and broadcasting it to the whole world. But, I do think that it's quite strange that people with so much money, fame and success still give a sh*t about what so-and-so said about them on Twitter last night. This isn't high school, this is the real world. And we don't have time for this behavior anymore.
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