Beckiejbrown #3 Moan of Arc

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Punching herself in the head on her stories while complaining how much her head hurts... the math ain't mathing.

I'm curious, what was everyone's turning point that made you go off Beckie? I assume most of us started off genuinely enjoying her youtube videos and were eventually put off by her attitude and behaviour.

I used to like her videos around 2013-2014, but as time went on I couldn't help noticing that she always had issues with people/situations and seemingly none of them were ever her fault. I did think she had a habit of bending the truth (anyone remember "drunk from one cosmo"? 😂) and I got a bit suspicious that she was making things up about her health when she went through the first "I can't walk properly" saga, because I thought it was strange that she'd never mentioned anything about it, yet now it was suddenly a huge lifelong problem. But my tipping point was when she had pleurisy, because coincidentally I'd had it just a few months prior, and it's nothing like she described it. It's an inflammation in the tissue outside your lungs that usually comes after a cold/cough, and it feels achy and sore, kind of like you've sprained your chest muscles. Requires rest and ibuprofen. That's it. But she portrayed it like it came in "attacks" and was posting about falling off her bike and going to hospital because of these supposed attacks. I know any chest pain is concerning if you don't know what's causing it, but even after she got diagnosed with pleurisy (and I'm sure her doctor told her, like mine did, that it's uncomfortable but nothing to worry about) she was periodically turning up at A&E and acting like she was debilitated by it for weeks. That's when I realised she's a completely unreliable narrator.

What was your Beckie tipping point?
 
nosy_girl said:
I'm curious, what was everyone's turning point that made you go off Beckie? I assume most of us started off genuinely enjoying her youtube videos and were eventually put off by her attitude and behaviour.
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I got poorly 5 years ago and decided to rewatch Beckie as she used to be one of my cozy faves (think Jenna Marbles) but the more I watched the less I could remember why I ever liked her in the first place. She came across as whiny and I wondered why she never hung out with any other youtubers so I googled "Beckiejbrown annoying" and found her GG thread lol
 
nosy_girl said:
Punching herself in the head on her stories while complaining how much her head hurts... the math ain't mathing.

I'm curious, what was everyone's turning point that made you go off Beckie? I assume most of us started off genuinely enjoying her youtube videos and were eventually put off by her attitude and behaviour.

I used to like her videos around 2013-2014, but as time went on I couldn't help noticing that she always had issues with people/situations and seemingly none of them were ever her fault. I did think she had a habit of bending the truth (anyone remember "drunk from one cosmo"? 😂) and I got a bit suspicious that she was making things up about her health when she went through the first "I can't walk properly" saga, because I thought it was strange that she'd never mentioned anything about it, yet now it was suddenly a huge lifelong problem. But my tipping point was when she had pleurisy, because coincidentally I'd had it just a few months prior, and it's nothing like she described it. It's an inflammation in the tissue outside your lungs that usually comes after a cold/cough, and it feels achy and sore, kind of like you've sprained your chest muscles. Requires rest and ibuprofen. That's it. But she portrayed it like it came in "attacks" and was posting about falling off her bike and going to hospital because of these supposed attacks. I know any chest pain is concerning if you don't know what's causing it, but even after she got diagnosed with pleurisy (and I'm sure her doctor told her, like mine did, that it's uncomfortable but nothing to worry about) she was periodically turning up at A&E and acting like she was debilitated by it for weeks. That's when I realised she's a completely unreliable narrator.

What was your Beckie tipping point?
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I first saw her I think around 10 years ago when she made that video about David Cameron banning porn. I thought she was an idiot and started to hate watch, and it was kind of like a soap opera when she started having illnesses one after another. I'm a bit like you and have some insight into what she claims she has, I suffer from chronic migraines and you can just tell she is making it up. They are really strict about how much you can take, per month, and if she really was taking it that often they would have stopped her by now. Unless she is taking her permission slip and going to other pharmacies, then she is abusing it and making it a lot worse. When I get miragines I cant move at all, any light or sound is painful. Just have to lie in a dark room. Her listening to her off brand house music, playing piano, twirling and sitting at her desk on her computer just shows she is making it up. But I guess with migraines is its difficult to disprove if she claims she is in pain. Even the dr says there is nothing wrong with her. Definite Munchie.
 
nosy_girl said:
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A few things made me stop watching, now I check in every now and again in disbelief. She is quite a difficult person, I can't imagine what it must be like her for family.
- When she filmed a dramatic video of herself shaving her head a few years ago, around New Year's Eve or Christmas time. She looked so elated despite always saying she was depressed because she wished her hair was long.
- Her romanticising the old man who groomed her when she was a teenager. I know it's not her fault, but it made me feel uncomfortable and disturbed.
- When she had a cat called Thomas who ran away, she eventually found him in some wooded area , he scratched her arms when she tried to grab him then she never mentioned him again. Poor cat.
- The James saga was also uncomfortable to watch.
- In general I noticed how negative she always was, and she was constantly moaning, nothing could make her happy.
 
Wynonna said:
A few things made me stop watching, now I check in every now and again in disbelief. She is quite a difficult person, I can't imagine what it must be like her for family.
- When she filmed a dramatic video of herself shaving her head a few years ago, around New Year's Eve or Christmas time. She looked so elated despite always saying she was depressed because she wished her hair was long.
- Her romanticising the old man who groomed her when she was a teenager. I know it's not her fault, but it made me feel uncomfortable and disturbed.
- When she had a cat called Thomas who ran away, she eventually found him in some wooded area , he scratched her arms when she tried to grab him then she never mentioned him again. Poor cat.
- The James saga was also uncomfortable to watch.
- In general I noticed how negative she always was, and she was constantly moaning, nothing could make her happy.
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Oh god, the dramatic shaving video... I remember her trying as hard as she could to squeeze some tears out, but she couldn't help looking smug and excited, probably at the prospect of all the attention and views she was going to get. And she tried to portray it like it was a last resort, spur-of-the-moment decision, but she'd set up cameras at several different angles for maximum cinematic effect 😂
 
Not sure I really had a Beckie tipping point. I watched her old old videos when I was also a young teen and didn’t think much of them aside from being an interesting view into trich. She's a bit older than me so that was an appeal I guess. Then I stumbled across her again as an adult and liked the old-YT nostalgia feel but quickly realised she was batshit. I remember the ''drinking for the first time'' video and being just ... kinda stumped. Like not getting why she was behaving like that, or if it was even real. Or what her motivation was for sharing. Just a gross feeling that has remained to this day when I watch her lol. I ''hate watch'' a handful of people mainly for entertainment but also because I like to try and understand/analyse their bizarre behaviour. Beckie is the biggest weirdo of them all.
 
I think I started watching Beckie around the time I was also very depressed like her, probably at least 10 years ago now. I felt a sort of kinship with her, it was nice to see someone as miserable as me being so open about it online. Made me feel less alone.

Then, after a few years of soul-searching and improving myself, I came back to her and realised that while I had become a brand new person, she had remained exactly the same.

Now I can't stop checking in on her, it's a really weird feeling when I see her posts and videos. It's like watching an alternate version of myself who never bothered to sort her tit out and instead dug her feet in and decided to be stuck in "victim mode" for her entire life. I guess it makes me feel proud of myself, that even though I'm far from perfect and still have so much to sort out with my mental health, at least I put the work in and didn't end up like that.
 
My tipping point didn't come until 2019 but I had times before that.

Beckie was one of the first people that I had subscribed to on YouTube. I found her appealing as she was a bit older than me and I related to her a lot and it turns out it was due to her Autism and me most likely being autistic myself. I liked that she was creative and quite quirky, though quite a lonely character. But I found her very relatable especially compared to other people at the time online.

I think that I first subscribed to her in 2012 when she lived in London for university. The first video of hers I watched was her talking about why she didn't like the fault in our Stars.

I did have a moments where I would get fed up with her. This would happen when she would do things like instead of saying she got a cut on her finger, she would exaggerate it and say 'slice,' that always bothered me. Or when she filmed herself crying when a Dr who episode had someone pluck a hair out of someone's head and it triggered her. Or she was upset that Carrie Fletcher cut her hair for a charity. I felt that it was a bit pathetic at the time.

I still watched all of her videos. I started to feel squiffy about her when she posted her Christianity journey as I couldn't relate to it, and then I found out about how she was with LGBT people online. It was rather upsetting as I looked up to Beckie and her video's did provide a bit of company for me when I was lonely at school.

Her big head shave video was a bit confusing for me. I felt terrible for her as she did post a lot of videos leading up to it , but the head shave felt like a final part to a narrative she had been leading up to with these videos for engagement.

I discovered GG in 2018/19ish after she first got together with James. The relationship felt odd to me and I read everything, so much of it on Christmas day that year! I leaned about the Santa's, the older men, her being just an awful person ect. I also watched Cringeys video on her as well and it put me off her.

My big breaking point with her was in 2020 when she did a things I'm grateful for everyday and it was just misery. She spent the whole of COVID being a Karen moaning about neighbours having sex or people making noises, children playing outside ect.

Thought admittedly, Beckie has only put me off her more these last few months with her moaning or being pathetic like filming herself doing her migraine medication to the lyrics of Bad Day . Filming herself with her sick bucket ect.
 
I used to follow her when she younger, we are just a few years apart in age. I was struggling too with stuff and found her fight with trich refreshing to see. I also loved her video editing skills. Back then she was amazing compared to what was out there on youtube.
She was a bit childish but so was I. I found her quirky and fun, and I liked that she dressed weird. I didn't stop watching, I kinda just forgot about her as my own life moved on and I grew up.
I found her again when she had moved to go to some school and worked at that soap store, I can't for the life of me remember the name of it right now.
Though her videos were still colorful with the same exaggerated expressions, they were also so negative. I felt like she didn't give anything a chance. I specifically remember she did a video about how depression shouldn't be something talked about as not chronic or some tit. Saying that some things can't be cured. I was so confused because she had said she hasn't tried or didn't believe in therapy or anything, so she hadn't really tried anything up to that point. Well except Jesus maybe. The whole video was really negative, like black pill type of tit. There is no point of anything, I will always be like this talk.
It was around the same time she got into it with some trich foundation or something, arguing with them on facebook? My memory is a bit foggy. But I think facebook was still the main thing back then.
Thats when I went "why did I like this girl again?" She seemed so unhinged.

Saddly I missed her whole relationship drama and stuff, because again I forgot about her for a while. Got her again on Instagram a year ago, must have been right after her breakup. Followed and have enjoyed the tit show ever since. She is so much worse on Instagram than she ever was on youtube, so I suspect she has always been like this, its just been more hidden from me.
 
The "FROM HIM" playlist... Beckie get over it.


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I'm not sure when I first saw her videos but I think it was also the Fault in our Stars one. She was in her Uni flat with the big window she used as the backdrop.

I enjoyed her perspective and found she had a rather soothing voice. I didn't avidly keep up with her content but I'd check in now and again. I think it was around then that she was struggling with trich and shaved her head. I felt sympathy and like I was gaining insight on a challenge I wasn't aware of previously.

Not sure exactly when that shifted for me but I think it was around the time she moved back to her parents and had a rant about the Peter Capaldi Dr Who episode that triggered her because a single strand of hair is dropped to the ground and it had caused her such distress that she was whining about the BBC etc. That's when I first thought "eh, maybe a tad of an overreaction?" because she was acting so bizarrely and almost erratic? Pretty sure that's when I found GG and I was rather active on the forums at the time under a different name (hi)

When James came into the picture I checked out after a few months. He deeply reminded me of my toxic, narcissistic ex that caused me emotional distress. Her attitude once again completely shifted. I unfollowed her and only keep up on here for the drama, it's truly like watching a car crash in slow motion.

My main issue is the entire woe is me attitude.
 
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