I don't think she's a monster. I think she is a very ill, misguided young woman. She tried for nearly a decade to be internet famous. During that time, she developed a lot of clickbait savvy, you can see she tried numerous ways for years, but nothing really took off. I see the tools she uses when I read Tattle's details of how "influencers" work. Tiffany has it down pat, she's honed her skills for years. Then cancer took over her life. Suddenly, she had a successful vehicle to attract an audience.
All those skills and ambitions married perfectly with her newfound popularity, she simply implemented and unrolled the YT playbook in seamless fashion: merch, engaging viewers, sponsors, product links, po box, suspenseful titles and imagery, choreographed content, etc.
Unfortunately, that playbook clashes when the subject matter is cancer. She discovered this when she asked for opinions, on her health decision and not what we preferred for dinner. She received a deluge of contrary professional and experienced opinions that were suddenly not supportive. She had to roll that back, then figure out how to dampen the criticisms and expectations that occurred when she naively sought to increase subscriber engagement. Damage control was aggressive, she encouraged subs to do her dirty work so she could maintain her sweet persona.
I don't think she's evil, I think she applied an incorrect YT modus operandi and never revisited or revised it beyond attempts to restrain viewer comments. She realized subs actually demanded information on a cancer channel...deeply personal and medical information. They were invested. That was not where she was going, she wanted people to ask her where to buy her lip gloss or gonks, not ask her if she would have one stoma or two. She wanted to model designer clothing. This conflict between what she wanted to be and what her subs were expecting only increased, that's why it became quite ugly as she retreated from private info and expanded her extraneous, lifestyle focus, yet continued to receive more and more push back.
But, now she's successful, how can she not want to continue her playbook even if she's resistant to sharing her cancer journey beyond the most basic and superficial? Of course the pull is there to continue the rollout of her plan: sympathy translates into gifts, undying support and enduring subs! She merely course corrects when people call her out for her schemes. She has a successful commercial operation and her longstanding dream of internet stardom has been realized. She's even got a Tattle section devoted exclusively to her! People are talking about her outside her YT channel!
She's "arrived" at what she worked nearly a decade for: internet notoriety and the title of "influencer". She is not giving it up. She will continue to segue back into lifestyle while capitalising on the "cancer" title that brought her the audience. All she sees, naively, is that people care for her and want her to be well and happy. She believes she's providing what they want, even if cancer details are as scant as she can offer yet still get away with using the clickbait title. She selectively reads her comments; there are enough peeps who support her, and an increasing # of subs, that she feels comfortable in her approach.
I think, in her dyadic and conflicting focuses: one, her very serious cancer and impending surgery; and two, maintaining her YT channel to greatest effect during this period, I don't think she has been in deep consideration about manipulation or deceit or any psychoanalysis of her actions, even the deleterious impact of neglecting to focus more on her health has not been thought through. She's still in YT playbook mode and the rolling out of the standard commercial plan although she remains unwilling to turn herself into a cancer case study. She wants to be famous for her personality and life vlogging. This popularity must be intoxicating.
That's why I personally don't think she's evil or a monster. I think she's misguided and imprudent and thoughtless. And sadly, she's taken a lot of sincere people for a ride on her rise to internet prominence, all the while not taking care of her health as well as she should.
And evidently, Elodie also wasn't prepared for the avalanche of people fervently desirous of a status update on Tiffany!
...are you more closely related to a dog ...or a cat?
I don’t understand why she didn’t go private like a while ago ! She knew that it was coming … I am sorry I don’t understand …