iilluminaughtii: a Lesson in How NOT to Run a Business

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@peterfent Год назад

The Blair situation reminds me when your friend tells you their ex was "crazy", you believe them. When that same "friend" says that over and over with each ex, all of them are "crazy"... it starts to paint a very different picture 👀

@Snoogen11 Год назад

It's very much the old adage: "if wherever you go, there is an asshole... maybe you are the asshole"

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

definitely feels that way

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

thank you! yes exactly! SHE was a bad person, but the words she was saying in those videos were still true and accurate.

@xrisingembers Год назад

Well she kinda /is/ a bad person

@xrisingembers Год назад

(assuming we're talking about Illuminaughtii )

@ninjoshday Год назад

Blair taught her audience how to recognize toxic influencers and then was upset when her audience started calling her out for her own toxic behavior

@amourtabb7859 Год назад

Blair claiming she didn't know there was an anti-mlm community is kinda like jeffrey star claiming he didn't know there was a beauty community 😂

@grey1763 Год назад

like she used to read anti mlm stuff back when she read reddit stories, she's just on her high horse, turns out the high horse was a mini pony

@CoRLex-jh5vx Год назад

@@grey1763I think the high horse had been melted down for glue tbh and Blair was just sitting in a sticky puddle on the floor

@eko9554 10 месяцев назад

That was in early 2021 and people ignored that is a red flag

@christopherhuang9501 Год назад

Legal Eagle's response was such a diplomatic class act. "Hi, we're friends. The entire tone of this message says that we're friends, and here's the 'no fault' way we can spin this so we can stay friends. Also, here is how I could bury you if you choose to not be friends."

@ninjoshday Год назад

I would expect nothing less from Devin

@zachemorgan Год назад

legal eagle the most biased lawyer on youtube lol

@ZentaBon Год назад

@@zachemorganwhen politics paints facts as opinions, except facts to appear as opinions.

@zachemorgan Год назад

@In it's not that it's that I've seen other lawyers break down his takes and he's highly biased

@maggiedk Год назад

@@zachemorgancan you point me in the direction of where other lawyers have talked about his views? I'm curious about that

@FeministCatLadySpinster Год назад

There's something poetic about how iilluminaughtii once told us about predatory businesses, shady scams, and so on... and now.

@alexandriaacord9895 Год назад

Really just makes me think of the "it don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name" line from Money Game.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

she was the pyramid all along

@johndaniel6443 Год назад

oh how the tables have turned

@hanchan254 Год назад

I believe they call it poetic irony and it's beautiful

@ninjoshday Год назад

@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Maybe the real pyramid scheme was the friends we unmade along the way

@Stachelbeeerchen Год назад

Pulling the person you made homeless into a court battle is the most spineless move she could have done in her situation.

@michalsoukup1021 11 месяцев назад

Yet...

@Renisence Год назад

As a former Illuminaughti fan, it hurt to see her fall. I wanted to bring up a semi-personal experience I had with blaire. My partner was featured in her video on butch Hartman, in a way that felt like they were used as just 'the autistic one' in the video. Blaire never asked my partners permission to use their words, and as someone mentioned when I talked about this on another video that does get into muddy waters. While I don't think that you should necessarily always have to ask permission to use other peoples words, the issue I take comes with the size difference of my partner and Blair's platform. My partner only has a couple hundred eyes on them with their art blogs and such. Comparing that to blaire's platform size is a very obvious size difference. I think that ditterence should mean vou asK permission. My partner didn't even know until I stumbled upon the video and brought it up to them. I shared it excitedly but looking back on it, it rubs me the wrong way.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

i agree -- it really hurt watching this all happen

@TuesdaysArt Год назад

I love you babe

@Renisence Год назад

@@TuesdaysArt I love you too

@ajqueen31 Год назад

This happened exactly to me with 2 of my Beachbody videos used to make points in her first Beachbody video. I didn't know until I was hearing my own voice while getting ready for work. And it never directed traffic to my videos/channel, because my video links were buried in her "sources" file that was external to the link buried within her description. So she got to benefit off MY story, my work of my video, being a

@asmrtpop2676 Год назад

She got her start making money reading other people’s reddit posts… without permission nor compensating them financially. 🤷🏻 She has always been like this but when I first tried to point this out during her start people rolled their eyes…

@pinkrubix Год назад

I love how a lot of her excuses for her transgressions against other RU-vidrs, such as LegalEagle, is basically just "sorry, guys, I'm just super unprofessional and have no sense of self-control."

@lifeoffire9248 Год назад

If she'd just come out and just said that I would honestly respect her more than I do after her actual fiasco of a statement

@BenSwagnerd Год назад

As someone who has been an indentured servant, with my room/board/access to work was all in the hands of a married couple, I can absolutely understand why it might be hard to get work done. When one or two people hold everything you have in their hands, and slowly start taking away your rights... How in the HELL are you supposed to motivate yourself to HELP them? The people I "worked for" slowly took away my ability to use the kitchen, the ability to even access ingredients, if I did find a way to get my own ingredients I'd be yelled at for using an appliance. I wasn't allowed to use the bathroom. I had to pee in a McDonald's cup and dump it out the window. I had to drive to McDonald's to shit. And when I'd manage to get a gift card and use it for doordash, they'd be like "WELL IF YOU HAVE MONEY FOR FOOD CLEARLY YOU HAVE MONEY FOR RENT" even though the contract we had was that I would work x number of hours in lieu of room and board. But then they took the hours, too. And I had to call a sheriff to get out. Why did they do this? Because I wouldn't have threesomes with them. People in power turn scary. Fast. I fully don't believe a word Blair says.

@wickjezek5093 Год назад

Thank you for sharing your experience, and I'm so sorry for what those monsters put you through. I have experience in a high-control relationship. My transportation and food had to be accessed through them, my texts and phone calls were monitored - if they were trying to help me, support me, or loved me I would suffer hours of verbal attacks. Thankfully, I escaped that situation as quickly as I could. Sadly I have heard too many horror stories of immigrant domestic workers (indentured servants) that parallel your abuse. I am glad you escaped and hope you are healing, succeeding, and surrounded by safe, caring, loving and supportive people. You deserve it.

@MmeRougarou Год назад

Vile people. Somehow always get the power. I went full hermit bc of crap like that. And then you mentioned the ménage a trois requests they sent ur way yeah, that’s when it gets real weird. Glad you’re out of there.

@kingti85 Год назад

On yea I remember that episode of seinfeld

@seongates Год назад

Omg??

@louhortonsculpture Год назад

Omg. Thanks for sharing this! I’m so sorry it happened to you. These people are horrible and I think they planned to be that controlling from the start. So did Blair imo. These are the same type of people who don’t want to see poors with cell phones as if that’s a luxury instead of an important necessity. And who don’t want people experiencing homelessness to have any help from tax payers. Yet private business has to deal with it with bathroom keys and cleaning up at minimum wage-in that case, it’s somewhat fine McD’s gets government subsidies for existing even though they don’t pay their fair share of taxes or pay the food service employees much for bathroom cleaning duties.

@Arabelless Год назад

I love how Blair pretended that she didn't know how to pronounce "Anti-MLM community".. pathetic

@Gumbyloomy Год назад

RIGHT LOL it makes me scream

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

right that was so weird

@Bryan.A.W. Год назад

Thank you - I’ve thought the same thing each time I hear that clip. Thought it was just me. 😊

@ellenmint Год назад

Yet every time she mispronounces words in her video (like calling Tammy Fae Bakker "bawker") she triples down on how she's right and everyone trying to correct her gets deleted. She cannot admit she's wrong about anything.

@melaniemarrone9521 Год назад

I CANT EVEN with the way she pronounced "Anti-MLM". I die every time i hear it. Ugghhh.

@breadleyj Год назад

I really hope Madison is taking a victory lap, even if its only in private. This has gotta be the wildest form of vindication

@heathercameron1485 Год назад

Since she mainly does RU-vidr scandal content these days (not my cup of tea, but she's doing well with it), the ultimate power move would be for her to make a video on Blair.

@asmrtpop2676 Год назад

@@heathercameron1485 I’ve been hoping she is working on one for Blair. ❤

@skyamethyst8506 Год назад

@@heathercameron1485honestly, I think her NOT making one is a bigger power move in a way. As much as I’d imagine Blair hates criticism, I’d be willing to bet she’s mentally spun it as being so important that all these people are talking about her. It’s also getting people to interact on her videos even if it’s just hate comments. Aside from her actual former friends/partners/acquaintances and a few of the creators that actually add to the conversation (like savy), I’d say letting her fade into obscurity and be forgotten is a bigger F you.

@redlikeroses1062 Год назад

I actually learned about her channel because of this and subscribed so I’d say it’s working out for her!

@asmrtpop2676 Год назад

@@skyamethyst8506 Except when it comes to abusive narcissists this isn’t really a power move. One upping her would be the power move, since Blair thinks she controlled her. It would be different if Blair was actively trying to get Blair’s attention-then the power move would be to ignore her and pretend she doesn’t exist.

@emmygregory9474 Год назад

I guess you probably don't remember this, or didn't see it at the time, but back in her Reddit days Blair was RABIDLY fatphobic. Every time a fat person was mentioned she'd go into a little tirade about them being disgusting, why couldn't they just stop eating, blah blah all the usual stuff. For better or worse, I also enjoyed her Reddit content so I just winced and waited for her to move on. She's deleted all those videos now but I vividly remember them. When she started making the kind of stuff she makes now, she started presenting herself as a kind of beacon of body positivity and it grates a bit. If she'd said "I used to have a bad attitude towards fat people, but I've changed my mind" I'd be fine. People grow up, after all. But she never has said that. Just deleted the evidence. Endorsing body positivity is a good move to make when you're anti-MLM, since so many MLMs are fatphobic. Since she's never publicly acknowledged her abrupt change of heart, I'm kinda left wondering if this "end fatphobia" stuff is entirely sincere.

@healgoth Год назад

It’s like that stereotype of the “homophobic because they’re secretly closeted person” but with body positivity

@rn2787 Год назад

I remember that and wasn't a fan after all that. She never apologized or bothered to at least become a better person.

@Mama_Bear524 Год назад

I had no idea about this. I’m relatively new to her. Started watching only a few months ago. That’s absolutely awful.

@Bree420 Год назад

What do you mean she's fatphobic? Didn't she delete a bunch of another creator's videos over fat jokes?😂

@amandamandamands Год назад

@@Bree420 The running thought these days is that she used that as the excuse to leave. The character that she played on that channel was a caricature of a SJW and the channel was right leaning. That doesn't mesh well with her current persona of being a lefty. It just is part of her pattern of behaviour of delete the evidence and move on.

@BipolarIbarelyknowher Год назад

I can only speak from a viewer's perspective. You can only truly be "canceled " if your core audience leaves you. Since she basically has been shown to exhibit the type of behavior that her channel calls out, her audience is less likely to want to support her. They, of course, are going to hold her to a certain standard.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

yeah, i think it's all about the expectations you set with your audience.

@BipolarIbarelyknowher Год назад

@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS absolutely

@Pyonkotcchi Год назад

yeah! that's why a lot of really messed up people who are like known for trolling or being antagonistic generally don't get "cancelled", or they seemingly are being cancelled every single week without any actual effects, unless it's something like they get banned from all platforms or go way way WAY too far even for the jerk audience they cultivated lol. the fan base of a known jerk isn't going to care when it's revealed that jerk who bullies people all day also says slurs yk?

@jamesc5751 Год назад

Give her a couple months and she's definitely going to drop a "how the woke liberal media cancelled my small business" no such thing as cancelled.

@pokemonfanthings4444 Год назад

Agreed! Besides, when it comes to ‘cancel culture’ my perspective is that no one is entitled to another person’s support-if I want to stop giving you money because you suck, that doesn’t make you a victim.

@justhearmeout3959 Год назад

I had this really toxic friend, who was a lot like Blair. She would push and push me, and then when I finally snapped, she would use THE STATE SHE HAD PUSHED ME INTO as ammo, saying I'm crazy, or, like Blair, sending the cops to my house for a wellness check. Oof. This brings up some serious feeling for me 😩

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

dude the cops thing was wild too

@justhearmeout3959 Год назад

@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS it's an abusers way of saying "Look how crazy you are." This girl actually had me believing I was the abusive one, until I finally cut her off and remembered who I actually am. It's in some ways worse than physical abuse, because they turn you into something ugly, and then laugh at you as you cry. It took me SIX freaking years to finally say enough was enough. SO much of what Blair did reminds me of her. The subtle way of lying, so convincingly that you question it, even as the truth is revealed to you. Like how she put his self harm message in her video, and justified it convincingly enough that 1.4 million people actually didn't see it as a bad thing. Just yikes. You have to have actually dealt with someone like that to see it right away.

@justhearmeout3959 Год назад

@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS I could tell by the way she framed it in the video that she was trying to imply that he was blackmailing her by saying what he did. And that just shows how she sees the world, because if she ever said something like that to someone, it would be to emotionally blackmail them. Oof smh

@McCammalot Год назад

@@justhearmeout3959I've been through similar, and I am so glad you got loose. (Mine was for a ridiculously long time period, probably dragged out because we lived in different states, not face to face. Still embaassingly long)

@AnnekeOosterink Год назад

In another video about all this I saw message she sent where she discusses that she told the police, but one thing she said stood out to me "I feared for my safety." If she even hinted at that in her call with the police wonderstruck guy could have been murdered by the police. Like, guy with gun, other person fears for their safety... And at that point his low point had already past. He had already spoken to his therapist and was no longer actively trying anything.

@jamesrule1338 Год назад

The whole iilluminaughtii saga went from 0 to JFC so quick I could barely keep up.

@Mama_Bear524 Год назад

Right?!!

@GumSkyloard Год назад

It all started because she claimed a lawyer copied her content. I still can't believe that shit was what signed her death sentence. Holy shit.

@The_Distractinator Год назад

The FDA sounds a lot like my mother did every day of my childhood: “Please stop eating the dirt! The dirt has arsenic and lead in it! Please stop eating the dirt!

@CristinaF_LTHP Год назад

The issue with the boo is woo group goes deeper than “some creators in the group didn’t like her.” There was personal info in that group and the fact that that Blair’s writer continued to persist in joining the group after being denied shows a huge level of disrespect. The group members would have had no control over what sensitive info Blair could possibly share AGAINST their will… so… no… they weren’t both on the same side. Blair was just looking for content under the guise of activism. If she really cared about anything she would have respected the groups’ wishes.

@finch600 Год назад

Oh shit I used to be a part of that group, I didn't realise she was such a huge presence there. That said I deactivated my FB like forever ago

@KaelWrit Год назад

The "mini- company town" thing is common with nannies. People even think they can pay live-in nannies LESS because "you save on rent", but it should be a HIGHER rate because of the risks and sacrifice taken.

@chelscara Год назад

Right? Like yall ain't paying into insurance, unemployment, etc, you're the ones getting the discount!

@cynthmcgpoet Год назад

Thanks for creating a balanced and nuanced examination into how Blair's toxic positivity affected everyone around her. From a small business perspective, it cannot be stressed enough that violating HIIPA is wrong. That's one thing she clearly did. I'm really glad that you mentioned that her exposure of MLMs was a good thing despite her own ethical breaches. I have gotten tired of the typical anti-Blair tirades that have been boosted by the algorithms, so I appreciate how you approached this topic.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

thank you so much - that means a lot

@ilikebeingsmart Год назад

If there’s one thing I think Savy is really good at, it’s looking at situations from many different perspectives. She gives credit where it’s due, even if the entire situation seems like a dumpster fire. That’s why I always enjoy watching deep dive/analysis videos like this one, because I know it will be presented with due diligence to the topic.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

you wouldn't download a car

@growingoaks Год назад

Is anyone actually saying her exposing them was bad though? I havent heard any takes like that before. Maybe the algorithm knows im not into that kinda bull shit but as shitty as she is, its great she exposed others.

@RedwingBB Год назад

I agree that it's wrong to expose another person's private information to the general public, at least unless there's some kind of dire safety issue in play. But technically, the average person isn't bound by HIPAA. If you're not a person's health care provider or someone else they were required to inform, you can choose to be an asshole and reveal things they told you in confidence. You shouldn't, but if they try to sue you under HIPAA they will fail.

@samanthal9114 Год назад

I saw facebook posts from the Boo is woo group explaining why they didn't want Blair and her writers in the group. It was because Blair had taken information from anti MLM facebook groups before and used it in videos without crediting them. They didn't want Blair using their stories to profit off those stories as they were afraid she'd do the same to them. They even mailled Blairs writer after they kicked them out a second time explicitly stating that they had denied membership to group because of this reason, and that they didn't want anything the writer had seen in the group to be featured in Blairs anti-MLM groups. Blair put their personal stories in her video even after they asked her not do. She proved their fears right immediately. They were utterly in the right thinking she'd screw them over the way she had screwed over other anti-MLM groups.

@mariaquiet6211 Год назад

'I take full accountability' - a sentence, a series of syllables that anyone can say, at any time

@ninjoshday Год назад

Wait, are you saying people on the internet would just... say things that aren't true?

@sweetstacks3631 Год назад

Considering Blair's attitude toward Madison ("If you don't do (x) then I'll expose you"), I understand why no one in the Facebook group wanted her or her people in there. Lots of sensitive information + distrust of someone who's shown her ass when she feels threatened = Yikes!

@flobrez2470 Год назад

Yeah, that was terrible. What exactly did she plan to “expose” about Madison? She never did anything to Blair. Probably make up a bunch of lies about her. Poor Madison. She did nothing to deserve this. As for the Tyra Banks stuff, Madison was an actual model in real life so she would know the industry better than Blair.

@Jessica_Costantini Год назад

i unsubbed from Blair back when she did Madison dirty. hate her holier than thou facade

@Feynix4 Год назад

@@Jessica_Costantinisame, I unsubbed right after that from blair. She just rubbed me the wrong way and never took accountability at all

@SkwithOv Год назад

its the textbook definition of blackmail if you don't do x, ill expose you n - "the action, treated as a criminal offense, of demanding payment or *another benefit* from someone in return for *not revealing compromising or damaging information about them*." anyone who saw that as she wrote it should have realized what was happening because when i saw that, instantly i knew something was really really wrong

@ChellYeahh92 Год назад

Savvy, please never pull a kimberleigha/illuminaughtii on us!!! I couldn’t handle that level of shooketh

@amateuroverlord8007 Год назад

Omg I love that you pointed out the, “I didn’t know there was an anti-mlm community,” lie. It’s such a blatant lie because in the next sentence she says she blocks their videos from her browser so she won’t see them. How can you block something you don’t know about.

@EmeraldCityVideo Год назад

“I don’t understand why they didn’t want Blair in the Boo is Woo community” Whether she DID misuse information in a way that jeopardized their sources or not, it was incumbent on them to protect those sources. Knowing that Blair did not share their values or perspective, there was no way they could reasonably guarantee their sources would be protected if Blair or her representatives were in the group. Also, they were gathering evidence and research to create their own content down the line. Yes, that information would become public soon, but the people who had spent time and money, and put themselves at risk, to GET that information have a reasonable expectation that they will be able to present it in what they believe to be a responsible way, and to profit off their own work. Look at it like this: I’m a journalist, and recently published a book that’s an oral history. Lots of interviews. Once my book was out, I encouraged other reporters to liberally excerpt the good stuff, but if somebody has just downloaded all my transcripts off Google Drive before I published and made a partial, shittier book, just knowing it was out there wouldn’t be the same thing.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

i said that i COULD ABSOLUTELY understand why they didn't want her there. i also may have articulated that part of the video poorly. i completely understood their lack of trust, and i side with the group in the end. i was just explaining that i could also see the benefit for the group as well to have let the writer in. i may have worded it badly, and i apologize.

@EmeraldCityVideo Год назад

I may have misheard. I thought I was very nearly quoting a line directly, which is the only reason I really chimed in.

@hattrickk15 Год назад

@@SAVYWRITESBOOKSI think it's that they didn't trust that they could come to a deal with Blair. Like why would you think you could make a fair deal with someone who lied about not even knowing there was a community and who shat on all the work your community had done.

@danijones8314 Год назад

at the end of the day, they set a boundary (which they had every right to do) and she intentionally violated that boundary. their reasoning doesn’t really matter atp. but from what i’ve heard her videos consistently contain misinformation so that could’ve contributed to their unwillingness to collaborate with her.

@eCodex Год назад

@@danijones8314yeah that’s my take too-it’s not a matter of viewing sides or trying to be open to diff perspectives. a boundary was set and blair & her writer stomped it. very real disrespect and negligence towards the members & group culture-while it’s not a group that’s strictly a support group, its a space with that built into its implicit function as a community space. same level/“journalistic” misconduct as plagarism

@VeeLondon1449 Год назад

♥️ Brilliant video.. I had to unsubscribe to Blair when she talked about Wonders mental health struggles I was shocked when she showed that very personal note. Blair’s level of control and lack of self awareness with her friends/ employees is disturbing. It seems she has been toxic and quite harmful to those around her for years.

@heathercameron1485 Год назад

And yet she had the GALL to post trigger warnings because she "cares."

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

thank you. it's been sad to see her treat people this way

@s3.14dervision Год назад

That did me in as well. I have ALOT of experience with mental health issues and when she talked about Wonder's issues, it broke my heart. I've been there. Not fair. Dirty pool.

@VeeLondon1449 Год назад

@@s3.14dervision ♥️

@SeaBlue1976 Год назад

Agree!!! I was at my lowest and that "friend"godssiped about it. When i saw Blair doing the same i had to unsubscribe. U cannot use another's human being'lowest as a show to millions!!!??!!!Disgusted. That was the worst.

@paledesertmoth6255 Год назад

Imagine starting drama because of a common generic-ass highlight edit, it's kinda funny that this stupid thing was the ultimate cause for her getting exposed

@MissCaraMint Год назад

Oh but you forget. There was also a ripped paper edit. That clearly changes everything. (sarcasm)

@amandacunningham3213 Год назад

What she did in regards to his mental health is a hipaa violation if she was his employer. He should sue her for that, 1000%

@i_a_r_n_a Год назад

HIPAA only applies to medical practitioners (and the companies they use for services), it does not apply to employers. HIPAA provides far fewer protections than most people realize. (You can validate this by visiting the HHS page on your rights on HIPAA specicially calls out employers as a category who does not have follow those laws.) That said, it very well may violate state privacy laws, depending on the states involved.

@amandacunningham3213 Год назад

@@i_a_r_n_a you know, you’re right. It’s illegal, nonetheless, however I last worked for a hospital company and had this come up, so I relayed it this way, but for any employer, it wouldn’t be HIPAA, but definitely violation of their privacy.

@amandacunningham3213 Год назад

Holy Run on sentence Batman. My apologies for that monstrosity of a construction.

@wolfumz Год назад

Yes, as you've stated, disclosing an employee's medical information is not a violation of HIPAA, because HIPAA only applies to healthcare providers. ADA offers some protections to employees who disclose healthcare information to employers, but ADA does not apply to small business, like Blaire's, who have less than 15 employees. Some states have additional protections on worker's health information, like California. Some states, like Texas, even if they have laws protecting worker's privacy, small businesses are exempt. If the employee was remote, ie, Blaire is in one state and the employee is in the, that's another mess to untangle.

@amandacunningham3213 Год назад

@wolfumz interesting. Well, hopefully she just loses big $$ over what she's done to so many people. If nothing else gets her, the karma train might...Choo Choo

@OneHotGothMama Год назад

Blair claimed in the podcast that she purposely blocked terms related to antiMLM in RU-vid. Such an action shows awareness of the community. I called the brothers out on Twitter for ignoring her lies. They didn't care.

@zuglymonster Год назад

That disappoints me so much I thought the twins were good people

@TheRedundantArtist Год назад

Oh for goodness sake, they had her on a podcast and only had her side of the story. She manipulated a lot of people. Even the leftist mafia didn’t take this seriously to start with. I see no reason to call the twins out or to think they are not good people because of this.

@YamiHoOu Год назад

Oh wow I never connected that podcast was hosted by them. Well that's disappointing...

@MissCaraMint Год назад

@Zugly the Book Monster I mean Blair has fooled a lot of good people. I wouldn’t hold this alone as evidence that the twins are terrible people. This is the kind of case where we need more info to make that kind of claim. It could so easily be that Blair lied to them to get them on her side. She’s done it before after all.

@maggiedk Год назад

@@MissCaraMintthis. We've seen how manipulative she is and James and Robert only had a very small part in this, a couple of years ago. I don't think it's fair to judge their character based on that.

@TeaghanYoung Год назад

I thought that I was hallucinating her Reddit content!!! I was so annoyed when I heard the welsh twins podcast clip where she said that she had never heard of the antimlm community, because I remember those videos!!!! I truly hope that Blair seeks help. The lengths that she has gone to to control the people/the narrative around her is pretty shocking to me.

@leileyaravencroft Год назад

I was there too when she covered Reddit content. It’s funny how she told the twins that she didn’t know about the movement when her own fans were there when she had that content. I saw Tipster’s video on it and I was already feeling iffy about iilluminaughtii (started seeing more and more people critique her on her videos and the thing with Casper REALLY rubbed me the wrong way) so as soon as that Madison situation broke and the fact that she campaigned HARD to expose R/Slash for sub botting (which Tipster covered as well) I unsubbed. I was also following R/Slash at the time and not only did the algorithm help him gain more subs, not only was he constantly working to improve his content and find his Reddit niche (being AITA, Choosing Beggars, and ProRevenge), his RU-vid name is RSLASH a term for Reddit itself! OF COURSE he’s going to gain an audience super fast! His name is the first one that pops up in the search for Reddit content. Also another thing that no one seems to be aware of, R/Slash actually didn’t start on RU-vid when he did Reddit content. He used to cover a particular game: Overwatch. So not his first rodeo.

@annisrodoria4951 Год назад

Blair is like a high school student who got popular by her help of friends then throws some fake rumors about her friends to make her look innocent. Believe me I've seen this type of drama with my own eyes. I unsubscribe to her when I saw Click and Wonder Struck when I saw Wonder cry it was the final straw!

@lowlowseesee Год назад

its a gaslighters playbook

@Aaa-vp6ug Год назад

Honestly, a lot like a ton of people at my school. And the school just a stroll outside my house. Actually, a lot of the schools in my area.

@WildWorld81 Год назад

I don’t in the slightest believe that her apology to LegalEagle was genuine. She only apologized because she got caught and called out for her behavior (and this was before the former milkmen spoke out)

@leonardozhang Год назад

Hilarious she tried it against an actual lawyer but she 100% would not have apologized if it was any other youtuber.

@CLE-EA Год назад

Also I feel like the story she told about how it came about seems sus too. Like why would her editors bring that to her attention? Wouldn’t they know the dude was just asking for which plug in they were using. And wouldn’t they know the ripped paper effect and the highlighting text effect are used by a lot of people? Or if they did bring it to her attention, did they do it on purpose to make her look stupid?

@albummutation2278 Год назад

@@CLE-EA it honestly would be pretty based if the editors come out and say they told her because they knew she'd blow her top

@Itsgay2read Год назад

Really appreciate that last bit, I'm not subscribed to the channel anymore, but I definitely want to stress that this isnt an excuse to try and invalidate the content of the videos. Blair is simply a mouthpiece (and the CEO) of the channel but there are so many hardworking folk who went into the scripts, sources and more. I wonder if that also contributed to many of them realizing their work environment was unhealthy as well.

@jp.dlamini Год назад

They're was a lot of copy paste stuff in there

@MinatheRaichu Год назад

An anti-mlm group claims that one of the writers was accidentally let in, stole some of their info and put a lot them in danger of legal action because they did not take the precautions they should have. I don't trust the writers either

@asmrtpop2676 Год назад

Unfortunately that doesn’t really matter. There’s a lot of hardworking folks at Amazon, but if you want to get at Bezos’ pockets you don’t keep supporting Amazon.

@asmrtpop2676 Год назад

Also they SUCK at sourcing.

@oryctolaguspumpkin Год назад

I really enjoyed your take on the Blair situation. I'm not sure if you mentioned it but Blair even recommended to Wonder that he use her therapist. There was not a single aspect of his life that was unconnected to her. So scary and unhealthy. I'm happy he got out.

@rilmar2137 Год назад

And, since she was his employer at the time, several people pointed out the ickiness of that, too

@MissCaraMint Год назад

@Rilmar Amarthkhil It’s true. You can also see the screenshot of the message she sent to the therapist on her google drive. I guess she included it because she thought it would prove something? Idk. Anyway she clearly represents Wonder to her therapist as just a friend who needs a therapist. One who they haven’t talked about during their sessions (with the implication being that they won’t talk about him in the future either). It seems to me that she deliberately left out to the therapist that she was going to be or was currently Wonder’s employer. So basically it seems as if she tried to manipulate both sides here. Both Wonder and the therapist. That is so wrong on so many levels. Blair says she had to cut contacts with the therapist due to a conflict of interests. I think however that it was either the therapist who dropped her or that Blair dropped the therapist when she couldn’t manipulate them in regards to Wonder. It’s very very icky.

@s3.14dervision Год назад

What she did to Wonder was dirty and it broke me. Using someone's mental health like that, damn, man, I've been homeless too, I've walked in those shoes and it hit me that he wanted to work and literally got robbed. Been there too. And I know how it feels to want to give up. I hope Wonder's doing OK. My heart hurts for you, man. Stay strong! 💙

@katsimpsforleviathan Год назад

Ayyoooo love your pfp!! 😍

@StrawberryNova Год назад

THANK YOU for pointing out the "I didn't even know there WAS an anti-MLM community" BS. I haven't spotted most people point that out and it was PERSONALLY very annoying.

@sweetgirlandhercats Год назад

Blair took notes of every bad business practice to have ever existed that she's talked about and implimented them and then some.

@rayraytl6 Год назад

Omg I watched her (cruel world happy mind) back with the blue kitchen, she’s so sweet it’s sad to see what her struggle was behind the scenes !

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

yeah! i remember when madison first started on youtube - she's super nice

@liriodendronlasianthus Год назад

I remember the blue kitchen era! Completely fell in love with her channel.

@MissCaraMint Год назад

I have watched many of her videos over the years. They are so well done, and she herself seems so sweet. Glad she seems to be doing well now. She definitely deserves to flourish.

@vodkaenthusiast2741 Год назад

I didn’t know how Kimberleigha was involved with cruel world happy mind drama! I haven’t seen her brought up in any of the other dives into Blair’s downfall. Great video

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

cruel world happy mind had 2 deep dives on the whole situation 2 years ago that she's since taken down. there isn't much evidence of it left online, in part because kimbyrleigha kept issuing copyright strikes against anyone who showed footage of her in a negative light

@veelogation3890 Год назад

Yeah, like Savy says. I don't remember if it was her first video on it, but I remember Madison (Cruel World Happy Mind) released one longer video with sections on each of Kimber and Blair, explaining the issues and timelines and very reasonably explaining her side of the story (ie. deep dives). She was being very fair, showing receipts as needed and understandably she said she was trying to sort out and end the drama. After a while she removed sections of the video (first she removed one of the two 'topics' completely - I think it was the kimber section) while the video was still up, and eventually she took down the whole video. She explained each time what she was removing/taking down and why. (eg. With Blair she said that the two of them had sorted it out and she wanted to put it behind her and move on with her content. Also that she was having a baby at the time and had enough on her mind with that.) I hope this wasn't like... a weird amount of detail to share. I remember seeing it happen and I remember thinking Madison's audience was being good about respecting her wishes and not reviving old drama in her comments. Probably because Madison has always had such good communication with her audience and good boundaries. Thanks for bringing up the kimber part, Savy, I'd forgotten until you mentioned how Madison probably wouldn't even have messaged Blair if not for kimber. I think it was important context for Madison's message and why Madison was embarrassed with her message in hindsight and happy to drop the issue with Blair.

@kaishawna3753 Год назад

I’ve unsubscribed from her completely. It hurts as she’s done good videos on autism and as an autistic individual, they were relatable. After hearing the way she screamed at her ex boyfriend, her voice isn’t pleasant anymore.

@Lucifersfursona Год назад

Yeah. I know that tone of screaming in my _bones_ and I avoid it with purpose.

@MissCaraMint Год назад

@Punky Jewster I thankfully never have been exposed to that tone of voice before myself, but it still sets off all my alarm bells. You just don’t talk to someone like that. It just raises my hackles on an instinctual level. That’s how bad it is.

@asmrtpop2676 Год назад

I’m autistic and it never say right with me when I found her early videos-like she was basically stealing content since she would just make money off reading peoples reddit posts verbatim without the persons permission and wouldn’t financially compensate them. I asked a few times about this and was laughed at. But now look at the situation. Autistic intuition… it’s always right.

@mx_potatohead1326 Год назад

Since I stopped watching her and completely switched over to watching this channel and Emma Thorne (I’ve been watching this channel and Emma’s channel for a while but just not that much) I’ve realized she made me see my mom who has been in a lot of mlms as a villain rather than a victim which is what she is. My best friend had stopped watching her a couple months ago and we were talking about this and they pointed out that she was constantly say “and not to be all holier than thou” she constantly had to reassure us that she wasn’t saying she was better than the person/company she was talking about. Edited for spelling

@TJ_Sauce Год назад

Yeah. Speaking from personal experience, people who have to constantly tell others "not to be ___" are always the kind of person they say they aren't. It's overcompensation. They know there's a problem, so they try and convince people that the problem doesn't exist. I've dealt with a lot of manipulative people before, so I luckily dodged blair, but I feel terrible for those who fell victim to her. She's the most disgusting type of human being.

@veelogation3890 Год назад

@@TJ_Sauce Agreed. It's like the 'I'm not racist, but...' pattern. Also in general when people say shallow good things, especially when they're being very fervent about it they may be over-compensating too. Someone trying too hard to come off like a good person should make you wary. (It is possible for someone to be genuinely good but a bit simple or shallow and awkward and also say shallow good things. But usually they won't be as fervent and they will show other signs of being kind or shy or awkward.)

@asmrtpop2676 Год назад

Tbf the members closer to the top of an MLM generally are shitty people lol. Also being a victim doesn’t mean someone isn’t also an abuser. I have a family member who has enabled my main abuser, abused me themselves, but I also am big enough to acknowledge that the main abuser abuses them as well and that makes them a victim. It just all sucks. MLMs are no different sometimes depending on the dynamics. I want to make it clear that is NOT the case with your mother though and I am not saying that. I do agree that Blair has no concept of nuance or how different situations have different outcomes.

@AlphabetSoup3000 Год назад

It always makes me laugh how Blair says 'anti-MLM' as if she doesn't know how to pronounce the word anti. It's so damn funny. She tried too hard to protest her innocence by trying to play like she didn't know what anti-MLM was so hard that she acted like she didn't know how to speak English. This is a pattern I've seen. She lies to make herself look better and then five minutes later she forgets her lie to say something that directly contradicts it. This shit is wild yo.

@Lucifersfursona Год назад

Aunty M’Lemm

@MissCaraMint Год назад

Yeah that struck me as well. It’s so weird. Anyone on the internet knows how to pronounce “anti”. Lots of people off the internet know how to say “anti”. It’s not a new word. To pretend that she didn’t know how it was pronounced to make it seem like the term was unfamiliar to her was so stupid.

@bookswithike3256 Год назад

@@MissCaraMint Bro I don't want to defend Blair, but do you understand the concept of _accents_ ? There are two ways to say "anti." Granted I had no idea there were places in America that pronounced it the same way Brits do, and it's weird to hear Blair say it, but she's not mispronouncing anything.

@MissCaraMint Год назад

@@bookswithike3256 I have heard Blair say anti before. It doesn't sound like that, so it's not an accent thing. Edit: Oh and I'm not referring to the way she pronounces the "a" in the clip, but to the fact that she does this weird pause. As if she is thinking about how to procede with the word. like when you read an unfamiliar word out loud and you kind of pronounce the first half and then pause and go for the second half when you've studied it for a bit. It was weird.

@thesentienttoadstool9369 Год назад

Honestly, I think that one of the reasons why Blair’s writer was not allowed in the Boo is Woo group because, imho, she often seemed judgmental to those who fell prey to mlms. One of the many reasons why I unsubbed (before any controversy, might I add) is that I wasn’t really a fan of her black and white style of analyzing that lacked nuance. It blamed victims and omitted broader context Edit: I am very anti mlm. But people join mlms due to financial barriers caused by sexism and classism.

@MissCaraMint Год назад

Well yeah. That’s the biggest reason to be anti-mlm imo. They take advantage of those who are vulnerable. Those are the people who are recruited and who become the low level sales reps. I might be harsh to the higher ups who are raking it in, but not the victims.

@BlondeEyes7 Год назад

I think Blair's subject matter attracts viewers with a strong sense of justice and high standards for credibility. Being revealed to be an abusive liar was the worst thing that could have happened to her in front of a subscriber base like hers.

@adrianghandtchi1562 Год назад

I will say the last video I saw of hers was the fire festival video, and I realized that Internet historian, did it much better, and I felt it was a lot more nuanced normally than what Blair usually does. And then, of course, I drifted off, and I found Hannah Alonso, who did anti MLM vids and I forgot about her until this controversy popped up many weeks ago. Thank you so much for covering it. I respect everyone’s, including your opinion on this the most.

@spooniejusticewarrior Год назад

One thing I'd like to point out about the boo is woo issue, is that Blair’s writer asked why they were removed from the group, and the mod straight up told them it was because they didn't want their content to be used in Blair’s video. So they KNEW and went against the wishes of the group. So she not only didn't have permission, she still used it when told directly not to.

@LilitheAmara Год назад

Blair literally made a whole video about company towns specifically. I know they exist because of her. It is really disappointing that she is unable to recognize that she did the same thing to wonder despite going in detail in her own video about how she did it.

@Cnichal Год назад

She has to know

@larissabrglum3856 Год назад

Oh, I think she's well aware, she just doesn't care.

@smallpupper Год назад

I feel like the only people still subbed to Blair either haven’t used youtube in months, live under a rock, or are in severe denial about this entire situation.

@Grounded_Gravity Год назад

Great take, definitely worth mentioning! I genuinely hope that Blaire gets the help she needs to stop hurting and controlling people around her. And I hope those who were negatively impacted are able to heal from her actions.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

emma's amazing too

@amygreen9662 Год назад

Thank you for the background with Kimberleigh. I also love your conclusion. Excellent job!!!

@aceofhearts4048 Год назад

I think Swoop’s doc on this situation might turn it on its head. With her interview w blair’s ex, it takes iilluminautii’s downfall to a whole new level! Glad she’s being recognized even more for her amazing work!

@amnesicshellfish Год назад

Great video!! I personally stopped watching Blair's videos around the time she started uploading three to four 30-minute video essays per week, as the actual research quality from that time took a clear drop. Her video on vocaloid was the first to clue me in on this, as the entire video is full of misinformation about both vocaloid itself and the community surrounding it. While this itself isn't that bad (it's a very complex topic, with many different subcultures and controversies surrounding it!), the fact that she never really addressed it is what worries me. Even now half the comments are talking about what's wrong with the video, yet she never took it down or even left an edit! I know she's definitely made a lot of really good videos over the years, but if this is how she handles the bad ones, it's hard for me to trust her at all

@bigk8210 Год назад

Former iilluminaughtii subscriber here. The wonderful thing about this entire situation is that in finding these videos revealing the real Blair I find so many other truly great creators out there to watch and subscribe to. Thank you for being one of them. 😊

@gamerducko Год назад

"Even if she herself was a lie" oof. Powerful closing

@bwicket Год назад

I just got icked by her touting herself in all her responses as this big professional business owner while admitting to things like owning Wonderstruck's entire financial situation. You can't be ethical in that situation. The Wonderstruck aspect was where I was lost to anything she had to say. Cold-blooded all around

@MissCaraMint Год назад

Yeah. Maybe if she had admitted she fucked up and that she created an unhealthy work relationship here I could have given her the benefit of the doubt. You know instead of leaking his mental health stuff and trying to paint him as a crazed, lazy, and selfish former employee. We would probably never have known about this other stuff behind the scenes. In in this weird place where I don’t want to be glad that Blair attempted to publicly wreck these people’s lives, but where I am glad that her awful acts that have been secret from us for so long are finally being exposed. It’s just hard to see how they could have been exposed and her victims protected from their both. At least now potential new victims are warned against her. Hopefully that saves some people from her clutches.

@lakriz116 Год назад

I started consuming Anti mlm content right after the scandal with Cruel world happy mind so I didn't really understand the full context at the time so I didn't even know it was Blair that was involved I started watching her videos after Maddie and she had already started moving away from reddit videos to her current content. This video helped me a lot in getting the full picture of everything. I hope Blairs employees can find success elsewhere and that Blair works on herself.

@lekiscool Год назад

Can you imagine being that editor for another channel and being the tipping point that exposed and entire person’s back history.

@Allison_Troy Год назад

To the Boo is Woo group: The survivors sharing their private experiences absolutely deserved to have their information shared by someone they felt was safe. Whether Blair shared their personal details, she drew from their stories. Platform size for a lot of people isn't going to supersede working with someone they can trust. Blair has to earn trust -- and she obviously never deserved the trust. This is a nuance sometimes lost in the internet age-- just because all this information is available to everyone doesn't many everyone has the right to it and to profit off of it. I doubt Blair offered any of the money she made off that video to helping the survivors who's stories she mined for content to recovering from the financial issues the MLM brought to them.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

i agree. i think blair was absolutely wrong to do what she did.

@eCodex Год назад

@@SAVYWRITESBOOKSaying this as someone that loves ur content and that while i know what u were getting at, i definitely agree w the disagreement/critique a lot of ur viewers r giving u here in ur communication around it (but in a gentle/“i think this was a legit miscommunication” way). i think it’s the script ordering+editing of ur perspective/interpretation coming *after* the context re: boundary stomping on the part of the writer & informational misconduct in nonconsensual info/personal story snatching. i think some ppl r perceiving it as u somehow condoning that or lessening the violation of it when that wasn’t your intent. like it initially came across as a “greater evil being exposed is worth the lesser evil of ignoring ppls boundaries”/“ends r worth the means” before i was like “lol wait savy’s content tho”. i hope that makes sense!

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

@@eCodex that's completely fair. I'll keep that in mind for future scripts

@eCodex Год назад

@@SAVYWRITESBOOKS thank u 4 hearing me (: keep up the gr8 work! love your videos

@MissCaraMint Год назад

@SAVY WRITES BOOKS While I didn’t agree entirely with your take, I did appreciate your honesty in just stating that you didn’t fully understand this part rather than speaking in definitive statements here. I guess it just comes down to not wanting someone you don’t trust have access to sensitive information, and the fact that this editor had been denied previously should have been a sign that this was a boundary that they didn’t want Blair to cross. In all it comes down to Blair breaking the sense of safety in the community. Which is very very important when dealing with informants.

@AMFibers Год назад

I totally agree that as an employer you shouldn't be your employees landlord. But in the Mr. Beast situation, does he own the homes or did he gift them? While I can still see issues with gifting the homes, if the employee owns the property that protects them in some way. Now, of course, there is still the feelings of guilt and obligation you feel when someone gives you a massive gift, such as a house, but if it's truly gifted no strings attached, that can be fine. However, for me personally, if I was somehow rich enough to buy my friends and families houses, I wouldn't also employ them. That just feels like a recipe for disaster.

@oddmnemosyne2869 Год назад

Watching this story unfold has really reminded me of someone I used to be friends with who had their own social reckoning a few years ago. They exhibited a lot of the same behaviors Blair has- shifting and manipulating narratives to avoid accountability, subtweeting about and misrepresenting people who were having interpersonal issues with him, moral grandstanding and vicious callouts while doing the same things he would call out and worse behind the scenes, making sock accounts to harrass people, seriously this whole story has been like déjà vu. It's scary that so many people conduct themselves this way; and that much more terrifying when someone with a huge platform and who presents themself as a professional and ethical business person conducts themselves in this fashion.

@dogearflopper7011 Год назад

What the fuck is a "life spending account?" Oh, I just have to send my personal purchase receipts to my boss for her approval / blackmail fund? That's some dystopian workplace shit.

@ashleykabbes9316 Год назад

Waiting impatiently for your video to drop! I can't wait to hear your take and your thoughts!

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

thanks!

@fluffyduckbutt24 Год назад

Blair was so consumed by emotions she forgot @nottheclick lives in a different time zone. 🤣🤣Making an alt account to pick on people?! WTAF? What kind of person does that? Click's video was emotional. @wonderstruckyt was soul crushing and anger inducing. Thank you for covering this. I love your perspective and respect given to the topic.

@emexdizzy Год назад

The fact that you've had bad experiences with business/friendship before but good ones now is personally encouraging. I had a really bad experience in the past couple of years and it's still really hurts, but knowing things can get better is helpful.

@pookieandfluffernutter Год назад

I'm so glad you're covering this. Your take is always a little different then everyone's else's and is so nuanced

@pookieandfluffernutter Год назад

Also I used to really like her videos. I just can't support her now

@kaimactrash Год назад

When someone says no, that doesn't mean "come back later to trick your way in". When someone does trick their way in, then gets kicked out, but takes the information they have ZERO consent to have taken, and then uses it on a public video, that's f'd up, I'm not gonna sugar coat it. These people in this group had 100 reasons to not want their private group raided and used for content against the people who made said content consent. It's so inappropriate and very disrespectful IMO. Had the group accidentally let the writer join and then the video was made and then they said "Hey no why did you share that?" it'd still be bad, but an honest mistake, here it feels like the writer went out of their way to sneak into the group, then exploited all the information they got from there, which was the exact reason that group didn't want Blair's underling in their group, its messed up af. that group was likely members safe spaces to express themselves on this topic which could bring legal trouble if publically shared, and that's likely what some of these people panicked about in the weeks following Blairs video. The boundary set is an absolutely acceptable boundary to set and the fact that the writer felt the need to break that boundary, then Blair thought it was a great idea to share the evidence of that boundary being overstepped excusing it with "exposing" a scam....that's pretty emblematic of her ongoing behaviour, she can accept any behaviour if it gets her a good video, even if it hurts the people on her side deeply.

@michaeldanzer6156 Год назад

The thing about her content and the way she presents it, is that the audience has to trust her, trust that the things she says are actually true and not made up. And that trust is gone (at least for a large part of her previous audience). Additionally when she can make up stuff about others (for example the Click) and completely take actions out of context or blow them up to something far more than they actually are, can you trust her to not have done the same in the past with others or one of the companies? This is also (I believe) the reason why a large part of her audience is leaving. They trusted her and now they no longer can.

@katfoster845 Год назад

Madison has always seemed like a really sweet person.

@colonelweird Год назад

Is Blair really paying a whole team with the kind of salary and benefits she described for Wonder? It makes you think youtubers must be awash with piles of money. Gig work would have to be incredibly well-paid to match that.

@ofthewilderwoods Год назад

She has a bunch of side hustles too. And considering the amount of videos with sponsors she puts out, she’s probably making a lot and could be personally wealthy but not every RU-vidr is.

@kaotic_fabel Год назад

With regards to her sending her writer into a private Facebook group, the reason they didn't want her having access to and possibly using their private conversations in her doc on BOO was that it could have seriously negatively affected those from the group who were still in the process, at that time, of going after the company legally. What would have stopped BOO's lawyers from sending a subpoena to Blaire to get the names of the sources she used in her video and her giving them that private information she got in a beyon shady manner. She obviously didn't have any issues telling her 1.7 million followers about Wonders suicidal thoughts, what would stop her from just handing over the information her written took from the private group without their permission. Nothing. She has showed us all who she is, and I believe she would have gladly handed over all that information if it meant saving herself. Remeber, they were in that group together, speaking with other victims, trying to get legal representation and Blaire could have seriously crewed them for her own selfish agenda. She didn't care about their boundaries, and we should all respect that, no matter if we might think the representation, attention, and ends justify it. They said no, and she should have respected that. Period.

@ninjoshday Год назад

I hadn't thought of it that way, that's such an awful possibility

@mouthbreatherz Год назад

hearing your perspective on this as a small business owner who regularly contracts her friends is really interesting. yeah i can't imagine having my friend and boss have that much control of my life. i don't know how she grapples with her wild hypocrisy while still posting videos like business as usual. i hope her current employees are alright

@pssurvivor Год назад

i just don't understand why she had to bring old drama back. I feel she really needs to take a break and get some therapy. poor impulse control at the very least

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

yeah agreed

@ArtistFormallyKnownasMC Год назад

I love a good deep dive! 🍿

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

thank you!

@vb8801 Год назад

What always struck me was the incredibly high almost unattainable standards and expectations she has of people. She never gives room for personal growth, you've either got a perfect moral compass or you're a bad person. It was simply not believable that she's lived her entire life as a beacon of morality, it really always came off as "she doth protest too much".

@Binchaloo Год назад

Illuminaughtii's saga really played out like a Dhar mann video where what happens in the dark always comes to light 😂

@GothKatt Год назад

You should see Dhar Mann's own sordid history.

@lacey892 Год назад

I really appreciate how you look at these topics and think about giving a perspective not only that we hadn't seen before, but that also aligns with your own expertise and experience.

@jessie5903 Год назад

I really enjoyed this video. I've watched a lot of other videos about Blair and what happened, but for the most part they all just put the situation on a timeline and explained what happened. Your video included your well thought out opinions and your perspective as a RU-vidr and business owner, which shed additional light on the situation and made me think a lot more deeply about it. I really love how substantive and genuine this video is and I appreciate that you took the time to make it. :)

@LovlyHorror Год назад

As another former Illuminatii fan, I really hope this is the last video I end up watching about this situation. I especially appreciate that she did make plenty of good content, even if after awhile of watching her channel started feeling like a poor man's 'Last Week Tonight' to me personally. But there's a reason why Harvey Weinstein isn't making movies anymore and why you don't hear R Kelly on the radio these days; good work isn't an excuse for abuse. At this point, it really feels to me like she hasn't properly responded to everything that's come out about her because she knows she has no ammo to disprove it and she's just continuing to make content hoping that it will all go away.

@G-L-O-R-I-A Год назад

Yay, a premier when I’m actually home to watch it. Thx!

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

hooray!

@samtepal3892 Год назад

Talking about 10% rule. Scott The Woz has like 1 million subscriber and like 2 million views per video. Dude has a 200 percent viewership rate 😂

@oddeyes9413 Год назад

What Not To Do: Step 1: *Don't be an ass.* You hear me Blair? All you had to do was be a decent person.

@Thethreethatareone Год назад

Imma be 100% with y'all. I found Savy's channel and several others through the rabbit hole that Blair led me down. The content type i had never experienced before leading to all the other wonderful channels i now follow. In one sense Blair is the reason i have so much love for Savy and her friend's content now. So its a special type of gross when the person who inspired all this turns out to be a shitty person (putting lightly). All said though, I hate what Blair has been revealed to be, while at the same time having the slightest of thanks only for how she led me to Savy and much better creators in the same space.

@aresxna Год назад

After having not been anywhere near the circle of RU-vid that Blair and the people she associated with were in until this situation exploded, and learning about so many very talented creators I’ve never heard of, the petty in me kinda hopes she knows how fervently people are supporting and lifting up the people she has harmed.

@iggyelle Год назад

Loved that you mentioned Kimberleigha because this situation reminded me of all that mess and the fact that they both seem to have had a similar tendency to switch up their content according to what's popular. They even look like they could be sisters. I started watching her when she still had her Reddit playlists up, too. It kinda sucks that she deleted those vids because she was much closer to personable on them (if a bit boring, but she at least seemed more human, for lack of a better way to put it).

@NickFieldMedia Год назад

Your video is the only one I've watched about this situation and I'm glad I did. You were spot on with the last comment about how Blair exposing bad business practices in her videos was a good thing, but being unaware of her being guilty of similar things on a smaller scale (i.e. with fewer employees) was worrying. I hope other channels talking about bad business practices don't suffer because of this.

@ErisIsAnAbomination Год назад

I feel like the reason Blair didn’t rebound after this was because she became the exact thing her audience hates. Most of the RU-vidrs who are able to come back after doing something awful make videos based on lighthearted entertainment topics (makeup art is what comes to mind). Their audiences can set the drama aside and watch their content like normal because they just want to be entertained by reviews or skits, but Blair’s content is different. It’s primarily geared toward a much more mature audience, and the entire point of her channel is to expose the exploitation and abuse behind large companies. Her audience knows these behaviors well and would theoretically be far less forgiving when she ended up being the same as the companies they’ve come to hate.

@AbsolutelyCriminal Год назад

This is the best recap so far of this slow-motion wreck we can’t stop watching. 🖤

@ElephantsRock943 Год назад

I ALSO FALL ASLEEP LISTENING TO VIDEOS. It started with reddit, now it's mostly video essays (including yours 😂)

@melaniemarrone9521 Год назад

Mormon Stories Podcast is my go to sleep aid!

@ElephantsRock943 Год назад

@@melaniemarrone9521 whaaaat are you an exmormon?

@ElephantsRock943 Год назад

@@melaniemarrone9521 (not judgemental, I am an ex mormon lol so that would be a weird coincidence)

@SpoopySquid Год назад

As a former fan, watching all this stuff unfold in real time was really disheartening. It's like she saw all her past videos and decided "hmmm that actually sounds like a good idea"

@asmrtpop2676 Год назад

I mean you said it exactly-Blair wanted to profit off another group’s research. I can absolutely see why they’d gatekeep that info from her and I am on their side actually.

@jeffreybowen2068 Год назад

I just watched The Click’s response to all of this and I swear, the sadness that he felt is so incredibly obvious that it almost radiates from the screen and infects you too. He’s such an incredibly caring and compassionate person and to see how much having his friend do this hurt him, it absolutely broke my heart. Blair is a disgusting excuse for a human being.

@sinmenon4347 Год назад

Back when I was Wonder's age my friends and I would joke about all living in the same apartment building and each of us having their own apartment, or getting houses int he same neighborhood so in a very naive level it doesn't sound a bad idea -- but each of us would still have our own separate lives even if living nearby. No-one would own or have any business on each other finances. 10 years later I see how dangerous the lack of separation between friend and business life can be. Friends need their own space too. One of the first things that I thought when they started talking about the houses arrangements? I thought of Fordlandia . And Walt Disney's original concept for Epcot. THAT level of insanity.

@hyenaedits3460 Год назад

I grew up in one of the ghost company towns in Appalachia so seeing people actively trying to bring those back makes me really sad. Once the main employer goes out of business or moves somewhere cheaper, it leaves behind thousands of destitute people who slowly give up on life because everything they made went right back to the company. And even before then, the cycle of debt keeps people trapped. It's just less noticeable until things fall apart.

@meganholley9352 Год назад

I can't wait to hear this! Hopefully I make it in time.

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

thanks!

@SAVYWRITESBOOKS Год назад

thank you!

@ericawhitneyNOLA Год назад

Ahhh, nobody has talked about the 3rd person in the cruel world/Blair drama.

@hollimachelle Год назад

It's sad that with everything Blair knows about the shady business dealings of many corporation, MLMs and charities that she employed those same tactics with her own employees. I used to love watching her videos about MLM companies, but in the past year I started to see her channel as more of a content farm where she was just producing content to hit all demographics. But for her to have said she didn't know about the AntiMLM community is joke especially when she was reading from the AntiMLM subreddit.

@theladylunaravens Год назад

I'm so glad you made this video. I had zero clue shit was hitting the fan so bad until I started getting recommended so many videos that I couldn't even think about trying to educate myself on the topic. Used to be a fan but, unsubbed after her odd apology video that felt really really off. So glad to be educated about all sides and everything.

@LeftAndStressed Год назад

Genuinely thought Blair couldn’t get lower and then you mentioned her attempt at company town culture 😷

@melodye1044 Год назад

I did appreciate the Lou Malnati’s joke, not going to lie.

@Dragonmage967 Год назад

Well, considering in Blair's stripper days there are allegations that she and her stripper pal when they got tired of a client would black mail them for extra cash or accuse them of terrible things everything she says is suspect and of COURSE someone who would do that would do everything in their power to shape ANY story to make themselves look best and the other person look heckin bad. I mean, it is not known known, but based on all the stuff that's come to light is it really THAT hard to believe this is the kind of person she really is?

@pr0ntab Год назад

Where is this coming from I keep hearing it secondhand And am I crazy or did she use to work in Las Vegas or for a casino operator I swear to god I remember her mentioning it in a video or livestream and does anyone else remember this

@Dragonmage967 Год назад

@@pr0ntab I remember seeing it in the video from the guys who bought her candle and reviewed it. It was fairly early in the video.

@pr0ntab Год назад

@@Dragonmage967 I'm not seeing what you're talking about and went down a candle youtube rabbit hole-- do you think you could add it to a public playlist?

@MinatheRaichu Год назад

@@Dragonmage967FPS Diesel?

@Dragonmage967 Год назад

@@MinatheRaichu yeah, I think that’s the one. They spend a lot of time talking about how they want to do better on their candles.