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Why? There's nothing wrong with cashing in on our desire to escape from the grind. The winter here in the upper South is an especially difficult season for me,
by panglott 9y ago
Why? There's nothing wrong with cashing in on our desire to escape from the grind. The winter here in the upper South is an especially difficult season for me, since it's unpleasant to spend much time outside, and I absolutely want to watch videos of people cruising around the Caribbean or bicycle touring the Mediterranean or hiking trails. I'm glad people are able to go out and spend their lives making those kind of videos at all, and I'm not surprised that there's a lot of work to it.
Although I do try to avoid the channels that heavily exploit the women-in-bikinis thing, and prefer ones that are honest about the gritty and unpleasant details, like toilet repair.
- shanemhansen 9y agoI think I must not have been very clear. I'm not surprised that living in a van can be tough. I'm not surprised that documenting things or creating videos is hard work too. My dissonance is that if you watch these videos most of them are full of rhetoric like "my generation doesn't like to settle" "I did what I was told went to college, found myself at a soulless marketing company and realized that I needed more" "I dare to think different" "I've never been a conformist". But if you read the article they are right in the middle of the world they hate. There life's work is product placement, brand repping, and promoting the superficial. Their youtube and instagram channels aren't documentaries of their lifestyle, they are just outlets for corporate attempts at growth hacking via sponsored photoshoots.
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