Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

A lot of normies record this type of announcement. With a new baby on the way she may finally go back to quality family content instead of stupid shilling.

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Anonymous wrote:I was thinking why does it have to be recorded? Is everything a performance? Even her kids think that way.

It's common to record big moments like this. I felt she was being 100 percent genuine in this video and did not know she was being recorded. She was not playing to the camera like she usually does and seemed to be present with her family in the moment.

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Anonymous wrote:Had to go check out the "my favorite things" post. It's incredible how many people responded for her links.


5. It seems a lot of people that follow influencers have parasocial relationships, thinking the influencer cares about them, and that they're "friends."

I think that’s by design. Why do you think that Jen constantly refers to her followers as “beloveds, her community, her tribe (she doesn’t do that anymore because she was told that it’s insensitive to native people), darlings, dear ones, lovelies, ad nauseum….

There are people who are so desperate to feel loved and included that they will latch on to people like Jen because they truly TRULY believe that she cares about them, when the reality is that all they represent to her is a $.

And she’s laughing all the way to the bank.

Literally none of the women I know have or would refer to each other as "beloved." It's so weird

I know someone who was a Hatmaker fan who had the word "beloved" tattooed on her forearm. I don't know if she still is a fan. I very much hope not.

[Anonymous]

I’d agree with that assessment. I knew tray and Jenny and Shonna and her husband (can’t recall his name off hand) from afar when my family attended ANC when it was still at Akins HS. We enjoyed it at first. It was best when it moved to Jackie’s Dance place on Manchaca Road. They were the key founders and elders, if you will, along with a few other folks. Nice enough, but there were definitely a divide— they were the royalty. The rest of us were just commoners. This became especially evident with John Church (his real last name) and his church (can’t remember the name) joined forces with ANC. John was a good pastor and he and his wife Audrey were very authentic in my opinion. The folks who came over, including the Dahlstrom’s were genuine. But you could see a divide slowly form. The fakeness of the Hatmaker gang became evident to me. We quit going after a while. BTW- I know for a fact that Jenn, more or less, pawned Remy off on the Dahlstrom’s, who have a daughter about the same age as Remy. There were multiple weekends that Remy spent with the Dahlstrom’s. It was if Jenn used them as free baby sitters. Never, ever reciprocated or really befriended them. In my view, as a casual observer, Jen used anyone she could for her personal gain. Anyone else from ANC care to chime in? See it differently?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d agree with that assessment. I knew tray and Jenny and Shonna and her husband (can’t recall his name off hand) from afar when my family attended ANC when it was still at Akins HS. We enjoyed it at first. It was best when it moved to Jackie’s Dance place on Manchaca Road. They were the key founders and elders, if you will, along with a few other folks. Nice enough, but there were definitely a divide— they were the royalty. The rest of us were just commoners. This became especially evident with John Church (his real last name) and his church (can’t remember the name) joined forces with ANC. John was a good pastor and he and his wife Audrey were very authentic in my opinion. The folks who came over, including the Dahlstrom’s were genuine. But you could see a divide slowly form. The fakeness of the Hatmaker gang became evident to me. We quit going after a while. BTW- I know for a fact that Jenn, more or less, pawned Remy off on the Dahlstrom’s, who have a daughter about the same age as Remy. There were multiple weekends that Remy spent with the Dahlstrom’s. It was if Jenn used them as free baby sitters. Never, ever reciprocated or really befriended them. In my view, as a casual observer, Jen used anyone she could for her personal gain. Anyone else from ANC care to chime in? See it differently?

This is 100% on the mark. John Church (and Matt who’s last name I forget) was a fantastic pastor and his eventual departure was definitely shady. He is too much of a honorable person through to ever throw anyone under the bus. But people definitely noticed. And when Jason Morriss came onboard too. That was shady. Like he just showed up and took over. Very little oversight and very little effort at bringing the “partners” up to speed. He seemed to be a Trojan horse to remake ANC towards a new direction but they were never upfront about it.

It was a very cliquey church for sure. Weird vibes all around. But I don’t think ANC is now anything like it was ten years ago. I think that was sort of the plan. Who still goes there from the early days? The Hatmakers don’t. Do the Pruets?

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Anonymous wrote:I was thinking why does it have to be recorded? Is everything a performance? Even her kids think that way.

It's common to record big moments like this. I felt she was being 100 percent genuine in this video and did not know she was being recorded. She was not playing to the camera like she usually does and seemed to be present with her family in the moment.

It felt totally performative to me.

[Anonymous]

Maybe the video was genuine, maybe it was performative. Either way, she used the announcement of her first grandchild to promote: mocktails with focl drops.

Gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was thinking why does it have to be recorded? Is everything a performance? Even her kids think that way.

It's common to record big moments like this. I felt she was being 100 percent genuine in this video and did not know she was being recorded. She was not playing to the camera like she usually does and seemed to be present with her family in the moment.

It felt totally performative to me.

In my opinion, the fact that so many commenters here immediately feel back into the "awww, the grandchild announcement was so cute and authentic" is further evidence of the larger problem with influencers like Jen and the people who get sucked into following them. A simple appeal to sentimentality immediately turns people into piles of mush and all discernment goes right out the window. The bigger picture is that the entire social media based culture of influencers and putting your personal life on display for all the world to see is toxic and fake. It's just another manifestation of our sick celebrity culture, except that now we all get to participate in the celebrity machine by projecting our own lives online and watching other people project theirs and believing their anything authentic about it all. Our entire existence has become mediated. It's like the Truman show, except were all inside the dome.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was thinking why does it have to be recorded? Is everything a performance? Even her kids think that way.

It's common to record big moments like this. I felt she was being 100 percent genuine in this video and did not know she was being recorded. She was not playing to the camera like she usually does and seemed to be present with her family in the moment.

It felt totally performative to me.

In my opinion, the fact that so many commenters here immediately feel back into the "awww, the grandchild announcement was so cute and authentic" is further evidence of the larger problem with influencers like Jen and the people who get sucked into following them. A simple appeal to sentimentality immediately turns people into piles of mush and all discernment goes right out the window. The bigger picture is that the entire social media based culture of influencers and putting your personal life on display for all the world to see is toxic and fake. It's just another manifestation of our sick celebrity culture, except that now we all get to participate in the celebrity machine by projecting our own lives online and watching other people project theirs and believing their anything authentic about it all. Our entire existence has become mediated. It's like the Truman show, except were all inside the dome.

Sorry for all the typos, especially for "their" when it should be "there's"

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of normies record this type of announcement. With a new baby on the way she may finally go back to quality family content instead of stupid shilling.

A new generation of Hatmakers to exploit for content? I hope the parents draw some lines to shield their child from this

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of normies record this type of announcement. With a new baby on the way she may finally go back to quality family content instead of stupid shilling.

A new generation of Hatmakers to exploit for content? I hope the parents draw some lines to shield their child from this

A lot of people do set up a camera to capture the moment of surprise. I don't think Jen knew she was being filmed because she seems incapable of not looking at the camera and being all weird with her hair and posing, so I think the surprise was authentic.

And if she found this out in December and is just now telling "her community," it seems like the parents have put some boundaries in place because she would have posted that 5 seconds after finding out if she had been allowed.

Remember when Remi was getting ready for prom and Jen made a huge deal about the fact that she was not allowed to film or post any pics so she was doing that performative standing outside the room whispering about what they were doing but she couldn't show any photos. I think the kids have put some boundaries on her about what and when she is allowed to post.

But using that announcement as a way to sell her FOCL gummies was gross. The initial reveal may have been authentic, but she is going to start using that new grandbaby as an excuse for selling everything:

You need a baby shower idea? $300 charcuterie boards.
Baby diaper bag? Backpack from Able.
She'll probably get a collab with Shutterfly.

[Anonymous]

Tyler's comment on the grandbaby post: #hotgrandma

Her response: Spoken like a #hotpop.

Will her kids really let Tyler have a grandpa name? It's so performative.

[Anonymous]

Tyler’s not even 50. I doubt he has any interest in assuming a grandparent role or name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tyler's comment on the grandbaby post: #hotgrandma

Her response: Spoken like a #hotpop.

Will her kids really let Tyler have a grandpa name? It's so performative.

True story, hand on the Bible:

I am from the Midwest, and we grew up calling our grandparents Grandma and Grandpa B and Grandma and Grandpa L.

I currently live in the South, and apparently, "grandma names" are a whole thing: Mama, Mamaw, Meemaw, Nana, Grammy, GiGi.....

When our daughter in law found out she was expecting, she asked me to come up with a grandma name, and I said, (with a little snark directed to my husband's ex): "I'll be Hot Grandma." He agreed, but the name didn't stick.

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Anonymous wrote:Tyler's comment on the grandbaby post: #hotgrandma

Her response: Spoken like a #hotpop.

Will her kids really let Tyler have a grandpa name? It's so performative.

I think we all know who the real "#hotgrandma" will be. Need I say more?

She is gross promoting products on her first grandchild's announcement. What is wrong with this woman?