Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

Jen talking to some guy about her deep concerns about capitalism guys!

Oh thank goodness.

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Anonymous wrote:Jen’s nauseatingly obsequious way of introducing her podcast guests tickle me. D listers much suck up to C listers I guess.

“We are losing our minds a little here because joining us on the podcast this week is a woman who shaped an entire era of pop culture — Jennie Garth. THE Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills 90210, whose journey many of us grew up watching.”

Losing our minds for THE Kelly Taylor??!!

THE Kelly Taylor? Who talk or thinks that way.

I was really into 90210 back in the early 90s and I rarely think about it now and it took me a minute to even remember who Jennie Garth/Kelly Taylor was.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone noticed how every single time she goes to Me camp, or New York City, or Europe for her birthday cruise, or anywhere other than her actual house, she always talks about how she wants to sell everything that she owns, pack up, and move there immediately! I love to travel and I travel a fair amount even internationally, but there’s something about coming home. I think that all of the shilling and all of the hyperbolic enthusiasm every time she travel somewhere else is just reflective of the fact that inside, she’s desperately unhappy, and she can’t simply just enjoy the life that she has.
And I didn’t think that I could be more disgusted until I read that most recent text thread between her and her new neighbors -- and also tell me that your neighbor has dementia without telling me that your neighbor has dementia. like WTH? — But Tyler‘s fake crying over everything that happened in Texas is almost rage bait. He doesn’t know what to say to us. He doesn’t know what he can give to us. Who is turning to him for solace and consolation?

My guess is it's part of the influencer culture to be hyperbolic about everything in an attempt to excite people and drive engagement. I think it's a practice that probably has diminishing returns though.

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Anonymous wrote:Jen talking to some guy about her deep concerns about capitalism guys!

Oh thank goodness.

Bashing capitalism has become another mindless progressive shibboleth. These people have no idea how the world actually works or what has gifted them with the privileged lives they lead compared to most of human history. They're ignorant, incurious, and ungrateful.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how no one in Jen's circle will tell her how cringe and self-important it is to name and brand an annual vacation, announce it like it's a world tour, and then go to the town and act like the main character and post all about it, year after year. Does this content really appeal to anyone beyond Jen's ego and need for importance? Of all of the cringe things Jen does, this is right behind the constant product endorsements, but those are at least making her money. What is she getting out of this business-wise?

And I agree with other posters here, if I had a month to travel I would want to do it with friends or my family. The fact that she's content to sit in a new town alone and work at getting the locals to worship instead of being with her own family or friends says a lot.

My impression is that Jen still has a significant, if reduced, number of female followers who still think she's great and love her posts. Occasionally, one of them appears in this forum and chastises someone for something they said about Jen.

[Anonymous]

The most valid critiques of capitalism is rampant consumerism leading to waste and excess driven by creating false needs that have to be fulfilled. She even wrote a book about it. This rampant consumerism is now largely driven by online influencers. Jen doesn't see that she, and those like her, are the problem! But she wants to teach us.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how no one in Jen's circle will tell her how cringe and self-important it is to name and brand an annual vacation, announce it like it's a world tour, and then go to the town and act like the main character and post all about it, year after year. Does this content really appeal to anyone beyond Jen's ego and need for importance? Of all of the cringe things Jen does, this is right behind the constant product endorsements, but those are at least making her money. What is she getting out of this business-wise?

And I agree with other posters here, if I had a month to travel I would want to do it with friends or my family. The fact that she's content to sit in a new town alone and work at getting the locals to worship instead of being with her own family or friends says a lot.

My impression is that Jen still has a significant, if reduced, number of female followers who still think she's great and love her posts. Occasionally, one of them appears in this forum and chastises someone for something they said about Jen.

I posted something negative on JH’s IG post recently and it disappeared. Something to the effect of- does this nice older couple know that you’re posting their text exchanges? It’s really cringe how you’re exploiting them for content. I think she deletes any negative comments so it looks like she’s got this gushing fan base.

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Anonymous wrote:The most valid critiques of capitalism is rampant consumerism leading to waste and excess driven by creating false needs that have to be fulfilled. She even wrote a book about it. This rampant consumerism is now largely driven by online influencers. Jen doesn't see that she, and those like her, are the problem! But she wants to teach us.

100%. Also, she did not respond to the negative comments made on her posts during Prime days. But she DID reply to a post from Emil Ley, defending the use of Amazon distribution for small businesses. Which is hilarious, given the fact that most (if not all) of Jen’s links for Prime Days were NOT small businesses.
Girl… you’re trying to sell us a freaking Samsung TV…..

[Anonymous]

Do we really believe 6000 people have signed up for the me-course on grief?

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Anonymous wrote:The most valid critiques of capitalism is rampant consumerism leading to waste and excess driven by creating false needs that have to be fulfilled. She even wrote a book about it. This rampant consumerism is now largely driven by online influencers. Jen doesn't see that she, and those like her, are the problem! But she wants to teach us.

I'm not denying there are potentially legitimate criticisms of capitalism, just that bashing it has become another lazy progressive shibboleth and virtue signal performed by people who have little understanding of how they have benefitted from it and what any genuine workable (as opposed to utopian) alternatives to it there might be. They're filled with righteous certainty but lacking in depth of understanding.

[Anonymous]

Capitalism - BAD

Here’s the code for things I get a cut of the profits for my crossbody bag, purses, gummies, anti-neck wrinkles, book club books, cutest and coolest shoes (skirts, shorts, jeans, tops, jean jackets) ever, most amazing skincare (shampoo, conditioner, mascara, curling iron) ever, financials books, advisors, computer programs ever, etc. etc. ad nauseum, ad nauseum.

But, her, forget all that. We’ve become a superficial race where we spend spend spend on unimportant things that bring us no fulfillment. Listen to me dearlings.

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Anonymous wrote:Capitalism - BAD

Here’s the code for things I get a cut of the profits for my crossbody bag, purses, gummies, anti-neck wrinkles, book club books, cutest and coolest shoes (skirts, shorts, jeans, tops, jean jackets) ever, most amazing skincare (shampoo, conditioner, mascara, curling iron) ever, financials books, advisors, computer programs ever, etc. etc. ad nauseum, ad nauseum.

But, her, forget all that. We’ve become a superficial race where we spend spend spend on unimportant things that bring us no fulfillment. Listen to me dearlings.

Bingo. As far as I'm concerned, she's pretty much always been superficial. What she's doing now may be a far more degraded version of it, but she was never very deep.

[Anonymous]

Jen is now a weird mishmash of influencer hustle culture, the latest in pop psychiatry, therapy boosterism, and suburban wine woman slacktervism.

She’s as boring and as predicable as the sun rising and the Sun setting and has no real, unique voice anymore.

She’s basically a living and breathing algorithm.

[Anonymous]

They have gluten free fish and chips and pizza at MeCamp this year?

[Anonymous]

Honestly, the whole MeCamp schtick is so forced it's hilarious...such exuberance! Fish!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure why out of all the nonsense I read in her postings and listening to her in her videos, why was it just so funny that she said that she gained 6 pounds and Tyler likes her a little rounder? I don't know why this makes me laugh, it's just also ridiculous. I just don't care if he likes her rounder. Do you?