I am so triggered by Nara smith - anyone else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She and Lucky are Mormons. This is Mormon TikTok for that audience the homesteading, multiple babies by 25 is nothing out of the ordinary.

This. They're wealthy people cosplaying the homesteading lifestyle to make an income, just like Ballerina Farm.

What does this mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of her.

Me neither. Who is this person?

You may actually have seen one of her videos. My response to the thread title was also "who?" but then I googled and I've seen several of her videos. She has this ASMR voice and a lot of her videos start with her saying something like "my kids said they wanted cereal this morning so I decided to make some from scratch." And then it will show her literally making Cocoa Puffs from scratch (actually I think with that one she made plain corn puffs and then a chocolate version as well). It's riveting the way a lot of cooking videos are -- you just get curious about the process of making breakfast cereal at home and watch to the end. But also the total weirdness of her doing this at all and the way she speaks, combined with the fact that she makes herself up like a silent film star and wears insane clothes while she's doing it makes them more intriguing than your standard cooking tik tok.

But she doesn't trigger me because I don't want to do any of that? Her life doesn't look appealing to me and her personality is super weird. I was shocked to learn how young she is because she looks much older (thanks to extremely heavy make up and the way she dresses). It really looks like performance art but I agree with the PP that it's genuine and she's truly trying to "sell" this lifestyle. I truly do not understand why anyone would buy it.

Thank you. DP. This confirms that I am missing nothing of interest to me, by not having tik tok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of her.

Me neither. Who is this person?

You may actually have seen one of her videos. My response to the thread title was also "who?" but then I googled and I've seen several of her videos. She has this ASMR voice and a lot of her videos start with her saying something like "my kids said they wanted cereal this morning so I decided to make some from scratch." And then it will show her literally making Cocoa Puffs from scratch (actually I think with that one she made plain corn puffs and then a chocolate version as well). It's riveting the way a lot of cooking videos are -- you just get curious about the process of making breakfast cereal at home and watch to the end. But also the total weirdness of her doing this at all and the way she speaks, combined with the fact that she makes herself up like a silent film star and wears insane clothes while she's doing it makes them more intriguing than your standard cooking tik tok.

But she doesn't trigger me because I don't want to do any of that? Her life doesn't look appealing to me and her personality is super weird. I was shocked to learn how young she is because she looks much older (thanks to extremely heavy make up and the way she dresses). It really looks like performance art but I agree with the PP that it's genuine and she's truly trying to "sell" this lifestyle. I truly do not understand why anyone would buy it.

Thank you. DP. This confirms that I am missing nothing of interest to me, by not having tik tok.

She has a huge following on IG too.

[Anonymous]

No. Just don't click on headlines about her.

[Anonymous]

She’s not blonde!

[Anonymous]

Yeah I find Nara Smith incredibly boring so she doesn't bother me at all. I do get triggered by Ballerina Farms, though.

[Anonymous]

I think if you’re 20, a stay at home Mormon or religious mom of screaming kids, this might seem aspirational. The beauty, the traditional values, and the calm. It’s sad that women feel they have to be stay at home Barbie. Or in Ballerina Farm’s case, stay at farm Barbie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if you’re 20, a stay at home Mormon or religious mom of screaming kids, this might seem aspirational. The beauty, the traditional values, and the calm. It’s sad that women feel they have to be stay at home Barbie. Or in Ballerina Farm’s case, stay at farm Barbie.

I think one can follow accounts they don't find aspirational as a whole, the same way we watch movies and documentaries about other people's lives and don't want their lives. I don't follow this account but I do follow some homesteading ones and don't ever want my own farm, it's too much work!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She and Lucky are Mormons. This is Mormon TikTok for that audience the homesteading, multiple babies by 25 is nothing out of the ordinary.

This. They're wealthy people cosplaying the homesteading lifestyle to make an income, just like Ballerina Farm.

What does this mean?

Both Nara Smith and her husband and Hannah Neeleman and her husband are very wealthy. The Smiths are both successful models and Hannah Neeleman's husband is heir to Jet Blue. They aren't making kids' birthday cakes from scratch and raising chickens because they're living simply. They're doing it because it gets views and earns them more money on social media.

[Anonymous]

I don't know who she is but it's wild how quickly you can run into "the moon landing isn't real" from random cooking or workout content. Happened to me the other day just scrolling Facebook, WTF.