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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve taken my last Robin ride today. She used to be a fairly tough instructor and I enjoyed the challenge. But today her commentary was primarily about her and her daughter, she pretty much danced while making God awful faces into the screen, and it was obvious she turned the knob left while directing us to turn right. She’s mostly into showboating and not instructing these days.[/quote]

I feel like my problems with Robin are not just that she talks too much; probably more importantly she seems VERY disingenuous (much more so than she used to be). I remember taking her turkey burn ride last year and she did a call out to mothers that felt really moving and real, and yet her rides lately just seem VERY fake. And I don't mind talkers all the time, I LOVE Cody, but Cody has not lost his 'realness' whatever that is.
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I figure they are all fake on some level, and I guess I don’t really care. They are all very active on IG and their stuff is all so curated and staged. Who knows what’s real? The people I think are “real” (Jess Simms, Ben Alldis, for example), maybe they’re just better at projecting their image.

My issue with Robin is that she seems distracted in class. Like she loses track of where she is in the count, switch sides etc. [/quote]

I think the problem is the content of the 'realness'. Cody's being real means talking about how much he loves 90s pop music and relateable growing pains. It doesn't come across disingenuous because, in his own words, its just not that deep. Jess Simms talks about gratitude but doesn't share that much about her personal life. Christine is TOO genuine, talks about anything and everything and starts crying on a ride and takes you out of the moment.

Robin's problem is that her 'peloton identity' is like, deep sharing and connection on vulnerable parts of her life. The 'Rachel Hollis' effect. In that, when she was first starting and it wasn't a massive audience and she felt less vulnerable she WAS real and shared a lot and connected deeply with riders. And now that she's gotten a level of fame and success from this, and had a child, and has far more scrutiny, she has polished up her brand, and realized that part of her brand is this like, 'pushing hard and succeeding when things are tough' but really her life is really freaking awesome right now and entirely unrelateable to almost anyone riding so she has to put on a bit of a show to show 'I'm still just like them' and that is just coming across.

I'm not sure there's anything she can or should do about it TBH. She got super famous and successful and its making her less relateable! I'm sure she's crying herself to sleep about this after depositing her checks at the bank (not!). [/quote]

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