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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know two wannabe, failed influencers quite well. One is a former colleague, another a former classmate.

Both were early Mommy Bloggers who each said they started blogging to capture feelings of early motherhood/share pictures in online journal form.

Both overshared about DHs, foibles of DC, included embarrassing photos and texts about DC and DH. It was uncomfortable to read intimate details, so lost interest and never followed.

It’s all fiction - all of it. What was never conveyed was all the trauma behind the scenes and as DC grew up, the pleas to stop oversharing. Many to multiple posts removed. Some quick explanations that there will be a break from SM then the blogs essentially shut down. Smoke and mirrors, lies, fiction.

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This really resonates with me. At the church plant I was a part of, a number of the women who were sucked into the Jen Hatmaker/Glennon Doyle vortex, shared way too much about their lives on social media and affected the lingo/mannerisms used by them in their posts and writing. One even started her own blog. I found the whole thing shallow, performative, fake, narcissistic, and gross. [/quote]

I’m 49, the same age as Jen and many of the current and former followers.  Like Jen I married a pastor and have been a pastors wife for 22 years.  I was also a PK so yeah I was raised in the church.

To the women every single woman in my orbit who continued to follow and admire Jen Hatmaker over the past several years, every single one, maybe 10 women in all, all of us also the same general age, all of them who were raised up in the church like me who were once professing Christians, are now exvangelicals or even atheists, none go to church anymore, are divorced or are divorcing, many with substance abuse issues, and all of them are very very angry at the world.  Anger and resentment are what fuels them now, it seems.   [/quote]

Original poster here. I've seen this too. It seems to be a phenomenon among a lot of middle class Evangelical white women, most of whom have pretty comfortable lives. The whole exvangelical thing in general just reeks of petty, petulant, narcissistic self-absorption. [/quote]

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