I remember when Brandon would tweet out sad little live letters to the Property Bros and the Gaines’ when they were desperate to stay on HGTV. It was peak cringe.

yeah previous post is 100 and yes yes yes to elocution. she's not articulate at all. she stumbles around saying 10 things the same way and it's exhausting listening bc we get it, move on. i bet she rehearses when she gives speeches but she is def not an 'off the cuff' speaker

Magnolia network*, not podcast. Joanna and Chip have an entire TV empire and can’t get Jen a feature? We know Jen is desperate to be on TV. She needs to work on herself a lot more before major players (love Sherri and Tamara but they’re more small potatoes) start giving her a chance.

Jen Hatmaker the brand is not a real person. It is a brand. Everything Jen posts online is part of the brand. Sometimes it lands, other times it doesn’t. The problem with being in the game so long is that Jen has not successfully been able to pivot her brand with her changing circumstances, nor capitalize on success she’s already built. She still hasn’t reached even a million followers on Instagram despite being around the halfway mark for years now.

No TV deal. No major sponsorships. No big press. No real estate or business investments that we know of. Her kids obviously don’t want to be featured much anymore and her boyfriend is a huge fake. No more vacations with the Texas besties? Does Tyler even have a passport? Not much engagement with her online besties either.

Maybe the real Jen is absolutely fabulous in life right now but the brand Jen is sad. Who is Jen as a brand now? Sassy SAHM realness? Not really. Lifestyle guru? No. Christian deconstructor? No.

She had major names endorse her cookbook and yet where are any significant partnerships with them? A feature on the Magnolia podcast, a cameo in a movie, a joint cooking post even. And with this new podcast, unless Melinda or Bill Gates actually shows up, no one cares about the make me change my opinion grift.

As many have said, she rushed her post-divorce period, which could have been a lot more generative, and decided to hitch herself to a bad bet (Tyler).

Supposedly she has a business team. I’m not sure what bull they’re selling her but any successful business must be able to demonstrate value-added, a contribution of sorts, a coherent narrative. Unless Jen is out of control and refuses to listen, I side-eye whomever is advising her. Like a cheapo cruise, really???? That’s MLM type of desperation.

Jen needs elocution classes desperately. Supposedly she is a famed public speaker yet her recent videos make her look like a tweaker. Maybe she is psychologically damaged from the divorce. Maybe she is overconfident that her “down to earth” Texas charm still sells. Trust me, even the most seemingly real oh shuck type of influencers are practicing that shitck down to a T. Jen is seemingly just winging it, pulling at her clothes, sticking out her tongue, making weird faces, etc. That’s not cute and probably why she has not successfully made the transition to TV or film.

Even her look, sorry does not elevate her brand. It’s one thing to look like “trash” once in a while for a cute post but scarecrow hair, ill-fitting clothes from Target and Amazon, and an untreated medical condition leaving her with tomato face… even for non-famous, non-millionaires, we know to look the part in public when we want a job. If Jen wants to elevate her brand, she has to elevate her look. I don’t care if she’s obsessed with being blonde. Either invest in a better hairstylist who can make some form of blonde work for you or go back to brunette.

I’m not here to insult on Jen’s looks for no reason. I spend most of my days in pyjamas. Jen is a beautiful woman but if she wants to be more successful, she has to look better. And date a guy with more than 3 graphic t-shirts.

Whenever she types “man” or says it, it’s so put on and not believable. Everything about her is a phony and clinging for relevance.

Finally. a food post - the only posts of hers i like and the whole reason i started following her in the first place several years ago. Almost everything else she posts is just 🙄🤦‍♀️👎 but i do like the food posts describing how she throws things together to make very simple and flexible meals.

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Anonymous wrote:I cracked up with the buying a pregnancy test...I guess that is her way of trying to make us think this relationship she has is real...

I’d say 10% actually believe that’s real. All garbage.

I can seriously appreciate the perimenopausal post and relate to it tremendously. However the bullshit about a pregnancy test was neither necessary or believable. Are we really supposed to believe she’s that stupid?

Anonymous wrote:I cracked up with the buying a pregnancy test...I guess that is her way of trying to make us think this relationship she has is real...

I’d say 10% actually believe that’s real. All garbage.

Anonymous wrote:I cracked up with the buying a pregnancy test...I guess that is her way of trying to make us think this relationship she has is real...

I think she borrowed the pregnancy test bit from the Holderness family.

I cracked up with the buying a pregnancy test...I guess that is her way of trying to make us think this relationship she has is real...

In just two hours, Jen has nearly 600 comments on Facebook for her latest post! Congrats lady. You’ve still got it 🤗

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sydney has become active on Instagram, making posts and stories. She is so cute.

Do you have a link?

Her handle is @texaskeeper

https://instagram.com/texaskeeper?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Thank you! I hope she is thriving.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sydney has become active on Instagram, making posts and stories. She is so cute.

Do you have a link?

Her handle is @texaskeeper

https://instagram.com/texaskeeper?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Anonymous wrote:Jen’s lack of self-awareness regarding her “Spring Cleaning” post is 100% hilarious.

“Just a simple tidying-up of my social input. Social media is already a largely unexamined soupcon rewiring our brains and tapping into our neuroses with sophisticated technology we can’t compete with, because we aren’t autobots with a capitalistic agenda. We are humans.”

Jen. For those in the back.

YOU are that toxic energy.

YOU are that corrosive Capitalist Agenda.

Except that this is actually good content. And at this point, over 270+ comments on Instagram. So hopefully, she's going to connect the dots that this kind of content sells. Not polarizing political statements and not sex and not how to have better hair (bless it, Jesus), but stuff like this that actually is beneficial to everyone. I agree with the PP who expressed annoyance at how she slipped a Me Course into it, but I want to applaud content like this. I think some of us have gotten so frustrated with Jen and especially frustrated with not having anywhere else to vent that frustration but here and I get that. But it's reached the point of just straight bitterness. Like when you're mad at someone and you can't say anything nice. The "look at that chick just eating her crackers like she owns the whole room" kind of hatred. I've cringed hard at a lot of her choices over the last 4-5 years, even before the divorce. But I want to have the kind of heart that has faith in people to straighten it out and get turned around and healed. I feel like this is a stepping stone toward that.

Anonymous wrote:Sydney has become active on Instagram, making posts and stories. She is so cute.

Do you have a link?