YOU are the one who told me that "the love I seek exists because I exist," and I believed you. And I found the love I was looking for. It took me 38 years, a 13-year marriage, a divorce, and some real ugly relationships to find it. And it was worth everything, and it was worth the whole wait. Now I'll remind you: The love you seek exists because you exist. Thank you for reminding me.
I think Emma is just going through the realization a lot of women have after a few torrid relationships. It is the realization that love and relationships that stand the test of time do not look or feel like what is portrayed in popular media/ culture. It seems people can feel disenfranchised because they’re chasing the honeymoon stage to be their relationship 100% of the time. That is unsustainable and exhausting when you really think about it. That’s a dynamic better reserved for flings. If a long term relationship is the goal, it is important to find someone who you like on a fundamental friendship level and who makes you feel at peace. Someone who your affinity for grows with time rather than someone who you’re always trying to get back to the honeymoon stage with.
💙🫖 crying along with you, here's to all the women who raise our bars 💖⛓️💖 and how transformative it is to how we view and treat ourselves 🦋 it must ripple out endlessly
“I’ve just got so much love to give.” I know exactly how you feel, its so exhausting having so much love to give but never feeling it return fully, it makes you question it’s existence entirely, but I am fully convinced love will come back to you times a million because of who you are, it’s inevitable ❤ I’m rooting for both of us xoxo
"Hope is a heavy thing to hold" - wow this is so truly beautiful and so relatable. Thank you so much for showing up. It truly means a lot to witness parts of myself in another person
Just to provide another perspective, I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household with deeply sexist purity culture views, but as I reached dating age, my parents marriage started falling apart, so I was left completely on my own to figure relationships out with so much damage and baggage. I should not have been dating when I started dating, so when I cheated on multiple partners in my teen years, it wasn't because I was a bad person, I was a lost person. I got out of that toxic environment and healed and never cheated again. I'm married now to someone I've been devoted to for over a decade. People can change, and while there's no excuse for cheating, there are reasons why it happens, and it's not always because cheaters are purely evil.
I cheated once, I was 18 and a really dumb human being at the time. I’ve been now with the love of my life for 7 years and couldn’t imagine myself EVER doing anything like that again.
thank you -- I was stuck in a loop of cheating I felt I could never get out of. 3 years out now and in a happy relationship. I'm still in high school but this inspired me. Thank you for making me feel less alone! People are capable of change!!!!!
i dont think loving someone as great as you will ever be easy. its a delicate act for someone who has their standards so wonderfully high by how theyve been treated by loved ones and yes that may be hard but fuck thats a beautiful thing that not just anyone out there is going to be perfect for you. when you do find them one day though, they will make all that effort of loving you seem like the easiest thing on this planet and they will make you feel so abundant ♥
I watched a video titled "We Need to Talk About Romantic Love and Why It's So Horrible." It discussed how the concept of romantic love emerged after the decline of the church's influence. In the past, love was associated with divine or platonic ideals, but this shifted as people sought new forms of affection. This change led to more intimate relationships, but there is still a tendency to idealize our partners, treating them as divine beings without acknowledging their flaws. This idealization isn't always genuine or healthy. As someone who grew up in a religious environment, I'm working on shedding this idealized view through therapy while still maintaining my romantic nature. Your videos have helped me understand that love isn't about everything being perfect; it's far more complex. It's about treating ourselves and our partners as imperfect, vulnerable human beings.
I will cry with you on those sentiments. We as humans have an incredible capability to love, but so few of us reach that secure place where we feel safe to do so. There's just so much poverty, abuse, fear, and constant states of survival that leave people lost, and no proper healthcare and therapy to help them. The difference between the reality of the world we're living in vs the world we could have is so overwhelmingly painful at times. And we're just left to cope with that.
Your discussion on optimism re: love is actually the discussion I had with friends recently. After so much deep therapy, I refuse to ever lose belief in love. I’m so filled with hope and have only regretted when I guarded myself from love, not when I felt it and was hurt. Your vocalization of the exhaustion of holding so much love and the pain of not having it in return is so so real. Thank you for naming where your insecurities sit because I’m in the same place and am also running through the same conversation in my head.
3:40 More than Miss Mango??!!! Don't let her hear you say that!! I relate so hard to how you feel. Having so much hope in a very hopeless world is a big burden to carry, and it's why so many people feel the opposite.
Wow that was a pretty transformative thing to hear, the idea that there are so many people that can love the way I can but they’re just hurting and scared right now. What lovely and true thing that is ♥️ I feel like hope is a light that guides the right people to us. They’re on their way, just keep the light shining and they will find us ♥️
It is tough because often times this sort of amazing love isn’t clear from the surface. It take months of dating and getting to know a person, weeding through their nuances (good and bad), complexities, seeing how your puzzle pieces fit together. It is a random burst of love, especially if it’s is long lasting love rather than short lived lust. With dating apps, we are so ready to discard a person at the first inkling of a “red flag” - which likely isn’t a red flag at all, but rather something more nuanced that requires context. Open mind open heart ❤
32:39 This is my favorite thing I've heard all day. You've just verbalized how I want to feel with the people I care about. I don't feel this often with the people I'm surrounded by, and it sucks.
Thank u for answering my question about texting 🥺💞 The first half of the podcast made me tear up but as a fellow romantic I cant believe people don't believe in love wtf!!! I rememember so clearly when one of the girls in highschool got a boyfriend and I asked what it's like and she responded with "love isn't real", I was so shocked cuz I got crushes left and right 🗿 some people just don't feel it like romantics do and it's fine, I have a basic need to experience love in all kinds of different ways and I'm glad I was born or raised to feel that way 💞 I'm rooting for all romantics out there ily!!!
maddie ive been a silent viewer for the past almost 2 years now I wanna say and I was crying right there with u this episode. so beautiful and tender 💗 also this eclipse season energy has been heavy af so ive been going thru all the feels as well. we got this 💕
😭The romantic love segment. You almost sounded like the button poetry videos. Your someone is out there I believe it with all my body and soul. Never lose those 😍
I think the "love is an illusion" take is LARGELY (not totally) a projection from current feeling of resentment and bitterness. I'm sure we have all felt that in moments, but after you gather life experience and hopefully become more emotionally intelligent, you can't have such a simple viewpoint about a topic that is so complex (I.e human emotions).
I know you aren't on Tiktok but the girlies over there had a nice discussion about this ( and Emma's podcast as a whole - no hate ofc just pointing some obvious stuff out )
This was so beautifully honest, thank you. I hear you. I wish i was as conscious at your age as I am now. 47 and asking similar questions. I too want to believe that love is out there❤❤❤
I feel you on so many levels. You're a lucky girl to have been raised by so many examples of loving women. I was not as protected or guided and it took me so very long to find a bestie that helped me realize true love does exist, she is 43 years older than me lol but we understand eachother on such a spiritual level and to this day I haven't met anyone that loves as freely and beautifully as her. I've been married for 11 years now, I love him to death too, but there are key differences to how men and womens brains operate and I think in these conversations especially when younger people that haven't been through it they fail to add that to the equation. True love is real, but often times it doesn't just fall on your lap, it takes so much devotion and dedication and compromise. It takes your egos both shaving down so love can overwhelm the both of you. It's a daily choice to give and receive with grace and compassion and kindness. And it's not easy either. Even with the person you feel was made for you, because they are individuals on their own journeys and they aren't always going to please you with their behavior or demeanor "vibes" etc. And even then, sometimes it doesn't workout. Because along the way too often people get greedy or complacent and stop compromising, stop being kind and compassionate. So the relationship ends, even if the love lives on. It's complicated. But it is so very real, IF and only IF we choose to heal ourselves enough to meet our beloved in the middle and keep that warm loving flame alive. Nothing in this life is granted. I think love is something so many people do not understand and take for granted. No thanks to movies and media, portraying it's simplicity. But those aren't the worlds we live in. People have pain, they come with their own stuff. That's part of the challenge. You reap the fruit of what you both together as devoted partners plant and nurture. Nothing else
So beautiful. I’m at a loss of words and an abundance of feelings. Thank you Maddie. You have had the most profound effect on me and my state of mind. You are incredible with a heart of gold.
I cried all through this episode. Hearing you talk about love and hope made me realize how closed off I've become. I feel so so sad for younger me who was so hopeful and got hurt and had to put defenses up to survive this world, and for current me who has just been numbing these feelings in solitude. I want to heal again, thank you Maddie for sharing your truth,
darling maddie, here is some digital cuddles for you 💖 thank you for being as emotionally intelligent as you are and staying optimistic about love! I´ve unlearned SO many toxic assumptions about how relationships and love should work thanks to watching your videos the past few years. Much love 🌟
You Will find love. Do not lower your standards, but keep in mind perfect doesnt exists. People who are open for love Will always find It if they keep looking. In the meantime all the love you have to give, give It to yourself and people around you. It doesnt have to be a sad quest for love, but instead a peaceful fun one
I think you have such a rare, unique, authentic and truly beautiful soul. You are courageous as heck and to me it’s fucking obvious that the reason it’s taking a bit of time for you to find love is because people of your quality are rare too. You are such a force of nature to me. This relationship is parasocial but only based on what you are saying on your podcasts I know I love you. Thank you.
romantic love is definitely real! I have it with my boyfriend :). My mom has it with my stepdad as well. Definitely don't give up, it is absolutely a thing you can achieve and find. The thing is: it takes time!! It's not the same as infatuation. Infatuation is fun and wonderful. Love is even better. And it comes in the same way it comes for all relationships. With a lot of wonderful shared experiences, intimacy, commitment, kind words and loving conversations, jokes, caring for each other, building a deep friendship, and just- building a bond with that person :). I can absolutely confirm love is real haha, as can many other people. Not every relationship has it and sometimes it just takes time to find (and people sometimes have to do work on themselves to make sure they are approaching things in a way that will lead to deep love). But! It absolutely exists. And even if a relationship ends, that doesn't mean the love didn't exist/there wasn't love/love isn't real. I wish you the best in finding it!! You seem like such a lovely person :). All I can think of as advice to say is don't expect to feel deep love and commitment right away because it takes to build, and don't give up!
also apparently Emma Chamberlain and her bf just broke up after 3 years so I am not surprised that she might feel a bit pessimistic about romantic love rn
I’ve been watching your content for about 2yrs now & I’ve loved everything u put out! But I’m stunned that u have not spoken up about the US-funded genocide happening in Palestine 🇵🇸 not one word…u have such a huge platform that can educate ppl & get them involved! ALL of us need to be speaking out against the genocide/occupation. #freepalestine
not only have you stayed silent on the situation in Gaza, but you’re also still supporting the corporations that fund it. the least you could’ve done is hide the Starbucks cup. edit: just to add, this is not a hate comment. i’ve been an avid supporter for YEARS and have watched/kept up with every piece of content you’ve put out. but when you position yourself as a “caring” and “very emotional and empathetic” person, yet stayed SILENT when a GENOCIDE is going on? disappointing.
The situation in Gaza is a heavy topic with a lot of weight. I personally think it's wild to expect each and every influencer to have a 'take' on a topic that has a lot of nuance and requires appropriate research to say anything insightful about it. That being said, it doesn't hurt for youtubers to give a simple statement that they stand with the people of Palestine. I wouldn't expect anything more than that, though.
@@guavageckoI agree to some extent, but at the end of the day the only nuance that matters is that genocide is bad. in any case, the least influencers can do is, like you said, put out a statement or at the BAREEE minimum step back from posting and pretending everything is business as usual. the ignorance is astounding
I think many people are horrified knowing what's happening in Gaza, and I understand it's frustrating when you're hurting deeply and you don't see it being mirrored by the people around you. I felt the same about the lack of response by influencers towards the war in Ukraine, but that's because it's close to home for me, so it's particularly painful. I think Maddie is a sincere person, and I don't actually think that's a Starbucks cup.
YOU are the one who told me that "the love I seek exists because I exist," and I believed you. And I found the love I was looking for. It took me 38 years, a 13-year marriage, a divorce, and some real ugly relationships to find it. And it was worth everything, and it was worth the whole wait. Now I'll remind you: The love you seek exists because you exist. Thank you for reminding me.
I think Emma is just going through the realization a lot of women have after a few torrid relationships. It is the realization that love and relationships that stand the test of time do not look or feel like what is portrayed in popular media/ culture.
It seems people can feel disenfranchised because they’re chasing the honeymoon stage to be their relationship 100% of the time. That is unsustainable and exhausting when you really think about it. That’s a dynamic better reserved for flings.
If a long term relationship is the goal, it is important to find someone who you like on a fundamental friendship level and who makes you feel at peace. Someone who your affinity for grows with time rather than someone who you’re always trying to get back to the honeymoon stage with.
💙🫖 crying along with you, here's to all the women who raise our bars 💖⛓️💖 and how transformative it is to how we view and treat ourselves 🦋 it must ripple out endlessly
“I’ve just got so much love to give.”
I know exactly how you feel, its so exhausting having so much love to give but never feeling it return fully, it makes you question it’s existence entirely,
but I am fully convinced love will come back to you times a million because of who you are, it’s inevitable ❤
I’m rooting for both of us
xoxo
Y'all might like the song 'End of a Friendship' by Julia Jackson that artfully says similar sentiments
"Hope is a heavy thing to hold" - wow this is so truly beautiful and so relatable. Thank you so much for showing up. It truly means a lot to witness parts of myself in another person
Just to provide another perspective, I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household with deeply sexist purity culture views, but as I reached dating age, my parents marriage started falling apart, so I was left completely on my own to figure relationships out with so much damage and baggage. I should not have been dating when I started dating, so when I cheated on multiple partners in my teen years, it wasn't because I was a bad person, I was a lost person. I got out of that toxic environment and healed and never cheated again. I'm married now to someone I've been devoted to for over a decade. People can change, and while there's no excuse for cheating, there are reasons why it happens, and it's not always because cheaters are purely evil.
I cheated once, I was 18 and a really dumb human being at the time. I’ve been now with the love of my life for 7 years and couldn’t imagine myself EVER doing anything like that again.
thank you -- I was stuck in a loop of cheating I felt I could never get out of. 3 years out now and in a happy relationship. I'm still in high school but this inspired me. Thank you for making me feel less alone! People are capable of change!!!!!
@@dietstarlight I believe in you! You're just getting started, and I'm so excited for you!
i dont think loving someone as great as you will ever be easy. its a delicate act for someone who has their standards so wonderfully high by how theyve been treated by loved ones and yes that may be hard but fuck thats a beautiful thing that not just anyone out there is going to be perfect for you. when you do find them one day though, they will make all that effort of loving you seem like the easiest thing on this planet and they will make you feel so abundant ♥
I watched a video titled "We Need to Talk About Romantic Love and Why It's So Horrible." It discussed how the concept of romantic love emerged after the decline of the church's influence. In the past, love was associated with divine or platonic ideals, but this shifted as people sought new forms of affection. This change led to more intimate relationships, but there is still a tendency to idealize our partners, treating them as divine beings without acknowledging their flaws. This idealization isn't always genuine or healthy. As someone who grew up in a religious environment, I'm working on shedding this idealized view through therapy while still maintaining my romantic nature. Your videos have helped me understand that love isn't about everything being perfect; it's far more complex. It's about treating ourselves and our partners as imperfect, vulnerable human beings.
I think romantic love is possible, it’s just very, very rare, especially to maintain for the longterm.
I will cry with you on those sentiments. We as humans have an incredible capability to love, but so few of us reach that secure place where we feel safe to do so. There's just so much poverty, abuse, fear, and constant states of survival that leave people lost, and no proper healthcare and therapy to help them. The difference between the reality of the world we're living in vs the world we could have is so overwhelmingly painful at times. And we're just left to cope with that.
Well said
28:49 thank you for being you. I’ve said it before but I’m saying it again.
Your discussion on optimism re: love is actually the discussion I had with friends recently. After so much deep therapy, I refuse to ever lose belief in love. I’m so filled with hope and have only regretted when I guarded myself from love, not when I felt it and was hurt. Your vocalization of the exhaustion of holding so much love and the pain of not having it in return is so so real. Thank you for naming where your insecurities sit because I’m in the same place and am also running through the same conversation in my head.
"If I can blame it on myself it means that I can fix things" this whole part resonated so much
3:40 More than Miss Mango??!!! Don't let her hear you say that!!
I relate so hard to how you feel. Having so much hope in a very hopeless world is a big burden to carry, and it's why so many people feel the opposite.
Wow that was a pretty transformative thing to hear, the idea that there are so many people that can love the way I can but they’re just hurting and scared right now. What lovely and true thing that is ♥️
I feel like hope is a light that guides the right people to us. They’re on their way, just keep the light shining and they will find us ♥️
Chronic heart-eyes is a both humbling and beautiful gift! Keep at it girlies, it will pay off in the end x
It is tough because often times this sort of amazing love isn’t clear from the surface. It take months of dating and getting to know a person, weeding through their nuances (good and bad), complexities, seeing how your puzzle pieces fit together. It is a random burst of love, especially if it’s is long lasting love rather than short lived lust.
With dating apps, we are so ready to discard a person at the first inkling of a “red flag” - which likely isn’t a red flag at all, but rather something more nuanced that requires context.
Open mind open heart ❤
crying with you too girl for various reasons u mentioned💕
32:39 This is my favorite thing I've heard all day. You've just verbalized how I want to feel with the people I care about. I don't feel this often with the people I'm surrounded by, and it sucks.
Thank u for answering my question about texting 🥺💞 The first half of the podcast made me tear up but as a fellow romantic I cant believe people don't believe in love wtf!!! I rememember so clearly when one of the girls in highschool got a boyfriend and I asked what it's like and she responded with "love isn't real", I was so shocked cuz I got crushes left and right 🗿 some people just don't feel it like romantics do and it's fine, I have a basic need to experience love in all kinds of different ways and I'm glad I was born or raised to feel that way 💞 I'm rooting for all romantics out there ily!!!
hey maddie you're my fav podcaster and just the best and wanted to let you know, i hope you have a lovely day!
I’m sat here in tears now, unable to stop myself 🥹🥺 Gorgeous girl, we all feel you so, so much ❤❤
maddie ive been a silent viewer for the past almost 2 years now I wanna say and I was crying right there with u this episode. so beautiful and tender 💗 also this eclipse season energy has been heavy af so ive been going thru all the feels as well. we got this 💕
😭The romantic love segment. You almost sounded like the button poetry videos. Your someone is out there I believe it with all my body and soul. Never lose those 😍
I think the "love is an illusion" take is LARGELY (not totally) a projection from current feeling of resentment and bitterness. I'm sure we have all felt that in moments, but after you gather life experience and hopefully become more emotionally intelligent, you can't have such a simple viewpoint about a topic that is so complex (I.e human emotions).
I know you aren't on Tiktok but the girlies over there had a nice discussion about this ( and Emma's podcast as a whole - no hate ofc just pointing some obvious stuff out )
This was so beautifully honest, thank you. I hear you. I wish i was as conscious at your age as I am now. 47 and asking similar questions. I too want to believe that love is out there❤❤❤
How would you approach things differently?
I feel you on so many levels. You're a lucky girl to have been raised by so many examples of loving women. I was not as protected or guided and it took me so very long to find a bestie that helped me realize true love does exist, she is 43 years older than me lol but we understand eachother on such a spiritual level and to this day I haven't met anyone that loves as freely and beautifully as her.
I've been married for 11 years now, I love him to death too, but there are key differences to how men and womens brains operate and I think in these conversations especially when younger people that haven't been through it they fail to add that to the equation. True love is real, but often times it doesn't just fall on your lap, it takes so much devotion and dedication and compromise. It takes your egos both shaving down so love can overwhelm the both of you. It's a daily choice to give and receive with grace and compassion and kindness. And it's not easy either. Even with the person you feel was made for you, because they are individuals on their own journeys and they aren't always going to please you with their behavior or demeanor "vibes" etc. And even then, sometimes it doesn't workout. Because along the way too often people get greedy or complacent and stop compromising, stop being kind and compassionate. So the relationship ends, even if the love lives on. It's complicated. But it is so very real, IF and only IF we choose to heal ourselves enough to meet our beloved in the middle and keep that warm loving flame alive. Nothing in this life is granted. I think love is something so many people do not understand and take for granted. No thanks to movies and media, portraying it's simplicity. But those aren't the worlds we live in. People have pain, they come with their own stuff. That's part of the challenge. You reap the fruit of what you both together as devoted partners plant and nurture. Nothing else
That was beautiful
So beautiful. I’m at a loss of words and an abundance of feelings. Thank you Maddie. You have had the most profound effect on me and my state of mind. You are incredible with a heart of gold.
I cried all through this episode. Hearing you talk about love and hope made me realize how closed off I've become. I feel so so sad for younger me who was so hopeful and got hurt and had to put defenses up to survive this world, and for current me who has just been numbing these feelings in solitude.
I want to heal again, thank you Maddie for sharing your truth,
darling maddie, here is some digital cuddles for you 💖 thank you for being as emotionally intelligent as you are and staying optimistic about love! I´ve unlearned SO many toxic assumptions about how relationships and love should work thanks to watching your videos the past few years. Much love 🌟
You Will find love. Do not lower your standards, but keep in mind perfect doesnt exists. People who are open for love Will always find It if they keep looking. In the meantime all the love you have to give, give It to yourself and people around you. It doesnt have to be a sad quest for love, but instead a peaceful fun one
Really, truly needed to hear the last bit about things working out exactly when they need to. Thank you Maddie ❤
I think you have such a rare, unique, authentic and truly beautiful soul. You are courageous as heck and to me it’s fucking obvious that the reason it’s taking a bit of time for you to find love is because people of your quality are rare too. You are such a force of nature to me. This relationship is parasocial but only based on what you are saying on your podcasts I know I love you. Thank you.
i just discovered ur channel and i feel healed
🥹 this podcast is so nourishing ❤️ so grateful for you maddie!
Great episode❤️Best wishes from Poland 🌸🙂
romantic love is definitely real! I have it with my boyfriend :). My mom has it with my stepdad as well. Definitely don't give up, it is absolutely a thing you can achieve and find. The thing is: it takes time!! It's not the same as infatuation. Infatuation is fun and wonderful. Love is even better. And it comes in the same way it comes for all relationships. With a lot of wonderful shared experiences, intimacy, commitment, kind words and loving conversations, jokes, caring for each other, building a deep friendship, and just- building a bond with that person :). I can absolutely confirm love is real haha, as can many other people. Not every relationship has it and sometimes it just takes time to find (and people sometimes have to do work on themselves to make sure they are approaching things in a way that will lead to deep love). But! It absolutely exists. And even if a relationship ends, that doesn't mean the love didn't exist/there wasn't love/love isn't real.
I wish you the best in finding it!! You seem like such a lovely person :). All I can think of as advice to say is don't expect to feel deep love and commitment right away because it takes to build, and don't give up!
Thank you, Maddie ❤
also apparently Emma Chamberlain and her bf just broke up after 3 years so I am not surprised that she might feel a bit pessimistic about romantic love rn
thank you
your hair looks amazing!
mangooo is the cutest 😍
Maddie, please share a photo of you as Snookie!!
Yess Snooki was my fave on jersey shore haha
please update on sleep no more halloween bc i went to the normal show and it was so fun!!!!!
my life long best friend compulsively cheats and she cheated on most of her bfs, i cut all ties with her when she started doing it like 4 years ago
2:57 just had wild flashbacks to the opening scene of angus thongs and perfect snogging
To me, cheating is more of a choice than a mistake. Cheating normally starts from secrets and not being loyal in the first place.
❤️❤️❤️
At this point I‘d just date my bestie if she was this great 😂❤
Lmao I thought that same thing. But I suppose there is no romantic attraction there (? Or no physical attraction)
Wow! Did my comment get 86'd? I thought I gave out some pretty sage advice.
sending love to all the lovers… also, free Palestine ❤
I’ve been watching your content for about 2yrs now & I’ve loved everything u put out! But I’m stunned that u have not spoken up about the US-funded genocide happening in Palestine 🇵🇸 not one word…u have such a huge platform that can educate ppl & get them involved! ALL of us need to be speaking out against the genocide/occupation. #freepalestine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
not only have you stayed silent on the situation in Gaza, but you’re also still supporting the corporations that fund it. the least you could’ve done is hide the Starbucks cup.
edit: just to add, this is not a hate comment. i’ve been an avid supporter for YEARS and have watched/kept up with every piece of content you’ve put out. but when you position yourself as a “caring” and “very emotional and empathetic” person, yet stayed SILENT when a GENOCIDE is going on? disappointing.
The situation in Gaza is a heavy topic with a lot of weight. I personally think it's wild to expect each and every influencer to have a 'take' on a topic that has a lot of nuance and requires appropriate research to say anything insightful about it. That being said, it doesn't hurt for youtubers to give a simple statement that they stand with the people of Palestine. I wouldn't expect anything more than that, though.
@@guavageckoI agree to some extent, but at the end of the day the only nuance that matters is that genocide is bad. in any case, the least influencers can do is, like you said, put out a statement or at the BAREEE minimum step back from posting and pretending everything is business as usual. the ignorance is astounding
I think many people are horrified knowing what's happening in Gaza, and I understand it's frustrating when you're hurting deeply and you don't see it being mirrored by the people around you. I felt the same about the lack of response by influencers towards the war in Ukraine, but that's because it's close to home for me, so it's particularly painful. I think Maddie is a sincere person, and I don't actually think that's a Starbucks cup.
I wish Maddie was my gf😂