• blarth
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    7 months ago

    I know I can’t feel what she’s feeling, but I have this intuition that she’s played it up because she didn’t want to go back to the grind of YouTube and had a dedicated partner willing to care for her for 2 years.

    Note I could be completely wrong and an asshole, but there’s something about it that feels off. I think it’s because I haven’t heard of anyone who isn’t famous suffering from long covid to this extreme. I do know people who died or almost died, but the ones still alive recovered and function normally for the most part now. They weren’t in bed for years.

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      7 months ago

      I haven’t heard of anyone who isn’t famous suffering from long covid to this extreme.

      Gee, I wonder why you might be more likely to hear about a famous person with a rare condition than a random stranger with a rare condition. It’s a real enigma!

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      7 months ago

      Wtf is actually wrong with you, I think youre playing it to an audience online. Go read a book

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        7 months ago

        🙄

        You people are so hyper defensive of someone you’ve never even met.

        Take a breath. I’m not saying for sure she’s faking it, I just think that a lot of people live with similar exhaustion and don’t lay in bed 24/7 while someone else cares for them.

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          7 months ago

          I’m on her patreon and there have been quite regular updates on her health on there for the past 3 years.

          For someone that “didn’t want to go back to the grind of YouTube” she sure is making a lot of footage of her lying in bed looking sick.

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              Not sure what you mean by that. I hardly use patreon or any of the “perks” you get. It’s really just a way to throw money at people and she’s just one of around 30 subscriptions, mostly educational channels. And it felt wrong to cancel the sub because she got ill and couldn’t do youtube videos anymore.

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            7 months ago

            Her husband is creating that footage.