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She needed a lot of instastories to tell the world that she is too lazy to do patreon rewards and to ship gifts she was given but she will gladly take 3 pounds from 13-year-olds.
I bet that she keeps all the lush bath bombs fans give her and throws away everything she doesnt like (self made stuff etc)
I just started to like her a little bit more... with Oliver not being around 24/7. And with her being so happy and even slightly reminding me of old Carrie (which I used to love). Anyway.
The fact that she's trying to trick her fans/minions/13 year olds into shipping her and Oliver with yet another pointless blog post AND NOW the patreon thing. She's selling an album, doing concerts, starring in musicals, selling terribly written but still a lot of her books. Ffs what's wrong with her? She's spending two whole weeks in Disney. I couldn't even dream of that. As an aspiring (German) author I'm working in retail in order to support my writing and my ongoing studies at university. I feel like she's such a terrible... person? Trading gifts and presents others would give her for money (not to mention that she's not even willing to appear at stage doors etc.) Oh my.
All her « oh I have such moral issues with you for money » just sounds like she wants the minions to shower her with messages saying she should do it, so she doesn’t have to hold herself accountable.
Patreon isn’t for people doing sold out shows and book tours. She could set up a kickstarted for a specific project (like a musical she’s writing or whatever), if she pitched it to people so they could invest in it, not just saying « i have a secret project tee hee also give me your pocket money if you give me other things I’ll throw them away »
Surely if she wants the money to produce a new musical our some other project she needs a crowdfunding campaign, not a patreon. It kinda feels like she's doing it through Patreon instead so that if she doesn't hit a target or she decides not to do her project, she still gets to keep the money.
Seems to me that a crowdfunding project would be more in keeping with what she wants to use (e.g. use it for a specific creative project). I do quite like the idea of ko-fi though. Even with crowdfunding like kickstarter it involves constant badgering and promotion to get something off the ground.
I think in terms of the money Carrie earns from her personal projects, I can kind of understand her not wanted to lump a big chunk into a creative project. The industry is very fickle and funding is hard to come by and it can be very risky putting your own money into something. I was involve in a project a few years ago which we had to pay a membership for and it eventually meant that the only money going in was those who were trying to set it up. It can become very disheartening doing it that way.
Just when I thought she couldn’t sink any lower, this comes along.
Does she not see how incredibly lucky she is? If she’s hard up for money that bad why not get another job like the rest of us or is that beneath her nowadays. God forbid princess Carrie would have to work in a coffee shop like us normal people to you know, pay for things.
The cheek of YouTubers it’s disgusting. Asking for money for people to watch them while they jet off to Disney. Acting as if they deserve our hard earned cash while they sit in front of a camera and moan about pointless stuff. They really think they are something special and it says a lot about someone like Carrie thinking people should pay to watch her.
Maybe she should have saved the money she spent on her extravagant Disney trip and used it for her secret project instead.
Can she honestly feel right about taking money from others when she clearly has the resources to fund her own way? She can afford to live alone in London for fucks sake! How can she vlog, from her second week in a Disney hotel, asking people to donate money to her???
Pay for your own damn “secret projects,” Carrie.
This is just another sign that she’s never had to take risks or pave her own way to success. Normal people would use their own resources and hope to succeed. Carrie doesn’t even seem to realize that concept exists, because why should the risk be on HER?
It never has been - her parents got her an agent and drove her to auditions, she got roles based on connections to famous people (“friendships”, I might add, that she still flaunts on her social media), her channel got a boost from collaborating with already successful people (Alex Day obviously gave her a huge boost by featuring her on his channel and being in her videos, but also look at her most popular videos - they’re the ones with The Vamps and her famous brother), she then got roles and book deals based on her channel’s popularity, etc.
She can’t be bothered to thank her 13 year old fans for coming to her shows by going to stage door, but would happily take what little money they have? What a greedy, entitled brat.
I tweeted telling her it was a terrible idea. I really hope she doesn’t do this - so many little ones are gonna wanna pay for her London flat and more lush hauls!
She almost definitely wants it to fund a play of her book. I can see it now.
“Vote for what book you want guys, it doesn’t matter which one you pick, the leads will be played by ME and OLIVER no matter which book you pick,”
She named her album after it probably so people would link it as a soundtrack. (I refuse to believe an author would be so in creative they’d name their book and album the same thing unless it was intended for the two to be linked).
YouTubers with go fund me pages are so needy. “Oh it helps me get the necessary things so i can keep making views”. Then they go on about how they need it to pay their rent all whilst doing a STATIONERY HAUL. How do these deluded people think real people cope?
So, this absolute brain dead, selfish, greedy, entitled, spoilt woman-child twat, is basically asking people for money so she can be 'creative', whilst she sits in her £600 a night hotel room??? What planet is she on? In what world does she think this would ever be a good idea?
Surely she discussed this with her parents or Tom and Gi, why did they not tell her it was a terrible idea and how utterly self centrered and completely distasteful it is to basically beg for money, when it is more than obvious you live a very comfortable life?
And meanwhile freelance artists struggle to get a couple pounds on go fund me or patreon. She is beyond privileged. She earns her sweet money from book advances and royalties, the sales from her album and her job in Heathers. She should know better and start saving for her project like a normal person.
Is there no part of her that thinks, hey maybe I shouldn’t ask a predominantly young teenage audience for money for a secret project I refuse to give details about in case it doesn’t work it so I can just never mention it again and hope people forget?
I wonder if that’s also why she isn’t using GFM or KS which would be more appropriate funding sites. Because there you can’t giggle and talk about a project you have conjured up with your friend in a ridiculous hotel room, you actually have to show plans and ideas.
But hey she is just a normal girl, doing normal things who doesn’t at all take advantage right?
I’ll admit I posted before watching all of her stories about this. And now that I’ve seen them, it’s worse than I thought. Her argument is that she’d rather take her fans’ money than the thoughtfully picked out or handmade gifts they bring her at stage door and on her book tours because she just throws the gifts away.
She mentions in her stories that people have ignored her saying “you don’t have to buy me gifts” but is she really surprised? I’m sorry, but telling people they’re not obligated to buy you gifts, and then spending a whole video doing shoutouts to fans who gave you stuff, isn’t exactly discouraging people from bringing gifts.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone ever imply they'd rather be paid, than receive gifts from their fans. I haven't watched the insta-stories, as I don't have Instagram, but I trust your reactions. Who does she think she is?
Often creators encourage fans to buy merchandise to support them, so the fan at least gets something out it, or to donate to a good cause on their behalf. But to brazenly state you'd prefer money than a gift because you just throw them away?
I have been lurking GG for a while but finally made an account after this Patreon situation. I've been watching Carrie for a long time and have felt iffy over quite a few things she's done (always something to do with exploiting her audience) but this takes the cake. She added a link on her blog to a Ko-Fi page, where she hints at a potential podcast she may be starting. It astounds me that someone who just went to Disneyworld for two weeks, openly spends oodles at Lush, and lives alone in a beautiful London flat feels it's appropriate to ask her young audience for even more money. A vast majority of the replies to her Patreon query were against her asking for funds, yet she went on and did it anyway.
I agree with those here that commented on the fact that she says, "no gifts" but proceeds to film videos of herself opening them and reading the names and such. At 13, I absolutely would have sent her a package just to be acknowledged on camera like that. There is no doubt in my mind that her fans will continue to bring her gifts AND support her Ko-Fi. It feels so wrong to continue watching her videos and giving her more views after this. However, it's like a train wreck and I can't look away.
I sincerely never would have thought that she would be the type to do something like that. I have my problems with Carrie but I always saw her as someone quite responsible with her channel and the fact that she has a young impressionable audience. Carrie from a few years ago would have never asked money like that from her audience of so many 13-14 y-o (and younger!). She really did change and I can’t help but feel disappointed and disgusted by her behavior.