I just have to nit pick this aspect (and I totally agree with the rest btw!) that Emma was never “in” the vlog squad but she did hang out with them. But if she was in it, she would have been with them a ton, with and without cameras and probably not just in a few vlogs of Davids. She hung out and was featured with them a few times, but I think saying “in” implies more of a friendship with the entire group you know?full_send wrote:
A few days ago Tana Mongeau posted on her IG a pic of her and Emma at Zane's B-Day party last weekend (Zane is in the Vlog Squad with David Dobrik.) Emma's fans were hugely happy. A year ago, after TanaCon, Emma's fans wanted Emma nowhere near Tana in anyway.
A few hours ago, Bryant on his IG posted 10 pics from Zane's party, one of Emma and David Dobrik. Emma's Twitter stans are going hyperactive crazy happy, begging for a collab, for Emma in a Vlog Squad vid, responding as if, for example, Emma and Ethan had announced they were still in love. It is an unspoken knowledge in her fandom that Emma's view counts are dropping, and this largely has to do with her being a professional frickup who is unable or unwilling to remain friends with any relevant YouTubers, which is part of the job whether she likes it or not. A year ago Emma was friends and collabing with just about everyone, now she is friends with and collabs with no one. The Sister Squad video she posted on Halloween 2018 has 24 million views, the Halloween video she posted in 2019 of herself alone in her closet has just barely hit 3 million views.
Even her 2017 Halloween costume ideas video has about 2.5 million views, this despite posting it when she had 250k subscribers as she gained so many fans in 2018 that her 2017 videos have been binge watched endlessly by new fans. She has videos from early 2018 that were still gaining a million views a month in early 2019. At this time Emma is barely gaining any new subscribers, and her older videos are barely being (re-)watched as they had been 6 months ago. Yes I sort of keep track of this stuff so sorry if it is boring.
The point here is that Emma must be reading her socials and seeing the 100% of her biggest Twitter / IG stan accounts begging for her to collab with David, Tana, even Zane, basically anyone, posting lots of old pics of her when she was in the Vlog Squad for about two months in summer 2018 (which ended when David tortured Emma with a giant snake and her worst fear, caterpillars.) David Dobrik has publicly said only nice things about Emma in the past year. He may or may not want to actually have her in one of his videos again, but certainly she still has enough of a huge following that a collab with her would be good for just about any of the LA YouTubers.
And yes, I think it is stupid that Emma either 1) flips off the camera 2)sticks her tongue out with the peace sign. Apparently she is unable to just smile and wave, or thumbs up, we are only missing the idiot fish lips then it would be a trifecta of dumbass poses.
Also now that it’s been brought up and got me thinking, when I just started to watch Emma I binge watched all her older videos (I do this with everyone). The only difference is I go back with other people to do it again. But you see one Emma
Chamberlain video and it’s like seeing them all lol
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