#bestdresser

[bestbeds-nz]

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[delusions-of-glamour]

Bestdressed wearing Sandy Liang ౨ৎ

[gothgleek]

Bestdressed in Sandy Liang

[thespoonisvictory]

the relationship between me and old bestdressed vlogs is one best not discussed. maybe

[fashionartfilmalien]

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[a-secretkey]

best.dressed

[daubigny-stan]

i watch a lot of youtube because i do not like having nothing on in the background lest i consume myself with my own thoughts. one of my most watched genres is fashion youtube. i've been watching fashion youtube since highschool, back in 2016-2017. and from watching all those yearly trends, thrift flips, and hauls, i've come to the conclusion that if i ever want to do youtube, i would not start until ive got a dayjob and like... robust self-esteem. age 27 AT LEAST.

so let me take you through my thought process. the queen of fashion youtube at the time was Ashley bestdressed. she did thrift hauls, thrift flips, outift inspos, the whole shebang. i think she was college - fresh graduate age when her channel was at peak popularity? and in 2020 she just dipped. disappeared. she makes content for ig only now and is working for many major fashion houses (good for her!). she vanished for a variety of reasons, in her videos she has always talked about her mental health struggles, having a stalker so she had to move a couple times during covid nonetheless, and honestly having the worst fanbase. i was on bestdressed reddit and discord at the time, these fans were horrible.

now, the most popular girlies on fashion youtube are kathleen illustrated, beepworld, mina le, and steal the spotlight (although im sorry to say in numbers not doing nearly as well as ashley; give em a watch if you're into fashion!). many of them started around the same time citing Ashley as a big influence. here i want to compare these creators to Ashley, not to incite hate but to understand what makes a healthy and sustainable content creator career.

I think age and career are a big factor because although social media content creation is usually a young man's job (because young people can keep up with trends and what not), the social part of social media is grueling. the horror of being known times like. a million. in ashley's case she had 3 million subscribers. and when you're around 21-25 ish you are the most insecure you will ever be. at least for me, i hope (im 22 now). so not only was ashley most likely struggling (she was very open about it, she made a lot of self deprecating jokes) but her biggest demographic was people her age who's insecurities were probably fueled by her content. like i will stress, im NOT blaming ashley, but like. 20 year olds watching another 20 yr old live her best life? oh my god the jealousy. the insecurity. it didn't help that she was so relatable and humble about it, i think we get more jealous of other people's success the closer they are to us (why i dont look at my personal instagram anymore lol). badabing badaboom parasocial relationship and 3 million people watching your every move and critiquing every bit of it. her fanbase had THE most baseless critiques. disguising her rich background or whatever, hating on her for being privileged (which she recognized a lot btw), literally going incel mode and making comments about every inch of her body, the only critique that holds up is prob the amazon video which she deleted. also she was not white which i think people were very weird about. i cant deny that her white contemporaries got much less hate.

what works with the creators now is some of them have careers outside of youtube and are also less personal with their content. for example, kathleen illustrated has a career in the creative industry which means she mostly does youtube for fun. you can tell it's not a source of stress for her, from the way she is in her videos. they also don't really talk about their lives in a personable way which separates them from their audience. now i know this point in particular in contentious, authenticity and relatability are huge selling points on youtube. but i guess it's more of analyzing the costs and benefits of it? is it worth to put your whole life out there? showing your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your friends? what if you split up? you can have a personable aura without revealing private details. in mina le's videos, since most of them are video essays she has the opportunity to show off her personality without revealing private details.

i hope the creators i mentioned and others don't have to go through what ashley bestdressed has gone through. i know content creation is a very passion filled career and to end up in circumstances where you lose your love for it sounds awful

[babeyblou]

fashion illustrations (2020) ft. bestdressed and taylor lashae

[prommytheus]

please come back to videomaking ashley i dont want to get instagram

[onlinesweetheart]

<3

[mumintroll]

when i think abt bestdressed and the way people talk to her in her comments it makes me so angry too. like the girl was literally stalked and threatened in her own home and talked very frequently abt the severe stress and anxiety that making videos caused her like its so easy to understand why she would want to stop but people just seem to think if u are a person who exists on the internet you owe the world your entire being and explanations for every action u ever take

[novumfolium]

It hit me like a truck.

The way I love women, it is infinitely different from how I love men...

There I was thirst watching Bestdressed old videos and going "how is this girl so mesmerizing" every few seconds

It's the way you can almost taste her anxiety

The way her little fingers fidgets

The way she pulls down her sleeve so nonchalantly

The way she thinks and express her jumbled up thoughts

The way that she's just incredibly human and how it hit me

The way she's so painfully beautiful because of how alive she is

It's a horrible realization when I realize that I love Lolita so much because Humbert knows what it means to be completely captured by the beauty of someone, flaw and all.

She can make me feel so weak in the knee

Wanting nothing more than just look at her existing all day

To listen to her, to get to know her, to assist her in whatever adventure she wants...

[delusions-of-glamour]

Bestdressed wearing Sandy Liang ౨ৎ

[gothgleek]

[grrrl-blogger]

ashley (aka bestdressed) in vintage dior at the cdfa awards

[fashionartfilmalien]

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