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WTF is Wrong With You? Ruby Franke, Jodi Hildebrandt and YouTube edition.

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YouTube celebrities are a kind of accessible celebrity that exist on the margins of fame, and YT content creators do some really fucked up stuff sometimes that captures the world's attention. Remember when Logan Paul went to the Japanese suicide forest? Or when James Charles was canceled for being outed as a predator? Of course, you do if you pay close attention to gossip. However, superstars need to be A to B (ish) list for us in the Manor, okay C list too, for us to care. YTers don't even register on the alphabet. Though at times, they behave poorly, and that's when we might care about what they do. At the moment, this woman is famous, big time famous, but not for what she intended. She's renowned in the only way YouTubers become famous-acting atrociously or criminally.  Ruby Franke is a former American family vlogger who produced the now-defunct YouTube judgy-as-hell channel ConneXions/8 Passengers along with her crooked business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt.  They host...

Celebrity Gossip Is In The Crapper, An Unintended Outcome Of The Strikes!

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How I long for the bygone days of couch-jumping and maniacal laughter. No, for reals. Ever since the writers and actors went on strike, all of your favorite celebs are no longer on the promotional ho stroll making fools of themselves or being tacky. Ergo, celebrity gossip isn't just in the crapper, it's an unsinkable molly brown - or a brown trout of, let's say, the Piers Morgan variety. Eeeow! No one wants that.  How do we know this? Because all the gossip sites are straining really hard to come up with stuff now that the stars are hunkering down - or protesting, God help us, like Susan Sarandon . Take "Page Six," which today has this earth-shattering news: "Barbara Walters' Last Words!" Which are the none-too-earth-shattering, "No regrets. I've had a great life." That's not just a crumb parading as a story, it's your grandfather's flaky beard dandruff and sputum dotting his dark blue shirt. What else does "Page Six...