# "high maintenance to be low maintenance" is NONSENSE | Internet Analysis ## Метаданные - **Канал:** tiffanyferg - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb7waYkthk ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb7waYkthk) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) - Hello, my dudes, welcome back to "Internet Analysis. " Today, I wanna talk about beauty maintenance. - [Narrator] I spend about $5,000 a month on my beauty maintenance routine so no one can call me ugly. - Part 1 of the High-Maintenance Girls Club. - Being tired isn't an excuse to be ugly. - You gotta treat beauty like your job. Act like you're an influencer. - This is everything that we're doing to be our hottest, happiest selves. - Specifically, I wanna get into the high maintenance to be low maintenance trend. This has been around for a couple years, but it's been on my list, and I think it's time. - High-maintenance things I do to be low-maintenance. - [Narrator] Here are the high-maintenance things I do once a week. - [Narrator] Let's fight the Sunday scaries and do a high-maintenance beauty routine that's gonna make me low-maintenance and feel my best for the rest of the week. - This trend of high maintenance to be low maintenance is basically the beauty equivalent of meal prepping. So maybe you have one big appointment day where you get like everything done or you spend two or three hours every Sunday night doing all of these beauty, self-care maintenance tasks. For example, something like taking 10 minutes to tint your eyebrows so that you don't have to mess with them all week. In theory, all of this upfront work helps to make the rest of your week better, maybe even life better. But is there really truth to that? Does all of this work really help make you any lower maintenance? - [Narrator] Let's be honest: this is high maintenance. And I wanna say it's to be low maintenance, but it actually just takes up so much time, and it's expensive. - And of course we've gotta dig into the idea of maintaining your beauty, this requirement that every woman has to do X, Y, Z tasks just to exist, to be seen in public, all of the energy, time, and money involved in maintaining your hair, skin, nails, and even body. - I am so sick of plastic surgery and beauty maintenance! - Maintenance? This is upkeep. - As a beauty lover, I cannot stand the phrase beauty maintenance. First of all, you're not a car. - Beauty maintenance is something that you have to tend to every single day. - First of all, this idea of maintenance is a myth in itself. The maintenance never ends. It's daily, weekly, annually, and you're never done for more than like a few hours. - Every single morning and night, I'm standing in front of this mirror for a good 20 to 30 minutes doing my maintenance. - I'm really fascinated by: what is the new baseline? What is considered the bare minimum in terms of beauty tasks? What is required to be seen as acceptable, normal, and professional? - It's not that I'm looking in the mirror and being like, "Oh my God, my eyelashes are too short, "like I need to fix this. " It was more so that I felt like everyone around me was doing like a baseline level of appearance upkeep that I wasn't doing. It felt like it wasn't enough that I, you know, had a professional outfit and I had my hair done, I had makeup on. Like everyone around me was doing so much more. - The goalposts have shifted so much in terms of everyday, usual bare minimum maintenance, but also in how we think about certain treatments. Things that used to be considered very high-maintenance or luxury or even extreme are now considered run-of-the-mill. - Especially when I think about like things that used to be only for like celebrities and rich people, like Botox, are now like that's something we talk about in like the office lunchroom. - I just think everyone is constantly getting work done. I mean, I hear people talk about what they want done like it's what's on their grocery list. Like we'll be at lunch, and someone will be like, "Oh yeah, I want Barbie Botox. " What? - So on a day-to-day basis, many feel pressured to professionally maintain their hair, their brows, their lashes, their nails, and also to be getting intensive skincare treatments, facials regularly. You should be starting with your injectables, you should be doing Botox, you should be getting some fillers where you need it. You can't possibly show signs of aging, sagging. And it's not about going above and beyond. If you don't keep up with these things, you'll be judged as if you're slacking and failing to take care of yourself. But before we continue, this portion of today's video is sponsored by CASETiFY. My absolute favorite gifts to give or receive often involve photos and/or words of affirmation. I just think it is so sweet to be reminded of your memories together and why you care for each other. I love a nice card, but you know what's even better? How about a custom photo phone case that your loved one can literally carry with them at all times? So shout-out to CASETiFY. They make it super easy to design your own custom cases. You can also customize with just text if that's more your style. But I personally am a photo girly. I decided to make a collage of our dog Clark to give to my husband. So you just pick the phone model and the style of case you want and upload your photos. I had so much fun going through my camera roll and picking all my favorite Clarky photos. 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So I'm excited it'll still be safe, despite all my best efforts to break my screen. If you are still figuring out your holiday gifts, I highly recommend these custom CASETiFY cases. I love a gift that is not only practical, a phone case is gonna get so much use, but it's also personalized. It's sweet, it's nostalgic. Win-win in my book. You can click the link in my description or go to casetify. com/tiffanyferg to get 15% off your order. Make sure you shop soon to ensure on-time delivery. And obviously a big part of this is the influence of influencers, social media. Of course, these pressures existed in the past. There were beauty magazines where, you know, we would get our recommendations of what we needed to do and what we should buy. But now that we're all spending hours and hours scrolling every day, the idea of having 40-step routines for every part of your life is normalized. - I stand in front of my mirror every morning and night, and I think, "Do I need to tweeze my eyebrows? "Am I gonna oil my scalp tonight for healthy hair growth? "What do I need to incorporate "into my skincare routine to spot treat "or to get rid of hyperpigmentation or whatever? "How can I improve my skin barrier? " - We're encouraged to start doing all of these things sooner and sooner. Preteens are obsessed with skincare and anti-aging. And the second you turn 20, you better start getting baby Botox 'cause you're an old hag. Social media and especially apps like TikTok can be particularly insidious because of the way that you just get sucked in and you get introduced to things that you never would've considered, you never would've noticed. And now suddenly this is literally a new thing that you should be insecure about. - The short mid-face trend has had a chokehold on us long mid-face girlies. - What the fuck does that even mean? - Many people, especially online, are losing their sense of reality because the expectations are being warped by these frankly absurd routines. - Here's my monthly maintenance routine to look and feel expensive. - Morning and night skincare, shower routine, makeup, hair care. - [Narrator] I get Botox every three to six months. My facials and PRP injections for 500. - [Narrator] I always have my nails done like every two weeks. - [Narrator] I love getting my brows laminated. - I would love to do a lash lift and tint, which would be 110. Hair cut and tone. - [Narrator] Eyebrows starting for 50. Then I do laser genesis. Acupuncture, epilation hair removal. - [Narrator] Dermaplaning is not a daily activity, but there was some peach fuzz I couldn't stand. - [Narrator] My Gel-X Manicures and pedicures. - I get a massage every two weeks. I work with a trainer. - [Narrator] Then body sculpting and EMS twice a month for 700. - [Narrator] I reach for my CurrentBody LED light therapy mask. - Then my cheek filler. And then miscellaneous Botox because I'm a girl. 350. - But that is not and should not be the standard for the average person when, again, hi, we're here in this terrible economy. But because of all this media and pressure, people are feeling compelled to have a 60-step beauty maintenance routine. - I really think a lot of people are confused on what beauty services are a luxury versus what's a necessity. And I struggle to figure out like where in the timeline of life we figured out that, in your 20s, you need nails and feet, hair, lashes, waxes all done on a schedule every two weeks. I'm not trying to be rude, but like who do you think you are? Like you're not Big Latto, you don't need everything done that much. - But truly who can afford all of that and who has the time? Basically, only influencers because it is their literal job to look good. Doing their self-care or getting treatments done is the basis of their content, and they're either getting paid to promote this stuff or at the very least receiving products and treatments for free. It's just a completely different ball game. Do not compare yourself to influencers. Similarly, it's not very helpful to compare yourself to people way outside your tax bracket or even like your age or life group. - From TikTok and Instagram, you would think that everyone just has this amazing curated beauty routine, and it can feel like a real struggle to keep up. - Stop looking at everybody online. They're not living the same lifestyle that you are living. - It is not normal to get a full-body maintenance done every single month, especially if you're in your 20s and college. - We have like high school students living at home or college students who are broke comparing themselves to grown women who have careers and tons of discretionary income. It is completely unreasonable to expect yourself to be able to keep up with that kind of spending or that kind of lifestyle. And you've probably heard this very popular response to this whole idea: "Hey, you're not ugly, "you're just poor. " - Have you ever heard the term: "You're not ugly, you're just poor"? Allow me to show you why that's true. - Whenever you feel ugly, you need to remember: so many normal people are getting like ridiculous amounts of work done. So many people you walk by have nose jobs, have like a shit ton of Botox, face filler everywhere. - So the next time you're feeling bad about how you don't look naturally a certain way, please remember: this is so much stuff. - And I'm like, "Hold on. "Is that really a helpful point? " Yes, it absolutely helps to be aware of how much work and time and money it takes to look like this influencer or this celebrity. It's very helpful for us to be reminded, "Hey, that's not natural, effortless beauty. " ### [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb7waYkthk&t=600s) Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00) But, yeah, I just feel like that phrase: "You're not ugly, you're just poor. " It's like, well, now I still feel ugly because I can't dismantle the beauty standards in my brain. So I feel ugly and I'm broke, and I get to feel bad about that too. I can see why it's a popular catchphrase, but, again, maybe not like the exact right messaging. And this is where we have to break down the high- or low-maintenance woman dichotomy, right? What do we think of when we think of either type of person? Being a high-maintenance woman is typically seen as a bad thing. That's an insult. If you're high-maintenance, you're snobby, you only care about your appearance, you're superficial. Whereas low-maintenance means you're like a chill, cool girl. Like think about how men often joke: "Take her swimming on the first date," as a test of like how natural and effortless a woman's beauty really is. Because a high-maintenance woman would probably have all of her makeup melt off, and therefore she's bad. She is an unworthy woman. This could be a whole video in itself. But when it comes to men and how they talk about women and high-maintenance women: "Avoid high-maintenance women, don't date them. " There's high-maintenance in this sense, like the beauty maintenance sense, and then there's high-maintenance within the relationship. Like, oh, a woman who's needy or demanding, blah, blah. Men will say: "Don't date a high-maintenance woman "because she's materialistic. "She's only dating you for money "so that you can pay for her hair, her nails. "A high-maintenance woman's gonna keep you broke. " I'm so tired. But women think this and repeat these kind of ideas as well. Like other women in the competitive dating pool also hate on high-maintenance women because they've internalized all this bullshit from men. It's just funny that men want you to take care of yourself, they want you to look good, they want somebody they can show off, yet somehow they don't actually want you spending time or money on that. Okay. Men claim to love women in sweatpants, hair tied, chilling with no makeup on. And then when they actually see a genuine woman in that condition, they're like, "Ew, not that, take care of yourself. "Have some respect. " They famously think that no-makeup makeup is really like makeup-less. You know, they just have no idea. Straight men, okay, they don't know what's going on. But of course so much of like the beauty ideals, especially when it comes to like women who date men, obviously comes from patriarchal standards and these very heteronormative expectations. But even if you try to remove men from the equation and just think about like what women want for themselves, I think many women do aim for the kind of beauty that lasts, the kind of treatments that can get them closer to the state they wanna be in all the time, if that makes sense. We dream of just waking up and having a perfect, fresh face. Lashes, brows look great, hair looks great. I think the ways that high or low maintenance are thrown around really show that these identifiers are less literal and they're more just about associations with a certain type of woman. And having like low-maintenance, effortless beauty is definitely seen as a status symbol. You want all of the beauty that comes from high-maintenance beauty tasks with the cool vibe of being low-maintenance, being chill. But you really cannot have it both ways. Shouldn't high and low maintenance be mutually exclusive? As Nyima Jobe wrote: what high maintenance to be low maintenance videos show is that "so-called low maintenance "or 'natural' appearance is anything but. "Looking natural is now a beauty standard so rigorous "that it requires at least "a full day's commitment each month. " And I think that totally nailed it. So I guess my petty beef with this trend name is like: does high maintenance to be low maintenance make any sense? No, to me, it doesn't. Let's talk about, genuinely: what would low maintenance be? Not doing much or nothing at all. Air drying your hair, natural, bare naked nails, little to no makeup, washing your face with just water. That's like truly low maintenance. Could you keep up with your beauty regimen on a desert island? Most of us could not. But, again, low maintenance, especially in this context, is more about the no-makeup makeup look, that kind of aspiration. The goal is to appear effortless, but of course you're putting the work in. I saw some TikToks like this, like, "Wow, you're so naturally beautiful. " Little do they know: yes, it's easy to look great first thing in the morning when you have microbladed eyebrows, a lash lift, and great skin thanks to the thousands you spend on treatments. And it's funny how defensive we can get about people thinking you did one thing or another. - She told Vogue she prefers to go more natural, so she didn't wear mascara or eyebrow gel on her wedding day. Sweetness, you didn't wear it because you have a lash lift, lash extensions, and eyebrow lamination. - [Narrator] I wasn't wearing Louboutins! I was wearing little brown kitten heels! (beep) bitch! - Anyway, obviously we all have our own personal metrics of what we consider to be high or low maintenance in terms of our own routine. Regardless, it's all maintenance, and most of us feel compelled to stick to even our bare-bones routine because we don't feel like we can exist, we can't be presentable without it. Finally, let's get into the hot girl hamster wheel. I wanna get into this affects women financially. - When you start to think of these beauty enhancements, the highlights, the lashes, the filler, the nails, as maintenance, they become as locked into your budget ### [15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb7waYkthk&t=900s) Segment 4 (15:00 - 20:00) as your rent is. - How much are you all spending on maintenance monthly? - Without including like skincare, gym membership, we're at 1,344 pounds. - The total is 1,104 a month. - 300 to like 1,000 for hair. - Nails are 175. You got laser, waxing. - The amount of money you absolutely hemorrhage just trying to adhere to like a normal, clean, professional-looking beauty standard is crazy. - Katie Gatti Tassin is a personal finance content creator and author, host of the show "Money with Katie," as well as co-host of one of my favorite culture podcasts: "Diabolical Lies. " I've mentioned them so many times already. But Katie coined this term, hot girl hamster wheel, which is very relevant to the beauty maintenance cycle, and she's made a couple of podcast episodes about it if you wanna listen to those fully. - [Katie] So this is how my monthly rotation on that hamster wheel would begin. Number one, feel bad about myself, and then notice in rapid, horrifying succession that my roots were growing out and my ends were split and my gel nails were peeling off and my legs were pale and hairy. Number two, panic schedule. A full day of back-to-back primping, appointments, massage, facial, eyebrow threading, cut and color, manicure/pedicure, spray tan, and chill. And the final step, can't skip this one: go home, bask in the glory of retaining hot girl status for another, mm, two to three weeks, and then quickly realize that, "Hmm, I don't really feel any different," and that I'd have to repeat the process soon. - Basically, the idea is: once you are on the hot girl hamster wheel, you're doing all these maintenance tasks. Even if you get to a point where you want to stop, it may seem very impossible to do so. Hence the hamster wheel of it all, all right, the inertia. Due to the nature of these treatments, if you stop, you don't just immediately go back to your natural state, right? If you're a bleach blonde and you abruptly stop dying your hair, your roots are gonna grow out in a very delineated, unsightly way. If you've been getting manicures for a long time and you suddenly stop: guess what? Your natural nails are probably wrecked underneath, and it is gonna take months of sad, brittle, weak nails for them to get to a point where they're even like decent again. And therefore it's gonna tempt you to just get back on the hamster wheel, just start getting your nails done. But also when it comes to the hot girl hamster wheel, there is an emotional, psychological component as well. Katie said, "These expenses are not easy to cut out "when they're fossilized into your self-esteem. " - You're not gonna wanna touch that beauty category because you have convinced yourself that is the bare minimum you need to do to be able to walk out the door into the world. - So Katie eventually realized that she was spending an absurd amount of money on beauty relative to her income. It was $3,800 a year, which was 10% of her take-home pay. 10%! The sneaky thing about beauty maintenance is that, because all of these things happen at different times, some things are daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, a couple times a year, it can be really easy for the amount of money to feel hidden. Like, "I only spent $100 this month," but you're gonna have a $700 hair bill next month. So it's much better to annualize your expenses and figure out, "Okay, really, again, "compared to how much I'm earning, "how much of that whole pie is going just to beauty? " List out all your expenses, tips included, be honest with yourself. What percentage of your work, your labor, your time is just going to beauty maintenance just to make you feel like you're your bare minimum, presentable, professional self? And a big question: are you spending more on beauty than you are even saving? That is a huge red flag. But I think it's really common because, again, many women see all of this beauty maintenance as a necessity, a must-have. - [Katie] I decided to quantify what my beauty habits would cost me in the long run. So I whipped out the compounding returns calculator to see what would happen if I were investing this money instead: the opportunity cost of my current habits. A lifetime of conventional beauty standard adherence clocking in at $320 per month was $1,001,728. - Those calculators are so painful. Seeing the actual amount that you spend is bad enough, but the opportunity costs over time are way higher. Your exact situation may vary, but, undoubtedly, many, many women cannot afford their beauty routines. Some have to get into debt to keep up with them. Others are barely saving or not saving at all because there is just nothing left. And, again, I know the economy is very rough right now, but that is all the more reason to cut costs where you can. It's tough because maintaining your beauty can be a form of survival. So it's like when you're telling people just to survive, if you're thinking financially, "Okay, that means cut down, bare-bones budget, sure. " But, for many people, maintaining their beauty is part of survival. It's complicated. - [Katie] The truth is: at the time, I just did not make enough money to justify those habits. I needed to determine the highest ROI beauty spending I was doing and then ditch the rest. - A helpful step would be to like audit all of the services that you're getting and ask yourself like, "Do I really need this? "Does this really make a difference to me "or is this just a nice-to-have? " Because the nice-to-haves will keep you from what you need to have, which is the savings. - Once you have a look at the whole big picture, then you can start ranking and prioritizing things. Which of these expenses is worth it and needs to be done professionally? ### [20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb7waYkthk&t=1200s) Segment 5 (20:00 - 25:00) "Okay, I can afford that, that's great. " But then lower down the list, you know, what actually can be cut out, what's not worth it, or what can you DIY? Again, in this economy, it is a necessity to DIY pretty much as you can handle. - You know, I'm all for paying people who provide services the money that they're worth, like with their skills or time and everything. But it's getting out of hand. I've quit getting my nails done. lashes done. I'm about to start cutting my own hair because a trim is gonna cost me $85. I'm sorry but no. - [Narrator] I believe in a woman's right to be hot and at an affordable cost. - High maintenance does not mean that you need to be paying $5,000 a month. - Many people are cutting down expenses, we're trying to hunker down and hopefully be able to ride the wave. We're not in positions of being able to just throw money out the window. Again, some of these numbers are baffling to me as somebody who hasn't gotten involved in a lot of these services. But like spending $2,000 a year on lash extensions? That is wild. - So those four things alone, like lashes, tan, nails, hair, I used to spend $7,040 a year on those four things. Just by making those swaps, I now spend $876 a year. That saves me $6,150. - So it is incredible when people share these stories and are like, "Hey, reminder, "you don't have to do all this stuff in the salon. "You don't necessarily have to "get things professionally done. "There are ways that you can handle "your hair, skin, nails at home much, much more cheaply. " - You never know what's gonna happen. You might lose your job, something might happen, and you might not be able to spend that money. And so learning how to do that DIY is going to ensure that you can always do your maintenance routine no matter what financial situation you're in. - And of course there is an element of self-preservation here. I'm not just telling people to just give up on all your beauty maintenance, stop doing anything, stop spending any money, who cares? I understand why it is important for people, not just for your own self-esteem, your own confidence to feel ready, to feel put together, whatever that means to you. But, again, in terms of why women especially feel compelled to do these things, it's because of how we're treated in the world. It's because of the judgments that women face. Again, there are certain expectations of what we're supposed to look like in order to be taken seriously, to be respected. And of course these standards are all so, so much worse the further you are from like the default white beauty standards. If you're an American woman and you're white, you're thin, you're conventionally pretty, you can deal with cutting down on certain things, and people will give you a lot of grace. Whereas if you're further away from that, you're gonna face more and more hate and judgment and discrimination for not presenting yourself in the way that people expect you to. Nyima Jobe wrote: "The pressure to maintain a certain appearance "isn't felt equally across all demographics. "Black women, for example, "often spend six times more "on beauty products and services "than their white counterparts. "And despite comprising only 2% of the UK population, "Black women account for 10% "of the UK's haircare expenditure. "These statistics explicitly show "the disparity in beauty upkeep for Black women "and also highlight why some Black women "feel the need to reach an unrealistic standard of beauty. " So, again, I don't want this to sound like I'm dismissing the value or the reasons why people care so much about beauty maintenance. Yeah, anyway, back to the script. The average woman or even girl is expected to know how to do her own hair and makeup of course, but, again, the goalposts are shifting now, okay? Now you have to do that and much more. You should be able to do your hair, skin, nails, manicures at home, acrylics at home, DIY lash lift. Why not? - I remember when I was younger, all I used to do was play in makeup, and that's when I became really good at it. And then somewhere in adulthood I just stopped. Like I just became content with how it looked. - I understand the playful spirit, okay? I get the idea of being like, "You know what, "we used to have fun with this. "We used to play dress up "and have fun practicing with our makeup. " - You have to keep practicing day in and day out like it's your job. - But I definitely don't think that you should or should have to treat beauty like it's your job. We already have jobs. I gotta do my job job. But, for many women, beauty practically is a part-time job that they have to do. And guess what? It's unpaid. If anything, it's costing them money. Yeah, it's important to acknowledge that, even with DIYing a lot of these things, it takes a lot of work to get good at these tasks. And of course it can still be incredibly time-consuming and fairly expensive in order to buy all the tools and the materials. It's like, yes, you're cutting down on like probably thousands of dollars of cost and time, but it's like you're still expected to, for the most part, do these things. You're allowed to, okay, start DIYing your hair, start DIYing your nails, but you're not really allowed to be like, "What if I leave my hair natural? "What if I don't do my nails? " Blasphemy. And last thing I wanna say about this DIY thing is like some of these tasks can be very dangerous. There's a reason that professionals do them. Again, we've seen people doing their nails at home. If you're painting with regular polish, cool. But now we have like gel and we have like at-home lights, and people have been learning how to do all these more advanced manicures at home. But maybe not having the knowledge of, again, how harmful these materials might be. ### [25:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUb7waYkthk&t=1500s) Segment 6 (25:00 - 28:00) A lot of people have been talking about getting various allergies because of doing their nails at home and like not fully curing them. Those are just risks that you just don't even know should be a consideration. - And I learned that you can develop a gel allergy from doing your nails at home improperly. I thought that I was doing a good job, but turns out I wasn't. - This is a public safety announcement. Do not do gel nails at home. 'Cause I have an allergy to acrylates now. And because acrylates are in literally all of our fucking products, I can't use any of this nail polish. Also the glue that they use for eyelash extensions and wigs, all of the materials that they use to make crowns, implants, veneers and dentures: also allergic to that. - Then we've got people, again, doing their own lash lifts at home, messing around with your eyes. People are buying supplies off of Amazon. You don't know necessarily if that's the right stuff or how to handle it. There's just like so many risks here. You can literally go blind! - We need to talk more about what is in these lash perm solutions, as they can be extremely harmful to the eye. You're leaving yourself at a much higher risk of getting a severe infection, stye, or even chemical burns that could scar the meibomian glands shut. - DIY at-home lash cluster and glues are more likely to get into the eyes and clog those glands that are supposed to produce oils, leading to styes, dry eyes, chemical burns, vision issues. - So, again, you can probably, you know, paint your nails very well at home. That is totally fine. But I definitely would never recommend messing with your eyes. It is not worth it. And we get to final thoughts. Again, this video is a little bit of a simpler one, a straightforward one. There's obviously so much more we could get into in terms of the feminism of it all, of course, the root of beauty standards and ideals. And I may just have to do some follow-up videos. Add them back to the list. There's always more to be said. And, yeah, it's like I feel conflicted because, on one hand, I wanna be like, "Oh, just resist. "Like you don't have to do that. "You all these things. " But that's easy for me to say as somebody who is admittedly pretty low-maintenance with my beauty. I'm a pretty simple gal when it comes to beauty, skincare, hair. And, again, that's not to say it in a pick-me way. I just truly can't be bothered. I don't have the talent for it. interest in it. I'm not very skilled. Yeah, so I don't want anyone to watch this and feel bad. I don't want you to feel like I am judging you. As always, I just kind of want to continue the conversation. I always think it's helpful to just think it through, question it for yourself. Sometimes when we get in the practice of something like so deeply and it's so ingrained in us, in our routines, we don't even let ourselves question whether that is good for us anymore. And so like I'm giving you permission to just, another time where we can be like, "Hey, do I really wanna keep doing that thing? " Think about it, that's okay. I'm also posting more on my second channel this month. I do more casual commentary videos. It's a little bit of a pettier, dare I say, bitchier side of me. I'm a little snarkier and it's fun, it's casual. And thank you again to CASETiFY for sponsoring today's video. You can check them out in the description. If you wanna watch my last video, it was about the influencer accent, and it was very well liked. So thank you for enjoying that. And stay tuned for future "Internet Analysis" videos. K, thanks, bye! --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/44371*