Unfocused Thoughts

I’m watching YouTube videos and trancing out.

Beige Moms

I do think it’s terrible that some people can be like "I love my aesthetic more than I love my child" in real life. And that they’re so proud to be terrible people.

There have been so many studies done into the issues of child psychology, and some of the best advice is bright colors; primary colors; contrasting colors; fully enunciated words, and if you do use baby-talk, use it to sound out the pronunciations of words. "Ba ba" for a bottle. "Ew" for a dirty diaper. Your child would be able to communicate with you as they transition into using full words and sentences.

So with all the information out there about early childhood development, it’s disturbing to have people basically screaming on social media that they care more about optics than they do the literal human being they have created.

And if it’s just them trying to seem cool, and then once the cameras are off they bring back out the child’s real toys, making those videos in the first place–for profit!–makes them into terrible people.

So they’re either phonies or they don’t love their children.

"What do you mean they don’t love their children? They gave birth to them!"–Just because someone gives birth to a baby doesn’t mean they’re going to be a good parent. And a big red flag is the using their children as props to make money. It’s the whole "This house is my house and every bit of it must be decorated the way that I like, even the parts where other people are supposed to live."

If someone wants to be a beige person, there’s nothing wrong with that. As long as you care enough about your children to make exceptions to your aesthetic, go off on your lack of color love.

Bloom Ads

From all the commentary YouTube videos I’ve watched that have mentioned Bloom… I think the problem is that influencers aren’t speaking the same English as I know.

When someone says they "drink three drinks every day," I’m not expecting them to show me a water, an orange juice, and a coffee.

When someone says "I drink three drinks every day," MY BRAIN translates that as "Geez. This person may be an alcoholic."

Who the hell counts WATER as a drink? Or orange juice? Or coffee? "I drink three things every day" is different from "I drink three drinks everyday." When "drinks" is the subject, I automatically assume a "drink" is an alcoholic beverage.

So when these influencers are trying to deal with "bloating," I don’t think they know what that means.

For influencer-culture, "bloating" seems to mean being full of food. While in normal speech, bloating is the uncomfortable feeling in your stomach. You’re full of gas and you’re constipated. Your gut and your intestines feel like they’re trying to climb into your chest cavity. To me, that is the sensation of bloating.

Having a full-feeling stomach because you just ate food is not bloating. And yeah, your stomach will stick out a little, but that’s because there’s food in there.

And I guess for that purpose, Bloom and products like it are useful. You drink it and you go shit. It’s a laxative in a cup. That costs a ridiculous amount of money.

And if someone really cares about health and not about "health," they would use some fiber powder that is actually intended for the purpose of being fiber, and eat some fruits and vegetables. You can add a scoop of fiber powder to your smoothie, and drink some actual fruits and vegetables and yogurt and all that other good gut health stuff people should be ingesting on a daily basis.

You get all the nutrients and the fiber and the feeling of FOOD and you don’t have to wonder what a supplement company means when they talk about their "proprietary blend."

The words "proprietary blend" are a big warning sign on the label. "We have 1000 milligrams of saffron, chamomile, rosewater, sucrose, erythritol, and coal all mixed together in a proprietary blend" that could very well be 99% coal.

I tend to side-eye supplement products because since they’re not food, they’re not regulated in the same ways as food. That’s how people have been getting away with packing their own bottles of vitamins to sell from their garages. You can’t even be sure they contain the amount of the product they say they do, which has resulted in either negligible amounts or so much of some vitamin or mineral that it can absolutely destroy your organs.

We’ve got people making their own commercials at home and there’s no regulatory body overseeing any of it. Like, sure, a viewer can flag a questionable video, but 9 times out of 10 the video won’t be taken down because it doesn’t actually go against the Terms of Service. It just gives really bad cleaning advice or health advice or somehow manages to send people down a rabbit hole that results in them drinking a bunch of raw milk and shitting their pants.

So I think the problem with Bloom ads is influencer-culture, and that some influencers have basically learned how to human from the Internet. Which means a vocabulary that uses in-group definitions for everyday words, resulting in terms like "bloating" meaning something completely different to the influencer than what the actual medical condition really is.

Bloom does not help with bloating.

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P.S. "sucrose" and "erythritol" are likely ingredients you want to avoid.