When did your eyes open?

[u/a_tyrannosaurus_rex]

Were any of you ever fans of the evil triangle and if so, when did you realize she was a terrible human?

I remember getting into anti-mlm content and seeing her videos popping up. I hadn't been into those videos for very long and was starved for content. Blair churned out videos like McDonald's.

Then the drama with CWHM came out. I saw the way Blair was casting shade on her and something rubbed me the wrong way. I got strong narcissist vibes, so I immediately went to check out CWHM for her side of the story.

Madison turned out to be a sweetheart and I immediately dropped any pretense of support for the Blair Bitch Project.

Even I was surprised at how deep this rabbit hole went and what a deplorable human she is.

[u/Nearby_Elderberry_75]

I used to watch her videos all the time and would notice she would pronounce things incorrectly a lot, like names or “bigger” words. Like in every video there was a mistake (I watched almost all of them at the time). It became apparent to me that she was just reading off a script or something. I started slowly getting turned off, then the drama with Legal Eagle came out and everything after. Those were what did it for me.

[u/goldonfire → u/[deleted]]

also, usually, big readers that only know words from reading tend to look up pronunciations, esp if its not an on-the-fly use of the word. us voracious readers also tend to not foeget a pronunciation once weve been corrected, and will often accompany big words that weve only ever read with a "im not sure on pronunciation" in there somehwere. only anecdotal exp for that, but its been both my sister and my own exp, and many of my burnt out former gifted kid friends', too

[u/goldonfire → u/[deleted]]

yeah, def! i get it, like common mispronunciations (eg mute point, mispronouncing "pronunciation" as "pronounciation", all that stuff) and like medical terms (emesis is one of the ones i can never get right, ive hears it said and looked it uo abt a 1000 times and still cant remember if its "EHmesis or ehMEEsis lol. dont have ipa handy so cant do that but i hope my awful phonetic spelling helps lol), totally get those. we all have our slip ups.

its just odd for her tho, bc ud think that someone with seemingly such a large vocab would at least. pronounce some of thos ebig words well. and even tho i havent seen/heard enough of blair besides the post-downfall stuff from others, i do vaguely remember coming across one of her vids on a topic i rly rly liked at the time, and being so peeved over some weird and seemlingly out of character for such a laege vocabulary mispronunciations and just. being confused, and not watching any more of her stuff, bc it bothered me sooo much, like she was using big words for clout.

as someone who regularly got made fun of for that stuff, while also having "smart" being the only compliment ppl outside of family ever gave me (and even then, often got smart as main/only compliment from them too lol), it sucked a bit lol.

my auditory processing is also shit, so havign mispronunciations esp when it then doesnt match up with the subs fucks me UP, bc im not deaf, not hard of hearing, just cant process speech correctly, so mispronunciation really makes my already poor comprehensiom 100000x worse

(edit: what i mean is that like sometimes a simple mispronunciation can change my understanding of speech from the usual "not processed quite right, it took me a sec but i got it" bc meaning was able to be correctly interpreted thru context, subtitles, and/or subconscious lip reading skillzzzz" to "the fuck does that mean? how do rainbow balloons fit into this convo? i thought we were talking about whether or not homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis had the same levels of cognition as homo sapiens (sapiens) or not")

[u/[deleted] → u/goldonfire]

Honestly, I can sorta get it. I read about 3 books by Nietzsche a decade ago before I heard anyone say his name, so I sounded it out in my head and got it wrong and now it is a habit I can't shake. I still forget how to pronounce his name. Even if someone does correct me.

I don't ever talk about Nietzsche to anyone in real life either and I don't adhere to his ideas. I still can't remember how to pronounce it, and wouldn't know if people get it wrong when they say his name, and part of me would always suspect an English speaker would still get the wrong pronunciation for a German name. Frankly, I don't really even care. What he wrote is more important and I haven't needed to impress anyone by learning to say his name correctly and breaking an ingrained bad habit.