Favorite Chanel YouTubers?

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[Hazzelnut]

I actually didn't finish the video it was that bad, I can take a minute of an ad especially as I can skip but throughout the whole video, no bueno, that video actually put me off her channel not sure when or if I'll watch her videos again.

Agreed! I’ve unsubscribed. If you drank every time she mentioned Samorga you’d be hammered by 3 minutes in!

 

[Ghettoe]

I hope this doesn’t come across as snarky but how do some of these Youtubers who hoard so many luxury bags manage to wear them all? Even if they wore a different bag a day, it would take months before they wore the bag again. Or maybe I’m missing something?

I think this is just a huge part of youtube hoarding culture. From makeup, clothes, etc. I've watched declutter videos where someone decluttered 100 palettes. I think a lot of it is also excused by people thinking that because youtube is their job, they need to hoard.

The worst part is as consumers we get swept up by youtube hoarding culture.

 

[axlm]

I think this is just a huge part of youtube hoarding culture. From makeup, clothes, etc. I've watched declutter videos where someone decluttered 100 palettes. I think a lot of it is also excused by people thinking that because youtube is their job, they need to hoard.

The worst part is as consumers we get swept up by youtube hoarding culture.

the hoarding is so strange! Especially makeup, such a waste because it goes off

 

[decorox]

Just finished watching Fashionably Amy’s bag collection. Felt a bit more like a Samorga organiser collection… Heard more about them, than if she liked the bags!

I can't watch her because I can't listen to her speech style - it is very monotone. She has all the beauties, but gosh she is super boring.

 

[Prudence64]

Yeah, she rushed to buy it as a “work” tote but now shes not going back to an office so I dont see her keeping it.

Same with the Lady Dior, that purchase seemed random and just like I suspected…she’s suddenly not crazy about it anymore, Lol.

What do you think about her Birkin purchase? It seemed a little odd. Do you remember when she weighed some bags on her videos and was super picky about the weight.

Well surely the Birkin has some girth, what to speak of the added weight of an insert and items in the bag. Or maybe, the status of carrying an expensive bag “outweighs” any strain or discomfort on the hands and arms.

Watch for that Birkin to be a least carried item mention for 2022.

 

[Chelltastic]

I am surprised that HCWC has had such a fall from grace. When I discovered her in 2019, she seemed like a breath of fresh air compared to other YouTubers people were starting to tire of (Jerusha, Lvlovercc, both Mels lol).

I started to lose interest when she sold her rainbow reissue. I despise the "unicorn" term and craze; YouTubers were influencing each other and us to go into a pre-mature frenzy over bags nobody or few really cared for. I felt she bought it because it was a unicorn and other YouTubers wanted it, then once she had it, immediately felt buyer's remorse as it's truly not her style. Once I read someone say they suspected she was a reseller it all started to make sense.

The b thing was weird too because she didn't seem very interested until others on Youtube finally started to score the bag more easily due to the pandemic. I found a video where she says she was only interested in her mini Evelyne from the brand. She says she doesn't know if she wants the b or k because she doesn't like top handles. People change their minds but to me, she follows trends more closely than I felt she presented.

Then again that's all YouTubers. YouTubers were all of sudden obsessing over H, and now that they have tackled that, people are moving on to watches. I've seen three watch-related videos since Christmas time.

 

[Luxurious Vibes]

I have done the same. A lot of the youtubers You’ve mentioned have been promoting these, what I call: faux luxury. Lol.

Isabelle especially irks me when she does those few minutes talking about how much she LOVES her senreve bag that she’s used for a 15 minute trip to the grocery store while waiting for her new GUCCI bag to arrive and then seemed to throw it away once advertising time was over and almost salivating as she unboxed her luxury bag.

Its as if they’re insulting us “peasants” by shoving these cheaply made bags down our throats just to make money off us and those companies so they can buy their high end luxury bags …

+1. Isabelle’s style irks me too these days. I feel she is so confused with her own collection and she is supposedly an influencer

 

[Luxurious Vibes]

I have done the same. A lot of the youtubers You’ve mentioned have been promoting these, what I call: faux luxury. Lol.

Isabelle especially irks me when she does those few minutes talking about how much she LOVES her senreve bag that she’s used for a 15 minute trip to the grocery store while waiting for her new GUCCI bag to arrive and then seemed to throw it away once advertising time was over and almost salivating as she unboxed her luxury bag.

Its as if they’re insulting us “peasants” by shoving these cheaply made bags down our throats just to make money off us and those companies so they can buy their high end luxury bags …

+1. Isabelle’s style irks me too these days. I feel she is so confused with her own collection and she is supposedly an influencer

 

[Luxurious Vibes]

I like black and gold style. She doesn’t sell her bags and she’s a Chanel devotee instead of climbing the brand ladder like all of the others. She also does not pimp sanreve lol!

I like her too. She lives in the same city-Singapore, like me.
I feel she is genuine and quiet well off so she is not behind promoting any brands so far. She buys what she loves and her choice and style is very elegant. She is like an ideal influencer.
Even if she is going to promote any brands in future, I feel she wouldn’t compromise on her integrity and she would support the brands which she buys for herself and actually believes in.

 

[Luxurious Vibes]

I have been so interested in this thread and wanted to chime in with my opinions on luxury YouTubers. I know it's a long post - clearly I have a lot of thoughts

For context, the only one I regularly watch is Cassie Thorpe - I love her energy and feel like she speaks her mind and brings a different flavor to Chanel fashion than most others. I am subscribed to several others (Isabelle's Style, Je Suis Lou, Lv Lover CC, Lux Purse Love, Caitlin Pawlowski, Maria Draganova, Chase Amie, etc.) but really only watch them when it seems like an interesting topic (i.e. not an unboxing or a basic shopping vlog). I recently subscribed to Dayle's Addiction who I have been enjoying as well as the Closet - I got a kick out of their recent collaboration videos and hope they do more together. It feels much more authentic than the sponsorships or constant unboxings from FarFetch that so many others post because they were given $ to spend there as part of a sponsored deal. Dacob actually popped up in my feed a few weeks ago (probably for the reason others have mentioned with his links to other YouTubers I already watch) and I watched a few of his videos. I'll include my initial opinions on his channel below, too.

My overall opinion is that, it's their channel, they can do whatever they want to do. We are also free to do whatever we want to do: we are free to unsubscribe, comment and challenge their content, or to talk about it on PurseForum. A few other thoughts below:

• While sponsorships are quite annoying and feel disingenuous, I understand why YouTubers do it - inclusive of Kat and Amy starting a paid service and Dacob's merch. It's a really time-consuming hobby, and if they want to charge / if there's a market for it, they should go ahead and do it. It can be disappointing to fans, but as I said above, we are welcome to unsubscribe or comment saying that we wish they wouldn't charge. If they lose enough subscribers, they will likely stop the paid programming. That's just how supply and demand work (similar to the reseller dilemma) - if there is demand, why not profit from it, from a YouTuber's perspective?
• It is not disrespectful for luxury YouTubers to be posting unboxings, etc. during a pandemic. It's not the national news broadcast, they are under no obligation to limit their content because of the current environment - it's a luxury channel
• I don't think it's "cheap" to post reaction videos to other lux YouTubers - I actually think (if done tastefully and analytically) this is a super interesting direction to take. It both is a very smart marketing strategy to grow a channel and make $, and it also caters to people who watch those other YouTubers and have no one to chat about them with (especially if they haven't discovered PurseForum ).
• I am, however, disappointed after watching a few of Dacob's videos and feel like his content could be really great if it had a more positive spin with less drama attached. Like I said above, I love hearing others' perspectives on videos from the YouTubers I watch because it's not something I talk about with friends or at work. For me it's similar to enjoying discussing a popular TV show with a friend. That said, so much of his content is masked shaming or criticizing in a dramatic fashion. I'd love to (in a MUCH shorter video without the live comments, those are brutal) hear real critique, positive and negative. I feel like he has a wealth of knowledge and could create truly analytical and interesting videos if they were less negative and dramatic.
• If you are a YouTuber, you are putting yourself out for the world to comment on and critique. This can be both positive and negative, but there should be no expectation that every single person in the world loves your content and there should be an understanding that people are welcome to share their thoughts, positive or negative.
• While the people behind the channels I mentioned above as part of the "subscribe but rarely watch" group seem like really nice people, a lot of the content is just so bland. It's boring to watch unboxing after unboxing and shopping vlog after shopping vlog. That's why I love Cassie's videos - she mixes it up and talks about the brands many others don't, while maintaining a "healthy" perspective on consumption and practicality of the items she buys. (I put healthy in quotes because really it's luxury, a "healthy" perspective is relative).

I personally am not willing to pay for any lux subscription, and I fast forward through all the sponsored parts of the videos. If it's Senreve or Lilysilk, I usually just quit the video altogether because I can't stand it.

At the same time, I think YouTubers are under no obligations to appease us; they are welcome to post whatever they want, charge whatever they want, and take whatever sponsorships they want. If there are enough unsubscribes, they'll stop or the channel will fail. Thanks for reading my long post!

I love Cassie Thorpe too. She is very funny, honest and knows much more about fashion and trends compared to other YouTubers who are just copying each other and climbing the Hermes brand wagon one after the other. They are so predictable.
I have unsubscribed most of the channels mentioned above or simply ignore all the videos of other YouTubers. The moment they promote a non-luxury brand on a luxury channel, it’s such a turn off and takes the whole fun out of it and makes me invariably unsubscribe.
Along with Cassie Thorpe, I enjoy ‘black & gold style’- she is elegant, has an amazing luxury jewellery collection, Chanel classic flap collection, and doesn’t promote any brands.

 

[theprettymiss]

I am surprised that HCWC has had such a fall from grace. When I discovered her in 2019, she seemed like a breath of fresh air compared to other YouTubers people were starting to tire of (Jerusha, Lvlovercc, both Mels lol).

I started to lose interest when she sold her rainbow reissue. I despise the "unicorn" term and craze; YouTubers were influencing each other and us to go into a pre-mature frenzy over bags nobody or few really cared for. I felt she bought it because it was a unicorn and other YouTubers wanted it, then once she had it, immediately felt buyer's remorse as it's truly not her style. Once I read someone say they suspected she was a reseller it all started to make sense.

The b thing was weird too because she didn't seem very interested until others on Youtube finally started to score the bag more easily due to the pandemic. I found a video where she says she was only interested in her mini Evelyne from the brand. She says she doesn't know if she wants the b or k because she doesn't like top handles. People change their minds but to me, she follows trends more closely than I felt she presented.

Then again that's all YouTubers. YouTubers were all of sudden obsessing over H, and now that they have tackled that, people are moving on to watches. I've seen three watch-related videos since Christmas time.

Funny CWC released this video addressing her impulse shopping.

CWC claims they have zero debt..not even a mortgage living in NYC, if true..thats amazing shes that wealthy.

However she def has an impulse shopping problem confirmed by her 88% increase in spending.

I agree, she follows trends as well..and instead of claiming to be minimal and curating, she should just own it.

 

[CrazyCool01]

Really tired of LVLoverCC’s and mel_in_melbourne’s excessive buying !
They are hoarders .. and buy anything with designer brand on it ..

 

[kathykim]

I like her too. She lives in the same city-Singapore, like me.
I feel she is genuine and quiet well off so she is not behind promoting any brands so far. She buys what she loves and her choice and style is very elegant. She is like an ideal influencer.
Even if she is going to promote any brands in future, I feel she wouldn’t compromise on her integrity and she would support the brands which she buys for herself and actually believes in.

Love black and gold style too. I miss her going to chanel though and being on chanel events. Too bad chanel doesnt know how to take care of good clients like her.

 

[kathykim]

I however still love lvlovercc… she keeps her purchases and doesn’t buy just to show off i feel. She isn’t pretentious and just go buy something just to sell in a few months.

Mel in melbourne though got me tired of all the sponsorships and i dont know why but lost interest on her long ago. I dislike youtubers who sound serious and relatable in their vlogs then suddenly mentions a non luxurious brand they are “obsessed” with

Purseonfleek i feel needs the sponsorships, financially… she confuses me sometimes though. i guess she is okay but isn’t someone I really take seriously on reviews and items she buys coz she sells her unboxing right away anyway. Unlike lvlovercc, she can legitimately make reviews coz she actually keeps her purchases.

 

[fiantoduri]

AL plans to sell some of her items soon lol, probably to find a new bag or more impulse purchases this year