A Pouting Generation

When you live in a world surrounded by blogger's and also in a world away from the internet, sometimes it's hard not to blur the two. Talking to people who don't blog, equals in gasps and looks of confusion. Resulting in questions like 'Who's that then?' 'You got that for free?!' 'What do you mean you share your life online?' 'What do you write about though?'. Sometimes it's hard to explain and sometimes you want to escape to normality so much. Because you are so sick of seeing the same pouting pictures on Instagram, and reading asterisk after asterisk on people's 'freebie reel' that you feel they have lost all integrity and have become a walking advert.

As one of my favourite ever blogger's Stu wrote "Yes, it’s difficult to be ‘different’ in a world where everything seems to be the same. But it’s worth the fight." It resonated with me, because when I first started blogging I felt that I was a bit different, I said what I thought and didn't care if people found it offensive. Now I am guilty of taking atleast 5 pictures of my face for Instagram at just the right angle...it made me feel a little sick.

I don't want to be that girl, have I lost who I am. Then I realised I was still here, a little cloaked in self doubt and maybe a few more 'fashion blogger poses' away from becoming a clone. But I still have enough self-awareness to shake myself out of that copycat slope. Heaven forbid people started thinking of me that way. I have recently started to miss the tongue in cheek banter that used to infuse my blog, the reason people used to come back and read what I wrote. 

Then tonight I was reading the #bbloggers chat about PR samples and I just started to zone out, because don't we talk about that shit nearly every week now? Constantly going over the same argument, dodging the 'enter my competition' tweets and rolling our eyes at the people tweeting about how it's not wrong to monetize your blog and how you should so contact PR's for freebies....you're doing them a favour right? 
I just think we are going around in the same fish pond, trying to steal each others food from one another. When I first started blogging it was about the comradery and the friendships you could make with like minded people that 'got blogging' and what it was about. Now it's full of moaning minnie's who complain about not getting invited to fashion week, or bragging that they were going to fashion week or like totally crying and thinking they mean nothing in the 'blogging world' because they weren't invited to fashion week. Get over it already, unless you are a press member who writes about fashion, a designer, you work for a fashion brand, or you are someone who genuinely loves fashion - why would you need to go to fashion week? No I don't agree with Suzy Menkes and her 'Circus of Fashion' article, it's not right to treat the blogging community as one person, many individuals are still present in it's world. But there are underlying tones I may agree with, the attention seeking being one.

I just think blogging has turned people in to self obsessed, needy, moaning pouters and I am a bit bored of the Lauren Goodger's of this world. People obsessed with numbers and free post, hankering for fame, fortune...I'm totes waiting to see a blogger on Celebrity Big Brother. I feel they are flooding the sea and we are losing the great jewels of the ocean who blog for them and for the love of what they do, the really amazing people who deserve the success and are still firmly humbled. The Jazzabelle's, the Olivia's, genuinely talented writers like Stu and people who live and breathe fashion like Sara and Kristabel. All bloggers that have stayed true to themselves and never left their niche, their style is consistent and they know who they are.

Time to remember who I am, time for you all to stop caring who people think you are and be who you want to be.