alt Hacker NewsThis is an issue I noticed about her, too. It's an archetype of person I've noticed in others, especially back in the small town I grew up in: they get enjoyment out of not enjoying things.
For the uninitiated, that sounds like a paradox. But really, it's a need to be able to complain about something. The more the person has to complain about, the better. Something that was actually good would not allow the opportunity for them to provide their (superior) input on how it was done wrong.
The key give away is the fact that she keeps going back to Disney. If I had experienced half of the slights and snafus she claims [1] to have experienced, I'd never go back to the place.
At the end of the day, I figured I had much better things to do with my time than watch someone complain about theme parks, even assuming the complaints were realistic. I like taking my kids to theme parks on occasion, but I have no desire to become so frequent of a customer that I ever need some kind of "inside scoop".
[1] eeeeh, I don't necessarily disbelieve her. A lot of what she says rings true for my own opinion of Disney. But at the same time, her attitude is nearly identical to that of folks I grew up with, speech patterns that I've come to recognize as over aggrandized consumerist "suffering." It feels like she's leaving a whole lot of context out, context that might reveal the her trials and tribulations were of her own making.
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Chronic complainers get validation from expressing negativity because it garners more attention.
The Star Wars video was a bit strange to me. On one hand, it did absolutely suck, but there also were many times in the video where she obviously specifically chose expectations on purpose knowing that the park would not live up to them, and then acted like she was just totally surprised that it happened. I found it even more egregious for her Evermore park video, where she seemed genuinely shocked to not have an absolutely perfect roleplaying experience there.
It's all a bit strange because all of her unrealistic expectations are perfectly woven into the realistic ones in a way that makes it very difficult to distinguish what is reasonable about her expectations. Somehow she manages to make it so that something that will genuinely suck for everyone, like standing in line for hours or her app being totally broken, gets mixed up with much more obviously subjective things like the actors not really matching her energy.