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- Jan 8, 2022
Okay, here we go again. Milk Tea posted another react, and I'm going to watch it anyway, so I will also summarize here.
All of my points will be from this video:
video title: "Foodie Beauty: I Am Back/Good Day React"
If it's in quotation marks in the summary, then I am quoting Chantal directly. Looks like Chantal was using her avatar screen for this video, so there won't be any commentary on her appearance, etc. Milk Tea is using the BBQ Chillin' cutdown of "WELL, I AM BACK" and "I HAD A GREAT DAY"
Note for this summary and for my previous one: as ever, she really depends on her chat to provide her prompts. Because of this, it's hard to tell what she's just randomly responding to and what she actually brings up herself. It also means that things are super disjointed-- but we're used to that.
First spoiler was summary for "Well, I Am Back," which apparently cut out. Second spoiler is summary for "I HAD A GREAT DAY!"
All of my points will be from this video:
video title: "Foodie Beauty: I Am Back/Good Day React"
If it's in quotation marks in the summary, then I am quoting Chantal directly. Looks like Chantal was using her avatar screen for this video, so there won't be any commentary on her appearance, etc. Milk Tea is using the BBQ Chillin' cutdown of "WELL, I AM BACK" and "I HAD A GREAT DAY"
Note for this summary and for my previous one: as ever, she really depends on her chat to provide her prompts. Because of this, it's hard to tell what she's just randomly responding to and what she actually brings up herself. It also means that things are super disjointed-- but we're used to that.
- You can skip to 1:20 in the Milk Tea video if you don't want to hear her talk about various beverages.
- "I talk so much shit about Canada? WHEN?" (sounding defensive and apparently snapping at someone in her chat). Says she's "always" said that there are good things about the West, too (she absolutely has not always said this). "I'm allowed my fuckin' opinion." Chinny sounds very pissy, which might have something to do with why she's not showing herself.
- Says she'll travel even if she does get sick: "I have to go home, so." "Have to" is an interesting choice of words, needless to say.
- "Dumpster diving? Hell yeah, I'm definitely going dumpster diving." Spoiler: she will not go dumpster diving.
- Says she's going to get a sofa in Canada, something that's "about 700 bucks." Maybe talking about that boneless sofa again? It's not clear. I assume she's only interested because it makes her think of boneless chicken.
- "I've been tryin' to plan meals for when I come back." I can believe she's planning fast food runs, but I cannot believe that she's planning the kind of thrifty, balanced meals she'd like us to believe she's planning.
- Tells the story about when she ordered multiple portions of bao (I think she said it was bao) and disguised her voice to conceal her multiple orders. Says she's done the multiple calls/disguised voice thing "a few times" (X) with different restaurants. Pulls a a very terrible and fake accent-- not even sure what it's supposed to be-- to demonstrate.
- "No, they won't find out where I live, Tracy" (I'll be pressing X until the cows come home, won't I?). Says we won't know if she streams from one room (like she's ever going to do that). Sounds pissy again at Tracy's worries that she'll be phonebooked.
- "I did let them [the landlord] know what I do." First of all, she didn't tell them-- and I don't think she could have explained-- what her online community is like. Secondly, it sounds like she's trying to make it sound like the landlord already knows the whole story, so there's no point in contacting them, right, guys? Right? I would add that no one should call the landlord, but we all know that it's going to happen.
- Chantal suggests we "stop trying to be creepy sons-of-bitches and figure out where people live." Aww, she loves us!
- Milk Tea agrees that it's a little creepy. She is wrong and has no sense of sport.
- "Get a fuckin' hobby!" She's pissed and is clearly not happy with the prospect of people discovering her new address. She sounds quite grouchy.
- "I'm just gonna get a part-time job." (XXX)
- Says she's going to set up "a couple of streaming areas without having to show my whole house" (she won't, because she's lazy and will be high off her tube sock tits as soon as the plane touches down).
- Milk Tea says-- and I had also thought about this-- that Chantal speaks as if it'll be really easy to get a part-time work from home job. I know that we all know that Chantal is out-of-touch and unrealistic, but this is a good example. Peetz didn't even get his latest call center job instantly, and his résumé (such as it is) is a long string of call center jobs. Chantal has nothing and has, by her own admission, been fired from every job she's ever had. MT also says-- and, again, I agree-- that Chantal must be concerned about money if she keeps bringing up a part time job. I know she's threatened to quit YouTube before and go back to work, but this time she's talking about a job in addition to YouTube. I also have no doubt that she's financially overextended herself with whatever housing she's secured.
- She mentions a "streaming area" in the kitchen and a separate "filming area" elsewhere in the apartment/villa/whatever. Says she "won't show the kitchen side" (?) but maybe the "white wall" "if there's like, a dining area, I don't know." So it sounds like there's a kitchen along one wall and that it's a shared space with a dining area, which has a white wall with no distinct features on it?
- She's going to use this mystery area to "eat with you guys, show you guys what I'm having, what I made, storytimes, time warps"-- none of this is going to happen, FYI. She'll get high as heaven and show us distinctive interior features (and then probably use the subsequent phonebooking as her excuse for breaking her lease and returning to Syria). Also, she is truly just bringing up all her popular content of pre-crackhead Olympics to tell her beezers what they want to hear. She doesn't even sound excited or passionate about any of this. In fact, she sounds like she's basically reading off a really boring list.
- Talks about seeing people with cats for sale in carriers when they go to get food for Julia. Says Salah is now used to buying cat supplies (wtf is there to get used to?) and that he loves Julia. She's setting up for leaving Julia in Syria, even though it's the sensible thing to do.
- "I don't even care if he remarries and has a million kids, I'm still checking on them." (XXXXXXXXX to that first clause)
- Her stream apparently cut off here.
First spoiler was summary for "Well, I Am Back," which apparently cut out. Second spoiler is summary for "I HAD A GREAT DAY!"
- Looks like the thumbnail for this one was food (shocking!). She's avatar-only again.
- She and Salah just got back from visiting "family, Sasa and fam." The thumbnail is the food the family made. Starts describing the oven they use, which she says is like a tandoor (she says "tandoori," which is what you'd see food described as-- tandoori chicken, for example-- on menus in the evil west. In other words, she knows the Indian food menus like the back of her catcher's mitt but does not know the actual name of the oven. Also, I think she probably means a tabun oven).
- She's describing the bread and pizza they made and actually sounds engaged and interested for a change. Chantal? Passionate about food? Who knew!
- Continues to rhapsodize about the bread. Diabetes who?
- Says that "at first" (meaning her entire life?) she didn't like being around kids and people, but now she's getting "emotional" as her departure date approaches.
- "You know, I feel like part of the family!" She really is setting up excuses for why she'll go back, isn't she? "It's really said, like, in a way, but I know that it [her departure] has to happen." Again with the "has to" language. "I've always considered them family, you know?" Right, just the kind of family you accuse of wanting to murder you. "I'll always have them in my heart." Gorl, there is no extra room in your heart.
- Claims that Salah's family never wants them to leave. Given Chantal's aptitude for reading social cues, I choose not to believe this statement.
- "The day before I have to leave, we're just going to stay there." -- "there" being with the family unit, apparently.
- Says his family asked if she'll come back to Syria. She implies that they're asking this because they'll miss her. That's not how I'd interpret that particular question . . .
- Says Salah's whole family loves Julia, that they're "fighting over her," that they all want to take her. Salah wants to keep her, "obviously."
- Says that Salah's family has said that she could do another live with Sasa if she wants to (giggles). "The money I raised for them in the last live really helped them out!" (Milk Tea: "yeah, by getting you out of Syria?")
- Says she'll name the next live with Sasa "Give This Cute Girl Money Because She Deserves It."
- Says her family was "teary-eyed" (not sure if she's talking about Sasa or her imminent departure; it's not clear) and that they'll come with Salah to the airport to see her off (lol, they're going to be CERTAIN that she gets on that plane).
- "They don't judge me!" Yeah, at least not in a language you can understand, and not to your face, because they're too polite.
- They've seen reaction channels, "they know all about my past, they don't care." This is obviously false, because there is A LOT of past, and they don't speak (much) English.
- "I just need to be back in Canada. I need reliable internet, I need to, you know, live among my culture [sic] also." Says that she now understands why his family wants to be around each other "all the time"-- "very loving people." She is notably completely unable to articulate what she's talking about here, so it's very clear that she does not understand in the least. The family closeness "scared" her at first. Says her family loves her, but they're not close in the same way.
- "It's a tough life here. Makes you appreciate . . ." (does not finish sentence, which, again, does not lead one to think that she actually understands the platitudes she's throwing out). (lots of giggling)
- Says she felt judged by "some people in Kuwait." Adds: "here, I don't feel judged by like, anybody." All of us with the attention span of a goldfish are scratching our fishy heads with our fins right about now.
- She is really talking his family up in this live. She is going all-in on making his family seem like the best, kindest family ever, that they're so kind, so supportive, basically a Syrian Hallmark Movie family. It's a real 180 from "if anything happens to me, it was THEM!"
- In reference to the time that the relative came over to check on her when she was spiraling online, she says she's never had someone come check up on her like that. That's actually really sad, on a human level, but this is the life she has cultivated for herself.
- "I've also like, never been hugged in a loving way from a child" (talking about Sasa, who she says she has a "connection" with). It's times like these that you realize how bleak her entire life has been.
- Says it's a hard life in Syria, but "it's a hard life in Canada too, in different ways." I assume the "different ways" involve being able to have enough income to buy copious amounts of food and weed.
- Says that Canada has automatic washing machines and is a safer environment with more opportunity. Yes, she did say these three things back-to-back, as if they're entirely equal. Says there's more stress with "keeping up with the Joneses," a thing that Chantal has never in her life done (and her family doesn't seem like that type, either). Milk Tea draws a distinction between what she calls "voluntary stress" and the stresses of living in Syria, and this is a fair distinction.
- She mentions "bills, financial responsibilities, taxes." Also goes back to relative low cost of rent in Syria (because it's Syria, dipshit!).
- "I was able to pay off like $25,000 of debt, or more, in like a year." I have a feeling that this math is not mathing (typical for Chantal math, tbh). Says Salah paid "most of the bills in Kuwait" (yeah, with your money, because you didn't have a bank account there).
- Milk Tea goes on and on about how Chantal could have been saving up so much more money during the time in the Middle East, and I don't see why you'd bother wasting your breath about this. Chantal is fully incapable of making wise financial decisions,. She wouldn't be Chantal if she could make good decisions.
- Back to Chantal: claims she's been focusing on her debts during her time in the Middle East. Says that her income since coming to the ME is lower than it was when she was "beezin" in Canada. Says she had someone helping her with her life expenses in the ME and that she got to focus much of her "meager YouTube income" on the debts. She's downplaying her YT income here in a big way, I assume to get her beezers to open their wallets. HINT HINT, WANDA.
- "I've never paid off debts like that before in my life."
- Chantal starts off with a minimum wage of $17 in Canada and, from there, begins to list how much you'd make a year and enumerating the dollar amount of various expenses. I cannot say if any of these numbers and estimates she's throwing out are accurate or realistic. Milk Tea comments that the idea of living on a budget sounds foreign to Chantal, and I'd say that's an accurate reading of this discussion. It truly sounds like Chantal has no idea how anyone could make this work-- ignoring the fact that most people in that situation do make it work.
- "I'm seriously considering looking for a job alongside YouTube." Then she flies off the handle at some chatter who said something that pissed her off. "Are you going to give me money? No?" She really went from 0 to 60 with talking about cost of living and then telling someone to fuck off. Sounds like it may have been a comment about e-begging or grifting? Which she is, make no mistake, but she's just hinting around right now rather than asking for money outright.
- The person must have misspelled her name? She sounds very pissed, says she's been on YouTube for years, asks how no one knows that it's Chantal with an A rather than Chantel with an E. "Was I ebegging just now?" Tells "blue topaz" that she'll ebeg if she wants to, and if they don't like it, "stay mad." She's good and pissed now (probably thought she was being really subtle, but she wasn't).
- Says she "totally understands like max 300 views" because "A, who wants to watch buffering internet and, you know, me not being on camera?" There's no B, unsurprisingly.
- Says it's a big reason to go back to Canada, so she can do better content with better internet (she will not do better content).
- Says her bed "might be a bit late." Says: "so I'm getting like a cheap-ass, I'm getting like a floor mattress thing to sleep on til it comes." So an inflatable mattress? This isn't clear. Says it's "80 bucks" and will be "good to have in case anyone stays over" (Martha Stewart over here, with her house full of guests). "Actually, I think it was 120 bucks." HEAR THAT, WANDA? Holds up to "like, 685 pounds." "Self-inflating, you just plug it in and turn the dial."
- "I'm gonna do some kind of fund raiser when I get to Canada, for my scooter."
- Says she'd have to turn her life around "seriously" to make it to 80 years of age. "I would have to like, quit all bad habits, eat super-clean, exercise" (she's saying all of this in a really derisive tone). "I don't know if I really want to do that, man" (mind-boggling).
- Says that the camera slip was "mild, compared to how I look sometimes" (now that I can believe).
- Gunt(s) out! Chantal ends, and so does Milk Tea.
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