One thing that immediately caught my attention was the KPop Demon Hunters acrylic. What are these, btw? Are they supposed to be acrylic stands? It honestly made me laugh to imagine Amber suddenly going full oshikatsu.
I only even know about this movie because my nieces are obsessed with it. Has Amber ever actually shown an interest in collecting pop culture merch in a real way? There is the Billie Eilish perfume, the Fortnite skin, and a few fandom-adjacent laygos (Nintendo, Batman, etc.), but her “collections” always feel very surface level. She never seems truly attached to any one show or universe. The only real exception I can think of is The Walking Dead during the Krystle/Destiny era. During Gaycare, she mostly watched whatever was trending: Insidious, the IT remakes, random awful B movie horrors.
Her bookshelves feel the same. They look like a graveyard of whatever she happened to grab off the shelves at TJ Maxx. There is no thread, no specific taste, no sense of “this is someone who loves X/Y/Z.” No Cormac McCarthy, no Jean Baudrillard…
What I am trying to say is that Amber does not really come across as a person with an inner life that shows up in her interests. She tried writing fanfiction in her early YouTube days and it was genuinely bad. It has to be gut wrenching to look back at thirteen years of “collecting,” hundreds of thousands of dollars spent, and realize it is all junk. Nothing in demand, nothing thoughtfully curated, even the retired laygos not treated as anything close to an investment.
She does not seem to think in terms of long-term value at all. No stocks, no crypto, no real savings. Her main expenses for the past decade have basically been food and Torrid tents.
If she ever lets herself really sit with that, it has to be a harrowing wake-up call.