youre 100% right. Before Hate-Watching Amberlynn, I was Hate-Watching a show called "My Big Fat Fabulous Life" with the whale known as Whitney Way Thore. I see a lot ofparallelss between ALR and WWT. But the most jarring parellel is that they both are trapped in their respective mediums (TV/YouTube) in an endless cycle of starting over as they shuffle between "I'm gonna lose weight" and failing to do so and then starting over.
Furthermore, Whitney Thore and Amberlynn are STUCK because they know they get hate-views and if they lost their weight most people wouldn't give a shit anymore. They believe their obesity makes them unique and defines them. So they've become expert trolls and self-parodies.
And, of course, for both of them, their respective mediums are the worst thing that could've happened for them. They are not employable in any way, and so all they are good for is sharing their exciting lives with viewers who only are watching to witness how the land-whale behaves around normal humans.