Low key terrified of running into 'high-value' girlies
I sometimes get Youtube recommendations for Vindicta-flavoured women's self-help kinda content, you know, some mix of beauty/confidence/relationship advice paired with more dubious or un-PC stuff like Robert Greene, manifestation, social climbing, pretty privilege, shit like that. There must be a large audience for this crap because there's a lot of it.
It's making me apprehensive about how many people around me got influenced by that, because it's basically tailor-made to validate dumb people's narcissistic tendencies. It teaches some very twisted things about self-confidence that are just one tiny layer of social acceptability away from being a huge bitch. To register as appropriately 'high-value' and dignified and confident, you have to play some weird signalling game which has the end result of making people antisocial and hard to deal with.
Like, you can't be nice or give people the benefit of the doubt, or be willing to hear different viewpoints, because to that category of people this reads as weak and contemptible. If anything bad happens to you as a result of not being socially dominant enough, it's your fault and you deserve zero empathy. You need to show signs of being a bit stuck-up and entitled. The funny thing is that all of this is laughably easy to criticise or dunk on, but it's your word (a 'low-value woman') against the word of some Youtube or Tiktok guru with millions of followers.
You may be asking why this is living in my head rent-free — well, I'm Eastern European and we already had a big cultural problem with trying to take advantage of people, exploiting them, probing for weakness, so it's fertile terrain. (The algo probably got me because it was an Eastern Euro IP looking at fashion videos.)