u/Expensive_Door2925

There is a common assumption that a person cannot have narcissistic traits if they spend their time taking care of others and sacrificing for their family. Because caregiving is genuinely exhausting and hard work, people often view the act of caretaking as automatic proof that someone isn't self-serving, but can caregiving and narcissistic behavior actively exist at the same time, or does the act of taking care of others actually disprove those traits?

There is a huge difference between how some of these family channels act in their regular videos versus their livestreams. They build a following based on a sweet, wholesome image, but then they go live and the reality is completely different. You’ll watch them act like total bullies to the chat and talk down to their partners. It creates this intense tension where one person is clearly trying to keep the peace while the other just wants absolute control.

When people call out the behavior, their defense is always to just stop watching the lives and stick to the main videos. But it’s the exact same people under the exact same roof. How does switching to a main video change the reality of how they treat their partners and the people watching?

On today's morning livestream 8/14/26, she was reading the chat and firing back at viewers by escalating into very dark imagery.

[14:29 - 14:41]
"You're in drywall. Do you ever feel like putting people in the wall and drywalling over them? Can you take some of these uglies this morning? Take them and put them in the wall."

[14:54 - 15:15]
"[ __ ] Throw those people in the drywall. Alive. Alive. No. [ __ ] their noses sticking out. Just suffocate them. They're just a menace to society anyway. Just for a second. Okay. Okay. Maybe a little hole. One nostril's worth. Just one."

Isn't this account generally known for sharing a patient and compassionate caregiving journey? It is deeply unsettling to see a creator casually talking about putting people in a wall alive to suffocate them. Arguing with a live chat is one thing, but is escalating into scenarios about drywalling over people normal behavior for her streams now?

On her 7/29 morning livestream, she bluntly states:

[29:11 - 29:35]
"So he didn't work and we had houses we had to sell to live and that was our retirement. So he he really started working when grandpa we took grandpa on social media took off and he we realized like holy [__] you know, we could really make a living doing this something that I enjoy doing."

[30:09 - 30:58]
"So anyway, hopefully, you know, hopefully with, you know, this potential with what him and Matt are doing, you know, the hopefully maybe something will come of it, right? And then it'll everything will be null and void. But right now, we're just like most people, getting through, getting by, getting by, right? We're most people. [__] happens. we got  [__] and some people recover, some people don't and affects the w you earn a living. Um, so it's it is what it is. So, we're getting by at this point. We're not saving. We're not doing anything else. We're getting by."

[31:01 - 31:47]
"So, um, people who think we're making a [__] ton of money off of grandpa, no. No. It's paying the bills. Barely. So much it doesn't even pay the bills. So, um, in order to really make um, money off of this thing, you need brand deals. So, the people who throw out that [__] knows nothing about how you make big money. It's brand deals. Um, and we don't have any of that stuff yet. So, kaa. And when we do, that'll be [__] exciting because then maybe we can [__] pull ourselves out of debt. We're not in debt, but like replace what we've lost, you know, and build back our retirement."

She literally admitted that putting Ed on social media is how they make a living. The contradiction is right there in her own words, and it completely shows why there has to be a line between caring for a loved one and turning their medical struggle into public content.

It seems like a lot of influencers are putting links in their bios or making videos telling followers to download their personal mobile apps for extra content or resources. With how standard phone tracking and data privacy settings work nowadays, it just makes you wonder how safe personal information actually is on them. Are people actually downloading these, or is everyone just scrolling past?

Losing a family member to Alzheimer’s or dementia is completely devastating, and a loved one's passing should mean the end of them being put online. But it is heartbreaking to see how some of these care influencers keep uploading content even after their loved one is gone, just to keep making money off the content and pushing viewers toward their other side businesses.

Instead of stepping back to grieve privately, it feels like they just find any excuse to keep their pages active. Between uploading unreleased footage, pinning old videos to the page, reposting old clips as memories, and turning to grief content, the whole thing just feels like it was always treated more like a business than a personal journey. It is just so incredibly sad that instead of letting a loved one finally rest in peace with dignity, their hardest moments are left online for the world to see.

What do you all think about this?

Taking care of a loved one with Alzheimer’s or dementia is a ton of work and it is a full time job. Nobody is minimizing how exhausting and brutal that daily struggle can be.

But putting content of a family member with severe cognitive decline online feels no different than those family vlogging channels that exploit minor children. These creators are filming their loved ones who mentally cannot give consent during their most private and confused moments just for the validation and the payout. There has to be a line between caring for a loved one and turning their medical struggle into public content.

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I went to my local Walmart to grab a physical copy of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced on launch day since I'm a bit old school and really wanted my nephew to have the physical hard disk. To my shock the floor staff told me they won't even have physical copies on the shelves for two weeks.

It honestly feels like a push to make impatient people cave and buy the game digitally on the PlayStation/Xbox stores so publishers can pocket higher profit margins. Is anyone else dealing with this at their stores today, or are places like Walmart just giving up on selling physical games on release day?

I went to my local Walmart to grab a physical copy of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced on launch day since I'm a bit old school and really wanted my nephew to have the physical hard disk. To my shock the floor staff told me they won't even have the physical copies on the shelves for two weeks.

It honestly feels like a push to make impatient people cave and buy the game digitally on the PlayStation/Xbox stores so publishers can pocket higher profit margins. Is anyone else dealing with this absolute failure of a physical rollout at their local stores today, or did my specific Walmart just completely botch their inventory delivery?

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