I've worked as a travel agent before and this looks like the type of client that scrapes every penny they can together so they can make content like this to appear rich. Also love that she's caked in so much makeup thats shes a walking environment hazard.
If you make a living posting videos about being rich and trying to sell people the illusion that their lives are something to be embarrassed about, then you can go right up on the list alongside the billionaires and CEOs to be guillotined.
People doing angry reaction videos to influencers who are paid by oil princes to eat their dog's poop in exchange for few thousand dollars and the opportunity to take pretty pics.
Ah yes, the picturesque isle of Jamaica, where human life means nothing. Where tourists are warned not to leave the places they are staying. Love the reggae though.
I did spend a week at the Sandals resort in Montego Bay, but if anyone asks me if I've ever visited Jamaica, I say, "No." Because Sandals isn't Jamaica.
pot noodle is now the ONLY thing I'm craving...that and the sexy lady in Jamaica...has anyone tried hot sauce on their pot noods? it's amazing, Frank's is my favourite
I've been to Jamaica and i can tell you that just outside the gates of that fancy resort complex there are families washing their clothes in a nearby stream...
These people do have poverty anxiety but I can tell you modern life anxiety hits harder. When you don't have enough food the solution might be unattainable but it's understandable. When you have ennui because your flat screen TV isn't hitting like you thought it would the solution is is more difficult to assess.
Hey! There were peas in the chow mein flavour. This may be before they fucked them up and took all the flavourings out that made them delicious. Now they taste like sadness and disappointment.
I have friends who've made travel and posting brags about it their entire personality. It seems they're not as fulfilled by the experience as they want us to believe.
That's sad. I don't think I'd be able to stay friends with someone like that, unless they actually realised it is an unhealthy behaviour and were willing to work on themselves to address it.
I could care about it if it was someone I had some kind of relationship to, but a random stranger? Like… Yes, I know that people who can afford it often go to nice places and have a good time, how is this a new or interesting fact?
Weeeeeeell, I was being a little dry about it. There are plenty of cute towns, gorgeous bits of countryside, and otherwise interesting things to visit, see, and do in the UK (any of the territories). Plus free museums/art galleries, tons of good food (despite contrary stereotypes, though admittedly most of it isn't British food lol) and decent beers.
Unless she’s a Jamaican influencer… gorgeous women get paid to make vacation places look cool. (I didn’t turn on the sound, so I’m sure I didn’t fully appreciate how annoying her words were…)
It's just marketing using your own life as a product. I think it's a valid avenue, even if the system that created the space for it is insipidly forcing people to MAKE themselves and their privacy a product for consumption.
Agreed. Be a lot easier if there weren't people like OP though, who keep posting this shit because they know they're gonna get circlejerk upvotes for it. Same goes for all the people posting the dumb shit asswipes like Musk or Trump post on Twitter or whatever platform. We truly don't need to be exposed to their idiocy.
this is a great idea, but might it be better to lock up¹ those who are influenced by influencers? if there's no market for influencers, there won't be any more influencers. ¹I know 'lock up' isn't the right term, but 'remove' and 'get rid of' are even harsher, and I just can't think of a better term.
The point of being rich is always being in tourist where ever. It's like being in East Texas in August. Air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned venue. What heat?
I've been told if you go with someone who has family there it can be lovely. I didn't know anyone personally when visiting. We tried to get away from the resort but were harassed and followed the whole time. One of the few places I've felt unsafe. It's beautiful and terrible. Glad I went. Don't feel the need to go again.
Same with Nassau. Husband and I wandered away from the tourist areas looking for the local pirate museum. It's humbling how fast the living conditions changed only a few blocks away from the shit load of duty free tourist jewelry shops.
I was in Negril Jamaica in 1993 where it was not uncommon to see beggars and people living in homes made from cardboard boxes. Hotels have security guards and razor wire. Beaches have hookers and the rum there flows like water.
Last time I was in Jamaica some girl, prolly had aids, was rubbing her hand up my thigh while I was squeezing out one last swim in the bay. My plane was likely idling on the tarmac so the late bird didn't get the worm.
When I went to Costa Rica, we were driving through a tiny town in the morning. It was time for school to start. I saw dozens of children walking in from out in the jungle into town for school. There are no suburbs in tiny towns in Costa Rica. They literally lived in lean-to shelters in the fucking jungle. Fuck me I was humbled on that day.
I also went through a Costa Rican jungle village. It was basically a collection of scrap sheet metal huts with a few ATVs parked outside of each one. It was very surreal.
Can confirm. My late FIL was Jamaican and lived a good hour inland. You pass something that looks like a rundown bus shelter and realise it's someone's house.
I've heard you shouldn't even go off hotel property. A friend who did PR in NYC was repping something in Jamaica and suggested paying a visit. Her client told her it wouldn't be wise. The beaches are supposed to be beautiful, though.
When I was there on a family vacation as a teen, there was a man standing just off our resort property with a horse on the beach. He almost got me. I'm an equestrian and horse fanatic and an offer to ride on the beach was more than I could resist. My mother scared him off
Cancun was lovely actually, I went to the actual city far from the resort. Yeah it's a but poor, but so is a lot of the world outside of my home in Canada. Like the red America, or heck, indigenous reserves in Canada.
I'll disagree with Cuba there. It's poor, but not unsanitary or dangerous. I was much more scared to walk around in the neighborhood next to mine in Rio than in the shitty parts of Havana.
I had some homies go off the beaten path in Jamaica. They described some scenes of total culture shock and poverty shock, even as poor dudes themselves.
When I toured Jamaica, the biggest thing I remember were the rundown, incomplete homes. It looked like people were working on them bit by bit as they could. Shanty towns as well. The resorts are beautiful but it's an entirely different world for sure
Funny thing about those homes: they are purposely left unfinished. Most are lived in. Peoole don't start paying taxes on the property until the home is completed. I heard the same thing in Cairo.
What? What about all the jobs? All those high paying service jobs!?
I witnessed a similar set of circumstances when they allowed casinos on waterfronts in my home state. "Oh, the jobs! The tax dollars! The tourism dollars!" Yeah, the jobs were low paying, the taxes didn't go very far, and all the money stayed in the casinos. Now some of these places are just run down and sad. One got demolished during Katrina.
we went to the Dominican Republic a while back.... walk off the resort property and you're basically in Haiti. The view from our balcony could see over the property wall and it was mega depressing, totally shanty town. We watched a guy "take a shower" outside with a bucket. We felt super guilty staying in this $$$ resort and seeing how the people next door lived.
Fiji is sketchy, so many social problems stemming from conflict between Pacific Fijians and Indian Fijians. Samoa is absolutely lovely, a lot more resorts work with the local villages to support their people with jobs, purchasing produce, clean water and more. All too often you'll get invited in or to join a game of cricket in the small towns
And that's the real crux of the problem isn't it. We forget about the impact bullshit capitalism has on the rest of the world. We find beautiful places. Steal their most beautiful views. Charge out the ass for people to stay there and pay the staff nothing. It's a fucking joke. "Resort fees?" Fucking for what, your overhead is nothing cause you basically stole the land and you have the nerve to charge cause I wanna use a towel. The whole system is fucked.
Isn't it sad that we have to stay this, and that we have to defend this point that everyone should be able to have. It's not even that we argue that everyone should have everything or have luxuries. We argue they should have food and shelter and that somehow makes us commies. The entire reason we started societies was so we could all share cause it was too hard to do it alone. These fucking scumbags step on us and take more and more.
drGrafenberg
Let them stay down there in the heat.
Strondvordr
I've worked as a travel agent before and this looks like the type of client that scrapes every penny they can together so they can make content like this to appear rich. Also love that she's caked in so much makeup thats shes a walking environment hazard.
GrenithTheSkald
If you make a living posting videos about being rich and trying to sell people the illusion that their lives are something to be embarrassed about, then you can go right up on the list alongside the billionaires and CEOs to be guillotined.
Becker37
I really wish all the entitled assholes in the world could get a real taste of what it's like to struggle
CelestialSea
Pot noodle is just what they call instant ramen in the UK. You can get it at any grocery store.
Eiladar
Pot noodle - ramen, usually like Cup o' Noodles
itypewerdsonline
for some reason I misread and misheard it as vodka phone :(
MattDude
Brit Ashley Johnson?
Amousewithchees
Pot noodle is basically ramen noodle cups
billymaditsdone
How sad are you that you can only get joy out of feeling above everyone instead of just enjoying what you're doing
JasonThorn
People do what they can to fill the void in their soul.
Andunistar
Oh boy I love being taunted with things I cant have with a super exploited island nation as the tool. Where the fuck am I? Bitch Im at the food bank.
2Soon4Baboon
I'm on isla mujeres all month. I work remote here every year. It gives me the strength to keep going.
JustLetMeInAlreadyFFS
People doing angry reaction videos to influencers who are paid by oil princes to eat their dog's poop in exchange for few thousand dollars and the opportunity to take pretty pics.
TupacAintDead
Fuck that influencer bitch.
powerrangerpl
Influencers, the digital cancer infesting our timeline.
KoalaeiO
Downvoted for the first hen then upvoted immediately for the nice British lady.
DocWino
Ah yes, the picturesque isle of Jamaica, where human life means nothing. Where tourists are warned not to leave the places they are staying. Love the reggae though.
DeeplyBroken
I did spend a week at the Sandals resort in Montego Bay, but if anyone asks me if I've ever visited Jamaica, I say, "No." Because Sandals isn't Jamaica.
d0nburto
let me guess you went with your boss and made out with her
DeeplyBroken
Nah. I went with my wife. We had a good time.
fastjeff
Oh man, take that video and show the people just across the street of where she’s staying. I’m sure they’ll all be very impressed.
oowt
Okay, Temu Xerxes from 300
ruint
If you want a proper pot noodle, you need to get it fresh from the welsh noodle mines.
AbelardSnazz
Sadly, Thatcher closed most of them down, along with Liverpool's jam butty mines - thousands of diddy men were thrown out of work
Neurisko
The children yearn for the mines still.
CheeseborgarSoop
That's the 120 feet of tourist Jamaica where you won't get stabbed or R**** in an alley.
OppaGangnamPyle
Raped is a word you can use instead.
CheeseborgarSoop
I was trying to polite to anyone who has experienced it.
lightfantasticem172
pot noodle is now the ONLY thing I'm craving...that and the sexy lady in Jamaica...has anyone tried hot sauce on their pot noods? it's amazing, Frank's is my favourite
MrWobblyHead
Chilli jam is a nice addition. Tracklements do a nice one.
JRaven419
Forget the noodle. I just want pot.
lightfantasticem172
ufoara
Tried Franks, then found Cholula Garlic. Never looked back.
Rocketpocketpants
Tapatio is good stuff as well. I use cholula when I can't find tapatio it is the only other one I really like the flavor of.
davemymindisgoingicanfeelit
I've been to Jamaica and i can tell you that just outside the gates of that fancy resort complex there are families washing their clothes in a nearby stream...
oowt
These people do have poverty anxiety but I can tell you modern life anxiety hits harder. When you don't have enough food the solution might be unattainable but it's understandable. When you have ennui because your flat screen TV isn't hitting like you thought it would the solution is is more difficult to assess.
davemymindisgoingicanfeelit
Let them eat cake, eh?
poorwegian
Pot noodle is a brand of instant ramen, with a form factor similar to nissin's cup noodles.
seldombeaton
I thought it was mac & cheese
JRaven419
101Medic
I must watch too much British TV. I didn't even realize that was niche information for we Americans
homoerection
First heard of pot noodles on British baking show.
kaosis
Also, it doesn't matter what it says on the label - they all taste the same. (Yes, they do! Stop lying to yourself!)
And there is always, ALWAYS, a single, lonely, dried up, little green pea at the bottom - even though there has never been a pea flavoured Pot Noodle.
ruint
The doner kebab ones tastes of kebab; i think fake food might be easier to imitate.
houghten
IME they come in two flavours:
* MSG
* Enough Capsaicin To Kill A Horse
poorwegian
Dang dude who pea'd in your pot noodle
agentmcgee
Hey! There were peas in the chow mein flavour. This may be before they fucked them up and took all the flavourings out that made them delicious. Now they taste like sadness and disappointment.
Thesaya
I do not understand anyone actually caring about a vid of someone literally bragging and making fun of people. I like the English lady, though.
Psychobeanz
I have friends who've made travel and posting brags about it their entire personality. It seems they're not as fulfilled by the experience as they want us to believe.
Thesaya
That's sad. I don't think I'd be able to stay friends with someone like that, unless they actually realised it is an unhealthy behaviour and were willing to work on themselves to address it.
henrikpetersson51
I could care about it if it was someone I had some kind of relationship to, but a random stranger? Like… Yes, I know that people who can afford it often go to nice places and have a good time, how is this a new or interesting fact?
Thesaya
If someone I had some kind of relationship to behaved like this, I'd do my best to end that relationship as soon as possible.
StarshipSuperTrooper
It's ragebait. Pure and simple. You get angry, you comment. It raises it's profile on social media. People dont care, the algorithm does
SantaBananas
To me she sounds like a raving idiot interacting with a pointless brag. Both halves of the video are so pointless
Thesaya
She's still a lot better by comparison. And has some humour. Wouldn't seek her out to watch her stuff.
CoveredBridgeBoy
I was actually thinking how I wanted to visit England more than Jamaica. The negativity for comedic affect is lost on me.
Thesaya
*effect ;) England is great! Been several times
satanslittleposter
We're doing our best to make it worse though!
Thesaya
Yeeeah... I have enough English friends to know the deal. Still good to visit friends there, though, and it's cheaper to visit now! ;)
satanslittleposter
Weeeeeeell, I was being a little dry about it. There are plenty of cute towns, gorgeous bits of countryside, and otherwise interesting things to visit, see, and do in the UK (any of the territories). Plus free museums/art galleries, tons of good food (despite contrary stereotypes, though admittedly most of it isn't British food lol) and decent beers.
daguq
Suitcase lost on the way home? The woman has a Jamaican accent.
Someshithead241
Yet she's in the tourist part of Jamaica, repping it for tourism.
BronyDanza
You'll find there's lots of people with West Indies background in UK...
jackhawkbolt
She looks like she has money (influencer)
She ain't living in Jamaica if that's the case.
MrsHowVeryDareYou
Unless she’s a Jamaican influencer… gorgeous women get paid to make vacation places look cool. (I didn’t turn on the sound, so I’m sure I didn’t fully appreciate how annoying her words were…)
TheWhiteBarry
Wait gorgeous women are used to sell things? Has anyone notified all marketing agencies?
EekumBokumEekumBokum
Shhh!! Let's capitalize on this somehow...
MrsHowVeryDareYou
I’m keeping this one close to the chest, so I can make billions of dollars and buy an election!!!
BenderBendingRrrrrrodriguez
At some point, we have to get together and agree to collectively ignore influencers.
MrRandom314159
It's just marketing using your own life as a product. I think it's a valid avenue, even if the system that created the space for it is insipidly forcing people to MAKE themselves and their privacy a product for consumption.
TheWorldAccordingToAtlas
Like we did with reality TV?
AHartMurmur
I'm doing my part
NotTheMamaNotTheMama
Me too!
GiveYourBallsATug69
Agreed. Be a lot easier if there weren't people like OP though, who keep posting this shit because they know they're gonna get circlejerk upvotes for it. Same goes for all the people posting the dumb shit asswipes like Musk or Trump post on Twitter or whatever platform. We truly don't need to be exposed to their idiocy.
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
I am decades ahead of you.
Lastchariot
The5oClockShadow
Too many people want to be one for that to happen
SaintSleepyWeasel
Please!
dashers
I try not to be exclusionary, I generally start with ignoring everyone.
pip1
Nah. Lets get together and Marie-Antoinette them
PoppyBee
The USA can't even collectively agree that everyone needs clean water
METROlD
By the time the influencers go out of style the kids will be going to AI for everything. AI will be the next influencer.
supervillin
You're right, you've influenced me to-- WAIT
BenderBendingRrrrrrodriguez
Idk what happened, I just got teleported to Jamaica.
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Now you need to stream about it as proof
AFrugalMoogle
I was doing it before it was cool.
LawFiveGuy
this is a great idea, but might it be better to lock up¹ those who are influenced by influencers? if there's no market for influencers, there won't be any more influencers. ¹I know 'lock up' isn't the right term, but 'remove' and 'get rid of' are even harsher, and I just can't think of a better term.
houghten
Shun? Exile? Send to Coventry?
Littledirtybirdyfeet
Educate people to not be so status driven
LawFiveGuy
well said. thank you.
JustAnotherknarF
Let's ignore influencers and just communicate in Memes, the the gods of the internet meant for us to...
zqwzzle
Sheldonian
OnlyByMoonlight
That's tourist Jamaica. Go two blocks away from the hotels and you'll wish you were in the UK.
phuzz00
My bit of the UK has plenty of Jamaicans, not sure I'd notice the difference.
oowt
The point of being rich is always being in tourist where ever. It's like being in East Texas in August. Air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned venue. What heat?
KYGELL91
Which is some kind of clever considering its like that because of the UK and then the US
Bo00
I've been told if you go with someone who has family there it can be lovely. I didn't know anyone personally when visiting. We tried to get away from the resort but were harassed and followed the whole time. One of the few places I've felt unsafe. It's beautiful and terrible. Glad I went. Don't feel the need to go again.
Eucrow
My friends got abducted there. They got away, though.
TheWeirdGuyBehindYou
There's UK "poor" and Burundi poor.
VaultGirl69
Isn't the UK like that, too? Western counties are just better at making sure the nicer places are far far from the shitty ones. No one but those who live there go to NW Tulsa in Oklahoma. It was a very successful and primarily populated but black people/businesses and was burned to the ground by racists. Jamaica was also colonized. https://origins.osu.edu/read/jamaican-independence#:~:text=Jamaica%20remained%20a%20British%20colony,as%20an%20institution%20in%201834.
Wildmare
Same with Nassau. Husband and I wandered away from the tourist areas looking for the local pirate museum. It's humbling how fast the living conditions changed only a few blocks away from the shit load of duty free tourist jewelry shops.
Valentijn101
Did that once. But I hurried back to the swimming pool
Sinkin' pina colada
FuzzyX
I was in Negril Jamaica in 1993 where it was not uncommon to see beggars and people living in homes made from cardboard boxes. Hotels have security guards and razor wire. Beaches have hookers and the rum there flows like water.
oowt
Last time I was in Jamaica some girl, prolly had aids, was rubbing her hand up my thigh while I was squeezing out one last swim in the bay. My plane was likely idling on the tarmac so the late bird didn't get the worm.
cannibalthemusical
You sound like a real class act.
thebonesofmyancestors
When I went to Costa Rica, we were driving through a tiny town in the morning. It was time for school to start. I saw dozens of children walking in from out in the jungle into town for school. There are no suburbs in tiny towns in Costa Rica. They literally lived in lean-to shelters in the fucking jungle. Fuck me I was humbled on that day.
DrunkenMarineBiologist
I also went through a Costa Rican jungle village. It was basically a collection of scrap sheet metal huts with a few ATVs parked outside of each one. It was very surreal.
CitizenPrime
Yikes, that bad?
bl0ke
Can confirm. My late FIL was Jamaican and lived a good hour inland. You pass something that looks like a rundown bus shelter and realise it's someone's house.
DonRudolf
hear hear it’s a real shithole
RevengeIsIceCream
Why would I do that? Tourist Jamaica looks better. ;)
KillingTlme
No thanks. It's scary enough taking the cab from the airport to Negril.
eastend666
I've heard you shouldn't even go off hotel property. A friend who did PR in NYC was repping something in Jamaica and suggested paying a visit. Her client told her it wouldn't be wise. The beaches are supposed to be beautiful, though.
Psychobeanz
When I was there on a family vacation as a teen, there was a man standing just off our resort property with a horse on the beach. He almost got me. I'm an equestrian and horse fanatic and an offer to ride on the beach was more than I could resist. My mother scared him off
JustSomePersonThere
Fucking shit, how old were you?
Doopapotamus
Holy shit, you mean he was going to abduct you?
Psychobeanz
I have no idea. He didn't ask for any money. I was going to just hop on.
chiefrunswithscissors
No. They just charge exorbitant prices for horse rides.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
same as a lot of tropical tourist hotspots - Dominican Republic, Mali, Cancún, Cuba...
Mockingbirb
...Alabama...
drcookieninja
Cancun was lovely actually, I went to the actual city far from the resort. Yeah it's a but poor, but so is a lot of the world outside of my home in Canada. Like the red America, or heck, indigenous reserves in Canada.
TheWeirdGuyBehindYou
I'll disagree with Cuba there. It's poor, but not unsanitary or dangerous. I was much more scared to walk around in the neighborhood next to mine in Rio than in the shitty parts of Havana.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
oh, I meant poverty specifically. Where I live was for a while among the murder capitals of the world.
SonnyVabitch
... London...
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
yes, right below the Tropic of Arctic
SonnyVabitch
Just above the Equator.
mrputter
... I'm sorry, did you just call 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘪 a "tropical tourist hotspot"??!?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
urm... yep, looks like I did. derp.
ionicseraph
I mean, they got the tropical part right at least
Furyustyles
I think they meant Bali. At least I hope they did.
ProbablyWrong524
"Mogadishu, the tropical tourist hotspot"
MantisTobagganMD
richardstinks
I had some homies go off the beaten path in Jamaica. They described some scenes of total culture shock and poverty shock, even as poor dudes themselves.
implosion3
Don't even need to go very far off the beaten path.
malex242
Yeah, first world poor ain't poor when you visit a tropical "paradise" and walk of that beaten path.
Psychobeanz
When I toured Jamaica, the biggest thing I remember were the rundown, incomplete homes. It looked like people were working on them bit by bit as they could. Shanty towns as well. The resorts are beautiful but it's an entirely different world for sure
LinkHouseMan
Funny thing about those homes: they are purposely left unfinished. Most are lived in. Peoole don't start paying taxes on the property until the home is completed. I heard the same thing in Cairo.
Feralkyn
It's genuinely tragic.
whistlebuzz
UK / US ‘Poor’ is luxury in like 70% of the remaining world
AutomaticCordonBleu
The worst part is the resorts don't actually put money back into the local economy and so the poverty is endemic.
richardstinks
What? What about all the jobs? All those high paying service jobs!?
I witnessed a similar set of circumstances when they allowed casinos on waterfronts in my home state. "Oh, the jobs! The tax dollars! The tourism dollars!" Yeah, the jobs were low paying, the taxes didn't go very far, and all the money stayed in the casinos. Now some of these places are just run down and sad. One got demolished during Katrina.
nobleImaginationWrecker
Don't forget the tax incentives the local municipalities give for a decade or so.
Tumescentpie
Isn't capitalism great? Resorts are literally just colonization reverberating
WhiskyBravo
we went to the Dominican Republic a while back.... walk off the resort property and you're basically in Haiti. The view from our balcony could see over the property wall and it was mega depressing, totally shanty town. We watched a guy "take a shower" outside with a bucket. We felt super guilty staying in this $$$ resort and seeing how the people next door lived.
snott
Had the same in Fiji. It felt so wrong just being there once I saw it.
munkis
Fiji is sketchy, so many social problems stemming from conflict between Pacific Fijians and Indian Fijians. Samoa is absolutely lovely, a lot more resorts work with the local villages to support their people with jobs, purchasing produce, clean water and more. All too often you'll get invited in or to join a game of cricket in the small towns
snott
That sounds excellent
Jewdakris
And that's the real crux of the problem isn't it. We forget about the impact bullshit capitalism has on the rest of the world. We find beautiful places. Steal their most beautiful views. Charge out the ass for people to stay there and pay the staff nothing. It's a fucking joke. "Resort fees?" Fucking for what, your overhead is nothing cause you basically stole the land and you have the nerve to charge cause I wanna use a towel. The whole system is fucked.
Heavenissize17socks
The costs of capitalism should be to provide essential services to every single breathing person on the planet.
It is not enough to protect our fellow men, we must protect the possibilities within them.
Jewdakris
Isn't it sad that we have to stay this, and that we have to defend this point that everyone should be able to have. It's not even that we argue that everyone should have everything or have luxuries. We argue they should have food and shelter and that somehow makes us commies. The entire reason we started societies was so we could all share cause it was too hard to do it alone. These fucking scumbags step on us and take more and more.