Permission to block, from Carrie

Who just happened to land the same book agent as her sister in law's after the latter suggested the former read her blog... but again- completely by her own merit is she published.. Because she works SO HARD YOU GUYS SO TIRED ALL THE TIME I WORK SO MUCH SO MANY HOURS

now I'm done. I swear

You're welcome!

I have no idea what she's like on stage, in fairness she has a nice voice but I'm not sure what her acting is like. So I can't fairly comment on that.

I used to be a fan of hers, I enjoyed her youtube channel for a while but I'm growing increasingly irritated by her lack of recognition for the advantages life has given her (the book deals particularly bother me). But despite my slight bitchy post above, I try to give her the benefit of the doubt, after all I'm sure I could be insufferable at 23... except I didn't have a massive platform on which to share my opinions!

Now that Carrie has kindly informed me I'm allowed to block people, maybe I shall begin by blocking her.

ShoesForRent you have it spot on. I used to follow Ms Hope Fletcher but had to stop after the torrent of self pity and passive aggressiveness became too much for me. If your followers have to begin every tweet with a disclaimer just to stop you branding it "hate" and setting the lynch mob on them, them you need to reevaluate things.

I've seen Carrie in Les Mis 3 or 4 times (I'm a fan of the show - not her) and I've never seen anybody make as much of a song or dance about stage door or the job as she does. I'm sure you're ridiculously busy darling, but you're living the dream, so please try not to look so blooming miserable about it.

She may well be everyone's favourite YouTuber / author / actress / singer / ambassador for Papa New Guinea, but it's time for her to decide if she wishes to be a top class you know what and be accepted for it, or be lovely and be admired. You don't get to be rude, ungrateful and snarky and have everyone treat you like you're a frizzy, slightly more feminine Gandhi. 

To actually address the topic at hand-sometimes it is as simple as 'block' sometimes it's not. Example, this week I was treated to a delightful troll on twitter who was trolling a hashtag I posted in, and after a few amusing exchanges (and some help from friends, Kathryn from the forum included) I made my point in return and blocked the delightful fellow*

I'm a grown-ass woman dealing with anonymous idiots on the internet. That was easy. BUT if I'm a teenage girl (Carrie's main audience) and I'm getting online rubbish from some nasty piece of work at school who everyone else at school follows on twitter, then just blocking them is about as useful as the old 'ignore them and they'll go away' advice. Newsflash from someone who was bullied all through school: it doens't work. That person will still be saying the things, your friends will see it, and it's still not going to go away. There are other ways to deal with cyberbullies but she's dangerously oversimplified it.

Anyway, back to Carrie. I think there is some issue with her 'youtuber' audience crossing over into theatre world and not quite understanding how things work there BUT talking to them like they're all idiots, and acting like she has the most difficult job in the world isn't really endearing her to anyone....


*disclaimer this is obviously not what I called him.

I came here hoping it was an undiscovered cut song from the musical....

Blockwomble the Cockwomble will go down in history. 

He was indeed an A-plus cockwomble. 

There are performers who give me those "oh no, not her" moments too.

She also runs or used to run a subscription book club where you receive (for a hefty fee) items related to a book. You just don't get the book. Nope, didn't really understand the point of it either.

16 quid a month? For just a little more than nothing?

I couldn't watch that video the full way through. My reaction was more or less "oh shut the f*** up."

Apologies for swearing, I didn't think any other words were suitable.