Stacy McCain at The Other McCain has been following
this train wreck for a while. I am not so surprised by Caroline Calloway or Natalie Beach's behavior, than I am so many others literally bought into it. Then again publishers and marketers are always looking for the next best thing. As grifters can tell you, the easiest marks are those who think they are so damn smart. I don't have any sympathy to the publisher who gave Calloway a big fat advance.
It almost makes you lose faith in them, but (fortunately) not all Millennials are low talent scammers like Caroline Conway or celebrity train wrecks. Compare Calloway's story to that of Idaho off-the-grid Mormon girl
Tara Westover, who never stepped foot in a class room until she was 17, but went to Cambridge on a
Gates scholarship and ended up writing
Educated (which is an excellent memoir--and I used her as an example because she actually wrote a book worth reading). But there are many other Millennials who are working hard in jobs, serving in the military, living their lives honestly, and who don't get a lot of compensation or hype.
Rotten Chestnuts:
The Basic College Girl (depressing, however, while it is bad out there as RC notes, it is not universal)
Does the Vox 'Juice Box Mafia' get they are a lot like this pair


TOM:
In The Mailbox: 09.13.19,
The Family Business,
In The Mailbox: 09.12.19,
Beto in Democrat Debate: ‘Hell Yes, We’re Going to Take Your AR-15, Your AK-47!’,
The Instagram Influencer Grift: What Is Caroline Calloway’s ‘Brand’ Value Now?,
In The Mailbox: 09.11.19,
Eighteen Years Ago Today,
In The Mailbox: 09.10.19 (Evening Edition),
Brain Candy UPDATE: GOP’s Dan Bishop Wins Special Election in North Carolina’s 9th District,
CNN Story ‘Simply False,’ CIA Says,
Oluwakayode Adewole Adebusuyi,
He Was the Walrus, Goo Goo Ga Joob,
In The Mailbox: 09.10.19 (Morning Edition),
She’s Crazy and Married to a Democrat,
No, the KKK Hasn’t Taken Over Arkansas (and Never Trust the SPLC Anyway),
Ace Is Sick and Tired of Jim Swift,
Nigerian Immigrant Ayoola Ajayi Now Charged in Another Sex Crime,
Atheist Vegan YouTuber ‘Onision’ Accused of Being a Creepy Sexual Predator,
In The Mailbox: 09.06.19,
Democrats 2020: ‘Ban All the Things!’,
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani
A collection of sites known for appreciation of
Rule 5 and Watching The Millennials: