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Since I seem to have a theme of talking about Youtubers lately, let's talk about another one who I watch regularly. That's Katers, aka katersoneeven. If I had to choose, Katers would be my favorite daily vlogger right now. She's consistent, labels all her vlogs by day, and usually when they're short or something she has a pretty decent excuse for it. She appears to have a pretty good work ethic. Based on my previous post on that subject, you know how that can be important for someone who claims vlogging is their job now.

The job aspect aside, I like watching Kate just because she's funny. Her laugh can be infectious. She's into geeky things. She seems to be a genuinely nice person from what I can tell. She's British, and I enjoy watching people of another culture. Her living in America now only makes it more interesting, to see her reactions to a different culture. And she has a good rapport with Cory, aka Mr. Safety, from The Mean Kitty and SMP Films, who is her roommate at the moment (though not for much longer).

It's worth noting that I found Kate's vlogs to begin with due to a Mean Kitty video, where he pranked her with all the packing peanuts. Though I only subscribed to his smpfilms channel a while afterward, since Kate started being in some of his videos too.

To be fair, though, I'll point out some of the things which have irked me even about Kate's vlogs:

Even though Cory is part of why the vlogs can be funny sometimes, he's also part of why they're the opposite at other times. He often tries too hard to be funny, or gets into an ADD mood and just acts way too wacky.

Cory's wife, Stephanie (or was his wife, I'll touch on that later), also annoyed me greatly. She was camera shy, smug, had a TERRIBLE laugh, and just wasn't funny or interesting the majority of the time. I really got tired of her being in the vlogs, if I'm to be perfectly honest. I know that might be mean to say, but it's the truth. When she stopped being in them regularly I was relieved.

Someone else who kinda bugged me was her friend back in England who they called "The Loud One." I don't know if he's necessarily a bad guy or anything, but he's just too "on" all the time. He seems to try a bit too hard to find something funny or witty to say, and cusses a lot to do so.

There's two other people from the vlogs who I disliked, but they're not regulars. The first is that guy who once kept slinging water all over Kate, and rubbed crotch sweat on Cory. That was some guy they met up with along with some other fans at some trampoline place. That guy was such a huge douche, I seriously would hit him in real life if he rubbed crotch sweat on my face like that. The second guy is the more heavy-set neighbor guy at the place she currently lives. He's one of those guys who thinks he's a total bad-ass, with all his tattoos and attitude, and makes crude "fag" comments to sound cool and totally not gay himself, all while generally having nothing funny or interesting to say. He's not as bad as the crotch sweat guy, but he's a runner up. I just can't be friends with people like that, always pretending to be something they're not.

There's other little things which bug me about Kate's vlogs I guess. I think a small part of me cringes when she does her retard chest slap thing. I'm certainly not the most politically-correct person by far, but it just seems poor taste to mock/mimic retarded people, and publicly at that. Corey's done similar things, but it never rubbed me the wrong way quite as strongly as when Kate does it. I seem to recall her and her friends doing it back home, which honestly made me question whether it's more okay in British society to do that sort of thing. From my experience with British television, like Top Gear, they certainly have proven to be less caring about political correctness about many things, so who knows.

Well then we have Kate's fans. I mean, you have the normal type who would blindly defend her over anything. Kind of like when I commented recently about them laughing about that skinny kid and the techno music not going together, how it might be embarrassing for them to single him out in the video, especially if he's self-conscious about his weight. The fans jumped on that comment, trying to explain it away and defend it, saying I'm over-sensitive, etc. Sorry, don't need you to explain the original intention. It doesn't change the fact that the kid was very likely embarrassed by it. Thin people can be just as self-conscious as overweight ones.

Anyway, the thing about her fans is that they have the whole "internet female syndrome." It's thousands of guys thinking they have a chance with her. And I think that the fact that she receives thousands of dollars worth of items sent to her P.O. box speaks for itself. Who buys expensive presents (as in, hundreds of dollars sometimes) for someone they've never even met? Don't get me wrong, I bet many of the letters and things are probably genuinely nice fans who want to do something nice. I would consider writing her a friendly letter myself if the mood ever struck me, just as a thanks for making entertaining vlogs and all. But I also bet there's plenty who send her plenty of bullshit stories hoping for a heartfelt response or a mention in her vlog.

I think initially Kate was surprised and gracious by all these gifts, but I'm more inclined to think now that she just expects this kind of stuff to keep coming in. That's not to say that she's selfish or greedy, but wouldn't you feel the same? After a while, it stops being a surprise. And if people are dumb enough to send you fancy stuff just for being an attractive female, why not take advantage of it? It's not like she owes them anything for taking it. But let's just not pretend that she's totally surprised by most of these things anymore. They send her so much stuff that I doubt she even remembers or keeps most of it. Although I have a feeling she might keep a list, so that she knows who's who for future reference.

As for what I mentioned about Stephanie possibly not being Cory's wife anymore, I feel this is something worth mentioning. I've heard of haters stirring up stuff about Kate and Cory maybe being in a relationship, which Kate felt necessary to address in a vlog. But long before that ever stirred up, I noticed something myself: Cory wasn't wearing his wedding ring anymore. Neither was Steph, when she was actually still in it. I jumped back through the videos to see where this started, and in the vlog before Kate left for the week-long visit to her dad, Cory was still wearing his. When she came back, Cory mentioned something in the car ride home about it being a bad week, and he didn't have his wedding ring on. When Steph was in it after that, she wasn't wearing one either. And now Steph is hardly in the vlogs. Not to mention, Cory is moving out of that place, and spoke of not being able to afford it, and needing to downgrade, etc. Not a word about Steph coming with him. Now, this doesn't mean anything happened between Kate and Cory at all. Honestly I've never really entertained that idea very much, partially due to the age difference. So in that respect, haters gonna hate, trolls gonna troll, etc. But, something definitely happened between Cory and Steph. Maybe Cory just didn't know what he was getting himself into when he married her. I sure learned a lot about her personality just from the vlogs, enough to make me generally dislike her. But, who knows what happens. I just know that something did. And they're trying to keep it on the down-low.

Anyway, this post is now huge. And I know I spent a lot of time on the negatives. But that's because the vlogs are generally full of positives, too much to try to individually mention. Kate is going to move soon, so I have no idea how that will affect the vlogs, but at this point in time, I just don't see Kate falling away as my favorite vlogger. It might even improve, since we'll get to see her experience living alone for the first time.

There was a time when I probably thought Shaytards would always be my favorite vlog too, though, so I guess we'll have to see!