The Girlboss Nightmare of Motel Makeover

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[@benstone5895]

I’m so excited. I was afraid I’d dreamed the whole series, but at least now I know it’s a shared hallucination.

[@mathieuleader8601]

*FEVER DREAM*

[@TheSuzberry]

Another reason I skip ‘reality’ TV.

[@benstone5895]

HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT MOMENTS?! So glad this is here to document such an iconic, um. Time? Event? Ceiling? Yeah, ceiling.

[@rexmikes6270]

more like a mass datura poisoning. i really enjoy when canadian lefty youtuberettes roast reality shows because god knows sitting through even a few minutes of these garbage icebergs gives me anxiety and spiraling depression.

[@fl00d69]

You actually watched this shite flix show? Embarrassing.

[@halfpintrr]

I physically yelled ‘no!’ when they painted the wood wall white. It’s got character, they say as they strip all of the character from it by literally whitewashing it.

[@RealLukeWilson]

I was about to write the same comment, because seriously!

[@Neon_Ghost1]

White people live turning everything white 😩

[@phaedrus4931]

Relieved that their tasteless crime has been brought forth and adjudicated in this public forum.

[@everfluctuating]

it almost feels too on-the-nose and blatantly ironic

[@mclev9375]

yo same. in my mom's house where i grew up, we have a similar wood panelling wall, and the thought of someone painting it white makes me wanna cry.

[@zenleeparadise]

As a person who travels a lot, hearing “rooms went from $90 to $500 a night” made me want to throw something. Please don’t bring your “motel empire” to the States, ladies, we don’t want it. I LIKE being able to get a room for less then a hundred bucks, ok? That’s what motels are for! They’re not destination spots, they’re holy places that we see a sign for on the side of a highway when starting to get drowsy and you go “fuck it, I can splurge” and you fork over eighty bucks and don’t even look at the room, collapse into the bed, maybe take a shower in the morning, snag some free food and gtfo. Motels offer a valuable service. If I saw a sign for a motel on the highway and pulled off to get some shut-eye, only to be quoted $500 for a room, I would tell them that they’re out of their gd mind and I would opt to sleep in my car. Don’t call your Instagram destination spot a “motel”, it’s false advertising.

[@RealLukeWilson]

I was a weird kid in middle school, and I actually started keeping a list of my favorite motels when my family would take cross-country trips. Because there were a lot of great ones out there, and most of them were so inexpensive, that I guess I wanted to privately give them 5-star reviews in the days before Yelp.

[@justynawisniewska1213]

Yeah, I don't even know who is paying a pretty damn nice hotel kind of price to stay at a 'motel' that looks like if it was decorated by a pinterest-obsessed gen X'er.

[@zenleeparadise]

@@justynawisniewska1213 I imagine everyone who is interested in staying at one of their motels will have done so within a couple of years, they’ll gain a reputation for being con artists, they’ll realize that they aren’t as cute as they think they are and that they can’t swindle people like that for long, and they’ll eventually be forced to drop their prices. And once the weather wears into their painted rocks and their cheap furniture is made less cute through use, they’ll likely realize that they actively made their motel shittier then it was before they “renovated” it. Maybe they’ll be humbled by reality and realize that they have no idea what they’re doing or how to run a business, and it will be reclaimed by the locals who will run it like a normal freakin motel and all will be right with the world. 🤞

[@zenleeparadise]

@@RealLukeWilson a wise child

[@euansmith3699]

As long as the sign at the side of the road doesn't read, "Bates' Motel", you should be okay; although I hear that Norman has plenty of beds available, and the rates are extra reasonable.

[@theomegajuice8660]

This show would have been a masterpiece if it was narrated by Rick, the contractor, throughout with all his inner monologue

[@maximeteppe7627]

oh my god I want to watch a commentary reaction series with rick!

[@melmel376]

That man has so many unshared thoughts!!!

[@GwendolynnBY]

he's the true hero of this story

[@Allantitan]

So many times he just looked so done with everything

[@DanDeLeoninthefield]

A Best in Show style mockumentary comes to mind.

[@isabelleist1234]

gotta say as a commercial designer, i would love to see how all their cheap chairs and shit look like in 5 years. there's a reason hospitality and commercial furniture costs more than residential and these women are going to find that out the hard way lmao.

[@jamesrowlands8971]

I wonder if that could even be a liability thing? As a larger guy, I've broken a few chairs in my time, and you could seriously hurt yourself when doing that.

[@Lynsey17]

I want to preface this by saying that this isn't my personal attitude and I think sustainability should be the priority in a project like this, but: I think the people who are making fun of this series/The June motel bc it's so focused on Instagram-ability are completely missing the point - the business model IS the Instagram-ability. Millennials (who are now in their late-20s/early-40s) have generally waited longer to start families which means they largely have established careers and no kids - ie. they have disposable income. There is absolutely a market for a vacation spot that caters to adults and focuses on trendy aesthetics that are tailored for social media. But when you get into that market, you need to keep the trendy decor up-to-date. So that chair won't be there in 5 years - even if it was durable enough to last that long it just won't be in style. That's also why picking cheap options is important - that decor is going to be replaced. Whether or not you personally agree with the approach doesn't matter if there are other people who do want this type of experience. They aren't likely to rethink their approach unless it stops selling.

[@Spamhard]

@@Lynsey17 It still puts on full display the absolute hypocrisy of the the type of people who make and pay for these motels. I can guarantee a vast majority of them parrot about sustainability and like omg don't you think the environment is like just so important you guys omg, as they sit around on trends that'll be thrown out and replaced within a year or two.

[@Lynsey17]

@@Spamhard Honestly, if the argument was about the sustainability of these practices that'd be fine. But it's been focused on attacking this style of design based on the target audience being perceived as basic and shallow. Essentially mocking people who have less sophisticated style as if not liking typical IG aesthetics makes someone a better person. I think the fault lies partially with the show for hamming it up (though, how are people still falling for obviously scripted interactions like the coffee shop scene as if we're still in the early years of reality tv?) but also with the amount of people who LOVE to hate on people whose main transgressions are genuinely liking their Live, Laugh, Love neon signs.

[@Spamhard]

@@Lynsey17 I think it's a case of agree to disagree. Imo you cannot seperate the argument of sustainability and style/design. I also don't really see people necessarily shitting on the live laugh love style of decor, that's just a matter of taste and is perfectly popular among a lot of people if insta and pinterest are to be judged. It doesn't even offend me much personally, I didn't even mind them painting the wood walls, lol. In this case I see more of the mockery being on the sheer entitlement and money making schemes of these two in the show, who are just a small part of a bigger problem. Their only care is for money and vapid consumption, without the consideration of the impact they have on both their environmental choices, but also the impact on the community around them. You can Live Laugh Love sustainably and with consideration for those around. Sort of reminds me of a show we have in the UK called Hotel Inspector, where the host comes to help people revitalise their dying businesses, and that often ends in similar decor, but you tend to have more sympathy and end up rooting for the people because it's usually people struggling with a personal business who are trying to involve their community via local produce, events etc

[@riverroth3688]

When she said "oat milk lattes"and the woman said "no sorry", I felt my soul die as I realized "ohhhh. Oh no they're gonna fuckin gentrify this neighborhood"

[@slayertakim1]

They way she went down the list felt so disgusting to me. Like she was judging the small town coffee shop for not being "modern".

[@SallyBerry9]

Like, I’m severely lactose intolerant, my non-dairy milk of choice is Oat , and how she asked made me cringe so hard I wondered if maybe my stomach destroying itself would be less painful than drinking the same thing as her

[@lulusinner]

The fact she listed them rather than just asking if they have a non dairy option

[@SantaFishes101]

I mean to be fair, it's better to have options for people with allergies like myself. but.... I never expect a bloody motel or local diner to have them haha. here it's pretty good cause I live in a college town (though it's tiny haha) but still.

[@anon2427]

Hopefully they do

[@noxabellus]

They're not just superficial, they're actively and consciously pursuing superficiality ... they're like, meta-superficial

[@Horatio787]

There's something unsettling about the way they're always smiling. Like a theme park worker took their work home with them.

[@victorreis8110]

its a tv show

[@noxabellus]

@@victorreis8110 great observation 👍

[@mndlessdrwer]

Did you know Paris Hilton has a cooking show on Netflix? I didn't, and I couldn't even finish watching Uncle Roger roasting it because of how vapid Paris Hilton is. It's not that some people are targeting superficiality, it is that superficiality is literally all they are. There's nothing inside, it's just the exterior shell, a veneer of being slightly pretty and very wealthy, and that is all that sustains their existence.

[@merrik1057]

I love how the price “went from 90 to 500” rather than saying “we decided to charge 500 a night for this.” It’s not like they made their changes and then checked some registry that said it now costs 500.

[@PetrieRobert]

Yeah, they hide rapacious greed behind that use of the passive voice.

[@louhortonsculpture]

Yeah! Did they charge that much so you can steal half those tchotchkes when you visit? Because they had way too many for a hotel and I really don’t think got any deals! Not to mention- the reason motel furniture is so bulky and ugly is because it lasts-

[@GwendolynnBY]

they understand motels are supposed to be cheap, right

[@elvenchipmunk2369]

@@plasticmodels "I don't get it, why are they confessing?" "They're not confessing, the're bragging" -The Big Short

[@micahcook2408]

I don’t understand why luxury or nice things have to be expensive anyway…. These motel owners can’t keep up with maintenance, cleanliness, and the design upkeep if no one is paying to stay in these motels because it’s expensive ….. imagine it being affordable and nice which could probably boost profits from incomes of all types of people especially young millennial travelers or broadway national tour entourages …. I don’t get it… I don’t understand why being at a lower tax bracket means you don’t deserve to treat yourself….

[@melodyborg6164]

Holy shit that contractor hated every second of interaction he was forced to endure with those two. I really hope he got paid decently for his appearance 😬😬

[@artemismoonbow2475]

That's the only reason he did it. He was being paid and he knew they would just get another contractor. At least he used the opportunity to show the world his contempt for the bourgie trash that holds da money rather than play up false niceness.

[@stopefinaround]

You know he wasn't. We don't live in that kind of world

[@ratoh1710]

@@stopefinaround I mean, no matter how much he was paid, it wasn't enough to deal with those two.

[@SquiresIsle]

At first I thought, "Wow, he's not even putting on a show for the camera." But then I thought, "Oh god, he absolutely was." I shudder to think of the rage he'd be showing if there were no cameras around.

[@JC-yy8iv]

@@artemismoonbow2475 I was thinking something similar while pondering why that coffee shop would agree to the scripted “no milk alternatives” scene. It’s such a bullshit Beverly Hills idea of what rural America is, I have family in a place that’s as remote and podunk as you can get and still have running water, and the coffee places still have all the plant milks you could want because it’s fucking 2024 there too. Anyway all I could come up with is that they were paid a whole lot of money and probably not named in the show

[@Dancingonthesun]

This just shows how if you're rich, you can just fail and fail and fail and not learn or have consequences. Imagine being able to not think at all times and be happy. I'm utterly horrified and envious.

[@stevenunyabidness]

sheep call that capitalism but when you start putting it together it just turns it into updated, polished feudalism. people as individuals can change, ones potential for such is breathtaking but people as a group neither have nor will change at all.

[@MysticJem2016]

And if you don't fail, you get the bonus of displacing entire communities of people who simply want to live and die in the same place as their great-grandparents. .... Any day now I'll either be rich or displaced.

[@Whocareslol420]

I am tired of this toiling, pleasure-free life

[@spamviking]

Byron Bay is an oft cited example here in Australia of a once quiet seaside town home to stoners and retirees that used to be a cheap holiday spot for working class families being "discovered" by the rich and over the course of decades has turned into a town where the locals can no longer afford to live in and average people can't afford to visit. But interestingly there is a town near Byron Bay called Ballina that despite having better beaches remains untouched by the big city elites. I personally think it's because Ballina has a huge fiberglass prawn as a roadside attraction and no rich wanker wants to have their million dollar holiday home share a postcode with something so kitsch. So if you want to save your small town build something huge out of fiberglass and stick it next to the highway.

[@_lexi]

incredible

[@OnyxDeity]

I was homeless for most of 2021 and I remember going into work as a laborer. The ladies in the office would stand around talking about their plans to buy properties and run AirBnBs in them, which was a large part of why I was priced out of housing in town. This show seems like the TV experience of that.

[@EpsilonEridani_]

Heart goes out to you. Hope you're doing better now and somewhere hopefully free of the privileged rich.

[@RealBradMiller]

Yup, I wish those people a very happy arsonist! I've been homeless twice before, with thousands of dollars in my bank account. Even stayed in a microtel for a while. Guy in town buys up all the houses and then rents them, yet can't get around to fixing a single thing, and thinks he can tell people what they can and can't do with their belongings. I kinda want to get a job with him and then take him down from the inside. Tell his wife I screwed him, ruin his business relationships, just send him for a loop. 😂 Edit: autocorrect never fails to mess up a coherent sentence.

[@swamp-yankee]

@@RealBradMiller sounds like you got yourself a good old fashioned slum lord. We got one of them who owns a building lot that was long ago chunked off from our home leased farm. Guy uses it to hoard trash. He’s got pallets of lead batteries, junk vehicles, bags of trash, piles of junk under tarps, etc. I’d hate to be renting one of his apartments.

[@RealBradMiller]

@@swamp-yankee Yup, luckily I found an older lady who lives on inherited property and isn't looking to screw people over. I'm serious about destroying this man's life. Asked about him while I was at the Buffalo Wild Wings the other night. There's no need, nor benefit, to society with people like him. I know he isn't some big bad corporate boss, and is just doing what's within his ability, but he seemed very condescending and arrogant when I met him, and I'd like him to have a tenth of a taste of what I've felt over the past several years.

[@be.A.b]

That’s not why you were priced out of housing. Blaming it on small potatoes renters and airbnb people aren’t going to fix the issue. These huge developers and legislators, thrive off of us playing scapegoat with each other. Population growth with improper infrastructure planning, will lead to housing issues. Airbnbs stimulate the economy more then they hurt it.

[@furonguy42]

"There are no rules when it comes to colour mixing, we like to play within the palette until the balance is just right", they say as they buy plain white paint in bulk so they can cover the entire, nice, rustic building to look exactly as hollow and vapid as their personalities.

[@MissMokate]

I bet "we play with the palette until the balance is right" is how they arrive at the cervix wall pink every time. you know, how when you mix enough colours and it all turns into neutral grey

[@nathaniellindner313]

It's kind of funny because if you look at color theory, it's full of some of the biggest names in scientific history. People as illustrious as von Goethe and James Clerk Maxwell were all big contributors; the first complementary color triangle theories were proposed by Thomas Young (the guy who helped decipher the Rosetta Stone) to be used in the color wheel invented by none other than Sir Isaac Newton. There's literally centuries of development into it, and the first section of any painting text or guidebook will delve into the techniques to building a coherent palate for any given project. I'm not really surprised that they don't know about any of that.

[@Myrea_Rend]

Color Theory: Am I a joke to you?

[@gingermaniac5484]

they should go by colour theory and add some red splotches to make it more welcoming and nurturing, you know, like a children's hospital

[@portiabartel]

My favorite part is how they painted real wood over with white, then added more real wood, during a lumber shortage, to add warmth.😅

[@2fortsmostwanted]

If I see one more out-of-climate tropical plant leaf against a baby pink wall I'm going to lose my god damn mind. I think their design experience comes from browsing pinterest, exclusively.

[@moongirl8807]

It's not even trendy anymore. Wasn't that like a 2014 or 2016 aesthetic?

[@2fortsmostwanted]

@@moongirl8807 Yeah seriously

[@CometTheMicroraptor]

What's funny to me is I watch a DIY channel from a couple of Canadian girls and they had a series where motel owners actually invited them to fix up their spaces and rentals. They make and thrift a lot of things and they always follow the hosts' visions and are clearly much more grounded in reality, especially since both girls genuinely do make a lot of the things from scratch and do all the labor themselves or with their personal team! Waaaay better version of whatever the hell this shit was trying to be.

[@alindberg8001]

What channel was that?

[@Lynsey17]

The Sorry Girls. Who were actually in clips in this video bc they were invited to the soft launch for the motel. They even featured their trip to Sauble Beach to stay at the motel in their blog channel. They had nothing but positive things to say about it.

[@rita2506]

The Sorry Girls are great at that!!!

[@justlola417]

"it's been a really hard year" they say in front of a giant house with dozens of fairy lights with they feet in a pool that they could pay for with their own money

[@_lexi]

that part made me FURIOUS

[@melmel376]

“Rich people count money they haven’t made yet, but wanted to make, as money they have lost.” Subscribed.

[@ethanshrago461]

quote of the video, and there's lots to choose from

[@bmo9881]

The name for this is "opportunity cost"

[@goazer2]

@@found13 Opportunity cost is an important economic concept that most wealthy people and businesses understand and drives a LOT of their decision making not to mention is the basis for international trade. If you don't know what it is you should look into it.

[@Altar360]

I have never felt the uncanny valley effect with actual living breathing human beings like I did with the hostesses of this show you’re presenting to us. There’s just something… off…

[@henrygvidonas9573]

And what's up with the weird creaky Valley girl voices? _"Thaht'z uh mommehhhnntt..."_ Who talks like that? Apart from people who are floating 1ft above the ground on muscle relaxants and benzos?

[@Neon_Ghost1]

People like them are turning me into a comic book villain and I hate it! 😂

[@euansmith3699]

@@Neon_Ghost1 MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA... ha...

[@alisdraws]

it's cause they're actually two black comedians under a lot of make up and prosthetics

[@GamesFromSpace]

It's like uncanny satire. Are they real people, or are they mocking a caricature?

[@KH-zr6pt]

I would probably think the rooms were fine if I just randomly saw a picture of them but I can't imagine thinking it was worth $500/night to stay in one. Like the whole point of motels are to be affordable places for families to stay?? And I wanted to CRY seeing them paint all of that wood/brick/stone... the house flipping industry has truly released an evil upon this world

[@thefaboo]

Truly gunning for the "more money than sense" crowd....

[@kvltslime2261]

this. motels devloped cheaply along highways for motorists. hence motel

[@timb4248]

It's because even the shitty run down motels nowadays are like 100 a night. People don't want to stay there on vacation, so they would rather get price gouged for a place like this for 500. Even Air BNBs have gone crazy when it comes to prices. Everyone is trying to price out the riff raff of society.

[@DanDeLeoninthefield]

House flipping is, itself, pretty evil. At least, serial house flipping is.

[@muffinz1005]

its so sinister

[@sebastiangorka200]

Respect to the gals, they managed to achieve the impossible. They made me feel bad for a guy who looks like a thumb wearing wrap-around shades. Incredible.

[@beckimartinelli5568]

This feels eerily similar to what's happening at my current coffeeshop gig- an owner with no real business plan or concept, just lots of money and an "aesthetic"

[@ChicagoBacon]

I started hate watching this show, but had to stop when I saw how everyone around them is miserable. Two people with no talent, just money, who can't see anything beyond themselves. Thanks for watching this horrible series and compressing the rage inside of me down to just 22 minutes. 10/10 video

[@timothymclean]

Hatewatching isn't nearly as fun when the crew also obviously hates it. Actually, that's true of any form of watching. Human misery degrades most experiences.

[@widgie161]

As a kid I was homeless and lived in cheap motels. This show actually makes me want to scream.

[@StarlightMikka]

right? I thought the show was about making it nice for regular motel clients to use, but nah. just yassifying and overcharging and keeping ppl homeless

[@AR-ej2xw]

I was homeless, too. There's nothing wrong with buying a failed motel and renovating it. A failed motel is a motel that can't meet its operating costs, which is like, most of these older motels in North America. That's *also* a place that the poor can't stay. So you can either have the government take these over and turn them into public housing, or you can have two wantrepreneurs yassify them. But either way outside of government takeover (leave fallow, rebuild and rebrand) it doesn't affect the housing stock for the poor or working class literally at all.

[@asmrtpop2676]

@@AR-ej2xwThose are literally not the only two options lol.

[@AR-ej2xw]

@@asmrtpop2676 Great! What is your third option?

[@yuv7676]

When you destroy a local community to make yourself even more disgusingly rich? THAT'S A MOMENT RIGHT THERE

[@stephendaley266]

When the local community returns the favor by building a guillotine for them? That's the moment I want to see!

[@2fortsmostwanted]

Watch them lose money on this and just abandon the motel they ruined in shambles

[@Mel-qr5ob]

i wanna see the follow up where it gets egged every year on Halloween and teens are smoking weed by their pool "you want us to leave? call my uncle Bob on 911, he'll come join in"

[@jim2lane]

That's trickle down economics at it's best! 😉

[@JustAnOldStone]

GOD THEIR VOICES ARE SO GRATING AND FILLS ME WITH PAIN AAAAAAAA Im sorry for your ears having to be exposed to what amounts to two vocal war crimes

[@spider-parker1297]

God as a native New Jerseyan, hearing all of this just added years to my life. The way the shore is exploited makes me wanna scream. You go to point pleasant and it’s all just empty houses and litter everywhere. And people who actually wanna live there and be a part of the community can’t bc a shack in lavalette goes into the millions. Like my grandparents are well into their 80s, nearing 90s and have wanted to settle in a shore town for over a decade, they’re like lower middle class/working class and they’ve been tryna save up to buy a house and enjoy their twilight years for ages now but they keep getting priced out by real estate devs or ppl who just NEED to have a 5th Airbnb. And you just see the towns deteriorate before your eyes. Some ice cream shops I’d frequent as a kid, replaced by chains. More and more vacant spots on the boardwalk. Litter fucking everywhere. And small streets blocked up by tourists who couldn’t park with a gun to their head. It just pisses me off. So thanks for validating my anger lol

[@cassidydubois8447]

I live in a group of fishing towns in the Pacific northwest. Many houses are empty, owned by rich families who only come once a year to look at the view. I work as a housekeeper and landscaper, working to lift up these people's holiday stop while my rent during covid has just gone up to more than 2/3 of my wages. This area is my home, but I have to move. So many of these rich people are "nice" but they've made it impossible to sustain a life here.

[@mattf666]

You see that here in New York’s Hudson Valley as well. NYC residents have houses up here they’re never at (until the pandemic). Locals can’t even access certain lakes because they’re surrounded by private property.

[@mikayla2135]

Yep, seeing this in Whatcom County WA BIG TIME. Locals who have been here for generations having to relocate because regular everyday starter homes are now going for over half a million dollars. People can’t afford to rent either and most businesses don’t pay a wage that reflects the current cost of living here. It’s sad af.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

It's so gross all these rich people keep buying up all the properties everywhere, and then not living in the properties, driving prices up, and then saying everyone else just isn't working hard enough and that's why nobody else can afford to live in the towns and cities they were born in.

[@z-beeblebrox]

@@mattf666 One thing I'm grateful for living in California is that nobody's allowed to have private beaches. Cuz I'm pretty confident that the way things are going, in ten years' time the entire eastern seaboard and every lakefront area is gonna be privatized and gated.

[@SantaFishes101]

same here in maine !!!!!

[@meaninglez100]

I died a little when they painted over that perfectly good paneling

[@grimmgoosegoose216]

it was such nice paneling!!! I wanted to cry T^T

[@StarsMadeOfGlass]

I had thought the second shot with the beautiful panelling and good lighting was the "After" shot, and I was like "okay that's not bad--OH GOD NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING"

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

It exert on me the same reaction as if they kicked a dog. It's so vile and vain.

[@bluester7177]

Yes, it was perfectly fine and it was actually cool looking, they could have chosen the decor around it and it would look great.

[@grimmgoosegoose216]

@@bluester7177 Especially given how "in" midcentury modern/dark wood furniture is right now! That wall, a couple of chairs with labia puce and you'd be in Architectural Digest XD

[@aleatoryw]

their signature shade of pink being everywhere reminds me of an aged cheap plastic dollhouse, where everything is the same big hunk of plastic with crudely molded details and no color, meant to be a bright sunny 70s pink and yellowed into this. thank you very much for referring to it as cervical wall pink lmao made my day

[@screamingbanshee1282]

Pink is okay if done right and you like pink like me or others but most people dont

[@rebekahbarry3013]

That shade pink makes me believe 4 older ladies are going come out and demand cheesecake.

[@2yearoldeastercandy935]

Yes! I instantly thought of my grandma’s pink bathroom when I saw it. It already looks 50 years out of date lol

[@MeMe-su7wq]

it was 'clitoral puce' for me. just couldn't stop laughing. this woman is a gift!

[@vidazare6313]

You've also completely skipped one of the biggest functions of these beachside motels. Post storm or pandemic, there are typically homeless families that need the insanely cheap short term housing provided by motels. The gentrification of cheap housing is also ableist as they are often the only housing options cheap enough for those on disability to afford. They keep those struggling with addiction vaguely sheltered, needles off streets and give sex workers temporary locations behind a door and lock. The gentrification of the last low income shelters that are not literal poor houses in the U.S. makes me actually physically fucking sick.

[@ladyowl8732]

My sister inherited her ex boyfriends fake nude leather sofa, which we joked was made of human skin. I swear I just saw it in one of the room renovations.

[@lilcrabbybabby]

They charge upwards of $500 a night? That's absolutely insane for this millennial-cringe nightmare, which also has lots of mixed reviews, apparently.

[@StarsMadeOfGlass]

For $500 a night, you should at LEAST get good water pressure, fuck

[@atinycrow]

@@StarsMadeOfGlass agreed! For $500 a night it better have that AND a private natural hot spring and multi-course meals included

[@micahcook2408]

Don’t understand why nice things cant be affordable… I have a headache 😂 $500 when motels are notoriously supposed to be cheap… that’s like raising the prices of ready made small salads because it’s now in a Whole Foods 🙄 oh wait….

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

It's fucking weird. I worked at a obnoxiously fancy and well maintained hotel in a very expensive city that only charged 1/5th of this garish motel per night, and that had a ton of accommodations and housed concerts and shit.

[@brittany2369]

My favorite quote Not worth your time or money. It’s just an old 70s motel wrapped in a fake Gucci belt.

[@Thehouseoffail]

I'm also from a small beach town. We call our tourists "snow birds". They are rude and entitled. They also don't pay local taxes for things like schools, roads, libraries, or fire rescue. Because they don't live here enough of the year to have to pay them. But don't worry! They will definitely complain about how run down the city infrastructure is! Or the fact that out of towners have to pay a small fee to use the library! Because it's just so unfair that the people who pay taxes get free access! Nevermind that the computers are still free to use and we have a whole collection of donated items that people don't even need a card to borrow, because it's on the "honor system". A system we developed to help the homeless who can't protect our actual library books reasonably or perhaps can't provide proof of residence. Meanwhile these out of towers take the honor books to the beach and ruin them, then complain that the collection isn't as good as the one that they would have to pay the fee for. After all, how else could they possibly read the latest James Paterson on their ocean view terrace if we don't buy it for them!? Buy it themselves!? With their millions or dollars? Don't be absurd!

[@glitterarmy89]

They pay for tax somewhere, u Americans are strange. Us Aussies don't think like that.

[@Thehouseoffail]

@@glitterarmy89 Yes, they do pay taxes. But you only have to pay local taxes if you live there for more than half the year. Most people just pay the taxes for their primary residence and leave vacation town high and dry. It's awful and completely backwards.

[@ChazoAnwah]

May I get the name of the town so I can be a respectful snow bird?

[@MeMe-su7wq]

@@Thehouseoffail exactly! so well said. and @glitter army yes this absolutely is happening in australia. i moved to a town just like this because it was all we could afford. now we are priced out and stuck renting (sold in 2020 - 'losing money', haha) while hundreds of shacks sit empty most of the year. we call them 'blow ins' and there is serious xenophobia and homophobia they are unaware of. they usually aren't rude, the tourists, but they are hated even though their money supports our community. it's super fucked up. i live here, pay full rates, shop locally.. but am also gay and poc, so will always be a blow in. i have heard 'only blow ins are queers - we don't breed em like that here' and also a few times 'you're ok, you're one of the good (racist slur)s though'. said to me sincerely, i believe the race one is some bizarre form of compliment. sorry for long comment and no caps, TLDR: crappy ppl live everywhere.

[@Thehouseoffail]

@@MeMe-su7wq Seeing as you are from Australia, and based on your story, Have you seen Hannah Gadsby? Her stand up much be great for you, given the overlap in your histories.

[@SemicolonExpected]

I like how you mentioned they lower waterpressure to save money and the first review you show mentions that there is no water pressure in a $500 a night room

[@gergelygalvacsy2251]

“In this show we’re going to makeover motels and turn them neat!” “Cool, so like Kitchen Nightmares, you help the owners so they’ll have a better business and travellers will have a better experience?” “Nah, but you can watch us get richer by cutting all the corners and generally making stuff worse for everyone”

[@scoutwithamedigun4976]

One of the most fucked thing about this to me is calling it a motel instead of a hotel. It's quite literally selling the idea of a motel to people with too much money. It's the hotel equivalent of designer jeans with rips in them, a soulless way to make a person feel like they're more down to earth and relatable to the average person

[@goosiesmoosies]

This is really giving me a “You missed the point of what a motel is" moment. 500 dollars a night for a motel!! Yay! It's exactly what I always wanted and that's why I don't go to hotels which cost less and usually have more to offer! What happened in your town is so frustrating. I hate this world.

[@moxxibekk]

This gave me big "watched schitts creek once" vibes. Completely missing the entire point of that show and their motel.

[@lookbovine]

@@moxxibekk The point being...? Also, I have no idea what that vibe you “described” is either. Please explain that as well.

[@moxxibekk]

@@lookbovine wow, someone's salty they don't get it.

[@jenniferclemons4766]

Exactly. I recently stayed in a gorgeous historic hotel on the river with actual high end finishes. It was less than $200 a night.

[@AxelHunterTwitch]

This is like a bizarro Schitt’s Creek, while simultaneously showing in no uncertain terms how the ending of that show was tainted by the reality of how they solved their problems.

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

At least Rose bud motels won't charge $500!!!! a night my gosh

[@user-rz3nu3lm5r]

So true!! love that show but the ending always felt off to me

[@laakkonen6847]

@@user-rz3nu3lm5r the ending was absolutely liberal fantasy, and really undercut the rest of the show.

[@auldthymer]

@@laakkonen6847 I love this town! Thank g**d I can leave!

[@bengallup9321]

Couldn't have said it better. I really liked the show's characters and humour, but the ending was capitalist fantasy, and it left a bad taste in the mouth.

[@nathair7388]

i'm a huge horror movie fan but i've NEVER been as vicerally horrified as i was when they painted the wood panels white, i literally went "[gasp] no!"

[@samkeiser9776]

it's like the tic that the villain has that clues you into them being insane.

[@obi-wan-pierogi]

“ there are no real rules when mixing colors” My Artist Brain 🧠: Flips tables * confused screaming *

[@NuclearCherries]

As someone from North Wales this hit way too close to home. We're going through our own pandemic of all the houses being bought by English holidaymakers. And the style of their design of literal whitewashing hurt. They're destroying communities for a quick buck and for the comfort of the rich and that sickens me.

[@s.g.7572]

As if they haven't done enough over the last forty years.

[@TheWinterGrave]

as a lover of vintage interior design and kitchy motels, i died a inside watching the wood wall being painted over. i really hope interior design trends start gearing towards preserving and working with unique retro/vintage design features rather than tearing them down or painting over them. the wood wall could have been so sexy with the right people in charge of design. : (

[@nunyabiznes7446]

It won't. The historical value will never be able to match the value it could provide to rich people egos by destroying it. "What an ugly wooden wall! Don't worry, with just a little application of Me I can make it good."

[@xoxsilentrealmxox]

I know I was thinking wow look at the quality of that wood panelling until they painted over it

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

You know how you can increase the perceived value in your motel most easily? Call it a Hotel instead.

[@StarsMadeOfGlass]

But then they wouldn't get the smug satisfaction of calling themselves "moteliers"

[@RM-mx5ol]

Akshually there's a technical difference between the two that they can't necessarily call it what it isn't. A motel has room doors that open to the outside, while a hotel has rooms open to the inside

[@jendubay3782]

@@RM-mx5ol you’d think, but Disney has a bone to pick with that one. 🤷‍♀️

[@allana1997]

@@jendubay3782 hahahaha facts my hotel there was technically a motel on this premise

[@aliecookie10]

My favourite thing about this show was how they made out Sauble Beach as some back-assward town that doesn't even have soy milk lattes when in reality it's like every university student's summer party town (second to only Wasaga Beach). As someone living outside the GTA in a smaller tourist town, it's literally exactly how you described with the influx of short-term rentals bought up by investors to rent out to people from the GTA. There's a row of houses by me that got bought up by investors to be used as summer cottages. It's only gotten worse with the pandemic as now more housing is being bought up, "flipped" for cheap, and put back on the market for 3x the price.

[@sarajenivieve3419]

This! I’m vegan I go every year and have no issues one of the most popular cafes is just down the road from the motel has non dairy lattes and vegan healthy food (I’m not a health food vegan but it’s the type of food I think they’d want)

[@SkyeID]

"back assward" is gonna be part of my dictionary from now on

[@autumnspells]

As an architect, I watched this show wanting to pull my hair out! It made me so upset to see people with no taste, care or craft ramrod their plans through a town they couldn’t care less about just to make a profit; and in the process erase a piece of period architecture that could have furthered the story of the town through its renovation.

[@veethecreature7425]

Hi! I am interested in being an architect when I grow up and I completely agree. its just 2 rich girls who are not down to earth and refer to everything as "vintage" BUT ITS NOT VINTAGE AT ALL. And yeah, they are literally ruining the energy of the beautiful place.

[@SlendysWatchingMe]

I also live in one of those towns in Ontario. The pandemic has made it much worse because demand for short term rentals is so high as people seek recreation options outdoors and out of Toronto. I don't blame the tourists, they're just looking for some joy in a difficult time, but the landlords... my god. Exactly like these women. EDIT: ALSO SMALL TOWN COFFEE SHOPS HAVE SOY MILK WHAT THE HELL TRICK ARE THEY PULLING

[@TimeTravelisBoring]

As a Canadian from Ontario (and living in Toronto), I can say that the property market is dominated by these braindead rich types. There is a lot of privilege going around and I hope this pair fails hard. My sister lives within a half hour drive of Sauble, and I'm kind of interested in going to see how this dumpster fire has burned out.

[@fary5000]

As a fellow Ontarian who also lives around 30-45 minutes from Sauble Beach and went there several times every summer as a little girl, I COMPLETELY AGREE.

[@judgmental-badger-face]

Love how you expose seemingly dumb, harmless media as products of harsh realities with worsening implications. Thanks for grounding it in the plight of your hometown and others like it. And for the humor in the girlbossification of your set along the way

[@skyla611]

Perfectly captured how this show quickly escalated a from a fun, popcorn watch to priorities of the rich at the expense of communities, made over in girl boss pink. I kept waiting for the punchline or cut away to social commentary only to remember this is a reality show…

[@DanDeLeoninthefield]

Reality show should be in quotation marks.

[@tametsin1320]

Wait. Those are real people? Like. They're not acting? I kept waiting for the moment where this became a video deconstructing a psychological horror thriller, like they were killing the construction workers instead of paying them. Or that this was just going to be a Canadian tv version of the Netflix movie, Vampires vs. The Bronx.

[@Len124]

I remember a time when people would say they want to give up a materialistic lifestyle in favour of one lived to the fullest, so rather than collecting pointless trinkets to keep up with the Jones's they'd 'collect experiences.' Now people have just commodified them as well. They literally collect experiences like objects and advertise them as status symbols the same way people have always flexed with expensive possessions. At least you own physical things, but when it comes to 'moments,' I have a feeling documenting them for social media undermines the feeling that direct experience would otherwise elicit.

[@KosmiskRevolution]

Just gonna comment that they labeled something a "vintage pot and plant" with a graphic on the screen next to a completely generic IKEA pot, and an average, not vintage (I presume) plant. Pray tell me how can a plant be vintage? HOW CAN A PLANT BE VINTAGE? have I taken crazy pills. This entire show is surreal. Their voices... The vocal fry. The dragging of every single syllable. Is this performance art? Is anything real?

[@TheLandBeyond_Productions]

Perhaps

[@sealeo5772]

A vintage plant is a dead tree. Or a fossil. Or oil.

[@Misora7303]

Maybe it was an extint plant? Rich people can bring extint plants back, ig ...

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

whats wrong with their voices

[@aichohvee]

​@@transsexual_computer_faery?? It was hell to listen to. Like people above me said: insane vocal fry, dragged out syllables, etc..

[@joearnold6881]

Seeing someone use “girlboss” in the wild, unironically and of themselves no less… 🤢 🤮

[@SA-mo3hq]

I felt myself Going Hollow when I heard that

[@uglygarbage7806]

I wish there was a way to curse them with self awareness so they could feel the cringe and embarrassment the rest of us experience every time they talk

[@fictthecreator7083]

"There are no real rules when it comes to mixing colors 🤗" I physically shuddered In case anyone is wondering, I am an artist (mix of self-taught and some classroom from high school through college) and yes. There are rules. It's called color theory. There are colors which compliment and colors which clash, and painting everything white is a horrible design choice, ESPECIALLY if they're going for a neutral look. Neutral can be defined as "not stark, and not remarkable," so things like grey, beige, and other "off-white" colors. White is VERY stark and VERY intense, it's also highly reflective, so, yes, you can use it to brighten up a space, but a whole wall of it can make a space feel overwhelming. If you've ever been in, say, a dorm, you'll notice the walls may be an off-white, sort of light cream color. That's a neutral. Also from what I can see in this video, they paint all their walls the same color? Even the tile in that blue bathroom was pretty close to the walls, and, gurl, that's not always what you want. I'm no interior decorator, my specialty is illustration, and even I know you want an accent wall, or at LEAST accented shelving. Accent colors are usually deeper or brighter than the surrounding walls and compliment the color scheme of the space. They lend visual interest without interrupting the unity of the design. Same goes for the floor, the floor should be usually darker than the walls to help ground the space. Though you can add a complimentary color (the color opposite on the color wheel) to help pop certain parts of the room. For anyone thinking about repainting, a good rule of thumb! Keep warm colors together and vice versa-if you have cream walls, get reddish flooring, if you have steel grey walls, get bluish accents, etc.

[@nachosisterwife]

This comment is an amazing moment!

[@Im.A1ex]

I live in an area with seasonal tourism and rentals abound, and finding a place to live here is next to impossible. The last part of your video really hits it.

[@jeremyboyd6136]

My perspective might be a bit different from other people watching this series. I actually live and grew up about a twenty minute drive from Sauble Beach. When I was a kid, it was mostly local families having a fun day out at the beach in the summer. But in recent years, it's been overrun by 18-21 year olds from Toronto. The crowds have gotten so big that it's impossible to go there and get a decent spot. This series, which is basically an advertisement for the area is just another nail in the coffin of this once family-friendly beach town. I know I sound like a bitter angry old man, but it's just become a party town and I long for the days when it wasn't.

[@SwobyJ]

Even as a kid in the 00s I could get an inkling of what was to come. Thankfully for beaching, I lived really near an almost as good spot (Oliphant/Red Bay area).

[@robertsitch1415]

It seems that before social media few Toronto people knew much if anything about the Bruce Peninsula as a whole, but it's increasingly seen as a slightly cheaper alternative to Muskoka.

[@wadebacca]

Yeah, i live there now, and it’s brutal in the summer, I completely avoid Sauble in the summer. It’s spilling out all over the peninsula. Wiarton, where I work is a gong show in the summer, and a backwoods redneck paradise every other time of the year.

[@KrystleMoilliet]

So true!

[@littlestbroccoli]

There's no replacing home.😢

[@stromqu]

As someone who worked cleaning cabins for a few summers... these look like literal hell for the cleaning staff. Can you IMAGINE trying to dust all those weird lampshades. Oh my god.

[@xoxsilentrealmxox]

I'm thinking about all the fake plants. How the F are they gonna dust all of those?

[@SilvanaLTD]

I feel like someone with talent could do something really cool updating a 70s motel to have more modern accomodations while still keeping the coolest parts of the 70s style like the exposed stone but they literally just painted the whole thing white and pink and added filmsy furniture. And you just know that with how trendy the decor is it's gonna look outdated in a few years while if it had really been retro inspired there would be something grounding it in the past so it wouldn't go out of style so quickly (think of 50s style diners). I'm no interior designer but I'd much rather stay at somewhere vintage but well designed than somewhere that looks like a recent graduate's first apartment bedroom. Also yes I always just think of "millennial pink" as uterus color lol

[@bluester7177]

Even if the intention is to be trendy, just fucking pay a designer to do it, it's not like they lack funds.

[@SilvanaLTD]

@@bluester7177 yes! there are people who actually do these types of things for a living successfully because they have skills and talent and will always come out better than someone just trying to make a quick buck

[@nathaniellindner313]

@@SilvanaLTD As someone who works in architecture, designers are considered a prestigious job by a lot of people until the moment they hire one, at which point their opinion is that we couldn't find our own butts with both hands. Of course some designers are just bad, but a lot of design work is implementing a "least harm" version of the customer's own preconceived notions and ideas. Wouldn't surprise me if they hired a designer for the sketches (which look pretty decent) of their ideas, then dropped them in three weeks without paying the retainer

[@Erica-en2qz]

@Silvana Ltd. I agree. It could have had a cool 70s vibe!

[@amygarcia2202]

a recent graduate's first apartment bedroom 😂 good one

[@ckind2098]

$500/night for those rooms is actual robbery lmao. A big yikes all around.

[@TheGrayMysterious]

There was a cozy-looking, crimson-red brick house right down the street from mine that the owners were demonically possessed to paint entirely white and slap tan rock trim all over. I am now utterly convinced that these two funkpinchers were responsible.

[@the_cosmic_alexolotl2282]

they painted over the actual rock and put fake rock over it?!

[@TheGrayMysterious]

@@the_cosmic_alexolotl2282 yup. Still brick, but now it's plaster-white and accented by rock trim that would look stinky if you lined your pool with it.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

As someone with a decade of experience in hospitality, you can't just "walk into the industry". It's complex, and guests aren't just walking wallets you can drain. These girls are going to crash and burn sooner than they think.

[@2fortsmostwanted]

They're like wandering spiders, they'll just move on and keep looking for the industry that'll be their next prey

[@maximeteppe7627]

I hope so, but I can't help but feel like they have enough capital that they can float along indefinitely, especially with the outrageous prices for those cheaply flipped rooms. it sounds like this can be profitable even with low occupancy.

[@timothymclean]

Not if they have enough money! (I think that's true of every industry. But like every industry, if you have enough money you can convince yourself that your affluence is proof enough that you can handle something this simple.)

[@davbou]

As someone who is not in the industry but who has a little bit of common sense, what the fuck are they thinking ? 500 canadian dollars for a room that small? That's high end hotel price range not "cheapest furniture we could buy that looked reasonably good" price range. Like these rooms should be like 100$ max.

[@uglygarbage7806]

too bad it’s all just a vanity project for rich people like this so they don’t even care. I rly couldn’t hate them more

[@Tetjaku]

You're so right about those wood paneling walls. My actual first thought was "Why paint over it, it already feels homey?"

[@drinfernodds]

Because there's not an ounce of authenticity in the hosts or their aesthetic. Every piece of the motel is just something needed to be covered in artificial warmth (aka white or social media pink) to be shown off on social media.

[@Horatio787]

@@drinfernodds That shade of pink reminds me of salmon, and the concept of a room's worth of salmon rotting in the open air makes me uncomfortable.

[@marocat4749]

And the stones that intentional evoce the estetic.

[@keladry12]

Just so you know, "homely" means ugly. "Homey" (no L) means cozy, like a home.

[@Tetjaku]

@@keladry12 Corrected, thanks!

[@RADIOSUICIDIO]

Isn't the whole TV interior design ethos to tear down as much walls as possible and then just paint EVERYTHING white? It's like we're inside a version of the matrix that is running out of processing power so it needs to save on polygons and textures by making us want to live in white, featureless single space squares.

[@elainelouve]

Very true, they all do it. The Sorry Girls here on KZbin however made an actually interesting series of renovations. Just one more reason why I don't watch tv anymore.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

Luckily that trend has been dying for a while now. Home reno show "Home Town" is great, they often keep the walls in tact (other than maybe tearing down a useless half-wall) and the insides of the houses HAVE COLOR most of the time. I don't know why all these people think it's so luxurious to live somewhere that looks like it's basically just a roomy padded cell at an insane asylum.

[@soneil7745]

Yep. Turns out people love those shots of people smashing walls, so that's what television producers put in more of. HGTV discovered that if you show a lot of destruction shots, men will start watching too. So, your open-concept house that used to have a separate dining room is a result of television executives.

[@DrowsyScientist]

I love how their “white walls with character” were the background to the text you used, emphasizing how clinically sterile they look. Also, hello from White Pigeon! As a F.I.P. that is.

[@CharleyDeppner]

After watching this, I cannot unsee or avoid “moments” of “Junification” happening all around me. -Thanks (?)

[@TheGlooga]

best part of this white-and-pink nightmare was seeing someone in the chat say ' hey its joel' when we're in hell was reading the reviews. incredible video! it was very illuminating and also very anger-inducing

[@marocat4749]

Somehow they have th horo levels or even worse, becaue they are genuine, from were in hell

[@dairallan]

Ive never seen Big Joel and We're In hell in the same place. Are you saying they're not the same person?

[@silversam]

I have a working theory that Big Joel is the real Polyphonic. I can't prove or disprove it until Polyphonic takes off their mask and shows us who they really are...

[@maia_gaia]

Between their crimes against beautiful woodgrain and their James Charles-esque inflections, I'm losing my mind

[@johnsmith9403]

Maggie, hearing the sheer rage in your voice watching these two stumble through a motel Reno in the middle of a pandemic completely ignoring everything that’s happening in the world is probably the best thing I’ve seen today. Thank you for this keep them coming!

[@evamiller4886]

Me and my mom watched this together and spent the whole time complaining that they spent all that money on their own rooms first and left the pool to the very end. Of course the pump didn’t work! I literally commented out loud the first time I saw the pool that they were underestimating how much it would cost to replace all the pumps and filters. Why did they expect it to work to begin with?

[@hannahrose4091]

u are fabulous!!! beyond words ! the message, the delivery, the EDITTING !!!? FOR FREE?? THANK U

[@jacquelinealbin7712]

This already looks more dated than the "before" tbh. Cheap motels with weird yellow carpets and excessive wood paneling are classic, timeless. This pinteresty hell is a fad, and an overdone, stale one at that. Give me peeling mismatched floral wallpaper and crunchy polyester quilts anyday.

[@sleatersan]

Yes! Those quilts were charming monstrosities! I was frankly heartbroken to see them go. Can you really call it a motel without those bedspreads???

[@wanessaribeiro3965]

Decor fads are such a weird thing, it makes places feel weirdly generic and get dated so fast, like, i get wanting to go for a trendier thing with a pintrest-like decor but flooring, walls and heavier furniture like beds are such long-term things, yes, you can repaint your ugly dated tik-tok diy 2019 walls but it will cost way, way more than changing your sheets and riping some posters. (at least where i live painting your walls is pretty expensive, will set you back about a 1/3 of your salary for a room and can take 2 days)

[@IshaSoul]

@@wanessaribeiro3965 1/3 of your salary… like a year’s salary? Where do you live ? Where I am it’s only like $350 maybe to $1000 for a larger room

[@IshaSoul]

And that’s the cost of labor not even DIY

[@wanessaribeiro3965]

@@IshaSoul like 1/3 of a month of salary, not year

[@thatoneguy2906]

this actually kinda hits home as someone who lived around an hour near the area in another small town. we used to go to sauble beach a lot when i was a kid and it would actually be a yearly endeavor since it was a cheap and nice vacation spot that wasn't overly expensive like other beaches in ontario. it actually had a bit of charm to it and the whole area just kinda felt connected to eachother. however all i see in sauble beach now is just big developers following what the motel makeover girls do and buying up chunks of land for luxury hotel development. a bunch of homes/shops are gone now and the whole area is slowly starting to get gentrified. honestly it's unrecognizable from what i remembered as a kid.. it's sad that a small costal town with a population of 2000 has become an afterthought to the rich, but i can't even have the memories i had as a kid either i guess. edit: out of curiosity i checked the prices of their hotel and its like $375 a night, $475 on weekends, so yea rip sauble beach it was cool when it lasted

[@sarajenivieve3419]

My husbands family has gone annually since the 1960s we are so scared that the lady we rent cottages from will sell and some developer will triple the price

[@ericsedore14]

They're literally doing the exact same thing in a town 15 minutes away named Southampton too. It's like Sauble Beach but a bit smaller. Old motel reno'd and now going for $470 CAD a night. It's fucking ridiculous what these developers are allowed to get away with. New place is called the 'Beach Motel'.

[@scottmcfadyen293]

I once went to Toronto to see a concert and get a room for the night. I went with my bro who said he knew a location on the periphery of the city where they had old style hotels for cheap. Well .. we get there and the whole area was completely wiped away ! I ended up having to spend nearly 200 dollars for a night when it should have cost less than half that ! I can see that corporate vipers like these destroyed a funky cool area and whitewashed another cultural hub. Disgusting !

[@wanessaribeiro3965]

Im autistic and this is my new confort video, watching it for the 4th time in 4 months because its perfect. I will never get over the fact that you picked the name Darlene, is literally the name of my favorite local craft store, now everytime i have to buy paint, wood or clay i am reminded of this perfection.

[@earhornjones]

This hit me like the movie "Falling Down". In the beginning, I was thinking "Ha! These talentless morons look like idiots trying to renovate this motel". That slowly transformed to "wait, this is how society dies." Thanks, Maggie.

[@jamesrowlands8971]

This is what gets 'built' instead of new rail lines and factories now.

[@Afterthoughts]

Someone just bought my childhood home and painted everything white and put a massive fuck-off wall around it. But I'm proud of this lil private purgatorial moment they've created for themselves.

[@GwendolynnBY]

my childhood home, which was a beautiful green edwardian house with a large flower garden underwent a similar transformation with its new owners several years ago :( I imagine not many flowers can thrive behind such a large wall blocking the sun.

[@ionastewart8814]

My childhood home got absolutely ruined by a couple of house-flippers and gutted from the inside out. Ripped out half the walls, paved over the garden, put up garden walls made of metal so high you can't see over it if you stand on the roof of your car. Feels so awful, man.

[@misxa6344]

​@@GwendolynnBY sounds like they made a prison instead of a house

[@bmo9881]

My grandparents had a beautiful brick mid century ranch house overlooking a lake. The colors of the home and low profile allowed it to blend into the surrounding pines and it was gorgeous. When they died the new owners tore it out and built a horrible white tower and ripped all the trees in the yard out so boaters would see their cheap material monstrosity.

[@FelicitasSews]

As someone who lives in this area, it's already completely filled with rich Torontonians who own cottages on Lake Huron. That's who they are marketing this motel to. I would be actually shocked if you couldn't get a soy latte in sauble beach.

[@sjbrooksy45]

I drove past a motel/suites for sale the other day and thought to myself, If I had the money I wouldn't mind buying something like that and fixing it up. But not to charge $500 a night, but to make sure families have a safe place to sleep. There are a lot of poor families that live out of such places because our country hates them and they can't get stable housing.

[@louurich9087]

My mother grew up in Ludington, MI...also on Lake Michigan. A lot of our vacations were just staying with my grandmother for a week, or she would watch the kids for a week, while my parents worked back home. Over the years I watched it go from a small town with a tourist trade, to a tourist town, when the plant was shipped to China. In May 2019, I went there after years of absence. At least half of downtown was closed, there were high end restaurants taking up real estate, that ever green residents could not afford to eat at. Downtown had become overdeveloped, with stores that were little more than summer hobbies fore retirees, deluding the century plus proven city planning. All of this while the buildings my Uncle's machine shop, and the grocery store where my grandmother shopped vacant or barely populated. The way people can bring in money, change the landscape, and leave Walmart as the biggest employer is disturbing to say the least.

[@ricktheroux7650]

I did an involuntary spit-take when you said "June Motel" and showed the Overlook Hotel instead.

[@Capopio]

Would you say you experienced - a moment?

[@elizabethhunley4020]

I watched the entire season in a sense of horrifyed fascination. I thought we're in hell would be the one to cover it but this makes just as much sense.

[@fl00d69]

You're a part of the problem.

[@Aster_Risk]

@@fl00d69 Yes, and so are you.

[@fl00d69]

@@Aster_Risk I haven't, nor would ever watch such puerile tripe. So no, try again.

[@eliisonline]

In 2020 nobody should self-describe as "girlboss" unironically

[@dustinarnett4404]

I'm from very near St. Joseph and Benton Harbor and still live only about an hour away. It's a sad situation, and all too common on the shores of Lake Michigan. So many wonderful communities get dissolved and displaced to make a summer retreat for wealthy people like these two who treat the locals like servants for their Summer Moments. I like what you said - it's always good to remember that the lake may have brought people there, but it can always take those houses back. Best to you.

[@davidtaylor142]

It's really cool for Alexis Rose to play every character in this show. Really showing off her range

[@praisebeme]

lmfao

[@domsusefulstuff]

Your pretend voice and chronically-happy-white-lady persona is absolutely terrifying and I love it so much. You can kill me and I would die laughing and happy.

[@danielfitzgerald8351]

As a terrible FIB myself, I have ordered a sandwich at that very Jimmy John’s! I didn’t swear at anyone because my grandmother was from St. Joe and I didn’t want to anger her ghost.

[@crystalcharee57]

The thing that threw me off when I watched it was their opening weekend. I'm not really into Instagram, so I'm sure there are a lot of influencers I didn't recognize, but I spotted DIY Danie and The Sorry Girls and I would be very surprised if they paid for their rooms. I kind of feel like the place was booked entirely with influencers who got to stay for free, so I'm extremely curious about their "sold out" status and how much money they actually made.

[@TheNomadicview]

Exactly what I was thinking. It was like they had summoned a crew of forlorn ghosts to haunt a house.

[@Not_the_name_game]

So many moments!

[@TheNomadicview]

Now I understand why I felt a warm flush of ecstasy every time something went wrong with their stupid " moment" making designs and completely avoidable mistakes. And why I was so disappointed when they always seemed to pay their out of the messes they created.

[@zacharybutler5944]

a good dose of horrific mundanity and mundane horror really sharpens the mind before work. Love the video.

[@KeenanMaistry]

I watched this trainwreck of a show purely for the awkwardness between them and the contractor, and just to see how much of a mess they were, and I'm SO glad someone was brave enough to make a video essay about it, and I thank you for your service.

[@jamesrowlands8971]

How often was Rick on the show? Did he look as unpleased to be there as he did in the clips in this video?

[@RealLukeWilson]

Kept waiting for Maggie to show that clip from Mean Girls where they say, "stop trying to make 'fetch' happen!" except have a voiceover replace "fetch" with "moment"

[@scrumpors8706]

The absolute vicious efficiency that a maggie mayfish video rips my attention towards it is both inspiring and horrifying

[@scrumpors8706]

I will only be able to think about this video until it comes out

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Having a "moment" there are ya? lololol

[@ZipplyZane]

I do like the idea of her being a species. "The maggie mayfish comes home to its spawning waters every midspring, feeding on the bad content all the way "

[@mottmatt7844]

This really hits home for me. I grew up in a tourist town in the alps. More and more investors from far away come and buy a small house to rent away, notice that you need to invest time into the business and then leave after two years leaving a half built husk only another investor could afford while driving up the overall house prices. Our cost of living is already relatively high because of the demand generated by tourism. Edit: some grammar mistakes and spelling

[@mrslukeskywalker]

When you were describing what they were doing to the hotel I was already thinking "wow, this screams Berrien" AND THEN YOU WENT RIGHT THERE. This one made me feel like I had to lie down.

[@MainelyMandy]

"Small government, my ASS!" Maggie, I wanna (parasocially) marry you. Also, I'm from Maine, a state that relies a LOT of tourism to survive in the summer and oh boy, some of this really hit home, even living in a "city" like Portland. So much gentrification, so many of my friends being priced out of here, and so MUCH backlash whenever ideas like affordable housing initiatives or limiting short term rentals are brought up. Thanks for making this!

[@Tricksterbelle]

This is silly thing to focus on & I know ragging on people's voices is rude, but no one with that much vocal fry has ever worked in customer service. So when they said they didn't have experience in hospitality, my knee-jerk reaction was "no shit"

[@guy-sl3kr]

Yeah lol they both have that "rich person accent" where they end every sentence like it's a question and have the vocal fry of a toad. It's so grating to listen to.

[@rainbowkrampus]

Eh, that's a cultivated vocal fry if I ever heard one. You can rag on people all you want for adopting silly speech inflections. "I'm like, so(gurgle gurgle) proud(gurgle) of this moment(gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle)." This is why you should also make fun of British people speaking with a posh accent. And British people in general tbh.

[@Hippidippimahm]

@@rainbowkrampus I’m an Angeleno and just naturally have a vocal fry😂🤦🏻‍♀️ I don’t hear it until I listen to recordings.

[@frankkrunk]

@@rainbowkrampus I agree in principle, but the British Received Pronunciation is a product of centuries of boarding schools, and is used as a class marker of the upper class and the strivers in the upper middle. RP is thus a real sociolect, not an affectation*. Whereas vocal fry is a product of decades of vapid people trying to sound like Paris Hilton. Without reality TV, vocal fry wouldn't exist. If Paris Hilton had a lisp and a Brooklyn accent, that would be how the Kardashians would sound now. *(Except for the social climbers who adopt it despite not having the correct background. Mocking those people is the basis for a lot of British comedy. "Fawlty Towers" and "Keeping Up Appearances" for example.)

[@Jay_The_Cat]

If we all just pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps, we could be just like April and Sarah.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

More people need to understand the original meaning of that idiom. It used to mean: "Attempting an impossible or ludicrously far-fetched task".

[@Jay_The_Cat]

@@henrygvidonas9573 Indeed. Alternatively, I suppose you could also say 'If the bottom 99% would simply work harder, they can be part of the top 1%' Genius, I tell you. 🤪

[@Horatio787]

@@henrygvidonas9573 Thanks, I didn't actually know that.

[@OathkeeperAlexiel]

GIIIIIRL it's fuckin me UP that our hometowns are so close to each other--first time I've ever seen Silver Beach in a KZbin video, feels veeeeery weird. It's so, so good to see someone talking about these more localized Michigan and Midwest issues. Fabulous work as always~

[@julischrier]

The sudden shock to realize that this place is not in like California or something like I assumed, but actually an hour south of me felt akin to horror. Fantastic video

[@RealBradMiller]

And it gets closer and pinker with every Moon cycle. 😂