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Thank you for this. I was starting to think it was just internalized misogyny that I was put off by a lot of female content creators on YouTube. I watch Bernadette too and the clipped, overly enunciated accent really bothers me. It also bothers me that a lot of creators for hobbies I like, (skincare, sewing, hair dye, cooking, etc) have this instagram pastel perfect, soothing asmr voice (if they speak at all) aesthetic going on. And I just... Don't like it? I think for me the issue isn't that these creators are feminine, they just feel fake. I thought we were past this idea that women have to be pretty and perfect all the time.

Soapmaking is something I got into recently and thankfully the female content creators seem pretty real in that realm. They don't use the soothing asmr voice, they actually seem excited about the things they make, they also have unique ways about their process. Their homes look like real homes and not instagram perfect.