Before I begin: I want to say that Glennon is a human being; one I don’t know personally but one who has helped me professionally; and that this is not about her, her character, or meant in any way to defame her or steal her repuation—and that this is not an invitation for that kind of discourse. This is a comment about Glennon as a cultural institution at this point—an extremely influential cultural figure—and what that means when someone like her moves to a platform like this, and my own reckoning with a tectonic shift.
I equate it in this essay to a Starbucks moving in next to your little mom-and-pop store—even if people still come to your shop, the neighborhood is never the same, and the rules of the game change. I am commenting on that, and my own process around dealing with divesting from influencer culture while still trying to make a living as a writer and content creator that uses the internet and its tools.
In that spirit, I am leaving comments on, but we’ll be deleting anyt…
