D’Angelo Perfectly Summarized My Sentiments Towards Irresponsible Influencers

Claire Stapley
3 min readFeb 7, 2021

They don’t care about Covid-19

Photo by Rami Al-zayat on Unsplash

Three days ago D’Angelo Wallace made a YouTube video which was nothing short of a masterpiece. For those of you who don’t know who D’Angelo Wallace is, he’s a YouTuber who produces thought-provoking content on varying hot topics.

Whether it’s general news, influencer circles or online “drama”, D’Angelo covers it. However, it’s important to note that he doesn’t fall under the category of gossip. It’s more social commentary over anything else.

I’ve watched D’Angelo’s videos sporadically over the last year or so, and randomly landed on his channel when the drama unfolded between famous YouTubers James Charles and Tati Westbrook. I found his account of everything to be pretty balanced, thus, continued to indulge in his lengthy (but entertaining) videos.

I’ve been feeling some type of way about influencers in the last year. And when I mean “some type of way” — I mean disgusted. I currently live just outside of London, and since March 2020, we have had not one, not two, but three national lockdowns.

People have lost their jobs, lost their families — or, lost their lives. I think I speak on behalf of every English person when I say that the UK has been an absolute mess since March 2020…

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Claire Stapley

Freelance copywriter. Passionate about mental health, travel, films and people.