Laina Morris, aka the ‘Overly Attached Girlfriend’ is quitting YouTube, so she’s basically breaking up with us.
The 2012 icon announced her departure from the platform yesterday in a video entitled “Breaking Up With You…Tube.”
“I would say after about a year of doing YouTube, I started to feel the stress and the weight of the job more than I ever had before,” she shared in the half-hour video. “It started to feel like a job more than it had before.”
Laina opened up about how the unconventional career path, and the pressure of being the ‘Overly Attached Girlfriend’ has affected her mental health.
“I felt ashamed and I felt guilty for being stressed and overwhelmed in a world and with job and opportunities that were so great, I didn’t understand why I couldn’t handle it. For years, I was battling a really complicated and difficult…and for me for some reason, almost embarrassing, thing that is depression.”
The final video came after “a small break turned into not posting for an entire year,” so it’s not exactly shocking to see this OG icon saying goodbye to the platform.
“Then since that last video, it’s been another year. And in that year, I have gone to therapy, I have really thought this through, I have time and time again, battled in my head, ‘Do I wanna do this? Do I wanna quit YouTube?’ And I’ve come to this point and this moment today where I can confidently sit in front of this camera and say that it’s time for me to say goodbye to you guys and officially end this thing that I’ve been really holding on to and not wanting to let go of.”
Honestly, her montage of people asking the infamous “what’s your plan for the next five years?” question hit me like a tonne of bricks. PSA: stop asking people what they’re doing in five years. That’s a scary question and it freaks people the heck out.
We’ve seen so many YouTubers and social media influencers discuss the immense toll that the unconventional career path takes on their mental health. But this isn’t a typical influencer breakdown. Laina used her platform one last time to discuss the importance of seeking help for your mental health. We love a
Farewell Laina! It looks like we’re the ones who ended up getting overly attached. *cries forever*
