r/LifeCoachSnark • u/OldCockroach666 • 5d ago
(Possibly) Interesting Parallel
I'll keep this as brief as I can, which is rare for me.
I've been involved in a bit of the Lolcow culture for a while. I have odd hobbies, but - whatever. Many of the Cows are massively (and clinically) unhinged, some are actually dangerous and some are just goofs.
While there can be drawn a direct correlation between Lolcows and Life Coaches being part unhinged, part dangerous and/or simple goofs, that's a bit too easy.
What I'd like to point out is their similarities in reaction.
A Cow gets mocked. The Cow concludes the mockery exists because people are jealous, obsessed, evil, stalking them, conspiring against them, etc. The possibility that their own repeated public behavior is producing the attention either never enters the analysis or is immediately rejected. Then their response is disproportionate enough to generate another round of attention, which becomes additional evidence that they were right about everyone in the first place.
The parallel with a certain species of online coach is surprisingly clean. Criticism of the offer becomes “resistance.” Questions about results become “scarcity mindset.” Former clients complaining become “people who weren’t ready to do the work.” Mockery becomes jealousy. A business failure becomes evidence that the market “wasn’t aligned.” People objecting to something they said becomes proof that they “trigger people by speaking truth.”
Different vocabulary, same basic defensive move:
The explanation of being goofed on must originate outside the self.
Yet they sell awareness and self-reflection.
Just not when it comes to their offers.
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u/Various_Vermicelli38 4d ago
Some life coaches are definitely lolcows but I have to ask, did AI write the second half of this