>>144553Most of the people they hang out with don't have large followings. Heck, Sharla herself barely qualifies for a "large" following. None of them have even reached a million followers anywhere.
Compared to the other YouTube circles I follow the jbloggers actually seem open to new bloggers and accept others into their group pretty easily.
Laura's social standing is basically nothing. She's just a model.
Audrey same.
Kim's channel was tiny when she became friends with everyone. Didn't Mimei say they'd been friends for years?
Taylor had an online presence but she was still small compared to everyone else when she and Sharla became friends.
Biibii's channel is small, but she's been friends with some of them for a few years I think. I'm pretty sure she did a swap with Sharla last year.
Kelly Strawmochi's channel is tiny, too, but Rachel brought her in right away when she first started her channel and now she's friends with everyone.
It seems more to me like they're just open to having a group of friends who all do the same sort of thing working in social media. It makes sense that jbloggers would want to hang out with other jbloggers because their other friends probably don't like or understand the constant filming they do when they hang out. It's probably easier to be friends with people who all do the same sort of work as you.
Their group didn't used to be this big, but with so many people moving to Tokyo it's starting to get out of hand. I already thought it was annoying when two or three of them blogged the same dinner and karaoke but now with this many people it's pointless to watch any of them, and they're all so repetitive. They should at least take turns when they're out and have only one person filming a day, or at least filming different parts of the day.