Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[laurakaye]

10 minutes ago, AstridM said:

In the photos of the Christmas tree shopping- why do the boys have on appropriate winter hats but none of the girls are wearing hats? 🤬🥲

One never knows when one might bump into a potential husband - and how will he know you're a girl unless you show him that you have hair all the way down to your waist?

I feel sorry for those girls in so many ways, but the fact that they are always seen in makeup with long, curled hair bugs me because I assume Jill sees her daughters as extensions of herself - she could be their sister, after all! - so any time they go out in public they all have to be groomed to certain standards.  These poor girls might never know how comfortable it is to go out in leggings and a sweatshirt, or to understand that they don't need makeup to be considered beautiful. 

Edited December 5 by laurakaye

[libgirl2]

10 minutes ago, AstridM said:

In the photos of the Christmas tree shopping- why do the boys have on appropriate winter hats but none of the girls are wearing hats? 🤬🥲

Because how can they attract a GYM if they have flat/hat hair? 

[AgathaC]

21 minutes ago, AstridM said:

In the photos of the Christmas tree shopping- why do the boys have on appropriate winter hats but none of the girls are wearing hats? 🤬🥲

Excuse me, but I believe the term is “bonnets.” 😉

21 minutes ago, AstridM said:

 

Edited December 5 by AgathaC

[libgirl2]

1 hour ago, farmgal4 said:

According to Reddit, the dress Brianne is modeling was one that a Rodrigues fan from Australia sewed and sent to one of Jill’s daughters.  And Jill is selling it.  She really is a fking ***.

How long did she have them? 

Edited December 5 by libgirl2

[Westiepeach]

1 hour ago, MamaMax said:

Doesn't their cult have a thing about working for other people? Like its not Godly or something.  I wonder if the rule is relaxed if you work for Hobby Lobby or Chick Fil A 

I don’t think the female folk are allowed to work. Remember the rules the Rods put in place for their daughters? Once they get married they have to live close by, and never ever work outside the home. I would imagine they wouldn’t even consider letting their unmarried female spawn get a job. They might be influenced by some ungodly heathens.

[laurakaye]

Someone just posted Jill and the girls' new "music video" on Reddit.  I watched with the sound off.  I understand it's far more disturbing with the sound on but I want to sleep tonight.

[oliviabenson]

The music video is like an introduction to a cult video. It’s very disturbing to me. It gave me the creeps. Of course Jill is singing the loudest. 
 

all that’s missing is someone photoshopping flat Philip in random spots in the video.

[libgirl2]

34 minutes ago, laurakaye said:

Someone just posted Jill and the girls' new "music video" on Reddit.  I watched with the sound off.  I understand it's far more disturbing with the sound on but I want to sleep tonight.

I watched it without the sound on and I'm still going to have nightmares! And poor Hannah, what has your mother done to you? 

[Chaos Theory]

1 hour ago, laurakaye said:

Someone just posted Jill and the girls' new "music video" on Reddit.  I watched with the sound off.  I understand it's far more disturbing with the sound on but I want to sleep tonight.

I’ve seen horror movies that started like this.  

[libgirl2]

2 minutes ago, Chaos Theory said:

I’ve seen horror movies that started like this.  

We laugh but honestly, they have no stage presence despite having performed most of their lives. They move robotic and simplistic. It is just bad. 

[Salacious Kitty]

The lip synching is mostly off synch. Hilarious. 😂

[emma675]

Okay, who has the link to this epic music video? I'm feeling brave enough to watch it at the moment. 

[ginger90]

The video is awful in every possible way, and just like others she’s posted all you can hear is Jill.

[auburn-waves]

 

[emma675]

47 minutes ago, auburn-waves said:

 

Well, that was... something. I'm honestly at a loss for words.

[oliviabenson]

Dresses from a fan from Australia were store bought and expensive. The only items actually worth $35.

[Salacious Kitty]

1 hour ago, auburn-waves said:

 

Please watch on Reddit. Don't give this bitch clicks. 

[precious pupp]

6 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

Because how can they attract a GYM if they have flat/hat hair? 

I have to ask, what is a GYM?

[Salacious Kitty]

10 minutes ago, precious pupp said:

I have to ask, what is a GYM?

Godly Young Man 😀

[farmgal4]

5 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

I watched it without the sound on and I'm still going to have nightmares! And poor Hannah, what has your mother done to you? 

Oh, no!  I think Hannah is beautiful!  What has Jill done to her?

[farmgal4]

3 hours ago, emma675 said:

Well, that was... something. I'm honestly at a loss for words.

Jill is a kind of crazy that I’ve never seen before.

[satrunrose]

9 hours ago, farmgal4 said:

Oh, no!  I think Hannah is beautiful!  What has Jill done to her?

Nothing too permanent, except for the eyebrows. The video has some terrible face-time-y thing that makes her mouth look huge and like she has this cartoonish pointed chin.

Edited December 6 by satrunrose

[oliviabenson]

Hunk doing what he does best: nothing useful.

[EmeraldGirl]

The video is scary in the beginning when they all come walking towards you! It’s like you’re going to get enveloped in all the pink, and hair is gonna wrap around you like a snake. 😮

[andromeda331]

11 hours ago, laurakaye said:

One never knows when one might bump into a potential husband - and how will he know you're a girl unless you show him that you have hair all the way down to your waist?

I feel sorry for those girls in so many ways, but the fact that they are always seen in makeup with long, curled hair bugs me because I assume Jill sees her daughters as extensions of herself - she could be their sister, after all! - so any time they go out in public they all have to be groomed to certain standards.  These poor girls might never know how comfortable it is to go out in leggings and a sweatshirt, or to understand that they don't need makeup to be considered beautiful. 

Jill wants to pass as their sister and not their mother so much. But at the same time she doesn't want any of them to be more attractive then her. So she piles on the makeup, curly hair and terrible clothing. 

[Salacious Kitty]

At the end of the video, there is a card saying that the video was performed by the "Rodrigues Ladies." Jill is propping them up as equals to her. 

[Natalie68]

17 hours ago, emma675 said:

Well, that was... something. I'm honestly at a loss for words.

Took the words out of my mouth.  SNL-esque for sure.  I am so glad I didn't grow up with these weirdos.

[Madtown]

If you look up the word "Cult" in the dictionary, that video should be there. That is the creepiest creep that ever creeped!

[AstridM]

23 hours ago, laurakaye said:

One never knows when one might bump into a potential husband - and how will he know you're a girl unless you show him that you have hair all the way down to your waist?

But their hair down to their waists would still be visible because hats only cover the tops of their heads?🤷‍♀️

23 hours ago, AgathaC said:

Excuse me, but I believe the term is “bonnets.” 😉

Oops, you’re right! 😂

23 hours ago, Westiepeach said:

I don’t think the female folk are allowed to work. Remember the rules the Rods put in place for their daughters? Once they get married they have to live close by, and never ever work outside the home. I would imagine they wouldn’t even consider letting their unmarried female spawn get a job. They might be influenced by some ungodly heathens.

I think Jill’s mom worked for years? Not sure where. 

[AstridM]

18 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Please watch on Reddit. Don't give this bitch clicks. 

I don’t think her account is monetized? (Not that I would ever click either way, because those are my personal rules). But NEVER click on a Bates or Duggar related video or link, because why contribute to the bank accounts of these deplorable, exploitative grifters. 

[MamaMax]

those outfits look like 1980s maternity wear. 

is that an actual existing song? Its so bad.

the cringe factor is OFF THE CHARTS

is that Nurie w the unhinged eyebrows? 

 

[laurakaye]

21 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

We laugh but honestly, they have no stage presence despite having performed most of their lives. They move robotic and simplistic. It is just bad. 

This video is like the circa 1970 Sears Portrait of music videos with the synchronized poses that Jill probably thinks are very demure, very clever.  The feet splashing and the leaves are so cliche, it's like a caricature within a parody, except Jill is deadly serious.

14 hours ago, satrunrose said:

Nothing too permanent, except for the eyebrows. The video has some terrible face-time-y thing that makes her mouth look huge and like she has this cartoonish pointed chin.

Because nothing says "I love my daughters!" than dressing them identically in some kind of Pepto-pink backyard Sound of Music ripoff outfits, destroying their eyebrows and making them sing while morphing their faces into something out of a nightmare.  That should get the young men a' runnin' to the Barndo door.

I wonder how many freaking takes these girls had to go through until Jill deemed it perfect.  If you look closely at the segment where they are singing under a tree, right before the scene cuts you can see Tessie's face go from performatively happy to bored and PO'd.  

[emma675]

I was thinking more about that insane music video after the shock wore off. What is the point of it? What does Jill hope to accomplish with it? Does she truly believe it will help them win souls to Jesus (or whatever wacky phrase she uses)?

Also, why was the lip syncing wildly off in places? Were they really in slow mo or did Jill make them walk suuuuper slowly in places so it would seem like they were? So many questions. 

It really did seem like a video of a cult from the 1980s.

[crazy8s]

46 minutes ago, AstridM said:

I don’t think her account is monetized? (Not that I would ever click either way, because those are my personal rules).

Her account is not monetized. I think Jill wishes for that. But she recently bragged about the number of views the Sam/Brianne courtship video received.

Positive or negative views make no difference to Jill.

[laurakaye]

40 minutes ago, emma675 said:

I was thinking more about that insane music video after the shock wore off. What is the point of it? What does Jill hope to accomplish with it? Does she truly believe it will help them win souls to Jesus (or whatever wacky phrase she uses)?

She lives in this state of fantasy where she is a beautiful, successful, self-sacrificing wife, mother and Christian and the embodiment of who you should aspire to be, although you will never attain her level because you will never be godly enough.  I think she also believes that she invented the Family Band concept or at the very least, her family's music and harmonizing is far better than anyone else's and demands to be heard.  I know people like this in real life, where they believe that their opinion, while not asked, is necessary to every conversation.  As an introvert, I find it both fascinating and annoying.

Edited December 6 by laurakaye

[oliviabenson]

All thats missing is Tom Cruise jumping into that song and singing and bouncing around lol.

Jill is one weird bird.

[the-grey-lady]

On 12/1/2024 at 2:50 PM, oliviabenson said:

The way Jill talks , her voice just irritates me. I'd rather be deaf than hear Jill talk or sing. 

I originally read "dead" instead of "deaf," and I thought, "yep, sounds right to me."

[merylinkid]

1 hour ago, emma675 said:

What is the point of it?

1.  the latest get rich quick scheme -- The Rodriguez Ladies album.   because the last family album did so well.

2.  Jill gets to pretend she looks like just her daughters to everyone who sees the videos.

[libgirl2]

2 minutes ago, merylinkid said:

1.  the latest get rich quick scheme -- The Rodriguez Ladies album.   because the last family album did so well.

2.  Jill gets to pretend she looks like just her daughters to everyone who sees the videos.

She has to raise money for the plexus cruise, hence the clothes and now this. 

It is interesting. I have gone to her Etsy site and now I will be on a completely different webpage and her daughters will pop up. 

Edited December 6 by libgirl2

[oliviabenson]

Jill made 24 sales from her slit filled boutique.

The slit filled outfit is still available for purchase.

[BradandJanet]

39 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

The slit filled outfit is still available for purchase.

I guess the slit wasn't really filled then.  

Sorry. It's been a long day. 

[Salacious Kitty]

2 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Her account is not monetized. I think Jill wishes for that. But she recently bragged about the number of views the Sam/Brianne courtship video received.

Positive or negative views make no difference to Jill.

Yup. This was precisely my reason for steering everyone away from her YT. It inflates her already sky high ego. 

[EmeraldGirl]

She should’ve done a Christmas album. This stuff is nonsense. There’s some very holy secular songs, plus they could belt out a little amazing grace. I still don’t hear anyone singing but Jill. 

[Salacious Kitty]

1 hour ago, EmeraldGirl said:

She should’ve done a Christmas album. This stuff is nonsense. There’s some very holy secular songs, plus they could belt out a little amazing grace. I still don’t hear anyone singing but Jill. 

Yeah, you could barely hear the girls' harmony due to Jill's caterwauling. She doesn't trust her daughters to carry the lead. 

[emma675]

1 hour ago, Salacious Kitty said:

She doesn't trust her daughters to carry the lead. 

I don't know if it's that she doesn't trust them as much as she always wants to be front and center.

[Salacious Kitty]

16 minutes ago, emma675 said:

I don't know if it's that she doesn't trust them as much as she always wants to be front and center.

I think it's both. It boils down to Jill controlling everything she touches. 

[oliviabenson]

Sister Jill made sure she is the star and her kids have no stage presence because she scared them into being shadows. 

 

[oliviabenson]

56 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

I think it's both. It boils down to Jill controlling everything she touches. 

She flutters around like a prison warden barking orders. That's her job 24/7. Control everyone and everything.

[kaleidoscope]

I guess Nathan and Nurie weren't around to pay for the tree this year.

A video was posted on FB of Gideon attempting to walk with a duster attached to his little hood.  These people are so cruel.

[PradaKitty]

Also, didn’t Gideon have glasses a short time ago? Where are they? Shouldn’t he be wearing them?