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What Annoyed the Internet This Week?

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20 November 2017

By Bronwen

The modern festive period officially begins on the 1st of December when you open the first door on your advent calendar. If you get to the shops early enough in November, you’ll probably manage to get the classic Cadbury’s calendar or the Galaxy one. If you’re really lucky, you may get a Lindt calendar or another type of fancy chocolate. For those of you that completely forget to buy one until early December, you run the risk of ending up with one of those cheap ones where the chocolate tastes like plastic.

This year, a certain fashion and lifestyle Youtuber offered us a new advent calendar option:

The Zoella 12 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar- a 12 door beauty and lifestyle themed advent calendar that one can purchase from Boots for the very reasonable price of £50… Hang on, £50 for something you can buy from B&M for £1??? Seems a bit steep. Of course, the next logical thought is that this calendar must be absolutely extraordinary for Boots and Zoella to justify the price. Well, JaackMaate took it upon himself to review the calendar so that no one has to have the misfortune of purchasing it and being disappointed.

As he made clear, he was less than impressed with this product. Even Poundland decided to poke some fun at the whole fiasco:

For £50, you can purchase one small bag, two candles, two cookie cutters, some spray, a tiny notebook, seven stickers, a fluffy keyring, a tiny notebook, a pen and a pouch of confetti. The exact same items at Poundland will only set you back £13.

Some of her fans tried to claim that the poor, innocent Zoella had no say in the price of the advent calendar that she designed and attached her name to. This published author quickly shut that theory down:

https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/931164197936824320

Another Twitter user made the best out of a bad situation and came up with this amazing Zoella-themed rendition of popular carol ’12 days of Christmas’.

Jokes aside, Zoella knows that her fanbase is primarily young people who don’t have £50 to waste on tacky products that can be purchased from Poundland for 26% of the price she is selling them for. It really is gross exploitation and the height of greed.

 

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