Respectfully, I actually didn’t say what you alluded. I never said she was popular, and there’s no qualification to be on this forum. Furthermore she isn’t even on this forum to my knowledge. What I did say is that her opinions and arguments are poorly formed.
I would also like to add that people will say anything to make money on YouTube regardless of whether or not they’re qualified. The advertising commissions on YouTube generates hundreds of thousands of euros or more for Jenni Elle and her team per annum. There’s a way to maximize the payout from YouTube and that’s to create content lasting 10-15 minutes at least once a week. Thus, there can be significant financial incentive to create content regardless of quality.
I’m certainly not qualified to talk about wine. I don’t have a degree in wine, I have not passed a sommelier certification, nor would I be able to at this stage, nor have I worked in the industry. But heck, I think I’m great! I think people ought to hear my opinion. The biggest watch collectors, politicians, and leaders in the field of law and medicine have asked me to choose the wines at dinner, and they loved my choices! In my mind, I’m great! Now, do you think my YouTube video would be a high quality video? I haven’t made my video, but I know, it’d be garbage. Am I too harsh on myself? Perhaps you’re right, maybe I am; but I’ve got high standards. And that’s why you don’t see me on YouTube waxing poetically about wine. But if I did, who knows, maybe even as a person who knows very little about the subject, it’s still possible I’d get hundreds of thousands of views. I’d probably make some money too. But deep down inside I know I don’t meet my own standards. And frankly, an expert of wine like a sommelier who truly studied for years and made a career about wine would find my videos appalling, and probably filled with misinformation, opinions, and half truths. That sommelier would probably call me a hack, a fraud, an average wine drinker posing as a wine expert, a wannabe.