After Kristin Chirico and Jen Ruggirello left BuzzFeed, they shared their own stories in December 2020 (via Twitter). For them, the decision had a lot more to do with their mental health. The two Ladylike stars clarified they were only speaking for themselves, but opened up about their time with BuzzFeed in what Chirico called an "incredibly difficult, incredibly personal, and honestly terrifying video" to make (via Twitter).
"My whole body and my experiences and myself were real estate for content," Chirico shared in a YouTube video that has over 4 million views (via YouTube). "[BuzzFeed] is a place where, like, you work together in a team to achieve a common goal, but the idea is that you also will be looked out for by your team if bad things start to happen, and I don't think that part of the social contract, within the culture, is being honored. ... They let me seriously hurt myself."
"[I] left because I was really depressed," Ruggirello agreed (via YouTube). "I felt like I was working at a company that didn't really value me but would be happy to [employ me] as long as [I was] OK with this unspoken-but-sometimes-spoken thing which was like, 'You can keep working here ... but you're not gonna advance at all.'"
Chirico and Ruggirello shared that the whole Ladylike team may share their story together one day, but for now, each member is only speaking for themselves.
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