Overheard a YouTuber admit he fakes his weekly spreads

Was at a coffee shop in Austin last month. Guy next to me was recording a bujo video. He said half his layouts are staged. He rewrites pages just for the aesthetic. Makes me wonder how many spreads online are real. Anyone else feel like the community is getting fake? Has anyone checked if those perfect logs actually track anything?

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young.ryan2mo ago

Tbh I read a thread on here a while back where someone tracked a popular bujo account for months and the pages never got dogeared or smudged, which is a dead giveaway. Honestly, staging spreads for content is pretty common now, especially when those perfect layouts never show a single correction or leftover task. Ngl it makes the whole "functional journal" thing feel more like a performance than actual planning.

matthew3712mo ago

Holy smokes, that's wild - no dogears or smudges after actual daily use?

morgan.jason2mo ago

Yeah I saw that same thread. It's wild how many of those perfect spreads are basically just props for likes now.

taylor_patel13d agoMost Upvoted

Remember that one account that had like 30k followers and every spread was a different color theme with matching pens? Someone here pointed out the handwriting never changed size or angle once across a whole year of uploads. That was the moment I realized half of those "functional" accounts are really just doing it for the aesthetic clout.