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A significant critique is levied against Drew’s on-screen mannerisms: her physical gestures, like crawling onto guests’ laps, petting them, and the knitted eyebrows, are depicted as shy of self-possession. The narrator finds her behavior offputting and criticizes it as a display of desperation for approval—"please like me, please like me"—which undermines her credibility as a confident, composed host. There is a call for grown women in media to embody more self-control and authenticity rather than engaging in performative overtures that seem rooted in surface-level engagement.