Overexposure: How Meghan Markle is Exhausting the Public

Meghan's announcement of new podcast met with exasperation, after weeks-long backlash towards 'With love, Meghan'

Meghan Markle is seemingly everywhere in 2025. From her giggly and sandy return to Instagram to her upcoming podcast and the official launch of her products from brand As ever, Meghan is attempting to take the world by storm this year, after years of failures.

And it’s not going well.

As the fallout of her agonizing series ‘With love, Meghan’ has revealed, there is a limit to the public’s indulgence of Ms. Markle. In her endless quest to become as famous and rich as possible, it seems that Meghan reached the point where her antics are grating on the public more than ever.

She’s officially overexposed.

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This is a phenomenon where a celebrity reaches the point where they’ve become too famous and too discussed.

As psychologist and professor Lynn Zubernis told the Huffington Post in regards to Taylor Swift having this problem in 2023, she said, “Familiarity is part of what drives fandom — we’re wired to attach to familiar faces, whether they’re offline or on our screens — but there’s a limit to how much repetition we can tolerate. Too many instances of someone popping up and behaving the same way or saying the same thing can start to grate.”

While Swift has her musical talent to fall back on and the self-restraint to sequester herself away from the press for a while to let the fervor die down, Meghan Markle doesn’t really seem to have an off switch when it comes to seeking media attention. I mean, this is a woman who had details of the wreath she and husband Prince Harry purchased for the funeral of Prince Philip blasted across the airways as soon as it popped up on screen.

If Meghan was willing to seek press even in the time of a family funeral, while Philip’s wife of over 70 years sat alone in the congregation due to COVID protocols, there are no depths she won’t go to in order to try and get the media’s eye on her. (Even publicizing the death of her own dog to try and drive viewership for ‘With love, Meghan.’)

However, that attention has become ever more critical this year, beginning with their shameful publicity stunt in Pasadena while “volunteering” for wildfire victims.

After previously going incognito earlier in a local news segment, the supposedly “private” couple placed themselves square in front of TV cameras as the reporter called her “Princess Markle” and reported that they had been made aware of the couple’s presence. Given the obvious placement of the news crews and the couple, it was clear that the couple were specifically angling to get themselves on camera officially to demonstrate their “volunteer service.” The couple were also photographed touring the disaster area so that they, two people who have no government or higher function beyond begging for their latest paycheck from Netflix, can get a sense of the devastation.

Justine Bateman promptly labeled them “disaster tourists”, and it’s all been pretty much downhill from there.

Meghan delayed her show, allegedly, so that people “focus on the needs of those impacted by the wildfires in my home state of California”. The supposedly so concerned cosplay royal failed to really do anything on Instagram to praise the firefighters, the work of first responders or raise money for the victims, but was quick to praise herself. In an utterly bizarre stunt, she filmed herself as the great savior for finding a replacement Billy Eilish t-shirt for a teenage girl who lost everything in a house fire.

If you lose your home, never fear, the duchess in the $15 million mansion will be there with a lousy t-shirt and more cheap concert merch she got for free to make you feel better.

Meghan then went onto the Invictus Games, where she slobbered all over her husband multiple times and clung to his arm as if she would melt without his hand surgically attached to hers. As if we didn’t know things were stressful at home, her overall clingy and needy behavior seemed to indicate that a repeat dose of love-bombing to Harry was apparently already in order for 2025.

She escaped the cold of Vancouver, and the diminishing Invictus crowds, to go home and immediately tease her children on social media and apparently snap a washed out image that could be used for the cover of her PEOPLE magazine profile article. In a telling move, all the photos inside the article were from June 2024, probably around the time she meant to launch American Riviera Orchard before trademark hell set in.

That leads us into the next bit of the year. A half-finished website page from Shopify for her new brand As ever suddenly went live, with her real products and mock prices. Perhaps it was a meant to tease the change before she officially announced the new brand name the next day on Instagram, but for discerning business people it looked like a messy bit of chaos.

And it was.

Meghan tried to clear up the confusion the next day, while squatting in her garden and cutting off the top of her head in an Instagram reel (we feel you Meg, looking authentic is hard). She stated that she had to abandon American Riviera Orchard because it was too geographically specific. You think a lawyer or a marketing expert would have told her that months ago, as one of the first obvious problems with the name IS that it is geographically specific to her area.

It seems to indicate that running a business is not Meghan’s specialty, and that she is more than willing to, I would argue, more than massage the truth to make trademark hell sound better.

She claims that the name As ever—and yes, she made the inexplicably bad decision to not capitalize the “e” in ever—that it means “as it’s always been” or “in the same way as always.”

She basically called herself and her brand boring and uninspiring, and it is.

The products that she’s beginning with are three teas, a raspberry spread, a limited edition wildflower honey, flower sprinkles, a crepe mix and a strawberry cookie mix.

Are you inspired or feel elevated? Yeah, me neither.

In the lead up to the launch of her show, we were given a series of trailers and teasers, where Meghan attempted to say it’s not about perfection, while she wore white cashmere in an obviously spotless kitchen.

The show was about as bad or worse than the trailers, and here’s where the real trouble came into play for Meghan.

The reviews for her series, which launched on March 4, were broadly scathing and brutal from the public AND Hollywood critics.

Variety: “‘With Love, Meghan’ Is a Montecito Ego Trip Not Worth Taking: TV Review.”

Hollywood Reporter: “‘With Love, Meghan’ Lacks a Key Ingredient”.

The Guardian: “‘With Love, Meghan review - toe-curlingly unloveable TV”

Time: “Netflix’s With Love, Meghan Is a Royal Primer on Entertaining That Couldn’t Be More Boring”

Two of these four publications previously had large profiles on Meghan Markle, and one of them included Prince Harry as well. But they seemingly have all turned against her.

Much of the negative social media attention focused on a variety of issues, from her moving pretzels from one plastic bag to another to the seemingly unhygienic refrigerator practices with raw chicken. However, most of the criticism came from her sudden turn and lecturing of Mindy Kaling about how she’s no longer Meghan Markle but “Meghan Sussex.” Most considered Meghan rude to her guest and the subsequent confusion of the name dominated and distracted from her show.

A PR nightmare for sure.

The wildly negative reactions to Meghan Markle’s series resulted in seemingly a million thought pieces and YouTube videos, and now she recently announced her return to podcasting with “Confessions of a Female Founder.”

Of course, she was immediately met with accusations of copying another female creator and for her lack of original ideas. It seems like anything Meghan does is met with public dread, and it’s not a surprise.

She has a combustable combination of media overexposure and a desperate need for attention.

Perhaps if she had let her series ‘With love, Meghan’ air earlier in the year or delayed ‘Confessions of a Female Founder’ things might be better, but it’s now too much Meghan too quickly. The public is starting to get rather sick of hearing the same nonsense from her in the same sanctimonious tone. Even those who aren’t following royals or the Harry and Meghan saga groan when they see her face and her latest project. But in addition to all of that, there’s something else dragging her down immensely and contributing to her PR problems.

Meghan’s just…well…untalented at her recent endeavors.

The whole premise of Meghan’s show is that she’s allegedly the hostess with the mostest. As a viewer, I actually found her to be an overbearing hostess, a mediocre cook, fake and contrived, rude, and someone who finds connecting with other humans difficult.

That does not a good hostess make.

Her new podcast “Confessions of a Female Founder” is apparently another rather self-indulgent affair, as Meghan said she wanted to “pick (the) brains” of competent business women as she “builds out her own business.” Well, if she took any advice from these women it’s impossible to tell as her business appears to be a BUIS 101 example of what NOT to do.

How can I believe her podcast is helpful or that her guests are even experts in their field as their advice clearly isn’t working for Meghan.

These last three months have been just too much of Mediocre Meg, as I’ve recently dubbed her. Though Meghan surely has talents somewhere, it’s not in her chosen fields, and it seems like people are starting to get sick of this amateur trying to play professional and telling us we just can’t see her brilliance. Everything she does seems needlessly hollow, contrived and inauthentic, as if being human is challenging.

For Meghan’s constant proclamations that she thinks about the issues facing the world and wants to create a positive impact, she comes across in her series and pretty much every other project as incredibly shallow, vain and vapid. I keep waiting to be impressed by her or see her as impressive as her worshippers do, but it just never seems to be there. Her accomplishments appear minimal to me, and mostly the result of hiring an aggressive PR team and, most notably, marrying a rich and influential man.

I mean, she is a woman who proclaimed that she never wanted to be a “woman who lunches”, and then turns around and creates a show about women who lunch.

And I’m not the only one who sees the hypocrisy.

The irony is clearly lost on her, but as the public, we’re done.

Taylor Swift can survive overexposure because she at least has her immense talent to fall back on, and her talent is why there is so much attention in the first place. She had one of the most successful tours ever and sold out venues all over the world. Her albums are almost always #1 and she has endless accolades to her name.

Meghan has one thing to her name: Duchess of Sussex.

The reason Meghan Markle got any of these deals is not because of a particular talent but because of the man she married. It’s Harry and the British Royal Family (BRF)—you know, the people she hates—they are the reason anyone in Hollywood ever paid attention to her. Without them, she’s just the daughter of a Daytime Emmy Award winning lighting director, a supporting character on ‘Suits’, and the creator of an average blog called The Tig.

On her own, Meghan is a small fry with minimal achievements in her field. But with Harry and the BRF, the world does pay attention, and that’s the problem.

The more we see of Meghan, the more it becomes apparent how mediocre she is. Her efforts are also seemingly proving Spotify’s Bill Simmons as correct, she and her husband are just “f—king grifters.”

In America, we appreciate talent. Oftentimes a lot of sins in the public eye can be forgiven if there’s a level of talent attached. Meghan doesn’t have that in her chosen field, and the more the public sees her the more unlikable she becomes. In fact, her show might have lingered in the top ten just because of hate-watchers, as people wanted to see if it was as bad as the reviews said.

If she was unable to sway that bit of the audience, her ability to sell products on the scale she and Netflix would like falls drastically.

Meghan would be best served to take a break from the spotlight, regroup, find a passion, actually cultivate it and then maybe try the fame game again. As of right now, it just seems like she needlessly flip-flops all over the place trying to find something that will make her money so she can buy more from Cartier.

And if the creator is just doing anything for the cash and not the passion, the audience can pick up on that quickly.

Authenticity is king, and that’s the one thing Meghan doesn’t seem to have.

So can Meghan Markle take all these lemons and turn them into lemonade for Lemonada, Netflix and As ever? Personally, I doubt it, but you never know.