Hello new Lemmy friends!
Word on the street tells us our community is regularly making it the all page. While this is very cool news to hear, we can see how the sudden emergence of our posts in your feed might feel jarring and probably raises some questions. And also how, without knowing the backstory, our community might appear less than virtuous, so here’s a very brief introduction which hopefully will clear a few things up.
The woman we’re discussing is a body positive influencer and media personality who has gained fame and wealth by lying, manipulating, exploiting her children for content, plagiarizing BIPOC creators and blaming her BIPOC content editor for it (thereby ruining her career), among other things. Her fraudulent behavior is no different (I’d argue worse) from the likes of Jay Shetty (google him if you don’t know who he is or what he did). She’s the latest in a long line of grifting influencers who are abusing their power, taking advantage of their position and exploiting their followers. The difference is that she’s Canadian. Our laws around social media and advertising aren’t as clear (and where they are she’s disobeyed them), add to that, our mainstream media has protected her from those who’ve tried to expose her grift and silenced/intimidated anyone who’s tried to speak out.
Our Reddit sub was taken down due to reports of copyright infringement, which is unfounded and categorically untrue as no one ever tried to steal her work and pass it off as their own. The mods have made an appeal. While at first glance it may seem like we’re just “shitting on her” the sub has been more devoted to investigation and posting proof of her lies than just bitching for the sake of bitching. The reality is that she’s hurt, manipulated and let down a lot of people. She stole intellectual property and employment, caused mental distress and has repeatedly told lies to boost engagement and profit off her audience, so people are understandably upset that their voices are being silenced.
We’re grateful to have been welcomed so kindly by so many of you, and to those sticking around to watch the drama unfold, we’re glad to have you!
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Sarah’s oldest daughter is talking to her. I shouldn’t be able to recognize their voices but, thanks to their loving mother, I can. She’s the one who doesn’t want to be on SM so her parent records the conversation without her knowing and posts it for all her followers so they know her kids talk to her.
I just went and watched and thought - maybe if she actually had talked to L the way she talks to her phone as she was growing up she would be able to carry on a conversation. She, instead, chose to talk to her like she’s a pet.
It's definitely not standard for her age, the way L communicates, is it? I don't know if I've ever seen her initiate a conversation and engage in one? I've seen a lot of repetition, mainly of praise words. I feel bad for the kid, her mother is a self-involved jackass.
Nope. Hope Birdie doesn’t put her in FI. She will struggle. She needs to focus on one language.
Without joking, I actually speak to my dogs in a more respectful and non-cartoony way than she speaks to her toddler.
I agree and the video where she was trying to force her to review her nails, it was so awkward because L wasn’t having it. Like no conversation whatsoever, just Sarah forcing her to say something.
Maybe she’ll collab on some fake nails for 3-5 year olds. Never too young to start on the “self care” 🙄
Oh god she prob will
I’ve had a lot of little ones in my life and L is 3.5 years old. If she had been born a few weeks earlier she would be starting school in September and, I’m afraid, she would be lost but maybe, if the class isn’t too big, her teacher will recognize she’s different than the other kids. Since she’s a January birthday it’s going to be another full year before she’s at school.