it's giving ballsack.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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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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Spit take happened! 😹
She’s so BORING! I don’t get how someone like her has such a cult like following and defend her so fiercely. She brings nothing of importance to the table.
New incoming diagnosis?
I don't understand why she only posts her shopping spends...so annoying. Nothing to offer the world.
She’s only happy when she’s spending money. She had to get this shot with her purchases secured in the back.
Spending money, filming her FUPA, and when she thinks she’s doing something that’s better than anyone else has done - then she’s happy. Just living the life in the day to day isn’t for her
I came over to snarks because I’m appalled by white women with millions of followers doing nothing to affect change in the world.Seeing people spend so much money daily when Canadians are actively boycotting JoeFrsh, Zhrs , Cstco due to either robbing Canadians of the right to survive or from their participation in funding gnocide is heartbreaking. There were some comments at the beginning, and one of the posts about people being suspicious of new users, and I am a longtime lurker of Reddit (but new to this) as I was waiting for people to say something about all of them being so vapid in the light of actual bad things happening in the world. While I do not, and I’ve never felt comfortable commenting about peoples bodies, because body autonomy is so important, I do feel that there is a space for me here to voice my concern about influencers being downright ignorant when tragedies are happening. It’s in such poor taste, for these influencers to constantly be traveling and showing off all of their products, and then possibly may be linking ways that WE can donate? It’s so infuriating. I know I’ve heard the argument of “what can influencers do” but if they make millions on affiliate links, they have influence. They can and should step up and think of their influence.
I'm appalled by [people] with millions of followers doing nothing to affect change in the world.
Damn, you'll fit in just fine around here. That's very broadly the consensus here on Lemmy, expressed in different ways for different communities.
Thank you!
Happy lemmyversary
I agree with you. I think people with this kind of platform being willfully ignorant, as you so eloquently stated, is irresponsible. Day after day they post links to fast fashion made in shops with horrendously bad working conditions. This doesn’t even touch on how this kind of excess contributes to our climate problems. This one here can’t even stand up for LGBTQ rights. She has outright refused to use her platform to effect any change in either her community or the wider world.
100% agree with everything you just said !
Yes!! TBP is particularly infuriating because she reduces women to mere consumerists, whose loftiest goal should be to "wear the bikini". I saw a comment somewhere on IG that said TBP on the runway, was "the most important movement for women" and I wanted to scream. Surely women are capable of much more! She stands for nothing of importance, but is held up as some sort of paragon of women's empowerment. It's so twisted.
This is exactly one of the reasons I unfollowed her and started looking into snark pages. She literally never speaks on anything of actual importance, just whatever benefits her. She could be using her platform to do so much good but won’t.
Gawd. She is just so vapid.
Srsly. If I had her resources I would be at the very least boosting up causes I care about. She could raise so much money for any given cause. She is afraid of “backlash” if she talks about “political” topics? Fine. Raise money for animal shelters. Raise $ for homeless shelters. Raise $ for kids. Fuck. Do anything!
She can still shop while doing good things.
Not to mention the yet again giant heart shaped head with disney features. 🙄
Who are you fooling girl?
Iips are way over filled
They’re 100% natural, just like her eyebrows 😉
