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!
**all posts are alleged.
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…only you don’t look like "this". Edges of body, especially legs are so blurred and warped. Assuming most influencers having high res phone cameras — most her body videos seem to be low res. (for a reason)
TBP confidence only shows up in a bathroom with 17 filters activated.
What are these facial expressions? 😆🤣💀 I'm dying, this approaching 40 year old woman is in her bathroom on a Saturday morning, in her little bikini, wiggling her bits, finger gunning, smirking and fish lipping at herself in her phone, trying extra hard to get that over-botoxed, Star Trek extra forehead to move. It's tragic. Hilarious (she looks like such a cringe fool), but tragic.
You have an amazing way with words 😂😂
Sure, Jan. Her neck in her reel from today and her neck when she was on Breakfast Television (where they had to turn off the comments because so many people commented on how different she looks from her IG—oh, and Women’s Health magazine also turned off the comments for the same reason). SI deleted TONS of comments too. What an absurd human. All the people who boost her lies and bullshit are disgusting people.
Is she trying to soft launch that she’s on OhZem📸
I posted this in another thread or whatever these things are called, but I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a partnership announced with that company that does the anti-bloat stuff? I went into block a few more influencers last night, and then started getting the ads for arrae 🙄. Companies should not be comparing themselves to a medication that is medically necessary for some people that main stream has just adopted as being a quick fix. But here this company is likening themselves to that med. I report the ads like this as scams. Of course, below, they clarify that this is not been approved by the FDA to cover their asses, but it reminds me of high school going into a supplement store and being able to buy things like Hydroxycut at the age of 15 because everybody and their mother were advertising it and magazines like oxygen, etc. As someone who did struggle with a severe eating disorder for years, I will say that the targeted ads that I’ve been getting that correlate with some Canadian influencers are extremely problematic in convincing people that using a product will make you look completely different within an hour. They almost feel like people approaching you in a grocery store parking lot trying to convince you to buy weight loss teas, except those types of people listen when you say not interested (And they are sadly often roped into MLM’s as a last ditch effort to make money on false promises so I feel bad for those type of people) but instead we’re bombarded constantly with the diet industry ads and collabs. I think we need to stop using the word influencer and start using the word “pushers”.
I fully expect this too. She has a greasy snake-oil salesperaon vibe. Ewww
Yeah, and it is totally inappropriate for brands to claim things, but then state that they’re not approved by the FDA. Fun fact, though, did you know that the origins of snake oil actually started with Chinese immigrants who were essentially indentured slaves working on the Railroad. They brought with them medicine made with the water snake which was found in China and it did actually alleviate a lot of pain symptoms as a lot of natural medicines can when used appropriately especially ones that had been proven to work for thousands of years. But then, of course, greedy Americans and I think there was a guy whose last name was Stanley? Started the whole thing of using like rattlesnake oil, but then they found that he wasn’t even using rattlesnake oil. It was like mineral oil or something? Go read about it it’s crazy! But yeah, basically Chinese immigrants did really bring legitimate snake oil with them that did help with things and then a white colonizer ended up trying to make profit from selling something but didn’t even have the ingredients in it. Hence its negative connotations with lying/cheating people out of $.