thebirdspapaya_snark
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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I don't know what you're all about but lemmy is rad
Yeah I don't get it, someone please get us in the loop!
The Birds Papaya is a "body positive" influencer marketed towards women. On the surface, the values she pretends to espouse are great! Women feeling confident in whatever body they've got! That's how she hooked so many of us former followers. However, once you start paying attention, it becomes apparent that she is just another capitalist shill trying to make a buck at any cost. She'll post pictures of her body, with captions detailing all the innocuous things she "used to be" self conscious about - leading the viewer to think, "Wait. We're supposed to feel bad about the way our armpits look?" only for her, totally just by chance, happen to find this great product that will totally fix X,Y,Z problem! She also uses face and body filters and gets extensive cosmetic work on her face, but lies to say she's just totally natural and real because she's so at peace with herself now! And you can be, too, for $29.99! Your friend, the Birds Papaya, would never lie to you!
She also exploits her minor children for content. She has strapped a go pro to her toddler to film content -- including ads. She has posted video of her child playing in her bed--when she thought she was alone--from a nanny cam. She forced her oldest to talk about her first period in an ad for period underwear. She talks about where they all live, where the kids work, what events they'll be attending.
She has completely plagiarized articles word-for-word on her blog. She deletes and blocks anyone that says anything even moderately critical - so do the brands and media outlets that work with her. And now she's gone and got her Reddit sub, where the evidence for all of this and more was compiled, banned from the platform.
Soo anyway, she sucks and people deserve to know lol
I had to search for her. First glance seemed weird, but pretty innocuous. Didn't dig any deeper, so I'm giving the GP the benefit of the doubt here that she's a nutter.
She is part of the body positivity community. Our problem with her is that she proclaims that all bodies are worthy, but she filters her images to holy hell, uses skinny filters like crazy, and in general is a hypocrite. It’s damaging to people who really want to feel valid and worthy in their bodies, but someone we used to find inspirational is lying to us and gaslighting us by denying filters when it’s totally obvious. We are not harassing her. We simply talk about her. It’s venting. It’s us validating each other
Sounds like a lovely character....
Yeah a real doll. With about as much moral compass as a doll….
Thank you for the insight!
I looked up the name of the community, pretty much what the other long comment said
It’s not really at all what that long comment said
To be honest I didn't read it all ha ha
It was going off about pedos and child consent etc. that is a small part of our beef with birdie. But not the primary one at all.
Where can I find this person? I’d like to check her out myself
I love how you went off for several paragraphs about something’s that isn’t really what this snark community is about. Wow.
Unfortunately like the real world some lemmy users have a bit of the 'tism. Most of us are harmless. Welcome to Lemmy.
I enjoyed reading it!