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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!
**all posts are alleged.
Rules:
-Please follow Lemmy content guidelines. See https://lemmy.ca/
-Minor's Right to Privacy: No posts about the children whatsoever. No mention of full names and no photos. Minors must be completely removed from all photos/videos. No exceptions. This goes for ANY child. No just TBP's.
-No snarking on the character or appearance of any of the children. This is a site dedicated to Sarah Landry.
-No posting information that is not readily available online/NoDoxxing: Influencers post an abundance of personal information online. Examples of doxxing include:
- Posting an individual's phone number or address on the internet.
- Releasing information about an individual's family, place of employment, or other private documents.
- Encouraging others to use released information to harass an individual.
-Comments Regarding Mental Health: Jokes or Snide remarks about mental health or unaliving oneself will not be tolerated under any circumstances. No armchair diagnosing.
-Do not post or solicit communication with TBP or related influencers: This includes screenshots and references to 'this is what I commented.' Please message a mod if you would like to share anything anonymously.
-No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, body shaming or other ism/bigotry.
-No TBP crusaders
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-Fact check and do your homework: Make sure to research before posting. If you are posting photos or videos that are filtered/photoshopped, make sure it is blatantly obvious. No rumours. no speculations (example Ozempic use).
-No overly vulgar language.
-No advertisement of any kind
-No duplicate posts
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I see Canadian influencer page was just banned. Lasted for a whole day.
If it’s the one I was in I didn’t even see her name or picture even mentioned which is insane that it was banned!
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I'm starting to think someone who seemed trustworthy from the OG sub might actually be involved. When a private sub, made by someone who wasn't a former mod, that had only a handful of supposedly trusted people added to it, no mention of her, and no posts about her gets banned for reported harassment, I can't help but feel suspicious.
Yes Im thinking this might be the case. There were only a few of us there and zero reference to any names, the previous community, literally nothing alluding to it being a replacement because it wasn't
It could be because they were seeing it being talked about in other subs?
Those ones for sure. I'm talking about a completely private, invite only group, created by someone who was never a mod elsewhere, that had, at the time of banning, fewer than 10 invitation only members, not a single mention of her, and no conversations about her. To me, that's odd.
I was in 2 that didn’t mention her all. I think one might of been by invite 🤷♀️ hard to keep track of how many I attempted to join yesterday 😅
Could be. Never thought of that
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be suspicious. Especially being that it wasn’t a former mod who made it. Unless Reddit has flagged and will be watching every member? But that’s ridiculous, right?!🙃
I don’t want to start getting suspicious of each other as that’s exactly what birdie would want. I think it’s more likely Reddit flagged her name and is shutting down any new subs that reference her. They may even be watching former sub members somehow. Just my opinion! I have a different username on here but I’m willing to share my Reddit username if it comes down to that. I think there was only like 10 of us in the completely unrelated group that was shut down?
It's funny because I noticed in the days leading up to the ban, unfamiliar names making quite a few comments, but they almost seemed to mimic what others were writing to seem like they were "in". Not like "hey we have to same opinion of this topic and her", but almost trying too hard to fit in with the "cool kids". I don't know how to describe it, but it sent my spidey senses
Same!
this is my theory also
That's crazy