this post was submitted on 23 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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I just want to add the text because she’s written this about 100 times already but this time she’s attached it to a video that is so blatantly edited it should be a crime against humanity. She says she’s authentic and is pretending she’s doing this for women everywhere who don’t have a super model aesthetic but she’s full of bs. She does these photoshoots for herself because she’s always chasing a high and she posts them so the compliments come in and she bathes in them.
Wild to have an entire "career" built off "showing up" when you only ShOw Up using a fucking face and body filter. She is such a fucking fraud. Seriously it's no wonder she's depressed/anxious/insomniac/struggled with her mental health. All those lies and manipulation must weigh heavy on the soul (if she even has one, she's sold hers) and get exhausting. She's in so deep though I don't see her making her way out, only digging deeper. Which would be totally fine and her prerogative, if it weren't for the fact she's causing endless harm to so many people. all under the guise of some body confidence hero. Who gives people permission to feel okay about insecurities they didn't know they had until SHE pointed them out. What a weird time we live in.
Her heart is wiser? Then she should speak up about Palestine! She should post about trans rights AND keep posts up. A wiser heart would Boycott Coke instead of putting it in her stories. A wiser heart would stop flying everywhere when the world is on fire and climate experts have said FLYING is AWFUL for carbon emissions. A wise heart would know to stop buying clothing constantly from companies that are having their products manufactured it countries that are not monitoring labor policies and water usage. A wiser heart would not put their own kids on a public account for strangers to see. I frankly don’t care what she actually looks like physically.
Her heart is only wiser when it comes to comments about her body. She’s only interested in the superficial. Her pond is very shallow. I know you don’t care what she looks like and I would guess most people don’t but that’s ALL she cares about to the exclusion of everything else. She cares about nothing important.