As requested, a thread for general snarking that may not need its own post.
this post was submitted on 24 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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The number of movie premiers this person has been invited to in the last little while are unreal. Can someone explain to me WHY and HOW she gets getting invited? And what has to be done so it stops happening.
She said the other day she was going to start a movie review blog or something. If I had to guess her management team has been hounding her for actual content so she had to come up with something she can do that will generate them money so she said “what about movie reviews” and they prob made a few calls and bing bang boom she got an easy job walking red carpets and reviewing movies. This is why I’m getting sick of influencers, all it took was prob a few calls and connections to get her on some list that now invites her to movie premieres so she can “review” them. Bc god forbid we actually give that job to someone that went to film school and deserves it.
All she knows about film is whether or not she likes it and how ‘hot’ is the leading man. Someone has already said she doesn’t think any of these careers require any training or education. She can just swoop in and do any job! Influencer culture must end - it’s dumbing down our society at an alarming rate and promoting over-consumption of useless crap!
You are probably very right with this, and I'm even more annoyed with it all now.
"Start a movie review blog". 😆 As if she'd actually put in that kind of effort.