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-who is this person (not literally who, but why is she significant)
-why am I suddenly seeing multiple posts in my feed about her on a comm with less than 200 users?
Was this a reddit sub that was banned that has migrated here? It’s a little jarring to see a community dedicated to shitting on a single person (influencer?). Maybe it’s because I quit Instagram about the time TikTok was becoming a thing and haven’t paid the influencer economy any attention but this is… weird. It’s weird, right?
I can definitely see how that would be jarring and how, without knowing the backstory, it might look bad and be frustrating for existing Lemmy folks.
She’s an 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 blatantly 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 claims of “copyright infringement”, which is unfounded because no one has 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 “shitting on her” the sub has been more devoted to investigation, posting proof of her lies, etc than just snark for snarks sake. She’s hurt, manipulated and let down a lot of people, stole intellectual property and employment from people, and they’re understandably upset that their voices have been silenced.
OK I have 2 questions:
-who is this person (not literally who, but why is she significant) -why am I suddenly seeing multiple posts in my feed about her on a comm with less than 200 users?
Was this a reddit sub that was banned that has migrated here? It’s a little jarring to see a community dedicated to shitting on a single person (influencer?). Maybe it’s because I quit Instagram about the time TikTok was becoming a thing and haven’t paid the influencer economy any attention but this is… weird. It’s weird, right?
I can definitely see how that would be jarring and how, without knowing the backstory, it might look bad and be frustrating for existing Lemmy folks.
She’s an 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 blatantly 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 claims of “copyright infringement”, which is unfounded because no one has 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 “shitting on her” the sub has been more devoted to investigation, posting proof of her lies, etc than just snark for snarks sake. She’s hurt, manipulated and let down a lot of people, stole intellectual property and employment from people, and they’re understandably upset that their voices have been silenced.
I don’t take issue with it, I’m just not accustomed to seeing it.