motherofdonkeys
VIP Member
The whole Instagrammer thing being so unregulated really boils my piss. We have our own business, we work hard and business is good. It is not a trade that brings in free gifts, if we wanted a 4k sink, we'd have to buy it, if we wanted tickets to a middle class glitter festival, we'd have to buy them. It is baffling when companies shower Instatwats in freebies, so many of their customers are actually switched off to that type of marketing, case in point being quite a few smaller businesses going under after having embarked on Instatwat 'collabs'.
I look forward to the day when HMRC catches up with them all, and Instagram starts taking a cut from affiliate links. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for being self employed etc, it just don't see why, when so many other trades have to adhear to regulations, rules, guidelines, governing bodies etc, social media influencers seem to do whatever they like and get away with it all #rantover
I look forward to the day when HMRC catches up with them all, and Instagram starts taking a cut from affiliate links. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for being self employed etc, it just don't see why, when so many other trades have to adhear to regulations, rules, guidelines, governing bodies etc, social media influencers seem to do whatever they like and get away with it all #rantover