Like other new members here, I came to find out more because of the newspaper reports. Previously I had very little idea about the instabeggers and would certainly never follow anyone like that because 1. I have a mind of my own; 2. their products are downmarket compared to what I would normally buy; 3. they are not nice people and certainly not the sort I would associate with in real life.
Choose your friends wisely, you become what they are.
The way that no one has come out in support of the Hooper woman is disgusting. All this “oh there’s more to it behind the scenes” rubbish is an excuse. They are trying to play with the big boys but they are amateurs and it doesn’t wash.
Hooper has either spouted horrible stuff “behind the scenes” in which case they should come out and say so to explain why they’re allowing this racist stuff to go on unchecked, or they are trying to pretend there are some big politics at work (hahaha!) in their little world. They are disloyal and only out for themselves.
I work in research with luxury brands (they are the ones that can afford the research and invest because they have brands that are decades, even over a century, old) and these instagram people are ridiculed in that world because of this scandal. Again, they were off the radar of many because we live in a different retail world but, now their heads are above the parapet, they are being parodied in meetings and are a laughing stock. It’s not just the public that have opinions. These sellers have positioned themselves firmly as the bottom feeders of the retail world, along with the Facebook sellers of tat.
I came, I read, I saw a bunch of mostly women who are playing at house and all bitching behind each other’s backs.
This will die down in my world. Maybe it will with the customers also if they become more empowered and don’t need to aspire to some faked lifestyle of a bitchy woman or, quite frankly, weirdo man. I think these sites are actually doing harm but then I expect the people that run them do harm in their real lives too, look how they are acting towards one of their own now.
I’m anonymous on the Internet. Anyone who has decided to position themselves as one of these online sellers, is not. That is a huge decision and one I don’t think these people thought through. We know who you are. We know you are nasty. We know you are amateurs. You are searchable for the rest of your life.
How silly!