I'm so grateful I found this forum. You folks have no idea how sharp you made me with regards of looking beyond the appearances. I learned to identify some very valuable signals I tended to overlook, "becooooooz" I never knew where I HAVE to pay attention to. I learned that looking beyond the appearances is not enough, you must know what to look at.
Here are some examples:
- Taking pictures in front of affluent buildings, but never inside of them;
- I never knew you can rent designer bags... that REALLY opened my eyes;
- Recording videos from hotel rooms to hide the place one lives;
- The absence of a house tour;
- No unboxing of luxury goods one brags about (all the Chanel, Hermes, Dior). If she owned all of that, I dare to say she would never miss the chance to show off to her audience. And so on....
Needless to say all the new words and terms I learned through the threads. If there is one thing that is starting to level up, that is for sure my English skills.
You folks are the ones who finally convinced me to start reading more books just for the sake of improving my English. This is something I was totally ignorant of... I mean, I was just foccusing on the content and practical side of it while there is actually much more you can learn. I read the posts with a notebook next to me, so I can take notes of the new words I'm learning (regardless of the positive or negative meaning they have): charade, gaslight, unkempt, claw, malnourished...
Other red flags I forgot to mention:
- Ladiiieeeezzzz I'm very private with my life, "buuut" I'm sharing this only with you
(said the person on a public YT video) -> The old marketing strategy to give the audience the impression you are close to eachother;
- She follows Dan Bilzerian, go to Instagram and take your own conclusions. I will also spare my comments on this one. Ok... my reaction back when I saw it was: "But I thought you were an eleg...huh?!", "Your personal brand... what?!".
In my oppionion Aija sees Lina as a role model. I noticed she often copies Lina's outfits: the caps, the blue coat, the boots, the bags (despite Lina's are real ones), being "cool"...
"You should never go to a dinner starving". Given the amount of food I saw being served in those parties, I could agree with that. However this is far different from what I have experience in life.
And I'm convinced she uses Tattle to create content. Not only beacuse you folks always compare her IG stories with the questioning that have been risen here. But I mean, listen to her last podcast.
She mentioned a question about her drivers license/her not driving a car and also another about the whole elegance versus talking about disease thing... which were subjects discussed in the threads way before that episode was published.
Just one more thing
Wasn't she "humiliated" by a teacher who brought her in front of the class as an example of how NOT to dress? And then pointed the mistakes advising what would have looked better?
It seems to me that the advice from the expert was not taken... meanwhile one loves to brag about the certifications possessed.