For anyone new here:
Ashley is a nasty bully, trying to silence anyone who calls her out for telling despicable lies or who dares to criticise her in her role as a mum-influencer. Being a tattler does not make you a troll. I personally have never and would never message her my thoughts, but Tattle is a separate space to freely discuss our opinions without trolling.
Like the forum admin here said yesterday, Tattle is about users opinions on public figures, and having an opinion on those in a position of influence and power is an important right of a free and fair society. Ashley expresses various negative opinions about others in the public eye but she can't see past her own bruised ego when she's at the centre of others criticism.
Ashley is a poor role model for parents, IMO: ignoring safety advice on car seats and cot bumpers; leaving her baby unattended on a bed until he falls out and injures himself (and just brushing this off); refusing to wean her child properly; sharing details which make her child's location easily identifiable; not respecting her child's right to privacy; monetising her child. She also makes lazy choices like not giving him a routine in his first year, putting an iPad/TV in front of him at all mealtimes, not allowing him to use cutlery/get messy and eat with her and Tommy to improve/develop his eating habits/social skills. The list goes on.
The crucial point here, is that this is the behaviour of someone who is considered to have such an influence over her followers' opinions and choices that she is paid by big brands to market their products to them. It's actually a bit scary. If she can't handle unflattering opinions of herself and how she chooses to carry out her role as an influencer then she shouldn't put herself and her son in such a position. The trouble is, she doesn't think she's answerable to anyone. She's very privileged and self entitled, and she just throws her toys out of the pram when she gets caught out or scrutinised.
Ashley pretends to be authentic but she is not a very good liar, and often trips herself up with her lies. There is evidence to suggest that Ashley buys fake followers and engagement. If you take a position of influence, you have a moral obligation to produce genuine content, so when she lied about going to the vigil of a murdered girl for content, there was outrage, understandably. Her reaction was to delete comments and block those that called her out and then after several days of silence posted a picture of her holding a bunch of flowers in her flat and indirectly confirmed that she hadnt attended the vigil that evening
As far as the SS drama is concerned - Ashley fails to realise that she puts out a lot of questionable parenting content which does make people concerned for her child's wellbeing. We see snapshots of a child with a poor diet/eating habits, often in a cold bedroom (with no sleeping bag or duvet) and wearing clothing/shoes that don't fit (she openly says she doesn't want to spend money on clothes that fit because he will outgrow them
yet she can afford to spend eye-watering amounts on her own wardrobe). She often speaks about parenting with an undertone of resentment and she is constantly making excuses to not have to spend time parenting... be it due to work, charity work, needing 'couple time' with her partner, needing holidays with friends, and not being able to do bedtime because she's 'too bony' or can't bend over her son's cot because of a tiny baby bump.
She found her child covered in diarrhoea and vomit one morning...even if he made no noise getting himself into such a state (which beggars belief) her reaction was to share it as content, expressing little to no empathy for him...the main point for her to note was having to disturb her partner from his lie in to help (because she was incapable of getting her toddler into the bath alone). Many of us here agreed that we would be extremely disturbed to find our child in this state. It was an unnerving post.
Again these are just snapshots of her child's life and I personally wouldnt feel comfortable reporting her to social services but I can understand why someone felt that they had seen enough to do so. Ashley herself chooses to share these concerning snapshots online that raise questions about her parenting. If she's confident in her parenting then what's really the problem? It's clearly not embarrassment as she's decided to share this 'drama' with her followers. She can't seem to fathom that people could genuinely care about the wellbeing of her child.
She has absolutely no justification to doxx people who express their opinions online and send them and their partners thinly veiled threats. To use a person's maternal mental health against them is a new low, even for someone who lies about a murder victim's vigil for content. She is making things a LOT worse for herself IMO.
