I've never seen her so....irate?? Gross overreaction. She used that one DM to further justify why subscription was necessary, to protect herself from mean DM's. It was someone who she's interacted with multiple times and they just expressed their disappointment that she was looking at doing a subscriber account. She's had it good if that's a bad DM. She's deleted all those stories now and hasn't shared any of the feedback from her Q&A box. The rant was bad PR I guess. They were in between her cooking with Courtney stories and the pantry clean she did to release her stress over the DM. The time she has put into her SM was her choice and it has served her well! She has multiple successful businesses, which she has repeatedly said were built on the back of her SM.
This is why the subscription thing is a con. These people make a living because of SM. Instagram isn't charging them commission for the income they make from using their platforms, so why do influencers expect the people who line their pockets to fill them up further for literally providing the same thing they already do!?