Callie Thorpe - plus sized cringe-fest

[heretoreaditall2019]

What I can't understand is the sheer volume of free time they have... It bewilders me every time I see an insta story!

She's self employed she needs to have as many plates spinning & be constantly thinking about the next job, also this industry clearly won't last forever so diversifying/actually acquiring a monetisable skillset so she won't be in her 30s/40s trying to get her first career role is probably a good use of her time, especially during lockdown where influencer work has dried up. None of these guys seem to be that savvy, I'd be using this as discretionary/ad hoc income to build legit savings/investments whilst working a 9-5 to pay the day to day bills. It's like they all just want to be as close to comatose as possible...

Re: washing your fruit and veg, considering the state of her flat I think I'm okay knowing I'm doing the right thing thanks for showing us tho xo

 

[Lananabanana]

Those eye bags, man. And why so zoomed in on the fridge? We’d have a better idea of your organisation if you zoomed out. Possibly doesn’t want us to see the stuff that she pretends she doesn’t eat between those salads.

 

[Renegadedancer]

i only rinse my sweet potatoes under the tap briefly and I even eat the skin when they’re cooked. Is that ok?!

Yes , but don’t tell Callie

I’ve just watched the washing of the veg and showcasing of the fridge video. No wonder she’s exhausted talking utter rit like that. I don’t believe for one second that her fridge has not been prepped for instagram! However much fruit and veg I’ve got, there’s always some thats well past it’s best and there’s a limp carrot or soggy cucumber end somewhere. She will be telling us she’s the new Marie Kondo before we know it and folding every item of clothing possible.
You ain’t fooling anyone.

 

[Boutros-Boutros Ghali]

That’s a lot of stories about cherries.....I wish that was all I have to do with my day.....

 

[A girl has no name]

Her eating those cherries has put me right off my tea

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

Her eating those cherries has put me right off my tea

Ffs wish I’d not looked now. Slap, slap, chomp, slap.

 

[Dontstopmenow]

Those eye bags, man. And why so zoomed in on the fridge? We’d have a better idea of your organisation if you zoomed out. Possibly doesn’t want us to see the stuff that she pretends she doesn’t eat between those salads.

Right!? This irritates me so much! She does it when she’s cooking too! So unnecessary

 

[Romy]

That’s a lot of stories about cherries.....I wish that was all I have to do with my day.....

Such specialists of the fruits and vegetables from the Farmer market should be aware there are different cherry varieties

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Love how she’s shared CB’s book multiple times but clearly hasn’t read it... where’s the follow up on what she thought? Which bits she enjoyed?

Idk why publishers give these guys books they NEVER bleeping read them!

 

[bettybeetle]

I’ve heard it all now; a special cleaner and a natural fibre sponge from the organic health shop to wash her vegetables Along with the wild swimming, farmer’s markets, cycling in nature, foraging for fresh elderflower to make her own cordial, glass containers not plastic, the woman is an actual saint!

The 'natural fibre sponge' looked like a loofah

 

[Jammydodge]

Such specialists of the fruits and vegetables from the Farmer market should be aware there are different cherry varieties

Cherries from Spain ! She makes all this fuss about the farmers market and supporting local and she's buying cherries from Spain. She really is a joke !

 

[Renegadedancer]

The Farmers Market AKA The Greengrocers

 

[DowntoearthDawn]

Those eye bags, man. And why so zoomed in on the fridge? We’d have a better idea of your organisation if you zoomed out. Possibly doesn’t want us to see the stuff that she pretends she doesn’t eat between those salads.

If she didn’t have lovely teeth/smoke she wouldn’t get interest. She’s plain and boring but quite photogenic. Dull as ditch water.

 

[PandaPop20]

If she didn’t have lovely teeth/smoke she wouldn’t get interest. She’s plain and boring but quite photogenic. Dull as ditch water.

I'm not sure she is photogenic. She looks grey and swollen.

 

[Lananabanana]

Question: does knowing that she reads here change the way you post about Callie? ie do you tailor your comments to be helpful or tone down the way you criticise her?

 

[Renegadedancer]

Question: does knowing that she reads here change the way you post about Callie? ie do you tailor your comments to be helpful or tone down the way you criticise her?

Do we know she reads here?

 

[Lananabanana]

Do we know she reads here?

I think we assume. She mentioned finding this thread in her stories a couple of months back and she’s been actively observed changing behaviours (obviously not any major ones) or clarifying things that have been specifically raised here - so I would go with a cautious yes.

 

[Renegadedancer]

I think we assume. She mentioned finding this thread in her stories a couple of months back and she’s been actively observed changing behaviours (obviously not any major ones) or clarifying things that have been specifically raised here - so I would go with a cautious yes.

Makes sense. Not sure she takes on much feedback from those she doesn’t get payment from. On the surface I didn’t mind her but now I’m more aware of how the influencer role works I’m not so keen. That’s not just her though, I have changed my view on a few.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Question: does knowing that she reads here change the way you post about Callie? ie do you tailor your comments to be helpful or tone down the way you criticise her?

New member, lol hi Dan xo

A broad comment on tattle because you could ask the same question on any thread: I think pretty much every influencer reads their own tit don't they? It doesn't change what I post, but I'd only ever post something I'd be happy with having my full gov't name attached to anyway, I wouldn't post anything trollish or genuinely hateful. I don't like comments on people's appearances (outside of dumb tit like weird clothes) or weight, I report fatphobia which is rife in some of the + girls threads and I think unfair for both them & other members who are plus.

I think influencers/influencing is a really crappy and gross industry and I'm glad places like Tattle exist for women (the primary targets of it) to discuss it, I think it's actually quite healthy for us. Influencers & the brands they work for have gotten away with operating in & profiting from a complete wild west in advertising regulations and it's a social ill in my opinion. Like to get an ad cleared for TV is bleeping TOUGH, the ASA are all over every single claim and yet still we have influencers with undeclared ads & spouting tit & just acting however they duck they like. If you go on @myfrugalyear on instagram you can read the very human effect these influencers have on women especially, actually young women (think it was 18 - 25) are the highest growing demographic entering IVAs, I imagine a lot of that is driven by the aspirational lifestyle imagery that's constantly being pushed on them through Insta as the new norm with absolutely no mention to how they pay for it (aff link money, brand partnership money, 100% gifted, etc). There is an element of personal responsibility yes & we all have to use social media responsibly, but it's been a sort of boiled frogs deal it's only really now I think that people's eyes are starting to open to it all. I really dislike influencing and don't care if they're upset that people think they're trash for reselling gifted clothes because I know they're certainly not thinking about the women I know in tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt cos of products they've shilled for a few quid!

Regarding Callie specifically, I actually used to really like her as she was a normal girl in a generation of bloggers where it was all rich parents buying them hauls etc, she seemed more relatable. The constant mentions of Dan are annoying but having a tit family situation myself I know how overly into your partner you can be, I annoy myself doing the same thing. Obviously people grow up, circumstances change, and now she's just become an insufferable flogger of goods and it's sad but inevitable I suppose. I don't see how me saying that could possibly upset her because she must also know it to be true? She surely can't lack that much self awareness, like she used to be a receptionist so she knows that most people aren't buying specialist sprays and sponges just for veg, she's encouraging excessive/needless consumption in promoting that, like that shouldn't be a revelation to her that shatters her world...

 

[Coffeetrampbiatch]

New member, lol hi Dan xo

A broad comment on tattle because you could ask the same question on any thread: I think pretty much every influencer reads their own tit don't they? It doesn't change what I post, but I'd only ever post something I'd be happy with having my full gov't name attached to anyway, I wouldn't post anything trollish or genuinely hateful. I don't like comments on people's appearances (outside of dumb tit like weird clothes) or weight, I report fatphobia which is rife in some of the + girls threads and I think unfair for both them & other members who are plus.

I think influencers/influencing is a really crappy and gross industry and I'm glad places like Tattle exist for women (the primary targets of it) to discuss it, I think it's actually quite healthy for us. Influencers & the brands they work for have gotten away with operating in & profiting from a complete wild west in advertising regulations and it's a social ill in my opinion. Like to get an ad cleared for TV is bleeping TOUGH, the ASA are all over every single claim and yet still we have influencers with undeclared ads & spouting tit & just acting however they duck they like. If you go on @myfrugalyear on instagram you can read the very human effect these influencers have on women especially, actually young women (think it was 18 - 25) are the highest growing demographic entering IVAs, I imagine a lot of that is driven by the aspirational lifestyle imagery that's constantly being pushed on them through Insta as the new norm with absolutely no mention to how they pay for it (aff link money, brand partnership money, 100% gifted, etc). There is an element of personal responsibility yes & we all have to use social media responsibly, but it's been a sort of boiled frogs deal it's only really now I think that people's eyes are starting to open to it all. I really dislike influencing and don't care if they're upset that people think they're trash for reselling gifted clothes because I know they're certainly not thinking about the women I know in tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt cos of products they've shilled for a few quid!

Regarding Callie specifically, I actually used to really like her as she was a normal girl in a generation of bloggers where it was all rich parents buying them hauls etc, she seemed more relatable. The constant mentions of Dan are annoying but having a tit family situation myself I know how overly into your partner you can be, I annoy myself doing the same thing. Obviously people grow up, circumstances change, and now she's just become an insufferable flogger of goods and it's sad but inevitable I suppose. I don't see how me saying that could possibly upset her because she must also know it to be true? She surely can't lack that much self awareness, like she used to be a receptionist so she knows that most people aren't buying specialist sprays and sponges just for veg, she's encouraging excessive/needless consumption in promoting that, like that shouldn't be a revelation to her that shatters her world...

You’ve hit the nail on the head here.
I unfollowed a lot of influencers for the same reasons, yeah I like to see nice clothes etc. but I don’t need to be influenced on things like washing powder and vegetable brushes and I feel like almost everything she was posting was an encouragement to buy. Buy some glass jars for your kitchen, buy a pizza oven to make pizzas for your neighbors and so on.

Also one thing that massively put me off influencers is that the swipe up affilate links. Ok they get a small percentage, but I was told that the cookies on the links mean that they can have a percentage of everything you buy from that site for up to a month. There are some people I’m happy to buy from their links because I feel like they are very transparent. But most of them, including Callie are claiming to make pennies from it.