Do we know she reads here?
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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.
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 ugly 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.
The thing that pisses me off with the 'omg its pennies' is how purposefully deceitful the whole thing is. Aff programs aren't open with their %s but having worked adjacent to this stuff, I'd say the average is 3%, but can be up to 10%. Some are even up to 50% (these will be super low brow retailers though like your flat tummy teas & chewable vitamins).
But some maths yeah, let's take our worst case 3%:
* Callie shares a £10 lazy susan. That's £0.30 per purchase, yes it's pennies, but 100 girls buy it... she's made £30.
* Mother of daughters shares her £4k bathroom sink, 1 person buys it. That's £120.
* Hinch shares a £15 mop, she gets £0.45 per purchase and 10k of her audience buy it, that's £4.5k.
And yep that doesn't include anything else in your basket. This is for minutes of work generating an aff link for a product & sharing on insta stories. All v different situations but certainly not mere pennies, the idea that you'd go through all the bother of an aff link to make a few pence is ridiculous? It's insulting how thick they think we are.
And when it's a clothing item that is gifted in the first place which they also AL and then go onto sell for close to its original price ( yes I'm talking about you FFFB) its actually a bit of a scam they have going on which there definitely needs to be more clarity and transparency on.
Does she sit down in the kitchen??
She does sit down sometimes to do it yes !
Soo not been on stories in days but as soon as she is, she's flogging something! Should that have been marked as an AD if she was promoting them ?
Soo not been on stories in days but as soon as she is, she's flogging something! Should that have been marked as an AD if she was promoting them ?
She looked so poorly in that video of her showing the veg box. As in I thought she had mascara running all around her eyes but it was just dark circles!? Looks like she hasn’t slept in weeks x
She's done nothing but relax for the whole of lockdown! Only thing she has done remotely active is an occasional bike ride ! Considering she eats soo healthily, masses of fruit and veg, she should be the picture of health !
Say what you like.
How many times can you mention farmers market
I don't understand how she can't see the hypocrisy in what she is saying in that post when just a few days ago she was cleaning out her fridge which was heaving with fresh fruit and vegetables. The farmers market 'hauls' she does highlight the massive amount they purchase bearing in mind it's just the two of them !
Didn't someone say earlier that it isn't even a farmers market!? It's literally a bog standard fruit and veg stall up the road???
She’s such a pretentious prat.
Green grocer!
I have absolutely no idea why she calls it the farmer's market, it's literally a street market. When I lived here the plastic tubs were like a quid each but you had to eat it all ASAP cos it'd turn in hours/days.
Funny cos she acts all ~woke online but also loves pushing this gentrifier narrative on insta stories.
edit: better pics of it here so you can get an idea of size too https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attra...ow_Waltham_Forest_Greater_London_England.html
hahahahaha duck off- that’s how I pictured it as well hahaahaha
she’s in a world of her bleeping own
she’s in a world of her bleeping own
I have absolutely no idea why she calls it the farmer's market, it's literally a street market. When I lived here the plastic tubs were like a quid each but you had to eat it all ASAP cos it'd turn in hours/days.
Funny cos she acts all ~woke online but also loves pushing this gentrifier narrative on insta stories.
edit: better pics of it here so you can get an idea of size too https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attra...ow_Waltham_Forest_Greater_London_England.html