I honestly think there would be a really interesting thread in this. People could post about X influencer stating the proof of their rich background. So often influencers hide this and make out that they just got lucky. I think it would open a lot of people’s eyes and be good to have it in one place rather than buried in individual threads.
For instance: Clemmie Telford is so wealthy that she bought a house in Broadstairs before she’d sold her £1m house in Peckham.
Clemmie and Simon Hooper both went to private school.
Alex Stedman (the frugality) dad paid for her first property deposit and was a guarantor on her mortgage.
Etc etc. Could be a challenge to find an influencer without family money or an extremely well paid husband!
I agree. I think it’s a lot easier to devote your time to building up a following on IG and ‘creating content’ (
) full time when you already have money behind you and don’t have to worry about paying the bills. It’s especially true these days with the algorithm changes which apparently wants you to post a grid photo every day, plus make several reels a week and go live a number of times. Nobody with a full time job can commit to that sort of schedule. They’re also giving off the lie that if you’re an influencer, riches will fall into your lap and you’ll be able to buy a manor house in a couple of years purely through influencing money.
Having said that last bit, I think most sensible folk must realise that the bottom is falling out of the influencing market these days.
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"Our accommodation was free in Thailand (family lent it to us) so it was just the flights, which were cheaper than any uk holiday we could find. They were a stretch and maybe not a sensible purchase. But it was our way of marking a new chapter."
Fucks sake.
Then again, if there are idiots who still fall for this bullshit, don’t question it and even defend it, they deserve everything they get. I mean to say, we all have family who have a holiday home in Thailand, and when the bailiffs came knocking coz couldn’t repay my Klarna account, I just took myself off on an exotic holiday coz I deserved it. Happens to the best of us and we’ve all been there at some point
How she still has followers is beyond me (unless they’re still there for the comedy value).