I didn't mind Vic showing off her lavish PR gifts, it's just a regular business transaction - the brands' PR departments are sending these to get visibility and Victoria is doing her part as an influencer and giving said visibility. Everyone's doing their job, whatever.
It's not like the companies are choosing between gifting influencers or gifting poor people in need. The money from their marketing budgets would never be put towards helping regular people pay their electricity bills, no matter how lovely that would be. In most cases, if these luxury companies would decide to cut their marketing expenses, it would just mean that even more money is left to the company owners who are rich old white multibillionaire men.
However, I found it super tacky that Vic kept repeating how a brand BOUGHT her this, and people she works with BOUGHT her that, family BOUGHT her this and HUSBAND bought her mugs (lol). She couldn't even pretend it was about GIVING a gift. Her language was all about transactions, just what everyone BOUGHT her with MONEY.
It's not like the companies are choosing between gifting influencers or gifting poor people in need. The money from their marketing budgets would never be put towards helping regular people pay their electricity bills, no matter how lovely that would be. In most cases, if these luxury companies would decide to cut their marketing expenses, it would just mean that even more money is left to the company owners who are rich old white multibillionaire men.
However, I found it super tacky that Vic kept repeating how a brand BOUGHT her this, and people she works with BOUGHT her that, family BOUGHT her this and HUSBAND bought her mugs (lol). She couldn't even pretend it was about GIVING a gift. Her language was all about transactions, just what everyone BOUGHT her with MONEY.