Speaking of Hattie Gladwell - I wonder what’s happening with HER wonderful (and overdue) book that she crowdfunded over fifteen grand for, via Unbound? I know she turned up here a while back - so she either reads or has a Google alert on her name. ‘Edits’ seem to have been happening for a very long time! Publication is still TBA. And she set up Breakdown in the meantime. I have said it before, but it’s worth repeating - internet funding for anything, be it GoFundMe, Patreon or any other, is a bleeping scam on par with pyramid schemes and MLM. Tattle has done me a massive favour in ensuring I never give to these again.
Influencers and folk that monetise sympathy for their ‘battles’ belong in the same boat, for me. In fact, if you are ‘selling’ help, support and guidance for people that may well be struggling financially, as well as physically and mentally, well - it is worse, in my opinion, than selling tit make-up with photoshopped pictures.