@Pocahontas, I'm rather new to Tattle. I work in social media and I get interested in influencer culture and fall down all sorts of rabbit holes on things like family blogging, studytube, the impact Instagram has on things like ED's. I've consumed a lot of content on commentary channels, but they only tend to talk about big influencers like Shane Dawson and I was often interested in the littler ones.Evening, fraus.
So - genuine question, while it’s relatively quiet here. Of those of you with significant others, do they know that you are a Tattler? Mine didn’t until yesterday. I’ve been on here since the whole Mother of Daughters / Alice drama, but I never disclosed what I was doing - just said I was on ‘a forum’ if he asked, and he never asked for details. Obviously my usage has upped because of covid and less work, but he always assumed I was whatsapping friends and I never corrected him. I was embarrassed about it, and didn’t want him to feel sorry for me? We moved to a new area about 18 months ago and apart from school mum friends, I don’t have any ‘good good’ friends near to me to ring up for a socially distanced meet up, and when I message best friends who live hours away, I don’t bore them with the plights of Jack Monroe
Annnnnyway - I’ll get to the point, sorry. Yesterday was really grim, wasn’t it - the whole kitten thing was really upsetting - and I got myself wound up about it all (as lots of us did). I actually needed to talk about it, so I told him all about Jack Monroe (I’ve mentioned her before to him - about her rinsing beans) and he knows ‘she’s the one who sued Katie Hopkins’) but I told him everything else, showed him the pics on her twitter, showed him some of her posts when she visited here, told him all about the poverty pretense. And it felt really liberating just to talk to him about it! (I never thought he’d be bothered - and he kind of isn’t about the MOD stuff - who can blame him).
Once enlightened, and also ‘Why does she get away with it??’, he suggested that all of us on here ‘take her down’, that we tell all her followers on twitter the truth, direct them here so that they can see the truth.
I explained that it’s strictly against the rules, and that we’re not trolls - and we can’t do that sort of thing. Like at best we can hope someone comes and has a look out of curiosity. But most of her followers have taken some sort of weird devotion drug, right? He thought it was a shame we couldn’t go and infiltrate her thread with the truth. I said I didn’t want to get banned for breaking the rules!
Anyway, once I explained about Tattle and what it is - yes, critical discussion and a forum to share our thoughts on about the untruths and discrepancies, but also that it’s a lot of fun, and really supportive, and really kind, he was pleased that I had somewhere I had to go and chat with ‘mates’. I showed him some of my posts, and he was bemused (cos of the in jokes), but he liked my Jack’s Rap
Anyway, it just felt really good to (a) talk to someone about her, cos it felt like too much yesterday, and (b) tell him about Tattle (he thinks the name is funny
Just genuinely wondering if, the ones here who have significant others, know that they tattle? And do you talk to them about the rollercoaster of Jackie when it gets too much?
ETA: Sorry if this question is annoying to people without a significant other. Really don’t want to offendJust ignore!
However, like Jack, a lot of influencers delete any negative comments, so if you want to see what people are thinking about person, you need to come to places like here. I came to look at someone else, but I noticed how many Jack threads there were and went rooting and got so mad! I did mention to a friend that I seen some batshit stuff on Jack via an 'influencer forum', but I worry people would see somewhere like this as nasty, trollish gossip places. However, I think it provides a space for influencers actually to be held accountable.
