Lydia Millen #152 Glóby sells for tenner in a discount store - her 'sold out' claim a lie to flog more.

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Labradork

Tamsin! Her West London Yummy Mummy and Rich Childless Godmother bits are freaking brilliant! Hoping she doesn’t get taken in by Lidl’s Single White Female stalking of her.
 
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Ch21

What happened to the Karen millen clothes she designed? Are they in the shops?
 
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Ch21 said:
What happened to the Karen millen clothes she designed? Are they in the shops?
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Of course , selling out like hot buns, permanently reduced, never sold out, but completely sold out according to lidl. Don’t you know everything she puts her name on sells.( globy kits, Thornton paintings, …)
 
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Lola Faith

Just looked on Cara Melon and Lydia has quite a few jumper dresses in her Autumn collection and some with cashmere, but she won't promote them cos she doesn't have to. She's only talking about Amazon dresses to get the cash, but she can't even link them properly or check the material is cashmere - just so un professional as usual!
 
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Bbblane28

I haven’t watched any of her recent flogs and watched the Madrid one.

Did we ever get to the bottom of what happened and why she ended up in hospital on a drip?

The whole thing seems so strange.
 
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francesca_13

Did she tag them in the original post?… Because it seems she has now
 
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Wophie

How my three year old wears her coat on the walk back from the park...

 
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K18

cotswoldlife said:
Ugh that roast beef looks dry and overcooked
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Was just about to comment on how dry that roast dinner looks and the watery gravy is just She should have used some honey from the bees on those carrots and parsnips as they look burnt and sad.
 
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Labradork

K18 said:
Was just about to comment on how dry that roast dinner looks and the watery gravy is just She should have used some honey from the bees on those carrots and parsnips as they look burnt and sad.
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Do they not own a meat thermometer? That roast looked positively criminal!
 
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SofiaA

Yasmin doesn’t suffer cos playing fools. Thanks goodness for her contacts.
 
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happyskies

When you look further into the TikTok party that Lydia is inviting people to, it sadly may not be entirely real. Or reel.

But it is part of a larger story.


Thursday night, when Lydia posted her most recent TikTok (surprise...it was another Amazon dress!), it was fascinating to see all the comments start flooding in, within the first 2 hours alone. Not only was it heavy with the usual “I want to be like you one day, Lydia!” but it was nearly equally matched by many Amazon-specific comments, like, “Are you saying that’s an Amazon dress!?!”


It smelled fishy.






Especially when you look at this dress. What is it? Long-sleeved charcoal-colored “cashmere.” Same story, different day: an unknown brand (YTR6RTW) on Amazon that has no reviews and it is unclear of what it is really made.

When looking at the dress and listing itself, it would be hard to find a more basic dress than this. There is nothing standout about it; it has no exciting form, cut or shape to it. No embellishments. Not even a great styling of the dress on a model. Just plopped on a white background. 100% unremarkable—something few would click on.

🩺 🩺 🩺 This dress barely registers a pulse.




So how does this unbranded, basic dress, some 72 hours later now have nearly 600K views, with people 'clamoring over it?' Especially when Lydia used few & basic hashtags on the posting, while forgetting its most potent one: #Amazon.

It doesn’t make sense.

So if not the dress, is it the wearer of this dress?

When you dig deeper and look into these younger viewers and what matters to them, who is it that they look up to these days? According to a fresh-off-the-presses Piper Sandler report, it would be Taylor Swift, Zendaya and Hailey Bieber. They also love brands like Nike and H&M most.





When you look at it visually (as shown below), it becomes more apparent. The #EnglishCountryGrandmother meets #LydiainParis looks, with scarves tucked into belts, often with a headband, do not seem to jive/make Lydia a long-lost style twin.




There are sadly more signs of oddity than these.

EVIDENCE: In Lydia’s TikTok metrics from this past week.

Look at Lydia’s second most recent TikTok (the one in a red box) which was posted on Tuesday. This was the Louis Vuitton unboxing that has been discussed a lot. This TikTok has now yielded a whopping 3.2M+ views and 461K likes in 5 days. And her third most recent one (in the orange box)—yet another basic Amazon cashmere dress—has nearly 1M views in 6 days.



From Thursday, October 13 – Thursday, October 20, Lydia posted 6 TikToks:





When you look solely at engagement—not views—you can see that Lydia averages 30K likes & 250 comments per day on TikTok:



But somehow this past Monday (one of the slowest days on TikTok) she suddenly gets 120,000 more likes than usual. Mostly for a basic, unknown Amazon dress.

And then on Tuesday, the day she posts her LV TikTok, things really get skyrocketing —she gets 3 TIMES even Monday’s 120,000 jump—for 360,000 more likes than usual.

So a 1,300% increase in likes in one day.

Even greater, she gets 5,000+ MORE comments than her usual daily 250 comments. Creating a 2,700% increase.

Yes, you read that correctly: a 2,700% increase in comments. On a Tuesday. And this was also able to happen when she: (1) didn't speak the name of the LV bag in the Tiktok; (2) didn't place the name in the title or description box; (3) nor in a #hashtag; and (4) admits in the TikTok that she doesn't even care what the bag’s name is. What?


And then somehow, magically, after all this escalating, growing 48-hour excitement, on Thursday night, things come crashing right back down to Lydia's normal TikTok levels: 28K likes and 215 comments.


There is nothing organic or natural about 1,300% and 2,700% spikes...that go down as quickly as they go up.


Now go back and look at the first 3 TikToks that were posted earlier in the week—before the spike—and you can see they perform substantially worse, (even when those Amazon dresses can be found there too)! All 3 colored-boxed TikTok posts that fell under the spike period are ** doubling, tripling and more ** the performance of the week's earlier TikToks—when they have had less listing time. Why?



Therefore, these appear to likely be purchased views, likes & customized comments.



It is not hard, nor would it be expensive to do this, as there are countless social media “fake like” vendors everywhere, even on Etsy. Here is one where you could buy Wednesday's 5,000 comments for just $78 (but it's always even better when you buy in bulk!):




Some sites allow you to buy the exact-worded comments you want to appear in advance so that the purchaser can set the perfect stage ...to then play off those pre-made, customized comments for the scripted engagement dance they wish to play out.





So If Team Lydia had wanted to promote Amazon, for instance, it would be easy to buy many pre-baked Amazon comments/questions of their own making in advance that could then start trickling in on the exact TikToks they wanted, at the exact moment they wanted.

And what would be a cheaper, easier or better way to get people thinking that Lydia is adored by 14-24-year olds —one of the most coveted audiences by brands—than by purchasing a bunch of “I want to be you when I grow up!” comments—which just by the very nature of those words, allows people to subconsciously believe these are young and impressionable viewers... who have their pocketbooks open, ready to buy whatever Lydia is suggesting, so they can be just like her!


Another oddity? Lydia has made no secret of her inspiration/love of The Princess of Wales. Ironically, there are hundreds of comments like 'Wow, you look like Kate Middleton! " throughout, of which Lydia responds to more often than most.




Also, recall how often Lydia has been pushing "go to my TikTok!" over the past few months, both on Instagram and YouTube, calling out all the milestone numbers and even creating "controversy" over it. She wants this to be noticed very much.

This would help explain some of these basic Amazon dresses' odd soaring numbers, but it could also explain some of the happily-touted TikTok success of late too.... when conversely, views & engagement on the other platforms have all been declining (more on that below).



WOULD IT BE **POSSIBLE**?:

Team Lydia filmed and broadcast their luxury bag shopping trip in London late last week to: (1) create content for Monday’s vlog (2) have a fun girls' day/night out ; (3) to brighten up Lydia’s bad week with a nice, feel-good purchase ; and (4) likely send a quiet message to the world that Lydia wasn’t sad/unaffected by things; but, (5) could it also have been to procure a bright, new shiny object for a big unboxing? This shiny object shouldn't be another out-of-touch Hermes bag—but something more universal and approachable, and what better than the #3 most sought-after brand by young women: Louis Vuitton (see that Piper Sandler report again above).

This shiny new Louis Vuitton object would not only naturally play off Lydia’s known love of LV trunks and her growing collection (which she makes sure to mention, don’t forget), but it is a luxury purchase unboxing which often naturally performs well on Tiktok.


So then, would a new Louis Vuitton bag unboxing not create a quite perfect and very believable "Trojan Horse TikTok," of which one could stuff a big TikTok views/likes/comments buy underneath— which would hopefully go undetected?


What is also peculiar is that yesterday—just 4 days later—Lydia posted this same LV reel on her YouTube Shorts. It has performed nowhere like it has on TikTok...achieving only 136 comments, 2.6K likes and 30K total views so far. While it is a few days behind, it has 0.937% the views—not even a full 1%—of what has been found with the TikTok success. And the likes are very out of whack too: they are 459,000 less than TikTok. Plus this YouTube reel was optimally uploaded on the weekend—unlike the weekday TikTok posting.

The deltas in these performance metrics should not be this extreme.





Why might one ***potentially*** do this?




The 3M-viewed Louis Vuitton TikTok was posted on Tuesday, October 18. Besides being a way to strategically support the YouTube vlog about this bag from the night before, there was also a lot happening in the background.

It had been nothing but a bad string of days for Team Lydia; not much had been going right.

Looking at it visually, across a calendar, it included: (1) a Holland Cooper "family announcement" backfiring and the embarrassment that inevitably accompanies that; (2) Victoria’s trip which she was noticeably excluded from; (3) Tattlers’ finding Globy in discount shops, which only served to revive the controversy; (4) Thursday’s UGG rant + Amazon questioning; (5) chickens that weren’t hers; (6) the Purdey mess...and more.



It was all a doozy....something one might like to cover up—and quickly so.

And that may well be what happened.

For what might be a better way than to redirect attention over to TikTok, the new home you have been cultivating? It is also the one place where Holland Coper hadn't been announced; it is also the one place where people probably don't even know what Globy is; and it is also where OG YouTube & Instagram followers (who know a lot of these stories) won’t likely go or comment. But most of all, it is where all the hot social media action is. (Plus those TikTok buys are pretty cheap!)

Look at the calendar again when the TikTok spike dates are laid atop, shown in 🟣 purple 🟣 and the timing fits nearly perfectly—able to help deflect/distract, including the growing Purdey mess that was now starting to unfold.






The Lydia Millen brand has fallen since pre-pandemic times. Hello! used to write stories (albeit paid by the brand, but still...it was media coverage) about her. Strong brands like Farfetch, Laura Mercier, L'Oreal, By Terry and Estee Lauder/Aerin (and don't forget Lydia got to hold court with Aerin & interview her) all used to proudly feature her—unlike today, where they mainly give her a coupon code to let her unbox and sell their items with affiliate links from her sage green attic dressing room. Lydia isn't attending the events/PR trips/parties that she used to and it is rare that her face is proudly shown aside a brand, other than Karen Millen.




Her engagement slippage is starting to show on Instagram and YouTube, especially when clickbait titles are not used:



And when you look at Lydia's life and partnerships of late (as shown below): (1) she is now found in London hotel powder rooms bemoaning lost perfume (which she then rather sillily days later, flaunts an obscene perfume arsenal, touting that it requires an assistant’s help to organize it all); (2) her Karen Millen collection is not faring well; even the most highly-featured "By Lydia" pieces are still fully available...a month later; (3) her idol, The Princess of Wales, wore an Elizabeth Hurley x Karen Millen Forever Dress—not something from Lydia's collection; and (4) partnerships with companies like Cosmetips haven’t sold out either, 1 month+ later. Her brand power is fading.




When you contrast this to her frenemy, Victoria, it's a big difference. Victoria, on the other hand (as shown below): (1) is enjoying another “best-selling” jewelry launch; (2) ...which she and Lydia's old friends, including Josie, were whisked off to France for; (3) she has her upcoming, highly-promoted Holland Cooper line coming out; and (4) she literally has Jade’s embrace, something Lydia very publicly failed to secure.







This Lydia & Lauren/The LA Way's fast-growing friendship is confusing, but it seems a business relationship could also be blossoming, as was referenced in The LA Way's stories at Farmhouse the other night. Is it because Lydia’s Karen Millen deal is soon coming to an end...and Lydia is going to come under the fold there? Or is this just another client engagement, as not a lot of other influencers are wearing Aavelle—but "Queen Lydia" (as The LA Way adoringly calls her), will?

Whatever the case, Tuesday's Louis Vuitton TikTok was just as much an ad for Aavelle clothing & Aavelle hair bows than anything else—Aavelle likely could have not achieved 3.2M views, 461K likes & 6K+ comments on its own either.

And once again, when you look back at the calendar, this TikTok spike equally benefitted The LA Way/Aavelle too, whose launch was originally slated for this very day, before Aavelle suddenly moved its launch up to the night before, perhaps to also be fully ready to capitalize upon TikTok.





Finally, the holidays are now quickly upon us —a well-known make-or-break period for companies around the world. Influencers too. And Team Lydia needs to sell Lydia to prospective brands. So while Lydia's “Look at my TikTok Party” story the other day was shown to hopefully get viewers to become cross-platform users, the primarily purpose was likely to serve as a siren call for brands and PR managers to take note of her TikTok ascent (notice that she made sure to include her latest milestone numbers in the post), so Team Lydia can finalize/line up holiday partnerships & deals, especially on this critcal, growing platform.



But it’s not just revenue that Team Lydia likely wishes to bring its way—they also need to fill up an entire month’s worth of content for Vlogmas videos—which includes a big risk of exposure if there are any shown drying-up work opportunities.



Another example of a likely Lydia "soft holiday marketing sell" this past week would be the SpaceNK party stories she shared the other night. Filled with messages of "it is never too early for the holidays!" , with classic holiday music playing underneath, it was a quiet reminder that Lydia is out on the town, ready for business and ready to be *YOUR BRAND'S* next Holiday influencer too!

(* Also, why would Lydia wear Vampire's Wife—instead of her many cashmere Amazon dresses, or something from her Karen Millen line to this soiree?)

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All in all, things feel very "off"—not coming from a position of honesty, confidence and strength.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that things are not going well.
 
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Mrs Mangel

OMG you are amazing. Thank you for this in depth presentation. I believe you have hit the nail on the sinking Lydia Millen ship.
 
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Delizia

Oh... My god! All I want to say is amen and if I ever commit a murder I hope you don't get to be a detective on my case.


Allexie01 said:
Aaaaarrrgghh he’s leaning again……

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and a different version of leaning…

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gotta be said….he’s versatile!
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Don't tell me you're actually following Lydia don't give her your follow nooooooo
 
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happyforest



Yet another masterpiece post. Gawd, I have a crush on you, @happyskies.

I would love to buy you a drink. Your forensic analysis, with ALL THE receipts, is P R I C E L E S S. Thank you for bringing all the proofs of how shifty, shady Lydia is grasping at straws to redirect the narrative of her fading influence. Truly, I can't believe how easy it has become to buy likes, comments and views. What a clusterfuck.
 
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ameliasbags

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View attachment 1665300She. Bangs on about leaving a bottle of perfume in a loo and has all this hoarded at home, all gifted. The greed is astonishing…..
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The entrance to Dante’s Hell looks more appealing
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The sheer amount of perfume bottles is bloody sickening! She won't even get to use all these before they go off, but she hoards them nonetheless, because they're free. Then again, given that she sprays herself 53 times every time she gets dressed, she might actually get through them.
 
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Peppypoopar

It should be that you are unable to buy subs, comments on all media platforms ie Instagram, YouTube, TikTok etc, it's nearly 2023, surely this can be done as its cheating and misleading the consumer!
 
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happyforest

Peppypoopar said:
It should be that you are unable to buy subs, comments on all media platforms ie Instagram, YouTube, TikTok etc, it's nearly 2023, surely this can be done as its cheating and misleading the consumer!
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I agree. It's fraud and should be treated as criminal conduct particularly since these "Influenzas" use their stats of likes/comments/views to garner larger contracts in amounts that dwarf what most people make. Just look at what these asshats are bringing in yearly, it is appalling!

What's the difference between this behavior of buying faux engagement for profit and criminal white collar fraud??? Talk about a massive gaping loophole in the current laws. It is misrepresentation in every sense. It shows a complete lack of integrity and quite honestly IMO it is blatant theft. IMO, any monies they make misrepresenting organic engagement should be seen the same as robbery/theft and should be prosecuted the same as tax evasion, insider trading, Ponzi schemes, etc.
 
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