Lydia Millen # 26 - 50 quid for a mitt, a glove and a backscratcher in a plastic bag - Genius!

[Peppypoopar]

Yes she's turned the comments off on the Globy insta account, probably tired of deleting all the negative comments

 

[tiddles]

9:23pm - 1720 in stock.

 

[Chloesm]

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If she can't handle all this pressure and it s been only 24h then how can she imagine to cope with it for a long time when you launch a product you have to take everything into account, dealing with negative comments included

 

[Hicksbo]

She may be able to delete comments but damage is done. The stats for her launch video on youtube speaks volumes...

 

[poopettemetis]

Meh that page barely has any engagement. Need Estee Laundry, Stephanie Yeboah, etc level.



Such a successful launch! I'm thso proud of our little slothy aww.

I submitted to @influencerstruth!

Not sure if it’s been mentioned (might’ve missed it, apologies!), if you’re hopping over to Ibiza for a long weekend on the beach, you’re not going to check a whole suitcase JUST because you’re traveling with a LIQUID sunless tanner in a toiletries bag that would take up too much room in a carry-on!

 

[Lollylola]

Why she got this is the front cover of the website? Her underarms didn’t look great - patchy tan and stubble. Why not use a shot that doesn’t show your armpits?

 

[Elle Belle]

 

[Uninfluenced observer]

There was someone on this forum in the #25 thread who wondered aloud if this epic Glo flop would garner new Tattle memberships from people who had previously liked and watched Lydia. It has. I am one of them. I am not British. I did not know about this forum. I do now.

After having several of my comments to Lydia deleted off of the Glo Instagram account and going unanswered in her YouTube comments section, I went to the web to research a place, a safe outlet, where I could vent my frustrations to people who clearly have been quicker on the uptake than I have.

I also DM’ed her once this week about the Ca’ Pietra limestone freebie post in Instagram Stories that brought her a backlash so intense she created a highlight reel featuring all of her ASA-based questions to fans. I asked her why she always had to publicly react with a tantrum every time fans called her out for getting something for free. Surely that’s old hat by now? I told her that her constant overreactions and defensiveness made her look petulant. I asked her to exercise a bit of grace. If she doesn’t like the comments, I asked her to buy the product herself to avoid them. If she wants to continue to get product for her own home for free from a UK-based stone company that in no way could bring any benefit to my life by way of recommendation, being an ocean away over here, I asked her to please rise above the consequences of those actions and to stop lashing out.

I thought that was the end of it. Then Glo. Where do I even begin? Luckily, there are so many sharp members here who have already spoken about many issues with the launch and the products proper – her fake inclusivity of the BIPOC community, the unwillingness to reveal the origin of manufacturing, the lack of market research and focus group testing, the environmental catastrophe that is bringing so much more plastic in bulk to the market, her two-faced approach to sustainability, her luxury attitude to her own lifestyle with her own use of top quality natural fabrics and yet her willingness to shill these cheap materials to others, the astronomical price point, the impact on her young, malleable followers – to name a few.

However, there is one point I saw in one comment on her YouTube channel that she actually liked back that, to me, made me angrier than anything else I’ve seen over the past 24 hours. It’s posted below for you to view yourselves. In the comment, the person said that just because people couldn’t afford Lydia’s product didn’t make it a bad product, that it’s “just something out of their reach.” Lydia liked that.

This is where she lost me. We need to talk about the class issue. The idea that Lydia participates in the trope that she belongs to an exclusive community of comfortably well-off pseudo-celebrities shows that she buys into an antiquated class structure that is predicated on her keeping people below her so that she may rise by profiting off of classes she views as beneath her. Her life is aspirational. Fine. But she is personally aspirational in that she is a social climber desperate to raise her status “read: class” to the detriment of others she views as in lowers castes. Do discuss. I’d love some feedback on this.

Now, it’s time to get personal. Originally, I wanted to be like Lydia. I have been following her for six years. I started a YouTube channel and an Instagram account to build a following to whom I could sell recommended products (though, admittedly, ones I actually liked and believed in) and benefit of off affiliate links and brand partnerships.

Though a successful professional with bachelor and masters’ degrees, the shiny prizes that her world proffered caught me in its wake. And, for a year, I participated in the fashion blogging/vlogging sphere. I am so ashamed that I didn’t see what I was perpetuating.

In the past 24 hours, I have questioned how I can do better than Lydia and contribute some good to the world instead of shilling more harm. I shuttered my YouTube account and my Instagram pages. I deleted my blog. I will never produce a photo of me with a product ever again. Actually, I’m going to ground and living off of my little savings until I can get a real job, for which my degrees prepared me. And my savings are so little because I was living above my means. The Jo Malone candles, the ceramic vases and pots, the props for Instagram flat lays, the camera and lighting equipment. I am so ashamed and embarrassed that this has been my aspirational life for years.

I hope your group will accept me here despite my past actions. I can’t believe I upheld Lydia on that pedestal on which she places herself. After this launch and all of the feedback and comments she, like me, has surely read, she should be curled in a ball in the corner crying tears of shame into her Dior and Louis Vuitton blankets. I’ve never felt freer to have been proven so wrong.

Wow! What an amazing post! Big virtual hugs!

 

[LIVINGMYBESTLIFE1]

Now she has turned her comments off she needs to admit that she has failed, close her business down and go back to flogs.

 

[Literally-Lou-Lou]

She may be able to delete comments but damage is done. The stats for her launch video on youtube speaks volumes...View attachment 164137

Her YouTube channel is starting to approach the depths of last fall when she had the emotional plea to "repair the relationship" with her audience. Brace yourselves ....

 

[Glóby]

 

[Lollylola]

Also she lives in Northamptonshire! Not Buckinghamshire. Really weird she lies on her bio. Really fake and weird!

 

[classyc]

Im sure at this moment she is drinking wine with Carrie, cause Carrie told her "you silly sausage, you are doing brilliant!" *a personalized award included*.

They all are busy getting drunk and no one can control the negative comments. Hence turn off comments for tonight.

 

[Moloko]

So she begged for 40k followers on her brand page and now she’s stopped those followers from having an opinion. This woman needs a strong reality check. She’s taking people for complete fools. Shame on you Lydia

Perfect example how begging can slap you in the face. Be careful what you wish for Lydia.

Why she got this is the front cover of the website? Her underarms didn’t look great - patchy tan and stubble. Why not use a shot that doesn’t show your armpits?

So wait, maybe I missed this conclusion, but basically she used this table cloth to disguise all the patchiness and flaws of bad tanning? If there wasn’t table cloth it would be even more obvious?!

 

[moona]

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I do agree the box would look way nicer and more chic without the scribble.

 

[Lola Faith]

Best comment i read on the her youtube today said "my deepest condolences Lydia"

Globy is dead RIP

 

[HarleyC]

Can I just say I’m new here, and love this thread. Everyone is saying exactly what I feel! Hallelujah for having somewhere to express ourselves, somewhere where our comments don’t get deleted....

I hope Lidl (love this btw) finally gets a big reality check from this. She flaunts her lifestyle, her (free) expensive goods and her other expensive goods that she pays for with press discount like it’s the norm.

Having video titles like ‘WE NEARLY BOUGHT ANOTHER HOUSE!!’ and tit like this isn’t endearing, it’s showing off, and it’s been grating on me (and many others) for a long time. She’s the queen of catfish titles and her extremely long vlogs of not much are just a pile of showing off expensive free tit.

I think this flop of a launch is karma of some sort, trying to flog people ‘luxury’ when the majority of luxury she actually gets for free.

 

[Wophie]

Im sure at this moment she is drinking wine with Carrie, cause Carrie told her "you silly sausage, you are doing brilliant!" *a personalized award included*.

They all are busy getting drunk and no one can control the negative comments. Hence turn off comments for tonight.

From Cawwie's Instagram it looks like she's wandering around a field. Probably both sat in a load of mud binge drinking whispering angel together. At least the mud would be an improvement on Lydia's tan. She wouldn't even need her toolkit because Cawwie can get her back

 

[Candcha88]

She is just doing way to much, it’s been mentioned before but she really does think people are below her. Your running a “business” Lidl even though you don’t like it you have to be nice to potential customers, Didn’t anyone in “your team” mention that.

Ready, Set, Go......away!

 

[Purgerica]

Bloody hell look at the photoshop 'BY' they've added at the end of GLO. Also shes showing these now because she isnt selling them fast.

I thought it was added by a Tattler, thought it was hilarious!!