Just saw this on Tattle in the Press thread .The Guardian have published a very long article this morning on Tattle and look who’s included
she’ll be in her element to get a mention
Any business today is subject to reviews. These influencers are small businesses. These aren’t personal accounts and shouldn’t be treated like such. Their business is selling and marketing. And she is very bad at it. If I went into a small business in a local town and the owner expressed the views that Melanie feels the need to constantly express then I absolutely would review it negatively, both in person and online.
Melanie has completely shut down any right of reply on her comments. On top of that she has done some seriously sketchy
tit for content. This has outraged and frustrated people. This tattle page for her started out of her flouting the covid rules and pretending she was essential. Her attitude throughout the whole pandemic was just to let all the immunocompromised die so she won’t be impeded from going to Tesco. She continually punches down on healthcare workers, working mothers and women generally. It is absolutely right that she faces criticism. I don’t agree with all the comments, they can be a little close to the bone sometimes but I think they come from a place of frustration . The criticism of her approaches to mothering are largely encouraged by her own fairly thinly veiled criticisms of other mothers. Many of the people here started as followers and enjoyed her content but she has progressively alienated and disappointed people that once really liked her content and the lifestyle she was selling. I think some of the stuff she says sometimes is due to a complete lack of empathy for other people and she doesn’t really understand the harm she’s causing, being that bereft of life experience, but her complete denial of any engagement with the responses of her target market is what triggers a lot of anger in people. It’s not only on tattle, she’s been slated fairly thoroughly on Reddit too.
If she wants to play at being Jim Corr in a housecoat - fine. She absolutely has the right to do so. But she does not have the right to completely shut down any discussion of the quality of the content she produces. Her page is a product, she’s paid very well for it, and any product is subject to review.