I’m sorry if this upsets anyone but I just wanted to put this out there. All this ‘we tattlers are just lovely people who care about this that and the other, and the Hinch army are all evil wrongdoers’ is just winding me up a little bit.
Yes I get that the majority of people on here are not jealous/bullies/vicious trolls and there are plenty of people being really proactive and giving out lots of helpful information but you’ve got to admit some of the comments are very personal and quite frankly at times nasty (and some of mine have been too in the interests of full disclosure).
To the same extent, yes she has lots of followers who are blindly loyal and are a little bit unhinged but she also has followers who don’t pour over her every word/story and just dip in and out. My friend that recommended her never turns the volume up on her stories and skips past until she sees her cleaning something. She views her stories once a week or something and she’s picked up a few tips. She doesn’t buy into all her products, doesn’t even realise what she’s doing but just wants a few cleaning tips. Now if all her followers were the same she’d have quit a long time ago as there’s no money in that. My friend would be horrified if I pointed her in the direction of tattle as she is when she sees the comments pointing out her negative points as she’s watched her enough to see it. She does just think she’s a girl who accidentally made it big and just likes to clean and has anxiety. And because she’s not being influenced by her in a negative way I don’t see the mileage in ‘educating’ her.
My point being, the same way that you might hate being told that all tattlers are bullies/trolls etc not all Hinch followers are fake and stupid.
I remember the first time I came across Hinch and I immediately went to a mum group I’m on asking for opinions because I was shocked at her overuse of chemicals. Some of them were saying things like ‘I bet she won’t be able to keep that up when the baby is here’ followed by others saying ‘of course she will, it’s all about the cash’ and I just thought, ‘how nasty she doesn’t deserve that, she just doesn’t realise what she’s doing’. I can see that I was sucked in too but thankfully the extent of it was one bottle of Zoflora that is still 90% full months later.