Rachaele is super bright and a marketing genius. I think that’s why she plays up the whole ‘I never went to school’ thing, to make herself look more vulnerable, and helpless and far less calculating. But she may not be educated, but she’s a smart smart cookie who has manipulated and milked this situation for all it is worth and provided a very nice life for her family in the process. Ordinarily, I’d be in favour of that, but not when she’s exploiting vulnerable people to pay for it. When she first set up the PayPal account, she openly said her aim was for enough money to come in so she could give up her job and devote herself to the page full time because she felt her social media work was important to the world.
I thought she was ok though, I wasn’t a huge fan, but I thought she was one of the better ones, from what I’d seen, until I looked further. Due to my job, I’m sometimes asked to publicly comment on bullying issues etc, and a local station asked me to say something about this text bullying game Rachaele was ‘raising awareness’ about and ‘speaking out against’ with Betsy.
I always do my own research before commenting on anything and everything I could find about this ‘X’ bullying game (that was supposedly all over the Internet, with terrified parents/ kids everywhere speaking out) could be traced back to one blog post by Rachaele Hambleton- that ‘somehow’ the papers had picked up. I declined to comment. But her ‘campaign’ got her on This Morning, a massive amount of exposure, an outpouring of love confirming her saintdom etc... make of that what you will. But she announced her book not long afterwards, so I’m sure all those new followers didn’t hurt...