It's no easy feat making travel around our beautiful planet look so dull and lacklustre, but she succeeded.
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It's no easy feat making travel around our beautiful planet look so dull and lacklustre, but she succeeded.
This could be used as a case study in how not to live your life on the internet. There's been complete naivety in not understanding that when you post intimate details of your life online for 85k strangers to read, they're going to have an opinion on it and when negativity and opposing views are not allowed on your own platform, then eventually people will seek out other corners of the Internet like this site to discuss it with like minded people. For too long, these influencers have coasted along, thinking they have an adoring bunch of followers who lap up everything they put out there. But now the penny has finally dropped that, surprise surprise, not all of your followers actually like or respect you or are positively invested in your life.
I've said it before on here, but when they try to control the narrative by deleting and blocking and shutting down discussion, it's a very slippery slope and one which, as is the case here, can only end badly. Rebecca has shared details of her life that would have been better kept private but it's all out there now and she can't take it back even with some vague legal threatening and blog post deletions. If she has any sense, she will change her business model and fine, if she still wants to work with brands on her ads, carry on (within the ASA and CMA guidelines of course!) but the over sharing of her and her family's lives would be best ended, especially with a baby on the way.
Live your life of luxury holidays, renovations and decorating, baking and flower arranging but if you're going to continue to document it all for the world to see and want to monetise your life, then accept the consequences. Don't want the consequences, then stop posting and live your life in private. It is actually possible to be an influencer and still do the brand work and ads while carefully controlling what private information you're putting out there. And if you want an account to document your life to family and friends, Instagram conveniently offers a private account setting.
I've said it before on here, but when they try to control the narrative by deleting and blocking and shutting down discussion, it's a very slippery slope and one which, as is the case here, can only end badly. Rebecca has shared details of her life that would have been better kept private but it's all out there now and she can't take it back even with some vague legal threatening and blog post deletions. If she has any sense, she will change her business model and fine, if she still wants to work with brands on her ads, carry on (within the ASA and CMA guidelines of course!) but the over sharing of her and her family's lives would be best ended, especially with a baby on the way.
Live your life of luxury holidays, renovations and decorating, baking and flower arranging but if you're going to continue to document it all for the world to see and want to monetise your life, then accept the consequences. Don't want the consequences, then stop posting and live your life in private. It is actually possible to be an influencer and still do the brand work and ads while carefully controlling what private information you're putting out there. And if you want an account to document your life to family and friends, Instagram conveniently offers a private account setting.
Great post swipeup. It makes me think about how furiously most celebrities fight to maintain privacy for themselves, their families and especially their children. The thought of an open Instagram account and sharing that level of detail with thousands and thousands of strangers terrifies me
I'm so glad I found this forum. I've been following RVK for years but the scales didn't fall from my eyes until I saw how rapidly she and her husband completed their house renovation. We bought a house in Hertfordshire at the same time she bought hers, and we're still doing it up! I was genuinely baffled how she managed to kit it all out in top end finishings. Whilst we've scraped pennies to buy IKEA furniture 
. Fair play that brands want to gift her things but wouldn't you want to be open about it from the get go? It shouldn't take ASA or CMA standards to prompt you into doing the ethical thing.
Just my thoughts. But what would I know I'm only an Asian? Innit.
. Fair play that brands want to gift her things but wouldn't you want to be open about it from the get go? It shouldn't take ASA or CMA standards to prompt you into doing the ethical thing.Just my thoughts. But what would I know I'm only an Asian? Innit.
Unlike an actor or musician infuencers usually don't have a skill or tallent. They have to over share their life. If they can't take any criticism it's easy to give up all the blagged free holidays and gifts and set their account to private then get a job that doesn't involve selling your personal life.
What they've (and I'm talking about influencers in general) essentially been relying on is that even though they know they're putting so much personal information out there, followers generally respect them enough not to share that onwards or comment on it. A sort of "gentleman's agreement" if you will that yes we know things like your address and how much you paid for your house (because YOU posted all the details and photos) but we're going to be respectful and not bring it up because we're adult about it. A sort of acknowledgment that it's your life and you know what you're doing, it you want to post it all over the internet that's your call. We wouldn't do it but you do you. And that works up to a point.
The highly personal information becomes ammunition when they start to piss people off in other ways and then the floodgates open. That's what's happened here. All the information was freely and willingly published and everyone just sort of sat on it, having their own thoughts on it. But then we start discussing poor business practices (ASA / not disclosing ads etc), that turns into commenting on the lifestyle and account in general and then eventually, once we find our like minded people, we can all say what we've really been thinking about some of the more questionable aspects of what we've read over the years. And I get that must be hard to take but it can't be stressed enough that it was her choice to write and publish those words.
The highly personal information becomes ammunition when they start to piss people off in other ways and then the floodgates open. That's what's happened here. All the information was freely and willingly published and everyone just sort of sat on it, having their own thoughts on it. But then we start discussing poor business practices (ASA / not disclosing ads etc), that turns into commenting on the lifestyle and account in general and then eventually, once we find our like minded people, we can all say what we've really been thinking about some of the more questionable aspects of what we've read over the years. And I get that must be hard to take but it can't be stressed enough that it was her choice to write and publish those words.
Just read that ‘falling for an older man’ post and it made me feel so uncomfortable. All that talk of Beauty & the Beast and finding fairytale endings just makes her seem so child-like. I’m sure she means every word but I feel sad that she feels thankful to have missed out on dating and that one of the reasons she loves him is because he is so mature having had ‘a whole ten years of life before me’. She loves hearing all about HIS adventures before they met. Did she never crave any of her own adventures? She seems to hero-worship him “I’m always surprised when I ask him something he doesn’t know”. It’s actually really sad and I just can’t understand (as a parent myself) how her parents were ok with all of this.
I keep thinking her blog is called Roses and Trollops.
Save your awards and Daily Mail double page spread.
How to spot an award winningbasic bish Insta Vlogger.
1) Heart Hands
2) Feet. Obviously Your own. Add a Starbucks coffee lid you’re really feeling yourself
3) rinse and repeat the same content in a different location
4) AND THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL!
FARROW AND BALL HAGUE BLUE
I can’t, I need a minute...
How to spot an award winning
1) Heart Hands
2) Feet. Obviously Your own. Add a Starbucks coffee lid you’re really feeling yourself
3) rinse and repeat the same content in a different location
4) AND THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL!
FARROW AND BALL HAGUE BLUE
I can’t, I need a minute...
Oh man, I've been following her for quite a while, looking at house renovation ideas, but have found her posts increasingly irritating and I'm SO glad I found this forum.
Completely agree with all comments. I was looking back through her travel blogs for inspiration on potential holiday destinations, and found them utterly devoid of culture - travelling across the globe to share samey-samey photos of beaches, bikes, sunsets and ice creams. Seriously?
Anyway tonight I made a fliipant comment on one of her posts and it's been deleted! Have to say I only continue following to witness the car crash that is her impending motherhood.
Completely agree with all comments. I was looking back through her travel blogs for inspiration on potential holiday destinations, and found them utterly devoid of culture - travelling across the globe to share samey-samey photos of beaches, bikes, sunsets and ice creams. Seriously?
Anyway tonight I made a fliipant comment on one of her posts and it's been deleted! Have to say I only continue following to witness the car crash that is her impending motherhood.
I’m wracking my brains to think of one of her tips which involved ‘crisp packets or something’.....it was a ‘tip’ she’d pinched from Pinterest. She loves Pinterest
It wasn’t shrinking crisp packets in the oven to make key rings, I’m sure. But that’s the only tip I can think of involving crisp packets.
I was thinking about this while making a cuppa just now too - can Rebecca and people like her who read things like this forum about themselves even be consoled by friends or family saying “It’s ok, hun, they don’t even know you...” because... we sort of do know so much about them that we are making these judgments knowing who they are, what they stand for, their mannerisms, personality, etc. Its fascinating
I was thinking about this while making a cuppa just now too - can Rebecca and people like her who read things like this forum about themselves even be consoled by friends or family saying “It’s ok, hun, they don’t even know you...” because... we sort of do know so much about them that we are making these judgments knowing who they are, what they stand for, their mannerisms, personality, etc. Its fascinating
I’ve just read her blog post about the things they’ve “bought” for the baby....surprise! pretty much been gifted everything. Makes me sick when so many young families are struggling to get by. What a spoilt, ungrateful little madam she is, honestly. I hope that baby turns their lives inside out! Maybe one day she will wake up. Until these brands wake up too though, I can’t see it happening anytime soon.
I’m sure it was something to do with the bloody Diptique candles jars and reusing them
Oh my god. Awful. My 11 year old students produce better spoken presentations than this!
Jesus Christ that was painful. I wonder how m&s would feel if they knew she was 15 and her husband was 25 when they started seeing each other.....I bet that isn’t an image they want to project
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