Not @Gettae, but I'm one of the many who came here after the Friday video (and SH's tweet referring to Tattle Life of which I had not previously heard). I read the then recent posts and - finding it to be different from the way SH described it - ended up reading through the two and three-quarter threads up to that point to try to make sense of it.
It seemed immediately clear to me - from the posts in the days leading to the Friday video - that the video was a panicked response to her 'stalking' of Tattle members having been mentioned on the Estee Laundry website. Offence being the best form of defence and all that. I felt sad for the poster here who had an old FB picture of their child 'liked' by SH - and felt so spooked that she left Tattle. I hope she came back.
When I read through the two and three-quarter threads I was looking particularly for the issues about which SH expressed upset and outrage in the video: her children being targeted, an unknown person being said to be her father, a friend being called fat, ugly and boring, derogatory remarks about her husband. In each case there was a small speck of truth but distorted out of recognition.
For example, the issue about her father. In the context of discussing honesty, there had been comments here about apparent discrepancies in the way SH described her background. She then posted a photo on IG of her late father and someone commented that he looked like a rather colonial type, seemingly at odds with what she had written about having a working class background. In that context, a poster included a link to the obituary of a man named Hughes and wondered whether it could have been her father. Another poster replied saying that it couldn't because of the dates. The original poster then immediately said something along the lines of 'Oh yes, you're right. Sorry'. So, yes, someone here briefly speculated that a particular person might have been her father but it was very quickly and clearly accepted as mistaken. From the outrage with which it was described in the video, however, you would have got the impression that Tattle was maliciously spreading this misinformation.
Every instance was similar. As someone said upthread, from the Friday video you would have thought there were people hiding in the bushes taking pictures of her children on their way to school rather than merely a couple of comments here expressing surprise that she had posted a picture of her child.
The Friday video made a lot of what I think were a couple of genuine mistakes here. I think it was wrongly said here - or certainly implied - that SH had a commercial relationship with Charlotte Tilbury and that her 'writers retreat' at a Swiss clinic was an undeclared freebie. Given the amount of airtime SH has given to CT products and her apparent acceptance of other '#presstrips' I think neither was an unreasonable - if mistaken - assumption.
There were a couple of posters whose comments here I felt a bit uncomfortable with - seemed unnecessarily mean - but to a very great extent I found that I agreed with what people had been saying. I hadn't given SH a great deal of thought up until then, but once I did - yes, I didn't think it was right that she'd been using pictures of her face to illustrate products when clearly (in my view) she'd had cosmetic procedures about which she hadn't been open until recently and I had been irritated for a while by the '#presstreatments' which were just freebies and the apparent intolerance of any challenge or questioning.
My biggest complaint, though, is that video. I was - and still am - outraged on behalf of the people here at the way they were misrepresented. I was - and still am - shocked at the way in which so many others piled in, ready to criticise in the most aggressive terms without bothering to inform themselves as to the facts.
Anyway, I'm glad to have found it. I very much enjoy the discussion.
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In other words “she put herself online and people had opinions”
. I didn't actually watch a video, I found this online when I did a search for "Katie Jane Hughes base" 
