Tattle In The Press

[Islandhoppin]

Just read this in Glamour magazine…..thoughts?

Thousands of women are being trolled on 'gossip forum' Tattle Life – and some are scared to leave the house. How is this abuse allowed to continue in plain sight?

"It's so much more than just critiquing my appearance; it's finding my address, posting my address, trying to just completely destroy my privacy."

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

I agree that trying to find out people’s addresses etc is a step too far, and thankfully the mods do come down on that quite quickly.

However, I will say this as an example, I’ve no idea where Holly Willloughby lives or what her children look like. She protects her family’s privacy and does not monetise their lives all over social media. You can’t sell your and your children’s privacy to the highest bidder, and then complain people know about your lives.

 

[lozzapaloozza]

This is my favourite part of the article

 

[Yel]

There's loads of websites that are everything influencers say tattle is (linked to mass murderers and who exist to post addresses and harass people in real life) but these never get mentioned.

The problem with tattle is it isn't the extremist weirdos that can easily be ignored, but lots of legitimate complaints. Social media influencers are used to influencing people and some genuinely do think saying someone's hat looks silly is a hate crime.

That new statesman article was terrible and full of outright lies and things cherry picked to mislead and deceive. Read the jack Monroe threads where it's nicely broken down and the writer ends up looking pretty foolish. That's the problem with these articles; they've decided on their outcome and narrative before the first word is even written or any research has taken place.

The mail is the organisation that has been most accurate with describing here without going to lengths to paint a false picture. The guardian, the sun, the I, the mirror etc have all shown very poor journalism with their articles on tattle.

Quoting myself as just spoke about this in another thread

Tattle feels like one of the most controversial message boards that's ever existed, I can't remember other ones getting this much bad press. And other ones have actually been linked with horrific Crimes.

Here on tattle we're a bit bitchy about those that turn their life into the Truman show on steroids to make money . Mustn't be nice to read uncomfortable things about your self, but fame has always come with this. These influencers are probably so defensive as fame is their main thing without talent or skills to back it up.

 

[Veronicaaa]

Big article about Tattle in the Daily Mail today. Am expecting an influx of new members.

My favourite bit is where the author (Hi Clare!! Thanks for registering x) says many of us are "remarkably articulate". Sorry to disappoint that we're not all sitting at home going 'goo goo ga ga' whilst pointing excitedly at daytime telly. Annoying that these articles never, ever mention Jack Monroe even though she's the grist of some of our most popular threads.

 

[CyanRose125]

Just read this in Glamour magazine…..thoughts?

Thousands of women are being trolled on 'gossip forum' Tattle Life – and some are scared to leave the house. How is this abuse allowed to continue in plain sight?

"It's so much more than just critiquing my appearance; it's finding my address, posting my address, trying to just completely destroy my privacy."

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

In my opinion, the only reason these Influencers hate Tattle.life so much is that we see right through their Facade, say it like it is and find information out (with proof) . It’s great that websites like this exist so people can have open discussions without fear of being silenced. They should follow Sophies advice, “if you dont like it, dont look at it”.

 

[LaLa247]

Glad you’ve posted this thread as I actually feel quite passionately about it, when the petition was going round to have tattle shut down I couldn’t believe how short sighted people were being - they really wanted to shut down a website because people were being a bitchy? A bit mean? What absolutely ridiculous and dangerous precedent to set.

I think @Yel makes an excellent about the various and far more popular Internet forums that have various links to actual terrorist incidents/cyber attacks/Neo-Nazis/doxxing/general dark internet shit. The site on which the man who committed the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand posted his manifesto (and appears to have been partly radicialiszed) had just changed its name and gone on it merry way, and people seriously want to shut down a site talking about influencers?

Its my belief that it’s because it’s a forum most frequented by women discussing women - a man can talk shit all day on a forum about footballers and no one would bat an eyelid.

Recently a contestant from the circle ‘called out’ tattle for ‘bitching about the show’ and calling those on The Circle thread ‘bored housewives’ - hilarious because I also follows the subreddit for the The Circle and the stuff said there was worse imo, but ofc that’s a ‘legit’ mans website so.

Social Media has essentially become one big advert and we’re all supposed to put up and shut up, buy that new skin care range being advertised and not open our mouths - we’re consumers simply by having the Instagram app but without any right to call out inappropriate business behaviour
Social Media has essentially become one big advert and we’re all supposed to put up and shut up, buy that new skin care range being advertised and not open our mouths - we’re consumers simply by having the Instagram app but without any right to call out inappropriate business behaviour

I haven’t read every article you’ve posted but the ones I have haven’t yet mention that these influencers do have to make a concerted effort to come onto this site and read this stuff - which I think is the big flaw in there narrative so probably wont.

Sorry for the rant but really winds me up!

 

[Hunsgraveyard]

"Meanwhile at Tattle underground HQ, the mysterious Helen sits in one of those spinny chairs, laughing maniacally and stroking a pet as yet another poorly researched shit news article directs loads of new users and ad revenue"

*GIF probably not actual Helen. T&Cs apply. Brand new customers only. Results may vary.

 

[LennyBriscoe]

All the people who want to shut Tattle down are cut from the same cloth imo - narcissistic, egotistical people who hate Tattle because they can’t control the narrative or delete posts that have even a whiff of calling them out. They are dying to shut Tattle down but at the same time don’t want to talk about us too much in case more and more people come here and find out what they’re really like.

Yel mentioned Jack Monroe in a previous post - Jack is a classic example of why there is a place for Tattle. She has a loyal band of Twitter fans who jump to her defence and/or piles on as soon as she kicks off about someone - Jamie Oliver and David Walliams are ia couple of examples. But what they don’t see are the thousands of tweets she deletes, what she really says, how rude and unreasonable she is to people and, most importantly, things like her Kickstarter shambles and the fact she has a Paterson but hasn’t sent her members a single thing in months, go unnoticed by them.

There are some posts I read and think but they’re few and far between and whilst I don’t have prior forum experience, part of the reason I have stuck around here is because the Mods get rid of things as soon as they know, and encourage people to read the rules and report breaches.

Would I like it if I was famous and had a Tattle thread? Probably not, but then I’ve got self-awareness and would be more likely to take fair critique on board than anyone I’ve seen with threads

 

[Yel]

https://archive.is/l9cj3

I love it when the daily mail is the morality police for gossip. are they targeting immigrants today like they do most days?

"Stunned by the viteral" on here and the worst examples is calling Mrs hinch a twat or Katie price a drugged up idiot. Hang on didn't the daily mail put Katie price with a druggie headline on their cover? They've done loads of articles on her saying the exact same. The hypocrisy

The amount of articles they get from reading here, like the Alice evens thread.

Sadly it's not more popular than Mumsnet, they've pulled those figures from thin air and doesn't get anywhere near that number of visitors.

 

[Yel]

Latest issue of private eye was just pushed though my letterbox

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

They hate tattle because swathes of us who’d have scrolled the sidebar of doom & clicked a few articles generating a bit of ad revenue for them are now over here giving tattle the cash instead. That’s the long and short of it, these big name journos are now worried that the days of their £160k a year one column a week jobs are over because we’d rather read decent content made by our peers. Sorry huns you’ll have to downsize x

 

[eyespybs123]

Big article about Tattle in the Daily Mail today. Am expecting an influx of new members.

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My favourite bit is where the author (Hi Clare!! Thanks for registering x) says many of us are "remarkably articulate". Sorry to disappoint that we're not all sitting at home going 'goo goo ga ga' whilst pointing excitedly at daytime telly. Annoying that these articles never, ever mention Jack Monroe even though she's the grist of some of our most popular threads.

I alway thought a 'troll' or 'trolling' was setting up a fake account to comment/dm hateful and nasty things directly to the person. Since when was any form of critism whatsoever regarded as trolling?

 

[Happy Lady]

The people who complain don't read far enough into this forum. I joined last September and found members all supported each other, respected posts whether of their own opinions or not, and for me it has really helped me get through lockdown, whether just reading threads or joining in. And I've laughed so much at some posts too. I love this forum and members too.

 

[Veronicaaa]

To me, what it's about is gatekeeping. I've probably said it before on this very thread, but a lot of these blue ticks (and ~highbrow~ journalists) see some of the threads on here as threatening simply because they can't control the narrative. Being questioned or critiqued is not something they're used to, and nor do they want to get used to it. They're protecting their platforms and protecting their privilege. And for all their talk about being concerned about the mental health of influencers and online oversharers, they happily throw tattle users under the bus by smearing us as suffering from mental health problems or being ~deeply unhappy~ or whatever. It's such appalling hypocrisy. We're posting messages on an internet forum. Just like you are!!!

 

[nurseren]

Tattle has saved my life this year.

 

[Debarkle]

Not press, but this made me lol

 

[IsItSaturdayYet]

Just read this in Glamour magazine…..thoughts?

Thousands of women are being trolled on 'gossip forum' Tattle Life – and some are scared to leave the house. How is this abuse allowed to continue in plain sight?

"It's so much more than just critiquing my appearance; it's finding my address, posting my address, trying to just completely destroy my privacy."

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

"that she no longer goes for runs and has security cameras placed on her property" I have no idea who the influencer is that they spoke to, I've never heard of her, but if tattle members can find this shit out, imagine what someone wanting to cause her harm could find out. This is the point we are trying to make. Stop oversharing on social media. People wouldn't find things out if you didn't give people things to look up that YOU have made public.

 

[Cloak]

Why are journos and the media allowed to pass comment on public figures and influencers, but heaven forbid the general public dare write their own opinions?

if you live life in the public eye and you are a walking product yourself or make a living from spouting your own opinions on things then why on earth don’t they expect any criticism? Just cos Tattle isn’t run by the exclusive posh media clique they don’t like it

 

[CrackingOwlSanctuary]

Journalists trawling here for quotes to mug off influencers whilst churning out their shite clickbait articles:

 

[Yel]

Glad you’ve posted this thread as I actually feel quite passionately about it, when the petition was going round to have tattle shut down I couldn’t believe how short sighted people were being - they really wanted to shut down a website because people were being a bitchy? A bit mean? What absolutely ridiculous and dangerous precedent to set.

If you look at the facts of what happened this weekend as an example it's absolutely bananas!

A retired soap actress and now mum influencer said her children were being targeted by vile trolls.

Said ex actress had no evidence for this and the worst comment was calling her braindead. She called us sick and unwell.

Her cheating husband said he wants to punch us in the face.

Loads of articles were written about the vile trolls and they took what the influencer said at face value without any fact checking.

Imagine if on tattle we were talking about punching them in the face?! The double standards are shocking. But he's held up as a hero or something? They're often worse than anything posted here!

We're far more strict than the main user generated websites so they have to lie and deceive about what's here.

If someone here was even to joke about punching an influencer they'd probably get at least a few days ban if not permanent if they'd been warned before. Mods don't have time to keep giving warnings, if you keep causing us headaches you will get a ban.

Influencers shout all the time about closing down a site that talks about public figures who sell their private life where the users are a disillusioned with social media. But they say nothing on the neo nazi, doxxing, terrorist, dark web etc siges. Presumably those are all fine? But shut down the site that's cirtical of someone's jeans , that really oversteps the mark.

Tattle isn't going anywhere, but even if it did another place would pop up. It didn't invent the little people snarking at public figures - ancient Romans and Greeks were doing the same thousands of years ago. It's a healthy part of society.

Influencers are so ignorantly shortsighted, it's proper cringe.