Tattle In The Press

[Yel]

It's a really sad reflection of society that papers you'd think are at least half respectable publish articles dripping in deception and fake news.

If you have to lie to push your point then you've already lost.

There's certainly lots of interesting things to say around influencer culture, mental health (of followers and influencers) and monetizing your personal life but Sophie Halle-Richards this ain't it hun.

 

[Tabitha]

This is not the first ‘guru gossip’ forum I’ve used and it won’t be the last. What is a world without open discussion and criticism? We have influencers openly scamming their followers. Is pointing that out bullying and worse than them?

The only people who are against Tattle are the influencers whose reputation / scams are being damaged. Everyone else really doesn’t care that much. They’d be much better off convincing themselves that we’re all just jealous and lead miserable lives.

 

[Ennui]

How can you be a tattle whistleblower ffs it's a public forum not MI5

Imagine the documentary : A bloke known only as Cupcake69 talking to camera with a paper bag over his head.

 

[sittinginatincan]

I don't know if it's been mentioned already, however this site is way more than these "influencers" there are threads on every day life, real human issues, the stuff we go through and I've seen nothing but kindness and support. People seem to forget that.

Tattle isn't really different to gossip offline, people have their opinions/thoughts on things behind closed doors, the only difference is they are "typed" on here. It's also human nature to be curious about other humans. We are very privileged to be living in a society where we can freely express our thoughts without being shut down...access to socials being blocked...you see where I'm getting at there...

As for journo (write ups) acting holier than thou, is it not part of their MO to dissect the lives of individuals in the public eye? How can they berate others for the same thing they have done themselves for years? Pot. Kettle.

Some choose to live their lives in the public arena, some not, and guess what? People will like you or dislike you for whatever reason they may see fit, and there is nothing you can do about it, you can make someone else's opinion of you an issue only if you let it. Just dust the dirt of your shoulders and crack on!

Xx

 

[Mark81]

Influencer culture is the wild west. They aren't held to account over anything and can spout and promote whatever they like. How about they write an article on the lack of transparency and authenticity in social media Influencers.

I've never once thought I was friends with anyone I follow. I'll just call out bullshit or narratives that don't make sense.

Its a stupid shallow article completely lacking in critical thinking

 

[Lechat]

I was just coming on here to mention the tweets by Ash Sarkar. I think she’s spot on to be honest. It’s really interesting that we have started 2022 with an outpouring of criticism of influencer culture thanks to Elle Darby and Mollie Mae. Maybe the scales are finally starting to fall from peoples eyes about the whole thing??

 

[Copacapybara]

Where is the safety net for all the vulnerable people the influencers, influence with their fake lives.

and don’t get me started on the children’s who’s lives are exposed for content!

I want to see that documentary…so people can open their eyes a world where you don’t need Tattle is the world I want to live in - until then we need to keep exposing the truth about influencers!

That’s a really good point, it’s a wholly unregulated industry and that rarely goes to good places…

Re: Tattle, there are very few oldschool talky forums and I enjoy the variety and articulate posters. You judge and connect based on personality not on doctored selfies, which is a nice antidote to the rest of social media. It’s nothing like as bad as the awful, illiterate, vicious stuff I see on Facebook.

Public figures are in aspects forced upon us and can do a lot of harm in terms of body image, shilling products, exploiting their kids etc.I think it’s reasonable, even healthy, to be able to criticize them.

There are some threads I don’t like, and I don’t like criticising people based on appearance, but the solution is to simply not post on those kinds of threads, much like IRL really, where people say exactly the same range of things.

On the other side there are tons of supportive threads and people are usually kind to anyone here who is going through a bad time. It’s also possible to disagree with more nuance and good feeling.

I think a lot of the criticism has aspects of misogyny, the idea that a predominantly female discussion site must be trivial, or that social issues aren’t legitimate as a topic of conversation.

 

[Phil Anne Throw Pee]

A 'newspaper' that employs embittered fat, vile hag Jan Moir, who takes pleasure in shitting on the graves of freshly dead popstars (Stephen Gateley) criticising a website that calls out influencers for their greed. The irony is palpable.

Perhaps they might like to take a trip to Reddit to see some rape threats. Mind you, that's probably fine because it's mainly not WIMMUN innit?

 

[Yel]

Edit, let's not advertise this article all over tattle and give it the attention and clicks they want. It adds nothing new. Some posts have been moved here.

Hope that make sense, but then again mods don't exist and we don't spent a huge amount of time doing a mostly thankless task

 

[Jelly Bean]

Hypocritical Mail at it again. After articles about how awful Tattle is they have yet again lifted a story straight from here.
Posters here were talking about who BBC presenter Helen Skelton's husband has left her for (HS has a 6 week old baby), and the DM have copied it wholesale and can 'exclusively reveal' the story

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Notice how all the replies on the times socials is pretty scathing (or spam) about influencers. They exist in a total bubble and are so detached from reality.

They're going to be in for a very rude awakening when regulations catch up and they realise it's them that will be the loosers.

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These people need to stop listening to their few followers who shower them with praise because they dream of being an influencer and all the freebies and easy money it entails.

Can the MPs also investigate the young women tens of thousands of pounds in debt, ravaged by eating disorders, and other mental health issues because of influencers? Imagine there’s likely a lot more of them.

ETA - jealous that they’re making money? As opposed to the rest of us who what, subside on air? Live off the earth? Everyone has to make money we just choose to acquire a skill set and not exploit other people’s insecurities!

 

[Deeznutslol]

All of these articles about tattle never cease to baffle me tbh. Abuse of celebrities and public figures on social media happens constantly, yet it’s rarely reported on. Just today Spurs supporters (being the utterly vitriolic and toxic fanbase that we are) abused one of our own players so hard on social media after a poor performance that he’s actually fully deleted both twitter and insta. Not seeing any news articles calling out twitter or instagram for allowing it on their platform though!
Let’s face it, the only reason tattle gets so much attention is because it’s seen as a forum for bitchy women. That’s it.

 

[FrannyGallops]

I think it’s a bit off how everyone with a beef is trying to use the recent death of the MP to further their own ends, from fellow MP’s to sodding influencers. David Amess’ murderer had no known social media presence, as far as anyone is aware at the moment, so what that has to do with a bunch of people gossiping about idiots who choose to put every aspect of themselves online, I’ll never know.

Aside from that, are they seriously suggesting that someone on Tattle who bitches about someone on IG is in the same category as someone who sends death threats to people on Twitter? Give me a fucking break. It’s ironic that someone on Twitter thinks that Tattle is ‘one of the most toxic places on the internet’. Twitter is an absolute cesspit. It’s got everything from anonymous beggars to people getting cancelled for innocuous remarks, to death threats and freely available hardcore porn.

 

[welp]

I hadn’t even thought about why she registered, 100% she has been commenting here . Any new accounts that seem to be fishing for gossip?

heh, I remember Alice Evans, in one of her many tattle rants on twitter, screenshotting messages from her thread that showed her having a quote and like option, clearly proving that she had registered too. They all can't help themselves.

 

[Jelly Bean]

I think as well a lot of the bile in these articles is that Helen will not engage with them. Downright misogyny tbh. I'm amazed they haven't suggested Helen is a man yet.
They say more and more ridiculous things hoping to draw her out I'm sure. How dare she refuse to talk to The Guardian.
And the terminology eg Helen 'crowed' in her response here - well I read the post and there was no 'crowing', just a factual account of the issue and how it was dealt with.

(And as for the 10% of posts accusing people of bad parenting - as @Veronicaaa pointed out it is amazing it is that low. A casual glance at the Inghams or Saccone Jolie's, family YTers, who make their entire incredibly profitable living from exposing their small children, is horrifying. The Guardian should maybe investigate that phenomenon instead).

 

[ProphecyGirl]

What we say is no different to what people comment on the DailyFail anyway.. in fact some of the comments on there are much worse!!!

 

[Ennui]

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... "Members of the cloth?" I know people frequently say stuff like "don't they have anything better to do than post there?" but if I were a vicar I probably would have, lol

I always suspected the Archbishop of Canterbury was nose deep in Secret Celeb Gossip and the Katie Price threads.
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Jesus, these pathetic cunts post every fart on social media and then act surprised when people have the audacity to fucking comment. No wonder most of them can't work a standard 9-5, they're pig thick self entitled twats.

I vote for you to be Tattle spokeswoman to say this next time there's a feature on Radio 4.

 

[L3moning]

They're also missing an important fact. Not every member of this forum is a woman.

 

[Gamu]

Sometimes you hear one thing about someone that turns you off them for ever. My mum read an interview with David B in the 90s and it went along the lines of he bullied a boy at school or used him in his comedy to illustrate a dick head and in later years at one of his gigs he saw the boy's sister who said " you didn't know at the time our mum was dying of cancer" and he said " we did know" she, my mum, never forgot as it made her hate him for ever.

 

[Deeznutslol]

WTF is on that anti-bullying wall? Is it every online username that has pissed them off?

Nah it was worse than that.
It was a wall full of the usernames of their followers who were ‘standing up against bullying’, in order to get them to write your name on there you had to send them a big gift on tiktok live . And people actually used to do it.