I turned off 3 mins into her vlog when she said that 'karma had been good to them' for getting pregnant so quickly. What a F up thing to say? It took me years to get pregnant - was that the result of 'bad karma'. Honestly, i used to really like her but last 6 months i've really gone off and today was the straw that broke the camels back for me.
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not Also, she currently has over 900 videos on her YouTube catalogue, all of which give her some AdSense money without her even lifting her finger. I know that is not her main source of income but saying that she will be earning zero during her mat leave is just not true. I'm sure that Mark will also be posting tons of baby gear on Instagram and her blog (all with affiliate links, of course) without them actually having to produce the content. I guess this is all pocket money to them but it's still much more than zero.
This is one of the biggest turn-offs with Anna, the constant white lies she tells to give an impression of being a regular 30-something like her viewers – while at the same time claiming to be honest and transparent. It's totally okay that she can drastically cut back on her work and still make decent wages. But the constant lying makes her look dishonest and only highlights the fact that she lives a totally different life than the rest of us.
Shutterbug99
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I don't have an issue with Anna keeping things under wraps. I am a private person myself, so I actually completely understand this. The problem is that she actively lies in order to keep her secrets. She has done this a few times now, saying things like it is her 'dream to one day have a garden,' when she has just completed on a house with a large garden; or saying she has her period and talking about kids like they are very very far off in the future, when she is, in fact, pregnant. It's not that she's trying to keep things private that's the problem, it's that she actually seems to take pleasure in deceiving her audience. I mean, nobody ever asked her if it was her dream to one day have a garden. Nobody asked her if she had her freakin' period. She could say nothing on these issues - but she seems to like lying. That's the problem.
As for negative feedback. Anna does not do negative feedback. Somebody recently pointed out that her desk was facing the wrong way and she deleted the comment! She wants Good Vibes Only!
I think she's become pretty insufferable.
You know, I used to be a big fan of Anna - she seemed nice, relatable and I liked her style (Whistles-era). My husband and I also quite liked watching her travel vlogs for inspiration. But you know what, I think I'm fully out. I am sick to the back teeth of 'moment', 'over-sized', beige agogo, Mark, rust coloured eye-shadow, fake-relatability, constant giggling over nothing and now her pregnancy.
ETA: Oh and Hello Fresh, and those completely ridiculous, utterly nobbish, eyebrows.
ETA: Oh and Hello Fresh, and those completely ridiculous, utterly nobbish, eyebrows.
Shutterbug99
VIP Member
The person who left this comment on Anna's latest video speaks for us all!
buffalobarbie
Active member
lol, looks like Anna needs to ask Mark to change her passwords. Embarrassing.
meowmeowbeans
VIP Member
If a photographer took a photo of me like this, I would fire him. Anna looks drab, lifeless, and as big as a house. That sounds like a bitchy thing to say about a pregnant woman, but it's due to bad lighting, bad angles, and poor choice/understanding of lenses. There's taking a picture and shooting a portrait, and Mark clearly doesn't know the difference.
Anna’s “positive vibes” is what made me unsub/unfollow her. When Sarah Everard’s body was found, on their podcast she was sending “positive vibes to all women listening”. When she announced her pregnancy, she was sending “positive vibes to people struggling”.
For god’s sake woman, positive vibes is not the phrase to use in either of those circumstances. It’s a lazy, easy thing to say that allows her to say she did approach the subject if she faced any negative comments, without actually having to think of anything worthwhile.
So fake & patronising. I had an unfollow “moment”!
meowmeowbeans
VIP Member
What do you mean? He’s busy making the sun rise and set, maintaining the earth’s rotation, and governing the tides. And one day he might even build a birdhouse.
stinkytink
Chatty Member
If she isn’t lying she’s repeating herself. She’s lied about the last 3 major life changes that are related to and affect her work - Mark being employed by her, buying a house, and getting pregnant. I understand wanting to keep those things private, but lying in the interim is just gross. Perhaps don’t mention it or don’t directly lie about it until you are ready to tell? Or here’s a thought: truly be an organization guru and plan your content in advance much, much better so that there’s no need to lie.
Lying also undermines her credibility as an “influencer” because she doesn’t seem very genuine to me anymore. She seems harmless but she’s just as nefarious with the covert consumerism as every other influencer, and she doesn’t respect her audience’s intelligence.
Lying also undermines her credibility as an “influencer” because she doesn’t seem very genuine to me anymore. She seems harmless but she’s just as nefarious with the covert consumerism as every other influencer, and she doesn’t respect her audience’s intelligence.
CatCafe234
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On the whole ‘punished for having a baby’ issue, I just can’t help but feel it’s a massive sign of privilege that they’ve got to that age and never felt excluded by a brand ... I can’t believe that they’ve never realised that most brands sell themselves to a certain type of person who lives a certain type of lifestyle, and for a lot of higher-end brands their target market is young, slim (white ...) female professionals, and anyone who’s larger or pregnant is generally not the target market. Being surprised that your favourite brand of jeans only goes up to a 14/16 or whatever and then feeling shocked that you’re excluded when you can’t physically fit into them anymore just blows my mind. You’d think something like that might make them realise that they’ve been part of an industry that actively excludes anyone outside of a small group, but no - all we hear is how unfair it is for them.
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MoniC
Chatty Member
So Anna used hiding her pregnancy as reasoning for the lack of content and creativity, but now that it's out, where is the content? And I don't mean regurgitated stories on multiple platforms we keep seeing, she even had to ASK her followers about content for the newsletter, she'd rather let others do the work for her instead of missing out on the ad money. Fucking embarassing. What are these people doing all day? What is Mark doing? What is Anna doing apart from finding new rotten corners of the house to take selfies in? Actual legit question.
Tbh I feel like a dumbass for getting my Master's and working until way past midnight every night just to be paid barely over minimum wage when I see these two dimwits making more than I earn in a year within maybe a week. I could actually cry sometimes
Tbh I feel like a dumbass for getting my Master's and working until way past midnight every night just to be paid barely over minimum wage when I see these two dimwits making more than I earn in a year within maybe a week. I could actually cry sometimes
Shutterbug99
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I don't really know if it's the done thing to make a new thread when your own thread title has the most likes, but the last thread is at 54 pages, and I have some time, so here we are! Thanks to everyone who voted for my thread title, and sorry to those who were sickened by it, and now have to see it for the next while.
So, after months of Tattle speculation, an ever increasing boob situation, and even a melasma moment, it has been confirmed: Anna is with child!
Expect many more of these (see below) bump 'moments' over the next few months. I'm expecting a full nude bump photo shoot (featuring Mark, also nude) before Anna gives birth to Mark Isaac 'Fig' Newton Jnr.
So, after months of Tattle speculation, an ever increasing boob situation, and even a melasma moment, it has been confirmed: Anna is with child!
Expect many more of these (see below) bump 'moments' over the next few months. I'm expecting a full nude bump photo shoot (featuring Mark, also nude) before Anna gives birth to Mark Isaac 'Fig' Newton Jnr.
peppin
VIP Member
I want to divorce him and I haven't even met himIn Brazil we have a word to describe a man like this... broxante!
How do I say it in English?It’s a word to describe a man with 0% sex appeal
SachaStark
Well-known member
Absolutely agree.
At like, 6 weeks, she was noting down that they’d gone to the supermarket and bought everything she was “craving”, such as biscuits and fish fingers... is this not just fancying fish fingers for dinner, and wanting a packet of biscuits to have with your cup of tea?
I don’t know, it all seems a bit obsessive and disingenuous to me. I’ve been pregnant (disclaimer: I’ve never had a baby though, and I don’t know anything personally about how pregnancy feels post 11 weeks), and I didn’t even realise until I was gone 7 weeks. Surely a lot of what she’s talking about in the earliest weeks (boob stuff aside), is just ordinary, every day bodily fluctuations?
Like... who profoundly notices that they have “more saliva than usual”?!
At like, 6 weeks, she was noting down that they’d gone to the supermarket and bought everything she was “craving”, such as biscuits and fish fingers... is this not just fancying fish fingers for dinner, and wanting a packet of biscuits to have with your cup of tea?
I don’t know, it all seems a bit obsessive and disingenuous to me. I’ve been pregnant (disclaimer: I’ve never had a baby though, and I don’t know anything personally about how pregnancy feels post 11 weeks), and I didn’t even realise until I was gone 7 weeks. Surely a lot of what she’s talking about in the earliest weeks (boob stuff aside), is just ordinary, every day bodily fluctuations?
Like... who profoundly notices that they have “more saliva than usual”?!