She has temporarily deactivated Yarli Creative. But still using her 50 other instagram accountsStarted following last week on insta and looks like I’m blocked
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Genuine question! What should Maddy do to make things better? Like, what should her next steps be? I’ve got no skin in this game but for some reason I just feel uneasy about Maddy’s situation. When I was first going to uni, I had severe mental health issues and the only way I knew how to deal with things like tasks and assignments was to avoid them. This made it so much worse because then I’d receive a fail and I would even avoid looking at that. Everything ended up piling on and I would have panic attacks. I dunno, I kind of feel like that’s what she is trying to explain. She avoids things that stress her out rather than dealing with them. She needs to get herself out of that cycle.
The copying, and the gaslighting (those messages between her and that poor person trying to get a refund omg!! Soooo bad), and the manipulation, really really poor form. But I think the consequences have been pretty bad for her already and I’m wondering if anyone sees a way out of this for her? Like, what would make this situation better?
The copying, and the gaslighting (those messages between her and that poor person trying to get a refund omg!! Soooo bad), and the manipulation, really really poor form. But I think the consequences have been pretty bad for her already and I’m wondering if anyone sees a way out of this for her? Like, what would make this situation better?
She needs to start by providing proof of every Go Fund Me account she has set up or had a stake in.
Proof of where every cent has gone, even if it’s been spent by her, people to need to know and the air needs to be cleared.
She has said on numerous occasions when she was called out in the past they she hired someone to assist her with tasks within her business, this clearly never happened.
Refunds for all orders made by DM & through her pages, or have the products sent and proof of postage issued out.
If she is going to launch new releases or products perhaps they need to be on a pre-order basis capped at a number that she can manage- not be greedy for the cash to flow in, than get overwhelmed and not produce the orders.
As for the mental health / anxiety issues - I have no clue, I’m not up to speed on this, I have no idea how she moves forward with that, although if she is well enough to hold down her day job, she has a good income coming in from that, maybe it’s best for her mental health to step away from Yarli, focus on her day job and family, it could do wonders not having the stress of her business looming.
Social media is a tough place, if you can’t be honest and upfront, you will get hated on, she has not been transparent one single bit from what I have seen, I also do not have stake in her either way, but seeing her mob & allies hand over money for causes & not a single shred of evidence where the money has gone makes me hesitant to support businesses & fundraisers like hers.
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I’m also aware it’s not just Yarli, the other chick with the “bus” Kinnita? She appears untrustworthy too, had the fund up for the community bus, didn’t post she had purchased it, until people called them out, all of a sudden she did buy a bus, didn’t insure it, apparently had her kids and family in and it was crashed, anyone can make up lies, there was no receipt or proof the bus existed, anyone can take a photo inside a random bus, where are the rego papers, receipt, police report on the crash, quote for repairs? If it was legit and above board surely people would have helped get it back on the road?
Yep. All of this. I don’t feel sorry for Maddi at all. I feel sorry for the people who donated money to a cause that’s no clear. For the people who were to be helped that still do not have the help. I don’t think she should launch new products while in the middle of this mess sorting out her previous orders.
Yeah look, I’m a pretty empathetic person, but fraud is fraud. There’s patterned behaviour here, so there’s been plenty of opportunities for her to do better.
I would suggest taking her business off social media and selling pre-made items at stalls or markets. That transaction is water tight - make the thing, find a buyer, take their money, hand over the item. Simple.
Mental health problems or not, you simply cannot take money from people and then not provide the goods or services as promised.
I feel sorry for the mob that are grass roots and put out mutual aids to help, put their own money towards their community to help and have to resort to putting out mutual aids/GFM because their is no other option!
The genuine creators, whether it’s in the arts, homewares, jewellery, clothing or just creating to spread awareness. The ones that don’t have the access to navigate brand deals like she has done. They don’t have the privilege like she or Kenita has. They hustle but continue to do it because it’s for our people!
I have absolutely no empathy for her. She holds an incredible job with a great wage. Yarli creative was a cash cow for her and at first I thought her partner wasn’t aware of what she was doing. Now, after reflection, I do believe he knew and was happy to profit of our culture too.
Ohhhh I’m back! Ok soooo re the period undies GFM if she’s looking at having a prototype made of something that already exists that’s 100% a business decision not a fundraising one (she wanted to make $$$ from this pursuit. Someone pointed out it should have been a crowd funding business thing rather than a fundraising campaign. The whole “educating” community girls, women and people who menstruate thing was totally racist. See screenshot from another blak artist who has been speaking on the Yarli sitch.
Also she was the recipient of a $10K Covid business grant so more money lining her barely-blak pockets.
I 100%reckon she’s waiting for the heat to die down and will be back happy as Larry like nothing happened.
as for Kenita she has not shown one single receipt for the $30K+. And only someone who has something to hide refuses to show their receipts. If you didn’t have anything to hide you would be straight up “Omg here is all the proof, 100% of the donated money went here here here and here is ALL the proof.” I mean as business women running (tit-house) businesses surely they would know how to keep records of things, no? Also conveniently, after the alleged bus crash back in FEBRUARY (didn’t feel the need to mention that until MAY some three months later), Kenita went and purchased herself an $11K wide format printer. Not a cheap purchase… Apparently she got a business loan for that so those receipts should be easily accessible to show she didn’t fraudulently use GFM funds for hefty business purchases.
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Holy heck, this just gets bigger and bigger doesn’t it!
How timely for an 11k printer to rock up, business loan would be easy as to prove, or the shop usually give you a receipt for a purchase like that. This is all sickening.
As mentioned above, fraud is fraud, let’s call It what it is.
Is Yarli the next Christopher Skase
Michelle Caddick on a smaller scale.Her family surely can’t condone this.
Can only hope enough complaints have been lodged with the ACCc for an investigation to be launched!Holy heck, this just gets bigger and bigger doesn’t it!
How timely for an 11k printer to rock up, business loan would be easy as to prove, or the shop usually give you a receipt for a purchase like that. This is all sickening.
As mentioned above, fraud is fraud, let’s call It what it is.
Is Yarli the next Christopher Skase
Her family surely can’t condone this.
I really hope some people report her
yes big yarns in community about that and how she didn’t even engage with any community members to get information about needs.
There are other orgs targeting period poverty and they are not for profit, Yarli wanted to make profit of marginalised mob when she has always been ashamed and hidden the fact that she is even Aboriginal until it became ‘on trend’ during BLM movement.
So disgusting!!
Oh and I misspoke about the Kenita printer. It wasnt $11k it was $17k - see DM’s I’ve come across.
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Ok Maddison.
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I’m sure it would have a negative impact on your mental health if you spent your life lying and defrauding people constantly. She hasn’t learnt anything from other times she’s been caught out, this will be no different.
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Sorry are you trying to say I’m Maddison? Lol no. I’ve only been following this situation for a few days and from what I have seen I just thought the backlash was a bit disproportionate but I really don’t know the whole story. I just hope that there is a way out of this whole thing for her because of course people deserve consequences for their actions but surely everyone deserves the chance to make amends as well?
Anyway, thank you to those who answered my question!
Haha duck, got a loan of the go fund me cash?
Maddy knows EXACTLY what she was doing.
Ripping off people in the name of mob.
She deserves the public hanging she’s copping. Nothing will make this better.
It’s not incompetence when someone repeatedly sets up gofundmes and doesn’t pay the money where it’s supposed to go.
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Nope she had chances and keeps doing the same things over and over and manipulates people with threats of self harm when she gets caught out. Go check out the blak.it.tea.blak Insta it shows how she tries to lie and manipulate people and gets hostile .
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Not to mention the 3 blak owned businesses that she went after on her publicly shared stories.
IG handles:
Dreamtime_aroha
Wurrumay_collective
Tarriseking_artist
instead of taking accountability, she twisted the narrative and publicly defamed them.
She also attempted to have her followers go after another Aboriginal woman ashley.maree.x with a twisted version of events from a comment made over 2 years ago!
And let it be known that Yarli is STILL ACTIVE on social media messaging people.
This is the thing it’s much more complicated that a few missed orders people have been publicly defamed for speaking out. They should be thanked because due to it people are getting refunds (not confirmed)
Maddi is doing a Deni with the “taking a break from social media” when they have been called out. Both still posting……
Let’s remember she has multiple accounts so while she is posting “in hospital” on “suicide watch” she’s also still online under her other accounts.
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Yes I’ve seen a fair bit of what’s been happening with the other accounts too. She’s threatening and begging and just carrying on. Then she tries to out whoever is running the blak tea page. She’s desperate. She doesn’t want this out there because she is absolutely ducked when she can’t return the donated money or people’s money they paid for goods and services. ATO might need to take a look too.