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Hello new Lemmy friends!

Word on the street tells us our community is regularly making it the all page. While this is very cool news to hear, we can see how the sudden emergence of our posts in your feed might feel jarring and probably raises some questions. And also how, without knowing the backstory, our community might appear less than virtuous, so here’s a very brief introduction which hopefully will clear a few things up.

The woman we’re discussing is a body positive influencer and media personality who has gained fame and wealth by lying, manipulating, exploiting her children for content, plagiarizing BIPOC creators and blaming her BIPOC content editor for it (thereby ruining her career), among other things. Her fraudulent behavior is no different (I’d argue worse) from the likes of Jay Shetty (google him if you don’t know who he is or what he did). She’s the latest in a long line of grifting influencers who are abusing their power, taking advantage of their position and exploiting their followers. The difference is that she’s Canadian. Our laws around social media and advertising aren’t as clear (and where they are she’s disobeyed them), add to that, our mainstream media has protected her from those who’ve tried to expose her grift and silenced/intimidated anyone who’s tried to speak out.

Our Reddit sub was taken down due to reports of copyright infringement, which is unfounded and categorically untrue as no one ever tried to steal her work and pass it off as their own. The mods have made an appeal. While at first glance it may seem like we’re just “shitting on her” the sub has been more devoted to investigation and posting proof of her lies than just bitching for the sake of bitching. The reality is that she’s hurt, manipulated and let down a lot of people. She stole intellectual property and employment, caused mental distress and has repeatedly told lies to boost engagement and profit off her audience, so people are understandably upset that their voices are being silenced.

We’re grateful to have been welcomed so kindly by so many of you, and to those sticking around to watch the drama unfold, we’re glad to have you!

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I'm curious about everyone's thoughts on this. Do we think it will affect Canadian influencers? Maybe not yet, but I'd like to believe it's only a matter of time before a similar law finds its way up north.. and oh man, that day will be DELICIOUS.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How do you endore something like this when I could buy some monero or whatever the current "privacy" coin is and buy engagement from some random bot farm in some 3rd or 2nd world country?

[–] OddQuality@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone answered below, but in case you don't see it--this statute specifically includes instances where the creator knew, or should have known, that increased numbers were fake. So, even if someone is able to buy 25k followers with crypto anonymously, a case could be made that such a sudden increase of thousands of new followers/views/comments/etc for no discernable reason is suspicious enough that the person in control of the account should have known it isn't organic and taken steps to rectify the situation.

The particular influencer this sub is about is one of those people who purchases new followers in the tens of thousands daily. She is in egregious violation, whether or not the receipt is in her actual name.

[–] MoonChild@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So Birdie’s additional 6,600 followers yesterday should be questioned under the new rules. Is that correct?

[–] OddQuality@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

I'd certainly like to hear her try to explain to the FTC how her actions on social media aren't deceptive. In fact, I'd pay good money to watch it on TV lol

[–] facialSwelling@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MoonChild@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this her explanation? Her old videos are going viral? How does that happen? Have people maybe seen them on other sites?

[–] facialSwelling@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MoonChild@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

That was my first thought too!