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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!
**all posts are alleged.
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-Minor's Right to Privacy: No posts about the children whatsoever. No mention of full names and no photos. Minors must be completely removed from all photos/videos. No exceptions. This goes for ANY child. No just TBP's.
-No snarking on the character or appearance of any of the children. This is a site dedicated to Sarah Landry.
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- Posting an individual's phone number or address on the internet.
- Releasing information about an individual's family, place of employment, or other private documents.
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Sarah uses that poor kid.
It’s abuse. Nobody in her circle or family speaking up for the sake of a child and it’s pretty disgusting. Every child deserves to have their privacy and their childhood protected.
I actually have some respect for that neighbour woman that we have no idea what her kids look like but she loses some of that respect in that she doesn’t speak up for L and tell Sarah what a danger she is to that young girl. If you have 2.5 million people watching you, statistically there’s got be a fair few nutters amongst that lot. Suppose she needs to ride the Landry coattails otherwise no one would be watching her acclimatise crap.
I used to like neighbour (for the first few months?) but I blocked her when my cousin dmd her concerned for L, and neughbour said she will never blame parents who film and post their kids because it’s the gross people we should worry about, not that the kids get posted (she was defending S, and her “right” to post her minor kids). Respect from me was gone right when she told me and showed me the dm. Of course it’s the gross people that we have to worry about , but if kids are not posted online, then that won’t happen. And also neighbour has posted stuff with L. And she also always boasted to “stay off of my page if you don’t want to protect trans kids/don’t support abortion”, but S never says anything about protecting trans kids or abortion. She also in the past said, that people with platforms should be saying some thing and people who stay silent are in the wrong. But what about SNL? Would she have stayed friends with S if there was nothing to gain financially? Probably not. Money and “small fame” ruins everyone and skews our morals. I always HOPE that people in the circle and especially SNL will snap out if it because no kid deserves this- but neighbour and those around her should know better and advocate for the kid. Would they lose their hello fresh and whatever brand deals they push? Likely. But a kid would be safer. I did used to feel the same way that you did too about neighbour though, so I get it.
Well said.
Even if she did I doubt Sarah would listen as she’s that selfish.