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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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Is this family ever not sitting on the sofa? I get having relaxing time (I love relaxing and sitting lol) but they don’t do much to require needing valuable time to relax lol. Like they never seem to go for walks, take L to do things or go do anything errands wise that isn’t the mall for no reason.
Their whole life seems to just be L twirling around the living room infront of the always on tv.
I get such second-hand embarrassment seeing Shane always lounging and never doing anything. I guess I'm just used to the always-present 'get up and go' mentality the dads in my family have always had, but like, don't you have anything you need to do around the house, for your family, anything? I have never seen a father sit down on the couch/on his phone as much as I have this man
They really do live a life of leisure. My fiancé works long hours all week and could easily just sit his ass on the sofa all weekend bc he earned it but no he always finds a chore or two to do, goes for walks, we do errands, etc. These two seem to have NOTHING to do ever. He definitely doesn’t scream “man of the house” no matter how much she’d love to claim otherwise because he wears a battery daddy shirt 🙄
Right! My husband can't sit down even though he busts his ass at 2 jobs, he still never stops doing things around the house or yard.
Literally. There’s SO many things they can take this kid to do. They have the money and the time, they just won’t. Even things that don’t cost money. Take her sledding. Make a snowman. Community ice rink. Walk in the arboretum. Or since they have all the money: Funvilla. Art factory. Peekaboo. Tiny town. Bowling. Swimming. Butterfly conservatory. Zoo. Aquarium. Museum. They are literally the laziest people in the world.
Ice skating is a good one especially this time of year, legit never have seen them take her skating and I’m sure she’d enjoy it too but I get the sense she’d enjoy a lot of things and her parents shield her from it all. They’re the LAZIEST parents I’ve ever seen. I can’t even call out just Sarah, it’s Shane too. I get the sense Sarah is embarrassed in public but she’s brought it on herself by being a fraud online 🤷🏻♀️
I’m going to be a first time parent in April and they’re showing me how NOT to be with my kid. I’m already looking forward to taking her for walks and to the library and to the park, etc.
Yep! When she’s not jet setting across the globe on free trips she’s sitting her lazy ass on the couch filming her poor sheltered daughter sing Disney songs. That poor poor kid man
I feel so bad for her. And Shane seems okay with it too. Terrible parents.
Interesting point about Sarah not liking being in public out and about in her community.
It’s not unusual for influencers to be very different people in public. I know some that are so quiet and reserved compared to their IG personas. The added layer here though is all of her filtering. In public people will see her as her actual self which doesn’t match her filtered self and the whole charade falls apart. Her entire sales pitch is body positivity and a groundswell of regular people calling that out because of crossing paths with her would end the gravy train.
People going to her speaking events,etc have drank the kool-aid, they’re safe for her to be around. Casual ‘Bird-watchers’, not so much.
Congratulations!! At the very least their crap parenting is a good lesson on what not to do!
Thank you so much 🩷 it’s the one thing she’s good for, showing me how to not be a parent.
You’ll be a great mom 💜 congratulations
Thank you so much 🩷