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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Welcome to a new series where we uncover the lies of TheBirdsPapaya, Sarah Nicole Landry. Let's start with her lie about Disney World. In 2022, Sarah discussed her trip to Disney World, claiming, "It was a whole almost 10 years where, financially, a trip like this was out of the books." Was she lying? You decide.
Sarah Nicole Landry and her family, with Shane Landry, took a lavish trip to Disney World in 2022. During that trip, Sarah posted this:
To me, it sounds like an exaggeration. Perhaps this exact style of trip, the on-site hotels, and 25 Dole Whips weren't in the books, but Disney has always been in Sarah's books. Since childhood, she has been going to Disney regularly. We have the receipts. It should also be noted that there is a good chance this 2022 Disney vacation was hosted, given her 2022-2026 track record of multiple yearly hosted Disney trips, cruises, and adventures. Sarah Nicole Landry is a Disney Canada spokesperson.
This is how Sarah manipulates; she plays with words. "A trip like this" could mean "this exact trip." In her mind, she's not lying. However, she makes one mistake. Saying a trip like this was not in the "books." Financially, Sarah has always been comfortable. Despite what she tells her followers. Sure, at times she hasn't had massive amounts of cash to spend on filler, Botox, and tacky clothing, but she lived with her upper-middle-class parents until she married at 20, and by 21, Sarah and her first husband owned a home. To be fair, they could have gone to Disney instead. Let's look at some of her financial milestones and trips to Disney, plus the privilege that allowed her to go.
In a 2022 blog post on www.thebirdspapaya.com, Sarah Nicole Landry wrote about the family's recent trip to Disney. In the post, she says the family booked the trip in early 2020, but it was delayed by two years because of COVID. From this, we can comfortably deduce that a Disney trip was in the books from late 2019 onward, as Sarah and Shame had the funds to book the lavish in-park Disney family vacation in early 2020.
FWIW, I vote that you keep the typo. It's better to spell her husband's name as "Shame", as he's entirely absent in her social media persona. 🤌🏼
To recap, the family took a trip to Disney World in August 2022. FINALLY. It must have been hard to go so long without a Disney vacation. It had been a whole month since the family was hosted on the inaugural cruise for Disney Wish. #hosted #freevacation
Sarah Nicole Landry could afford a trip to Disney from 2019 onward. She missed 2020 and 2021; I think we all did because of COVID. Sarah did manage a trip to Disney in late 2019. Could she have brought the kids? Sure! But she didn't. 2019 was a $$$ good year for thebirdspapaya INC
Back in 2018, could Shane and Sarah afford Disney? The answer is YES! Sarah was doing so well financially as an influencer that she could quit her full-time job as the managing editor at Forkly.
Sarah had spent years in this career: an entire 2 years and 10 months. Shane Landry was Sarah's boss. Allegedly, Shane met Sarah before she walked out on her first husband in November 2015.
Sarah started at Forkly (a culinary website and online magazine) in December 2015. Sarah had never had a full-time job before and had very few part-time jobs. Sarah hates cooking (her words) and prefers serving her children buttered noodles, low-effort Mom-style. Sarah has no post-secondary education and no editorial or video production skills. Sarah claims Concorse Media (which owned Forkly) hired her because she's a mom 🙄.
Sarah didn't even mention her blog in the interview, a blog that she claims she toiled away at; meanwhile, the blog had been dormant since 2012. Shane's good friend interviewed Sarah and immediately offered her the job; they liked her so much they didn't even interview anyone else. Princess Sarah wins again!
Believe it!
Back to Disney and the Birdspapayas ' financial ability to go. Could Shane and Sarah Landry afford to go? Yes. Shane and Sarah chose to have their wedding that year, a trip to Baja, Mexico, and countless other vacations.
Plus, Sarah had to pay for all those expensive facial treatments, plus her hair and shopping. Just kidding, that was all free. Sarah loves asking small businesses for freebies.
Allegedly. ArtMed Management provided TheBirdsPapaya with tens of thousands of dollars' worth of treatments, injectables, and services in exchange for promotion (DM message 2023). In late 2018, TheBirdsPapaya claimed to stop getting injectables other than the occasional Botox injection for migraines. Please post any images of her lips that prove otherwise.
She also allegedly indulged in body-tightening treatments and Fraxel to reduce stretch marks. In 2023, she had Sofwave, claiming it was a laser facial, and multiple laser facelifts at Radford Salon (an email from Radford staff was sent to a person on Reddit)
But yes, she could afford Disney.
2017, could Sarah Nicole Landry afford Disney? Yes, and so she went.
In 2016, Sarah didn't go to Disney. Instead, her parents helped. They bought her a house back; she had many, many dinners out with girlfriends, weekend vacations, hair appointments, nails, and lashes. Perhaps she could have afforded Disney if she budgeted differently.
2015, the whole family went to Disney! She dumped her husband 3 months later.
2014, the whole family went to Disney! Forehead kisses!
2013, the whole family went to Disney!
GOSH, in 2022 she made her previous Disney trips sound so poor: "sleeping on friends' sofas, cheap hotels." I think she meant staying at her rich aunt's house, complete with a pool.
In 2012, Sarah and her then-husband didn't make it to Disney. They did buy a brand-new house! Not bad for a 27-year-old. Sarah also shopped, got new tattoos, went out at night with friends, had her hair done many times, decorated her new house, and had time to blog about that. There were galas to attend, a trip to Chicago, and weekends at the cottage.