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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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She actually blocked me. I only found out she posted it because of her snark on Reddit.
I'm not a fan of Alicia but I'm 99.9% sure the accounts sending her nasty comments belong to her or to someone in camp Papaya. 🤔 I can't see any of these accounts as they've already blocked me. BTW, my names J (Janette). Have we chatted before?
Janette 💜 we have never chatted before but I do follow you on Instagram. Thanks so much for reaching out
I'm sorry you are being harassed. It's really not ok that Alicia does that. She's a bully.
She’s a bully who is currently speaking at VidCon in Anaheim on a panel about being bullied. This woman is such a hypocrite and, I believe, must be stopped. She’s going to sit up there and boo hoo about people making rude comments about her size and tell her made up back story about being a fat kid (she wasn’t and, in fact, people from her school days have come forward in the sub saying she and her gang bullied them (the bigger kids) in school. I’m drafting a letter to the VidCon asking them to take more care when populating panels and choosing the creators they highlight.
Vidcon is awful. Panels at vidcon aren’t thoroughly checked at all! Creators I know in real life (personall) were on a panel years ago where one fellow panelist was freaking deadnamed by someone on the stage. They didn’t even apologize when called out, so this made me question the caliber of guests. They are not guaranteed to be high quality, referenced or even checked for problematic possibilities. Anyone can start a podcast, anyone can document their lives online, but not everyone will be good humans. When it’s a “look at me, look at me” type event, then of course the level of morality will drop. They all choose fame over humanity whenever given the chance.
Do you know if this happened before or after Viacom took it over?
Pre 2020.
Also sorry I'm a dummy. I deleted the screenshots of the stories. I should have blocked the names. I really hope AM's minions leave you alone.
I’m always amused by how quickly “Scott” jumps in to defend her; I think she uses his account to clap back at people.
She does for sure! When I followed the Reddit someone caught her forgetting to switch accounts. She was commenting on her own account from her own account as Scott. I had to step away from even observing her or her Reddit because it confused me so much 🤣
Yes! The ugly romper
OK, so if people comment that they don’t want to get “early access” to an overpriced, cheaply made fast fashion factory romper (that she didn’t personally make herself with her own hands, so you’re not calling out her talent or skill or worth) she attacks with telling you that nobody should love or date you, then blasts you publicly? So people who cannot afford $140, and do not want to support a company that has now switched their manufacturing out of Canada (and who are constantly sending stuff to the same shine people who all fly around nonstop and pollute the earth) are all supposed to like the garment? You didn’t attack her body, looks or worth. You called out a clothing garment. If people were more concerned about actual genocide, and the rights of trans kids, being stripped from them, as they were about being told, the romper is ugly , then we might have more freaking goodness happening in the world. I would say don’t engage with people like her. I blocked her about a year ago? Don’t delete your account, let her minions get in a tizzy about you not liking 3 metres of fabric, and let her show how ridiculous her priorities are.
All of this. I didn’t think she could possibly be any more vile.
Everything you said is so spot on. I get my comment was tottally unnecessary but I’m so sick of that squad. It’s been a day and I just wanted to say something. I’ve changed my user name hopefully that will help.
I am pretty pissed off (after looking at the instanavigation at her profile) that people are commenting how it’s unaffordable and she replies with payment plan stuff. During an economic crisis, where she’s making money doing nothing but pushing off vulnerable people with (likely) little (to no) financial literacy to buy stuff with her codes or her collab stuff, she’s coming out to look pretty villainous. Her assuming that people are poor because is they don’t know how to budget their money or that they should be making payment plans is so friggin dangerous and classist. In general people in Canada are poor, because they do not have generational wealth, they are immigrants, and have been robbed of opportunities that should be given to them but are not because of the racism in our country, or because they refused to do things that debase themselves, and take advantage of others, in order to make money.
She could have replied to people saying it’s too pricey with “I am doing a free giveaway if you want to take your chances with this” and even had more traffic to her page by forcing people to comment some stupid word on a post.
I also noticed that her husband replied back about a comment and basically told someone to stand in the middle of the highway? What is going on with this? I’m so glad I’m not following her anymore.
I haven’t gone to the S&T page in ages, but has she said any proceeds from sales are going to any type of LGBTQIA2S charity since she’s said she’s part of the community? This is pride month after all. It is a missed opportunity. Of course, she has friends that she wants to send stuff to, but she literally could have chosen only people in the LGBTQIA2S or Indigenous community (Indigenous History month too) for her PR.
Alicia and Scott are horrible, malicious people who deserve every nasty comment they spout onto others. “Self-love” with a double shot of vile nasty hateful spite. I do not for the life of me understand why more people are not calling Alicia and Scott out loudly. They are publicly disgusting humans with zero shame, zero remorse, zero soul. There is no self love in that human. There is no love in that relationship. They are toxic and miserable.
They are on a different level of toxic than Birdie, that’s forsure. Mean to the core and vindictive as hell.
Don’t apologize. She’s vile and mean as fuck. The username change is smart. The Fact that she feels the need to reply to so many nasty comments says SO much about her
Someone has even gone as far as finding a comment from 8 weeks ago on a WEDDING account that has a very small following commenting on a comment of mine saying “the rompers sold out though”. Makes me want to keep my mouth shut from here on out. You say something you’re either silenced or harassed.
Social media is SO toxic. And I just blogged about this the other day…about how if you dare to question anything about an influencer, the rabid Stans and follower armies come for you with all manner of belittling. It’s really weird. This has effectively shut me up for the most part as well.
Sorry this happened to you. It’ll go away. Humans are dumb.
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