Talk to me about Tattle Life

If you don't like it, maybe just don't read it?

The mumsnet thread is funny and highlights threads over here that I normally wouldn't read. I don't read any of the influencer threads, most of them I have never heard of. I stick to celebrity gossip mostly, although currently there is very little happening in the celeb world.

'Tattle is definitely a place where people say nasty horrible things just for the sake of it'... avoid, avoid..have you all read MN lately..!!!!
Dare I say a lot of posters with very detailed thoughts on what a bad bad place Tattle is...interesting (that's if you can really be interested in two very bitchy sites).

Thank you for the recommendation of the mumsnet threads which are hilarious- especially finding all the competitive under-eating posts!

They really can’t complain.

If they want to carry on getting freebies and sponsored content, then these are the punches they have to roll with. People will have an opinion and sometimes it won’t be nice. If you can’t hack it, get another job.

And while no one should be nasty about children, the parent shouldn’t be posting them to thousands of strangers. It’s the parent soley at fault there, they aren’t protecting their child.

Honestly, it was the other influencers and bloggers that made me jack it in in the end. Not being mentioned on tattle (although they were nicer about it me than some of the other influencers I knew were!). It’s all such bollocks, I just couldn’t be bothered with it anymore. It attracts some seriously odd people who can’t take any negative feedback without losing their minds.

If only there was a way to stop that…..scratching my head here…..

Oh yes! Stop posting yourself and your children online if you can’t take any negative comments. Not everyone is going to like you in life. I am sure people at work slag me off behind my back. If I put myself on line, I’d expect it to happen there too. It’s not rocket science.

Or, they could take their own advice, “if you don’t like me, don’t follow me.” Well, if you know there is a gossip forum, don’t read it.

A whole heap of them bleat on about online safety as well (when they are paid to do it for an ad). Keeping their children away from social media - while simultaneously posting pictures and videos of them on social media. Is it any wonder they attract criticism?

It really depends. They have unveiled a lot of scammy influencers, but also have hideous threads attacking cancer youtubers - really mixed bag and probably one of those things whose toxicity you don't want to be chronically exposed to.

Which thread is that?

I found it to be vile, an echo chamber where people are egging each other on. Even kids are slagged off. If they were just calling out things like influencers using their kids for fame I’d be like ok, but they criticise people looks/weight/kids/everything is fair game

I wish the Meghan haters from here would all just fuck off over there. They’ve completely taken over the RF board and it’s unusable to anyone who doesn’t want to slag Meghan off. Some of them literally post Meghan hate from morning til night. It’s such a strange board now.

It’s different from Mumsnet in that no one ever disagrees with each other. They join a thread to rip the shit out of whoever the subject is and they have that hatred in common.

So they seem supportive of each other rather than arguing like we do on here. It’s mutual stroking (there’s a cruder expression for this).

I would love to know what would happen if some of the (for example) Meghan supporters from here managed to infiltrate their Meghan hate thread and disagree with them in the same way that happens on Mumsnet. Because you never see a dissenting voice. Do they get banned?

I can’t post on there as my account needs verifying and it doesn’t work. Secret Celebrity gossip threads are my favourite. Really funny and random. The mumsnet one makes me laugh. I don’t really follow any influencers except the Jake Quickenden one as he blocked me for commenting he shouldn’t have a pic of his naked son in the bath on insta 🙄 With all forums there’s a lot of supportive comments and toxic ones. Reddit and X are horrendous so I’ve never got why the focus is on Tattle.

Yes that the ones. Those poor children and as you say, they’re constantly told they’re living their best life and how lucky they are. It’s abuse and neglect in plain sight. 😞

Ha, I was waiting for a post about this person to pop up. Big Teefs gets around.

Tattle is quite a decent forum as it’s one of the only ones that exist now that doesn’t have insane levels of censorship.

Yes, of course some of the posts can be quite cutting and there’s the odd thread which may be nastier than others, but on the whole it’s quite a nice community with a lot of humour and a decent bit of advice. The behaviour on Mumsnet is far, far worse in my opinion.

I don’t go onto the Influencer threads. I assume this is where the bad reputation comes from. But the most controversial stuff I’ve seen there is probably from the Harry and Meghan threads - which have actually exposed a few things over the years.

I think I started there with the Phillip Schofield situation when he first came out. Every single detail (and more) was posted there many years before his eventual downfall.

I joined because there was a time you couldn’t say anything negative about JM without it being deleted. Tattle did good work showing her up for what she is.

@DontGoJasonWaterfalls OK. I've seen a pretty vulnerable person trolled quite badly there

Any MNer I've seen referenced by name in a negative way on tattle has generally been pretty shit to people on here, or is an obvious troll. Mumsnet is far nastier than Tattle, it just disguises it under passive aggressive attitudes and undeserved superiority.

It's not just that, they're pretty nasty about some people. Dressing bullying up as 'calling people out' doesn't stop it being bullying, anymore than does some people finding some cruel remarks funny

I don't post but often read various threads including the Mumsnet one. They're absolutely spot on; people just dislike them because they call out all the teeny tiny Mumsnet waifs with 6ft rugby player hollow leg sons and they're able to recognise bullshit on here far better than most MN members or mods can.

Yes, and didn’t Clemmie Hooper reveal herself on there a few years back?