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Insta-Mum Drama

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rosybell · 06/11/2019 17:30

Is there already a thread about the instamum dramas involving MoD today?

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Tooearlyforcrackers · 10/11/2019 08:05

I believe FOD when he says he’ll be back tomorrow doing what he does.

MarshaBradyo · 10/11/2019 08:07

I was hoping he meant in general another day etc shame it could be the next ad.

Tooearlyforcrackers · 10/11/2019 08:17

A lot of the criticism directed at them was about the sly advertising and not respecting the children’s privacy. That’s part of the reason why the online criticism kept coming and coming. Neither of them really responded to this either explicitly nor when undercover 🕵🏻‍♂️ and only MOD made changes to how she posted on her Instagram account. FOD seems to have made it clear that he’s not going to change what he does regardless of the impact it had on Clemmie. So here we are. He’s rolled the dog out for likes and has said he’ll be back again doing what he does. He’s looked wrecked for a long time before this blew up.

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MarshaBradyo · 10/11/2019 08:23

True he does have a wrecked look in general, first time I’ve watched his stories, he looked esp ill can’t be sure though.

Oh I still agree it’s a shame the twins will be wheeled out for more ads.

Sagradafamiliar · 10/11/2019 08:26

Maybe he looks like shit because he did know but didn't think they'd get busted? God knows, it's all cloak and dagger.

mustangsly · 10/11/2019 08:31

We'll never know for sure if he was aware. It's just another layer of bullshit.

VignetteStonemoss · 10/11/2019 08:32

I think he probably knew that she had the Tattle account and the reasoning behind having that account. However, he probably didn't realise what she was actually saying on there or the extent of it. If he does look stressed by it then I would imagine it's more to do with the money and perks they're going to be losing rather than because he actually cares what she's been saying about him and others.

porkpiepat · 10/11/2019 08:34

He threw such a major hissyfit about being called a "bit of a wanker" on here I just can't imagine him giving his wife the green light to call him a "grade A twat" online, his ego is far too sensitive to cope with that.

Tooearlyforcrackers · 10/11/2019 08:36

Yeah I think any anxiety is mainly around the potential loss of income.

LizzieSiddal · 10/11/2019 08:56

Does he have a day time job too?

MamaRaisingBoys · 10/11/2019 09:01

It annoyed me that he used the same line about her being attacked online and being driven to it as an excuse. Would have seemed more sincere if that hadn’t of been put in there. I do think he didn’t know though.

They make money off of their popularity and selling themselves so the flip side of that is criticism and if she can’t cope with that she shouldn’t be doing it. They’re actively trying to be famous and it’s no secret what sort of pressures that life entails, rightly or wrongly, so her reasoning for doing what she did is bizarre.

theWarOnPeace · 10/11/2019 09:20

The whole thing was so contrived, that was to be expected, but I was somehow hoping for better by the end of his post. When he added on, I’ll still be here tomorrow, doing what I do, I did a bit of an internal face-palm 🤦‍♀️ So he’s going to carry on pimping out those girls for money and likes, despite what it’s doing to their family? If he cared to actually read any of the Tattle threads, 99% of the ‘trolling’ is actually criticism about them selling their daughters’ privacy and childhoods. They’re all about undeclared ads, the fact that the ODd have lost themselves and only think about likes and content, and have become unrelatable. Those children are so overexposed it’s distrusting. Even me, someone who has never been a massive fan, can tell those twins apart. I know their middle names, and if I could be bother to tears through their posts and was a weirdo, could get their dates of birth easily. He’s shared private texts from his daughter, he’s shown them naked repeatedly, shown them on the potty, and shamed them in various ways. All to up his insta game. When Clemmie/Alice said he’d be nothing on Instagram without those kids, she was damn right. She also called him a gimp and a grade A twat, who isn’t as fun and jolly in real life. I think she was being herself for once when she said all of those things. This whole thing with their excuses - she started posting on Tattle about Cash Carraway months BEFORE there was even a MOD&FOD thread! She was the 9th poster on the first ever thread about them, so there weren’t “thousands” of posts slagging her off. There are now about 11 threads on there calling out their selling of their daughters, and how disingenuous and sneaky they are. They can’t argue against that, because it’s true!

Another note about Candice Braithwaite. I don’t like her and never have done, but MOD’s comments about her came from a place of white privilege, as she didn’t seem to understand the racist tone of her criticism of her. I don’t think Clemmie is very bright at all, and reading Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race went wrong at the time and she logged off for a bit when she was schooled on her racist comments. Added to that, Clemmie had CB on her show AFTER her racist critique on Tattle, showing her up as using black people as and when convenient, which is racist in itself. She used CB for ‘woke’ points, basically.

LizzieSiddal · 10/11/2019 09:31

When Clemmie/Alice said he’d be nothing on Instagram without those kids, she was damn right. She also called him a gimp and a grade A twat, who isn’t as fun and jolly in real life. I think she was being herself for once when she said all of those things.

My thoughts exactly.

They need to close down their accounts and get on with real life.

Bl00mingCactus · 10/11/2019 10:05

Thewar why are you following them to the extent you can tell their twins apart.Hmm You’re as complicit as they are.They only get exposure and ads because of the number of people following.

I don’t get this following people you then spend hours slating and going on sites made to do the same. It’s bonkers.

morningdread · 10/11/2019 10:15

OMG that gameshow she was in is like a 90s Love Island, I think I may have watched it originally.

BloggersBlog · 10/11/2019 10:16

Does he still pretend not to know the difference between the twins? Hardly dad of the year is he Hmm

SpiderCharlotte · 10/11/2019 10:16

Simon saying that he's seen first hand what '3 years of being attacked online does to a person' (I'm paraphrasing) just made me think then why be online? Why continue to do it? Then why do exactly the same to other people, supposedly friends?

I just don't think you can make excuses for this type of behaviour.

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 10/11/2019 10:17

When he added on, I’ll still be here tomorrow, doing what I do

The fucking height of arrogance

99% of the ‘trolling’ is actually criticism about them selling their daughters’ privacy and childhoods

FOD is now literally at the point where he DGAF about those girls’ long term consequences and is literally all “LALALA CANT HEAR YOU” now, which IMHO makes him the biggest tosser of them all

Another note about Candice Braithwaite. I don’t like her and never have done, but MOD’s comments about her came from a place of white privilege

Bang on - she’s tone deaf and desperate, DESPERATE to be part of the Dolly Alderton/Pandora Sykes orbit of smart, woke women who can inspire millennials.

Fat chance of that now.

SpiderCharlotte · 10/11/2019 10:21

FOD is now literally at the point where he DGAF about those girls’ long term consequences and is literally all “LALALA CANT HEAR YOU” now, which IMHO makes him the biggest tosser of them all

Absolutely agree.

Bl00mingCactus · 10/11/2019 10:23

And so it goes on.

Frankly you all seem ten times worse. Height of hypocrisy on two counts. The point I raised below and the continuous slating which is exactly what you’re enjoying passing judgement about.

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Tooearlyforcrackers · 10/11/2019 10:25

You might as well ask why millions of people watch Eastenders, because that’s what insta families are essentially replacing. Why do people watch eastenders? 🤔

PanGalaticGargleBlaster · 10/11/2019 10:28

Why do people follow 'influencers'?

Serious question, why feed the circus?

Bl00mingCactus · 10/11/2019 10:29

But they don’t spend hours judging Eastenders being in existence; slating and surmising about real people. They watch and go.

You’re all as bad as each other. I fail to see how slagging off the parents of two little girls and crawling over everything they do looking for dirt is in their best interest. There is no moral high ground.

theWarOnPeace · 10/11/2019 10:30

Bl00mingCactus

I haven’t followed either of them for about a year, since I realised they both disgusted me. I saw his ‘apology’ post on a screenshot on Tattle. One thing that made me realise I could tell the twins apart, was him pretending that he couldn’t. I just thought to myself that I was following someone that I actually thought was a bloody disgrace to his children, her too, and unfollowed.

I like Tattle because it’s refreshingly honest about how damaging all of this is, and that it’s all a business, it’s not a hapless dad and his beautiful kids, just muddling through life as best they can.

Their relationship as a couple always felt like bullshit too, and the house move and spectacularly tone-deaf obsession with showing us the “reno” that was all undeclared gifted/#ad and came in at tens of thousands, I just can’t stand all the poor sycophants lining up to praise them.

MarshaBradyo · 10/11/2019 10:35

No following here but yep if talking about children and SM content means some people think about whether it is a good idea then fine. Yeh bad that it is more noise but good if some opt out. Even the one of the biggest taking the lead on this is good.

Great if people unfollow as yes it is fuelling what they don’t like.