Influencer/celeb gossip forums

[Kingsparkle]

I follow a woman on social media, mainly because I like her aesthetic and she gives me ideas of brands etc to look at. One of her children has a genetic condition and she raises money for an organisation supporting young people with this condition. She recently posted about it and I wanted to read more about it so I googled her and up popped a Reddit thread.

It was full of people calling her narcissistic and an alcoholic, insulting her children’s appearance and claiming they have no friends. Claiming she’s a terrible mother etc. People were picking apart anything she’d posted, analysing her friends and family’s demeanour towards her. Someone had even looked up financial information about her.

I knew that people on SM often got a hard time but I honestly didn’t realise it was this bad. Why? Why do people feel the need to do this? If you are part of these forums what do you get out of it. I am genuinely curious what motivates people to be this vicious, particularly towards someone they’ve never met.

No, I will have a look!

@Thebirdhouse - but that’s what it is. I think what the Saccone Jolys are doing are abhorrent, but social services and the police are obviously aware and have decided not to take action. So it comes down to a disagreement in parenting.

Just because I fundamentally disagree with the SJs, it doesn’t benefit their kids to slag them and their parents off online. In fact it just fuels what they are doing. If people really cared about those children they’d just ignore the content their parents pump out, their ad revenue would dry up and they’d have to get proper jobs or flog more books about imaginary friends. People are using concern as a shield for their trolling. For every person just saying they shouldn’t be putting kids online there are 10 more bitching about Anna’s weight or her lip fillers or her cooking etc all cheered on by others.

I love reading tattle, have done since last year yet I can't post as I need a code. I'd love one as there are many threads I'd like to respond to.

Because I really don't see the relevance of it. I said earlier that I found that disagreeing with the bitchyness there meant people turned. Of course everyone gets along when they all agree on everything, what's for dinner threads here don't go south either. It doesn't make the people saying that someone looks like 'a fat disabled person's any better just because it is aimed at an influencer rather than another poster.

It’s more a reflection of the fact that child protection law has not yet caught up to this sector and SS and police cannot therefore act. I imagine that test cases and legislation will eventually catch up. I thought your phrasing of ‘vigilante regulation’ was excellent and very accurate.

People are using concern as a shield for their trolling.

I don’t really agree. People are commenting/writing about what the parents are putting online themselves. If the parents don’t like it, it’s easily stopped by stopping what they are doing themselves. But they won’t and they create views by proactively showing the children what people are writing about them. . When the parents blatantly don’t care enough about their own children’s feelings, it isn’t up to other platform users to care either.

@Thebirdhouse - I find your lack of empathy towards fellow humans quite sad honestly, particularly your last sentence about children, that’s quite a shocking attitude to have. Thank you for giving me some insight into people who post this sort of stuff online though.

Thank you for giving me some insight into people who post this sort of stuff online though

Thank you for giving me some insight into your opinion of why this sort of stuff is posted online.

There. Fixed that for you.

I don’t post on any social media platforms myself - including FB/TicTok/Tattle.

Hard agree with you @Kingsparkle and @FuppingEll - there are so many vile comments on there.
I 100% get the concern about the legislation around children and social media exposure. However I cannot accept that those concerns make personal attacks on individuals who aren’t doing anything outside of the law “fair game”.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Slagging off mrs hinch’s chin or someone else’s tits or whatever isn’t doing anything to keep children safe. It distracts from the real discussion needed and makes the writers look abhorrent. I bet they all post “be kind” in public and hide their real selves behind anonymous posts on tattle. go lobby parliament if it means that much to you!