To think this vlogger is a CF?

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AIBU to think this chancer (with a horrible makeup) is just an entitled, freeloading brat?

VLogger asking for a free hotel room and gets a beautiful reply from hotel owner.

Agree the invoice is ridiculous and he's taking his point too far.

She really is a very minor "blogger" though. Fewer than 10k followers on Twitter and no "blue tick".

The big British beauty bloggers have a much higher profile; Caroline Hirons has 66k followers on Twitter, Pixiwoo has 213k. Even the woman I follow who blogs on restaurants/food in my city only has more followers than Elle.

I think people who aren't in the industries affected by freebie hunting appreciate what a massive issue this is. It's not one or two people asking for a freebie, it's hundreds. I see dozens of adverts every day asking for people to design a website, write web content or produce a newsletter for free and in return for "exposure". People who make cakes, arrange flowers, provide accommodation are all asked to provide their services free of charge. There are thousands of the bloggers/vloggers, and brands can pick and choose which ones they want to work with - which are the bloggers which fit their product absolutely perfectly, or the ones with the largest reach or proven track record. There is nothing wrong with a brand collaborating with a blogger/vlogger. What is wrong in this case is that the vlogger in question has NOTHING to offer the brand and is purely after a freebie. It's grabby, cheap and offensive to be asked.

Now, if I were approached by Richard Branson, JK Rowling or Marks and Spencer to write some stuff for their website I would be very keen to get the work and yes I might agree to do it cheap/free if it wasn't going to eat into paid work too much. But even though I'm well over 30 I understand how social media works and writing content for a website which only ranks on page 94 of Google isn't going to give me any exposure whatsoever.

So no, I won't write you a "sample". I will happily provide you with copies of stuff I've written for others or point to towards published copy. But I'm not working for free and quite honestly I'm insulted that people would ask.

Completely disagree with most people about this too. This is someone’s job.

This isn’t a job. She might manage to pay her bills by scrounging freebies off people but it is no more a job than begging.

The silly thing about it all is that the hotel has gained far more media exposure by telling her to do one than it would of done by her mentioning it in a video.

@k2p2k2tog exactly. I have requests every day to let bloggers stay in the hotel, eat in the restaurant, drink in the bar, use the spa. I even had someone ask for their event for free. All offering us 'exposure' in return. Digging through all the begging emails to actually find emails from paying customers takes up way more of my day than it should.
I delete blogger 'invites for collaboration' and have had several who repeatedly email, some even with abusive responses accusing me of being rude for not replying. It is beyond frustrating.

If this lass had gotten I touch to collaborate because she was genuinely interested in the hotel, then maybe he wouldn't have been such a dick to her, but she emailed because she was going on a personal trip with her boyfriend to celebrate Valentine's Day for 5 nights. She clearly was only interested in landing some free digs.

Sorry haven't RTFT, but loving the fact that she claims to be behind the success of Universal Orlando, lol!

What annoys me about this is that she's put no stats in. No, "i drove traffic of x after my video was posted" etc etc

I think she's cheeky. There's a difference between being given those things for free as opposed to asking for them. Who does she think she is? Universal Orlando doesn't need her to promote them.
She lied in her video saying that she only asked for a discount when actually she wanted the whole 5 day stay free. Who is that benefiting other than her and her boyfriend? Some youtubers really do think they are above the rest of us,

The owner of the hotel isn't coming out of this well either. The invoice is ridiculous but he has every right to say no. To be fair to him he didn't reveal her name, she did. Now it's going too far with the invoice and the girl doesn't deserve comments about her appearance but hopefully this has taught her that begging for free things isn't always a good move.

She deliberately has made this a thing to get more traffic. But he posted that letter online so he did too.

I don't think thI bullying is right st all not dogs at her appearance. She is clearly very pretty.

As someone who is approached by bloggers asking for freebies all the time it gets bloody annoying. She also was really unprofessional in the following ways:

1. Sent an email without addressing the intended recipient. Just lazy and suggests she is bulk sending to loads of hotels.

2. Asked for 5 nights free! Crazy and greedy!

3. Asked for a huge expense when actually she isn't even a travel blogger!

4. Suggested everyone over 30 doesn't know social media when we are the ones signing off on collaborations.

Sorry excuse typos there! It should say I don't think bullying is right at all, nor digs at her appearence when she is clearly a very attractive woman.

Didn't get much sleep last night hence terrible typos!

To be fair to him he didn't reveal her name, she did

No, apparently the excuse of a human being cafe owner "blacked out" her name but did such a crap job it quickly got pointed out that if you zoomed in you could see who it was.
Can you imagine turning your phone on and finding everyone going mad at you and tearing you to shreds/sending insults/tearing your appearance to shreds/threats etc?
Do you blame her for putting her side across? Was she supposed to just cry and ignore the online bullying?
I'm not her, but the whole thing makes me sick. It's nasty, there's no need for it.

She offered to do some marketing for a business in return for a "Fee"

All the owner had to say was no. The hotel is in the wrong.

The White moose cafe (which is what the hotel is attached to) is well known for publicity stunts and doing this kind of thing - they don't need an influencer, they're well known on social media. She did absolutely no research on them or she would have seen this was the worst possible hotel to mail. Though tbh from reading the email she sent it's blatantly obvious she just copy and pasted that to a bunch of hotels.

Has she got conjunctivitis?

Didn’t know they were called social influencers now. But regardless, she asked for something which is the norm for these people now and the hotel owner was not very nice about it. Looks like he was trying to gain a bit of exposure off the back of this.

Of course other social ‘influencers’ are going to come to her defence this is how they make their own livings too.

Why do all vloggers have the same voice? I think there must be a cloning factory somewhere.

What's with the blood shot eye and trout pout?

FFS, RTFT user.
She's had eye surgery.
Though what that's got to do with it is anyone's guess.

Did someone poke her in the eye?

OK, knobheads are back out in force I see, either that or they're deliberately pretending they can't read.

Why doesn’t she speak properly? She is a such an embarrassment.

Thanks for clarifying Dreamy

Surely this woman is an actress? She’s just created a genius comedy character.

As I understand it, she had the same eye condition as Paris Hilton, and had it corrected in a surgery recently?

What a mistake - looking at the earlier videos she actually looked a lot better before.

She just seems likely a fairly normal 22 year old (we were all twats at 22)

He seems like a nasty piece of work but hey, middle aged man humiliates young wonan is less a news story, more a way of life for most young women

She clearly didn't do her research. It looks like she copied and pasted the letter to several establishments hoping someone would take her on.

The least she could have done is bother to learn the persons name she was hoping to "do business with" Isn't promising a positive review before you have even stayed there in return for free accommodation a little misleading? This girl is up her own backside so far she believes her visiting Universal Orlando "was amazing for them?"
I visited there last year, can't say I noticed them struggling to get people through the gates.

Also someone should tell her she is not a 22 year old girl, she is a 22 year old woman but hey what would I know. I'm almost over 30 I won't understand the internet and social media.