Instamums 2

[shesakeeper]

Interested to read this in the Guardian today

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/mar/21/instagram-influencers-can-flog-stuff-all-day-but-its-weird-when-they-use-their-kids-to-do-it

Bizarre that all the 'Instagram mumsnet haters' don't realise that most people who dip into mumsnet are also on Instagram! And they discuss things on mumsnet because there's no free speech on Instagram. @babaloo88 you think so?! Argh the book... I'm sorry. I think we are allowed to comment on a book?! It doesn't look too good...

@facebook so true!! It's been far worse than on here!

I think someone suggested following NASA etc. as being enjoyable. I like to look at the ones where people live somewhere remote like Shetland, but I think I'm a bit jumpy now and am suspicious of stealth advertising. A pp mentioned someone who had done a nice post about their rubbish car, but it just made me think they were asking for a car!

Oh the Home that made me lady is always on the cadge on her Instagram stories drives me up the beige wall. Talks like her house is freaking Buckingham place but won’t pay a dime for anything. Champagne lifestyle lemonade pockets I suppose it’s hard keeping up with the instajones’?

Do they not realise what they are doing and how See through it is or are they just opportunist bar stewards?

Desperados

#gifted #owtfornowt

I wonder if some families have more children so they can keep making money from posting pictures of them.

I hate the tone of the captions on ad Instagram posts. the article gives perfect examples. It's so irritatingly faux casual, chatty and smug. I don't want your stupid wet wipes or that ugly changing bag.

I guess they're hustlers, fiftydollarbill and are not embarrassed. Hence looking at remote folk who are writers, crafters etc. They are doing a thing already and too far for brands to post to? 😆 Depends if you actually want to see stuff, I guess.

@shesakeeper 'where's my free washing machine just for being a mum.'
Exactlyyyy!!
Why are some families worthy of attention and others not? I am fascinated by how many 'famous' family bloggers/vloggers/instagrammers there are. But it's all kind of the same.

I'm too boring to be a mum blogger. My ig account would just be me and the baby in various seated positions with one boob out. Quality. I could advertise unsexy nursing bras, tracksuit bottoms and now tv subscriptions. Oh and different types of snack foods.

Ps I love Emily Norris though. She's so watchable.

I love Instagram as enjoy taking pictures but like everyone have found myself drawn into the world/squares/stories of the narcisistic (which I believe you gotta be be to believe the world wants to know what you have just bought in Poundland or what time your 2 year old took a shite!!) Instamum.

Those that haven't been unfollowed remain because they either make me laugh and have something worthwhile to say (Featheringtheemptynest) I can relate to their life (marthahappilyeverafter) or I think they are good influencers (littlewoodlife)

I think the pp hit in the nutshell, the unrealistic and forced brand colabs, constant #ad and #gifts posts and the fact that their lifestyles and spending are so removed from my own make me tune out!!

It's not jealousy, its more here you are relating, saying like me you are surviving on coffee and wine, your husband's been a knob too and you have a very similar pasta stain on your top...I basically think we are soul sisters but wait the postman has just been and unlike my tax return and reminder for smear, Charlottle Tillbury has decided to send you her entire spring collection and Joules have kitted out your kids for the next 16 years...

We are really fucking nothing alike!!

Others are the drippers (thismamalife) honestly if she says "Oh my" to her hen pecked husband in her condescending, whiney tone once more, I will be forced to drop kick her on his behalf!!

Also her friend jessicaaveyuk another moan, who basically likes to list what and ponder what she is going to do with day (think and then we are going to have breakfast, and then we are going to go to softplay and then I'm going to change my tampon...YAWN!!) she also shamefully requested that some Good Samaritan drop milk on her door step over night as she couldn't be arsed going out!!!

mrsmeldrum so blah and beige I'd rather watch paint dry although with the amount of gin she apparently consumes is a borderline functioning alcoholic so maybe we'd get on after all!!

The inghams...WTAF!!
So tacky and awful, basically feed their kids constant shite for the sake of views/likes and earn an income by encouraging easily influenced kids to spend money on cheap plastic crap with their name on it and then call them all family...absolutely disgusting!!

@Mumofkids I remember that New York trip. Her fuming as though he'd had a choice in the matter.

I'll tell you who I also like along with Mother Pukka is Steph Don't Buy Her Flowers.

Steph does seem likeable but she's another thin poshish fringe. She gets all the same round of freebies and went to that awful Binky felstead retreat thing. Sorry to be classist but aren't that crew all awfully posh, clemmie telford, MOD, pukka. I think that's why I can't relate to them.

Instagrammers I like are Emma Hill and Sunshine Sam.Emma seems so principled and ‘non bloggy’ And I like the fact that sunshine Sam isn’t London based which makes her way more interesting. I’ve unfollowed loads of people lately - got fed up of watching people open freebies - Josie LDN (fashion mumblr) gets an obscene amount of luxury goods.

Posh? Moneyed maybe, posh - absolutely not! All the difference in the world.

Yes I like Steph too - she’s clearly v privileged in some ways but is still v down to earth and realistic.

@fruitbowl2 omg! The other day, Clemmie Telford was showing her hugely discounted car back seat fitting that you can fit 3 children in... she stated that it was a lot cheaper than buying a new car... oh how I chuckled. They cost £1200-2500 which is probably more than my hideous 7 seater and my husband's runaround put together. Suddenly you realise, it's a different world where wealth is assumed...

Not posh flearidden? Pukka has mentioned her expensive education, FOD once showed a school pic of himself in a striped blazer! I assumed they were all privately educated. I'm scum done good so maybe it's relative 😄

Has anyone looked at the darlings? They are brilliantly wierd with a sort of Rosemary's baby filter.

I googled that back seat getup too and snorted laughing when I saw it was more expensive than my car.

They don't live in the real world. They think they do. They convince themselves and each other that they do. They really don't.

It's even more galling that despite being wealthy they get free holidays/appliances/skincare/clothes thrown at them. It's quite sickening actually! It really puts me off buying the product that they're advertising!

I have idly mused before about how many are privately educated. I’ve always had the impression that privately educated people tend to generally be (this may be a huge over generalisation) more entrepreneurial so maybe this may be a reason why they are disproportionately more represented in the blogging world? That daft retreat thing sort of sparked this thought, because I haven’t ever come across anyone called Bunty, Binky or Clemmie and certainly not at the fairly average comp I went to. This theory could be completely wrong!

@Fruitbowl2 Matt (my husband) was state educated in Finchley and I was state educated until 14 in Leighton Buzzard. I won a bursary to a private school in Northampton from 14 but my folks came from nothing so not old school posh - not sure what counts as proper posh, really. Matt only decided to speak ‘like the queen’ to get someone to give him a job in journalism.

Cigarettesandcalpol I like. She's normal and a bit nuts. I'm finding marthashappilyeverafter is changing as she gets more followers and her new house is just different.
Mutha.hood I can deal with some days, I like the message overall but sometimes it's just too much.
Tomanychildren has a nicely presented account with tasteful pictures although quite how she buys so much liberty, cath kidston, Jojo and Boden for the 2 little girls when she's having a hard time, I've no idea. But she doesn't do ads just promotes small businesses. And comes across as lovely.
Mamahodge and daddy hodge are just too good to be true.
Pukka's I like and the honesty is good.
I watch thefarmerswife, nice account but she does spend a lot of time talking into her phone. However it's a very real account, just starting to pick up more freebies so maybe it will change.
Hotpatooties is nuts and pretty awesome.
Ultimategirlgang always seems a bit drunk and her eyeshadow distracts me.
I don't have time to watch many so pick and choose and might just see a couple. But none of them seem to ram the freebies and ads so much as the MOFODS.

Don't know about MP but have watched FOD videos. Not what I would call posh. Maybe we have different understandings of posh - but, for me, posh would never monetise their kids. Way, way too much conspicuous money to be proper posh!

DH was privately educated. I went to a v rough comp. I went to school with girls called Vicky or Gemma. He went to school with a lot of Olivers and Simons. And even though I v clearly have a chip on my shoulder about growing up poor I don't actually bear any ill will whatsoever to the privately educated, it's not their fault their parents were wealthy. So tbh, even though I see the relevance of discussing 'influencers'' educations here, I don't think we can use that as a stick to beat them with. It's about how they are acting now.