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Supernorthernme · 01/04/2018 00:04

The thread continues....if it hasn't continued elsewhere! @Lateforall it was me who questioned Lobella loves depression wears lippy campaign. I get that the idea is that being a bit glam might be a way of coping. And i have been guilty of putting my face on to carry on in the world. I get that not everyone with pnd is sat at home in pjs unshowered with greasy hair. But I just find the whole thing so false on her account - maybe that is because I know of her in real life.

But I think so many of them have massivley over exaggerated aspects of their lives because it sells. Whether that is FODs clumsy parenting or whatever. But it really doesnt sit well

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CadyHeron · 04/04/2018 12:25

Interested to know what it said about me if it did. Seeing as I only became aware of the name when I went to look up after hearing on this thread.

InternetSchminternet · 04/04/2018 12:27

Cady she had screenshot part of the thread and published it to her stories and tried to blank out names of posters but not done a very good job so names were easy to make out

Chimchar · 04/04/2018 12:28

@CadyHeron it didn't say anything about you at all. This mn thread was used as a screenshot as the background to her comments. It showed two posts and the names of both mn had been loosely scribbled out.

Doctorbubbles · 04/04/2018 12:28

It didn't say anything about you - it was a screenshot of some posts on here and she had 'tried' to block the names however yours and 'chocolate teapot's tags were very visible. I just wanted to let you both know- just in case one her followers decided to come onto here and perhaps message you

Mumofkids · 04/04/2018 12:30

Maybe also vulnerability comes into play, not just ignorance. I started using Instagram at a particularly vulnerable point in my life. It wasn't facebook, which just seems full of people I went to school with being perfect, it was something different.
I know it's been bought up before but the account with the Rigby and Peller bras. I remember the stories and the post and thinking how I'd never been properly fitted, and googling the company and looking it up and feeling absolutely stumped by them being £150-200 per bra. I remember thinking is this what normal people have? Am I so shit that I wear sale from Sainsbury's? If she can do it as a nhs midwife where am I going wrong?
Now yes these are all my issues, I didn't go and too myself and I moved swiftly on. But I never noticed the #gifted which I saw yesterday. Was that always there, has it been added? Would it have changed how I felt? (Yes definitely) if it was there why did I not notice.
If it's was there, the posters been open. But the advert remains sneaky and subtle. And very powerful to me at that time.
If I see a woman on tv advertising a bra, I know it's an advert instantly.
I know she's done the power of good to the business, I'm just making my personal point.
Kirsty Allsopp (who I don't follow but popped up) her latest post is on use of social media-Instagram and makes good points regarding kids using and how we can ALL feel a bit bad not having what others have and why would we let children do that unnecessarily when it happens in life anyway.

CadyHeron · 04/04/2018 12:31

Ah right, OK, was just wondering as the way some posters worded it was that I was a contributor which made me do this face Confused lol

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SophieLMumsnet · 04/04/2018 12:32

Hi all,

We just want to hop on and remind everyone of our TGs. While we allow honest and robust feedback - we do not allow PAs. Please do keep this thread in the spirit.

jamoncrumpets · 04/04/2018 12:34

Oh Lordy, what's been going on here? Cady still defending those hard-working pillars of womanhood?!

ElspethFlashman · 04/04/2018 12:34

Am I missing something here?

Caroline Hirons blasts someone to her 200,000 followers (along with super-creepy "its easy to see where you live" comment), the woman has now had to lock down all her social media cos she's getting so much hate from CHs minions, but other Instamums are waving pom poms over this?

Seriously, what am I missing? How is any of this cool? Cara Sutherland air pumping over it all, wtf???

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HolyMountain · 04/04/2018 12:35

She's deleted her rant! Grin, wonder why?

Stand by your principles Lisa if you're going to call mnetters trolls and abusive, which we're absolutely not by the way if you're reading.

Doctorbubbles · 04/04/2018 12:35

@Mum of kids- I agree. I felt uneasy saying 'ignorance' in case it's meaning got misinterpreted. I meant it in the nicest sense i.e. they are ignorant to how they are being used (to sell to) because (a lot of them) are vulnerable and trusting. Hope that makes it clearer what i'm trying to say

HolyMountain · 04/04/2018 12:37

Elspeth it's shocking isn't it.

She's shown herself to be little better than that woman who was very rude to her.

CH has presented herself as aggressive and bullying by her actions..

CadyHeron · 04/04/2018 12:37

Some people are, Holy. Not particularly you. Some definitely stray/ fly over between constructive criticism and personal digs.

InternetSchminternet · 04/04/2018 12:38

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Stopyourhavering64 · 04/04/2018 12:42

Maybe , as well as following the ASA guidelines, instagrammers who financially benefit ( or in kind) from their blagging also followed a code of conduct and had to pay an annual fee.....and if they didn't follow these guidelines they were banned from 'selling/ advertising' would that help unblur these lines
After all , many of them say it is a business

mrscampbellblackreturns · 04/04/2018 12:56

I really hope that brands look at people like CH and consider if they want to be associated with such behaviour.

TheChocolateTeapot · 04/04/2018 12:58

Who is Denise, who is Caroline Hirons and who is Cara Sutherland?

Doctorbubbles · 04/04/2018 12:59

@Internetschminternet your comment has been deleted again?!?

WearingMySeiko · 04/04/2018 13:01

So it has. I'm such a goody two shoes, too! Hate breaking rules so genuinely no idea what I did wrong.

InternetSchminternet · 04/04/2018 13:02

Name change (for another thread) fail!

HolyMountain · 04/04/2018 13:04

Denise sent Caroline Hirons a very rude message, suggesting that all of her free expensive creams had done nothing for CH's face and she was nothing more than a saleswoman for her paid brands.

Of course she shouldn't have done it

CH responded by naming and shaming her and said that she doesn't care if Denise gets a shedload of abuse, tough shit basically.

ElspethFlashman · 04/04/2018 13:07

It was a comment on one of her YT videos. It was bitchy sure, but Caroline has gone fucking postal over it.

Doctorbubbles · 04/04/2018 13:09

have read the comments on Caroline's post - some are hilarious. A particular favourite is someone calling her the anti MP -had to give it a like

jamoncrumpets · 04/04/2018 13:11

The reason they're so rattled is because they know that they've been getting away with blagging of the most egregious type and are being called bang to rights on here.

You'll never get an influencer to admit that they should declare all their free shit as #ads. There'd be #ad EVERYWHERE. It'd ruin their aesthetic, and their follower base. And then they'd have to get a proper job, like a real journalist.

jamoncrumpets · 04/04/2018 13:14

Hadley Freeman doesn't have to post kid pics or #ads to get her message across, does she? That's because she can actually formulate an original and articulate sentence

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