Hello! Got a notification I was tagged so here I am back in the vipers nest/coven/whatever we're being called this week 
I checked out the other thread to see what MmeG meant by posters saying others had mysteriously disappeared. Bit 
that a poster might be implying I'm a journalist who used the threads to get material for articles and that I messaged them sharing 'confidences'. I've certainly not messaged that poster, unless they've had a name change and used to be NeverWas? I see MmeG says NW is also 'missing'? Anyway, I'd hardly describe my chat with NeverWas - if it's she- as messaging them 'with various confidences' - if anything the sharing was completely mutual, just a friendly and at times slightly private conversation. But then maybe the poster on t'other thread doesn't mean me at all ... 
BUT it is true I've had my posts withdrawn. I don't owe anyone an explanation as to why I did that obviously but happy to give one as the reason's quite straightforward and probably disappointingly boring!
I said towards the end of the last Influencer Ethics thread (no3), the one I started, that I was going to sit the rest of the thread out. I was disconcerted that a poster thought the word play I and others were doing as a stupid laugh was "making fun of a family's misfortune". Certainly wasn't doing that and was a bit horrified that any of my comments could come across that way. Said so on the thread and that I was stepping away from the threads.
And then the same night or the next day the Telegraph article dropped and I was really pissed off that the implication was Mumsnet was to blame for a certain IGer leaving the gram. That wasn't my understanding and I didn't want to be associated with that by, er, association. And I definitely didn't want journalists using my posts as fodder or quoting my posts as they did with Marsha's. Not because I was ashamed of them, but just ... create your own fucking material
I mentioned in a past instamum/influencer thread that I'd name changed between threads (I said from what to what) after an incident elsewhere on MN in which I was partially doxxed and another poster was properly doxxed. The other poster had it a lot worse but it spooked me and MN were very sympathetic; they gave me a retrospective name change and withdraw some of my posts and offered to withdraw more if I wanted. When The Telegraph article dropped a month or so later, I went back to MNHQ and said please withdraw all my posts.
Then I took a bit of a MN break. I don't want to be involved in any media hoo-hah, or sniping about specific Instagrammers, which I did very occasionally at times here 
and which I regret tbh. For the record though, I don't regret the taking the piss out of the Lavender Flannel ™️ or doing satirical crap parodies or taking part in the in-depth proper discussion and analysis about grown up issues like child privacy, ad disclosure, and IGers branding themselves mental health experts when they're not. I agree that they're topics that have societal implications for us all and so are worth discussing.
Sorry for the long and rather self-indulgent hijack @jamoncrumpets. In answer to your Q, YANBU. I don't hate influencers, that would be preposterous. I imagine some of them are Actually Rather Lovely as people. In fact one v small factor in why I withdrew is that I saw on IG that an instamum with about 10k followers was someone I knew in RL, a woman I'd had a business meeting with (non IG related). I was surprised to see her on here, and her IG persona gives the impression she's more 'fluffier' than how she is in person. I found her to be delightful and she gave me excellent business advice, and if she was mentioned on these threads I'd only have nice things to say about her as a person, but I was glad she wasn't mentioned as I do find her IG feed a bit twee and it's not my sort of thing at all (and yes I'd say this to her face were it ever to appropriately arise!!)
Now I'm here, I might stick around on this thread. Not going on to the other one though, it's an interesting read but I don't want to discuss people in detail and I certainly don't want to discuss Instagrammers' 'huns', because that's hardly going to solve any them and and us divide.