to hope for the beginning of the end for these entitled 'influencer' youtubers?

[mmmgoats]

This is inspired by another thread on AIBU which someone posted about Youtuber Alfie Deyes and his mockery of an excuse of a video about living on £1 for a day, where he basically used poverty as entertainment and laughed at the very idea of people living on £1.
Yes, he's now apologised, given money to charity etc.
But am I alone in hoping for youngsters to wake up and see through these so-called influencers?
I know they're not all like it, I know there are some fantastic Youtube channels that are genuinely informative and interesting, but there's also the core group of originals - the Brit Crew I think they're called - who've lost all touch with reality.
Zoella, Tanya Burr, Alfie Deyes, Louise Pentland - they all seem to somehow think they deserve an award for how 'hard working' they are and I've been shocked to see the utter thoughtless wastage of food, clothes, money across their videos.
My niece is still obsessed with Zoella and it really pains me to think that she looks up to a woman in her late twenties who seemingly stopped maturing at about 17-18, and shows herself to be a terrible example.

I'm really hoping the recent backlash against Tanya Burr, Zoella and now Alfie for various different things is the start of this. Does anyone else feel the same way?

Just encountered the Inghams for the first time. Didn't get very far as it was totally awful. He's gay right?

Well lots think he is gay but he is in denial.

Their marriage is a business arrangement I think.

This is quite interesting to read alongside the instagram influencer threads. Considering there are whole websites dedicated to talking about YouTubers, sounds like the instamums are getting off lightly.

Disclaimer; I don't agree with it or expect people to slag off the instamums etc etc etc - just an interesting point

@cadyheron @boredandtired etc - you might be interested.

They are ridiculous!

I started a thread about Alfie Deyes this morning. I was reading some tweets about the £1 video and came across a thread where three women accuse him of using racial slurs at them. Absolutely vile.

I love the idea of YouTube and that we can all watch what we want (I love some of the knitting/crafting content) but I just don't think Alfie et al deserve the levels of fame and money that they have achieved.

I just watched the Inghams unicorn festival. .
Aging emo dad, what’s that all about?

I have never come across the Ingham before but I am surprised they haven't really featured on the 'using your kids to sell shit' threads - their entire Instagram feed is basically their kids. Their kids have their own hash tags!

Woah and the comments under their photos are like crazy obsessed fans!

I always find that working class English people on YT try and RP up their accent and it makes them sound stupid. The Inghams mum does it - and the Dad is very vey camp

They also use quite horrible peado click bait titles as well for their children.

What happens when I'm alone when I'm with my best friend.
Look what me and my sister get up to.

They never try to hide where they live or where their children do clubs.

Actually it is interesting though, the difference between criticism of YouTubers and criticism of Instamums.

Alfie Deyes got (rightly) roasted for that £1 thing but he has apologised, given some token money to charity etc. Jack Maaate gets a huge pat on the back all round for his videos criticising YouTubers, which is fair enough because they are great videos. John Kuckian (I think his name is) is another very popular YouTube who basically slags off makeup influencers, mainly Jaclyn Hill and Nikkie Tutorials. People seem to love him!

Meanwhile on here, a MNetter comments that she went to an Instamums event and didn't feel it was very inclusive and suddenly she is being rounded on my other Instamums, called a 'fucking prick' on stories, and Mumsnet is slagged off as a 'cesspit of hatred' etc etc.

Interesting........

Jesus @moonkissedlegs that's a bit much! Poor woman!

I also get irritated by the way anything veering onto the constructive criticism side is labelled 'hate' now. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they do experience trolls and proper hate, but any comment that doesn't gush or sing their praises is firmly ignored or deleted. It's very annoying.

Exactly @moonkissedlegs!

Those Ingram Xmas morning videos are something else! Present overkill

Haaaaaate the Ingram videos. They are vacuous

I thought John Kuckian got run off YouTube for the weird lies about his charity that was dubious / fake and saying he had a makeup line he was working hard on?
Then the make up turned out to be repackaged Ali express makeup at a ramped up price :-/

Can’t stand the Inghams, especially the click bait paedo titles “8 year old exposes 5 year old sister” “5 year old caught out!” for example.

Dad also clearly dyes his ginger hair, swears he doesn’t have ginger hair yet his daughter does. Just be proud of it Chris Ingham! What sort of thing is that teaching his daughter?

Just bumping this post for the fellow Ingham dislikers.

There has been rumours of Chris Ingham messaging a 16 year old girl, plus another girl has come forward saying they actually had sex. There are screenshots of messages all over Twitter.

Whether this is all true or not I feel so sad for his lovely children
I hope they don't read all the comments, especially his eldest.

Doesn’t look good for him does it?

Not really even if it's not true I don't see how they can recover. Allegations like this can tarnish someones name forever.

They need to focus on their children now and maybe have a break from youtube.

You need to join guru gossip and see there. These youtubers are so shady.