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?

Oh wow

This adoration of a family/account has always had the potential for this kind of thing. Why have they never thought to protect themselves a bit more

YANBU at all OP, they are highly influential and often too young to understand to what degree.

I'm kind of hoping the bubble bursts for some of the spoilt ones tbh!

Reading further into it, their agency have seemingly dropped them

With no proof? How odd

The girls all seem to be 16+ so far

More screenshots have come out overnight. I'm still on the fence but their silence is deafening.

Their agency possibly have dropped them, merchandise stopped, been dropped from the summer event. All social media gone private and comments suspended.

But, they uploaded again last night. Only 11 minutes long, but still. Not a mention of anything.

YABU. YouTube is my main source of entertainment. I can't be bothered with TV anymore.

Argh! Iv'e started to watch the Meldrums again, they 'accidentally' announced they are moving house. Well delete it before uploading you muppets.

They've extended twice and only had a new kitchen last year. They've just done the new baby thing so I suppose it's something else to post about - after all there are only so many Primark hauls you can do.

Op, think it's the beginning of the end for the Inghams!

It's all getting worse with more girls coming forward

In Sarah's vlog earlier, she was sat outside a hotel in Leeds.

Maybe laying low for a bit?

It is not far from the airport, they could be jetting off somewhere.

Have Leeds schools finished then? When does term end in Yorkshire?

The eldest is privately educated so she breaks up this week I think.

Middle child was joining the private school in Sep.

I think they are maybe being kept at home at the moment as I would imagine they will be getting tormented by other kids at school.

Not my kind of thing. 'Influencers' is bollocks as it's all sponsored or clickbait, so not neutral comment. I don't trust any of it.

Feel so sorry for the kids and parents who're subjected to this marketing shit, because that's all it is.

Looks like the Inghams are off in another holiday! Are they running away from their troubles?

God knows what they are doing. Don't seem too bothered by the allegations

It’s shocking that they’ve not acknowledged them.

Yes off to France apparently.

They need to address this now!

There is one instamum style you tuber who is newly pregnant with DC3 and is currently in the throes of weekly pregnancy update videos. This weeks was week 8 Why on earth would you want to make this kind of stuff public and shared in this way, such early days, too? Don’t get me started on the vacuous, non-envy inducing primark and Poundland hauls that are all over you tube and a particular favourite of the instamums. Because contributing to the plastic crisis and cheap plugging more and more imported crap into landfill is something to be proud of, yeah? Everything that is wrong with a consumerist, more more more society.

I’d love to know what queen bee instamums they were referring to the other day as being bullies at events.

The whole scene is well shady, IMO.

It used to be fine when it was just people on their cheap cameras filming their day or what they bought or whatever, since brand deals and ads came along it’s awful. People clearly being paid to promote something that from previous vlogs you know they don’t use and claiming to ‘absolutely love it’ with emotionless eyes. Getting loads of stuff for free in their po boxes that they don’t need.
Then you find some that are great, down to earth, but they get signed to an agency and quit their full time job and become like the rest of them

The worst are the saccone jolys imo.

I must go and check the Inghams out. I don’t understand the interest in all this stuff either. Sometimes I want a review on a candle/bedding and I look online to find people posting half hour ramblings about their haul with comment about how amazing their lamp/picture/carpet in the background is. I just don’t geddit.

I'm a fan of YouTube and there are some I really love! Pixiwoo, for example, seem really honest about products they like and dislike and imparting make up knowledge. I also like Emily Norris!

I think though that it's easy for them to forget what people watch for- which is a more relatable and "friendly" entertainment. I love tips/hacks videos and vlogs of daily life, but as they get more flashy they become less relatable. I start to think if I wanted to watch someone with loads of money I'd watch real housewives or towie or something! I'm all for them getting paid to do ads and I don't mind being "sold" to, but sell stuff you actually want and I would actually buy- not a bloody air purifier or something like that.