To call her out?

[BlagMyChicken]

I follow an old school friend on social media. We lost touch years ago, but I started following her and I’ve been impressed by how much she’s achieved in her life.
She is now semi-famous as both an influencer and in her ‘day job’. She’s not a reality star, she has genuinely done very well professionally and I’m both impressed by and pleased for her.
She’s recently posted about an event that happened at school to help promote a company (it’s an ad, she does tag these things). The only thing is that she has the key point relating to this event completely wrong - and it’s central to the ‘ad’! It’s like saying ‘we had our first dance to the Spice Girls’ with an ad/link to promote their upcoming tour, when really it was to a song by Atomic Kitten. Presumably she has been paid for this?
Call her out or just leave it? She’s not the sort of person to have it confused - it’s deliberately disingenuous.

If you’ve noticed, so will others. Let her crack on; if she wants to make a fool of herself, let her.

Just response saying,,,, whoops, I think it was atomic kitten, still remember how elite you were (or you doing X, wearing x, saying X)

excited not elite

This is why I don't follow sm influencers. They're just paid to twist the truth or just outright lie.

But what would be the benefit in calling hee out on it? Unless the error will cause harm in some way I would just leave it

Is that mistake affecting you, or society, in any significant way? Why does it bother you?

Chances are the product/service she is being paid to promote will flag it if she’s doing it wrong

She’s not the sort of person to have it confused - it’s deliberately disingenuous.

If she's a social media 'influencer' then being deliberately disingenuous is her bread and butter I'm afraid. It's all smoke and mirrors.

I’m just pissed off that she’d twist an event for her own benefit (presumably financial, but if not then at least she’s getting something to which a financial value is attached). Also a bit pissed off with myself for thinking she was different from lots of other influencers. Duly unfollowed!

From your school days? As in years ago? Unless this was a big thing, she could have genuinely misremembered and think that was the song. I don’t know how anyone would remember something like that unless it was very recent.

However, she’s an influencer so it’s probably a white lie for financial gain. She’s probably banking on no one remembering.

(Arguing about that sort of thing is classic pub chat!)