Mummy bloggers...again

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I know this is a subject that's been done to death but...

I noticed a very popular mummy blogger has had a very public issue today regarding someone mimicking her - ie creating a twitter account using her photos including those of her kids and pretending she'd had a day out with them at the beach and so on. Really really weird.

I get that this is wrong and whoever did it is probably quite disturbed...but once again does it raise the question of our social media usage and in particular that of bloggers and influencers who have a massive platform where they are sharing personal photos and stories about their families and lives?

It would really creep me out but aibu to think there has to be some responsibility on the mums who choose to share this stuff on such a big scale?

I think this account was created to get at another mummy vlogger perhaps? If it is the one I am thinking of. Not into these types of vloggers as such but I know there is a bit of a shitstorm going on about one she is friends with - people thinking the use of her kids in her online activities is inappropriate.

I see it as once you've uploaded a photo onto the internet you no longer have any control whatsoever over it. That's a risk you take when you share every detail of your and your children's lives.

You get weirdos on the internet, if people choose to put themselves out there then that’s a risk they take. Personally I have no sympathy for her, she put the information out there and the photos, that was her decision. If she chooses to do that publicly then she can’t really moan, can she?

I find the whole thing very weird how some have become minor celebs for just talking about their kids/life and I get if you put it out there you have got to expect comment. However.... I know a couple of mummy bloggers and the abuse they get sent to them is horrific. They are just doing their thing and yet people feel entitled to troll them, say detestable things verging on threats against their family, etc etc. I have also heard of paedophiles tagging their accounts so they can watch what they say about kids. I think a lot of them are pretty dull and mildly annoying but they don't deserve this.

Who is it who's been mimicked? I watch a couple of mummy vloggers and really enjoy their content to be honest.

Totally agree that they don't deserve it. It's horrible. And I'm not sure a lot of the successful ones fully realise what they've gotten themselves into until it's too late. But if you're choosing to put your kids photos out there to such a huge audience...well not everybody in the world is good. It's sad but true.

Totally feel for her but I guess it's a pitfall of the business

Which was this?

It's absolutely not necessary to share every minutiae of your life with the whole world. The hours I have spent explaining to my child that anything you post on line can be there for ever and misused. And she still loves the vloggers etc and follows all sorts on Instagram

I mean its not every detail - I'm sure there's a lot of family occasions and whatnot that they keep to themselves. But the very act of putting yourself out there along with your kids and family worries me! The ones who make it big tend to be the one with personalities that people gravitate to either because they're funny or relatable or whatever. But that lends itself well to obsession and desire to mimic and I just think it's a very dangerous thing to involve your kids in even from a distance.

I'm not sure what the legalities are surrounding it but it would unsettle me for sure

I do wonder how the kids will feel about all of this when they grow up

Yabvu to post this and then refuse to say who mimicked who.

I've no idea who you're talking about but there's 7 threads about brummymummyof2 over on tattle who posts every minute of her kids lives regularly including in swim suits & has just set up her 7yo a YouTube account complete with bedroom tour 🤦‍♀️ there was a parody account set up on insta using cartoons about her grubby antics but it's gone now. Someone on there did a reverse image search & found her photos on porn sites

Are we not allowed to say who it is to avoid any confusion? It’s was UnMumsy Mum who has had photos taken from her account and someone is basically pretending to live her life.

I quite like UnMumsy Mum - she seems one of the less grabby ones. Plus I too have a baby that never stops crying so her #OhWilf makes me feel less alone

She reported it to Insta but apparently is didn’t violate their community code of practice so she was asking her followers to report it as a fake account.

The Insta reporting function is very questionable at times as to what they allow/don’t allow.

Just had a look at the Un Mumsy mum blood and is seems very boring?! And calls her child a 'fucking menace'. Nice for him in the future

It made me cringe

blog I mean

@putthetellyon not sure why that makes me VU. I haven't posted this for gossip but to see what people make of the whole putting your kids life out there when things turn sour.

But other posters have said who it is and it wasn't that another blogger was mimicking her, from what I saw it was an account where a random person was pretending to be her and using her kids photos.

Shocked about the brummymummy thing! I used to follow her when she was more of a blogger than a vlogger but think she's gone way over the top now and can't watch it.

The Un mumsy mum says she is stopping blogging and going to get a job on her last blog post