To think people who post on social media trashing sites are so fucking sad?

[Lycidas]

There have been a couple of times where I’ve googled a YouTube channel (beauty bloggers, some mum blogs) and ended up on these sites - e.g. Tattle Life or Guru Gossiper. Thet comes across like a bitchy high school clique - threads devoted to rentlessly, gleefully mocking that person’s content and their personal lives. It’s one thing to say that they should be open to critique (especially when they’re contravening advertising standards) - it’s another for hordes of grown women - I’m assuming this is the majority user base - to pick up on and slate every little thing they post.

It not just ‘arghhh this channel is annoying for these reasons’ and leaving it at that. It’s non stop viewing and discussion of content that they purportedly despise.

Sample page:

tattle.life/threads/mrs-meldrum-69-tattle-me-2020-ed-manifesting-together-spouting-bull-forever.4280/page-4

AIBU?

If you post on these places my question is, why??

but I don't understand following loads of people just to slag them off.

That's the bit I don't get either.
OK, everyone's entitled not to like someone, but to seemingly hate everything they do, and profess to not care about them at all, they can't seem to see that their following and commenting on everything they do, are every bit as obsessed as the fawning followers they laugh at!

I think some of it is interesting. I’m thinking in particular of the stuff that reminds you of how fake the whole Instagram thing is and poking holes in the bollocks some of the insta mummies come out with.

I do think the user base is younger than you all seem to think. A lot of the posts I’ve seen in the past pick at some aspects of the parenting that are actually totally normal and label it as bad parenting. I think most of them are older teens.

Havent been on TL but regularly lurk on Guru Gossip and agree, most of the comments are vile at worst and nit-picking at best.

I think almost all of the comments are driven by jealousy. I believe its the anonymity of it that encourages people to be so nasty, if you had to sign in with your Facebook account or something that made you visible I doubt there would be as many unnecessary comments.

Sometimes people will make valid points on lack of transparency etc, but most of the time it seems like hateful trolling: "Omg her toes are so disgusting get a pedicure eww!" or even sharing potentially dangerous information such as an influencers home address.

I often think, wow if i had 1 person make 1 of these comments about me I would be so hurt, imagine having hundreds of people bitching online about every move you make.

I guess it to some extent its part of the job, but I certainly wouldnt be cut out for it.

I came across one of the sites mentioned a year or so ago when one of the influencers hadn’t properly declared a Disney trip as an ad.

I totally agreed with them and they made a lot of good points about declaring ads properly and getting the ASA to act when they weren’t

However, there’s some utterly vile, petty stuff posted on there too which drowns out the good stuff for me.

They talk about getting the rage and weaning themselves off accounts. I don’t get it, why waste so much of your life obsessing over someone you profess to hate?