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To think new laws are needed ASAP to protect Mrs Hinch and other influencers

479 replies

vkocy · 01/10/2020 20:40

Mrs Hinch has the number 1 best selling book at the moment where she goes into the heartbreaking trolling she received on tattle. They've been critical at everything from her weight, to her parenting and how her husband looks. It's virtually broken her at times and she felt like quiting the internet all together.

Why isn't this illegal today? Why do people think it's acceptable to give harrasment and hate speech because someone makes their money on social media. In no other workplace would this be accepted. Have people forgotten that Caroline Flack took her own life and nothing has changed :(

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ReeseWitherfork · 02/10/2020 19:57

Baffling that anyone who wants to make money by being a public figure would need protecting from the public. She could always make her Instagram private. Problem solved.

Grapewrath · 02/10/2020 20:01

Mrs Hinch has creamed millions from her followers by peddaling her fake ‘I’m just like you’ crap. No one is trolling her- there are comments about her on tattle but she doesn’t have to use Tattle.
If you put your whole life out here and tell numerous lies, it’s going to catch up.
Mrs Hinch seems nice, but she’s a business woman and a shrewd one at that. She doesn’t care about her followers and likely not about Tattle either. She’s living her dream.

Ihatefish · 02/10/2020 20:01

@Ravenesque sorry you need to work on this influencer shit, where’s your picture of a puppy farmed poodle cross dog wearing a bow tie, airbrushed picture of a kid? You’re really going to have to try harder if you want to make a living being pointless I gather you get even more points if you bag a celeb boyfriend with ideally at least a 20 year age gap lol!

Ravenesque · 02/10/2020 20:10

@Ihatefish

Grin

I am now not all right hun. HELP, I'm being trolled! Smile

RuffleCrow · 02/10/2020 20:15

We don't special laws to protect internet stars! We just need a general standard of decency to be enforced across the internet: you don't do or say anything online that you wouldn't be happy for the whole world and her grandmother to know about.

Ihatefish · 02/10/2020 20:16

@Ravenesque lol hun. Now I’m just waiting for the #bekind posts from your sycophantic followers

SchrodingersImmigrant · 02/10/2020 20:23

@Ihatefish #bekind means obviously nothing to you you horrible horrible person think about what you are saying next time babe xxx

SchrodingersImmigrant · 02/10/2020 20:25

On a serious note. I just can't believe people actually make money from "hacks" like vinegar for cleaning... It's not in any way revolutionary. I've seen newspaper articles about people putting vinegar in their wash with towels. I've been doing that since ever👀 How is that bloody "hack".

ReeseWitherfork · 02/10/2020 20:31

I agree schrodinger

I don’t know a lot (anything?) about Mrs Hinch but my friends have shared “tips” over the last couple of years. They think she’s some sort of revolutionary. Quite concerned none of them learnt this stuff growing up helping their parents with the cleaning?!

FrippEnos · 02/10/2020 20:36

SchrodingersImmigrant

I know it was a joke comment but #bekind only meant something to the b listers that wanted to make the headlines after flack's death.

I expect that many of them have form for being nasty POS.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 02/10/2020 20:39

@ReeseWitherfork mindboggling, isn't it.

@FrippEnos i would maybe go even lower than b listers tbh...

BilboBercow · 02/10/2020 20:41

OP do you really think it should effectively be illegal to criticize or say unkind things about people?
You got exactly the same response on your styled by susie thread which was basically identical

Ihatefish · 02/10/2020 20:43

@SchrodingersImmigrant you’re only jealous of my perfectly airbrushed pictures that bear no resemblance to how I look in real life! Envy is not a good look hun, anyway my 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 sycophantic brain dead followers will be along soon to back me up #whatevercauseiscurrentlydoingtgehashtagthing

Devlesko · 02/10/2020 20:44

I wonder if it will make any difference to sales of her new book, just released.

Vinomummyinlockdown · 02/10/2020 20:48

Urgh please 🙄🥱

FrippEnos · 02/10/2020 20:49

SchrodingersImmigrant

True.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 02/10/2020 20:49

@Ihatefish bbe your being rly unkind to gawj women on mn. ##calmyourtits #bekindbitch

😂

MrsBadcrumble123 · 02/10/2020 21:02

@Newschapter what on earth is a memwah??!

ReeseWitherfork · 02/10/2020 21:04

what on earth is a memwah??! say it aloud 😂

Cya25 · 02/10/2020 21:26

If you actually read Tattle there aren’t any death threats. People call out the lies.

I find it VERY odd that everyone goes on about Tattle but no one questions Mrs Hinch and how she allows STRANGERS to share photos of her son saying they love him? I think that’s extremely wrong and people really need to focus on how very odd it is that she allows this to happen.

Jumpingkangeroo · 02/10/2020 21:30

[quote Ihatefish]@Ravenesque sorry you need to work on this influencer shit, where’s your picture of a puppy farmed poodle cross dog wearing a bow tie, airbrushed picture of a kid? You’re really going to have to try harder if you want to make a living being pointless I gather you get even more points if you bag a celeb boyfriend with ideally at least a 20 year age gap lol![/quote]
And all the huns say it’s gawjuss. Love them
Poodle puppy farm crosses. Boop his nose. Xxx

Ireolu · 02/10/2020 21:33

Influencers choose to influence with that comes opinions positive and negative.

They can close down their SM accounts and do something else for work but they choose not to. I do not feel bad or sorry for them.

Fullof · 02/10/2020 22:32

Did you see the debacle last week with the jusrol and subsequent dash to the food bank?

Carriecakes80 · 02/10/2020 22:42

Influencers do my nut in.

Bloody annoying.

Sue me! lol

Ps who is Mrs Hinch??? lol

Glitteryone · 02/10/2020 22:47

I have downloaded mrs hinches book on Audible and my heart breaks listening to her describing the vile things that she has read online and the effect it has had on her and her family. However, my sympathy stops when I think that she could simply delete her Instagram and step away from the public eye!

I’m sure she’s made a nice little nest egg and her husband has a good job that he’s currently taking a 5 year sabbatical from 🤷‍♀️