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MLM Bot Watch 76: Commercial cults manifesting disaster for their recruits

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YouOKHun · 05/04/2023 16:15

Just thought I’d start this thread. If someone else has done so simultaneously let me know!

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definitelynotabot · 15/04/2023 13:21

Uber's latest accounts are on CH.. Not sure what to make of them, anyone any good at interpreting these?

Howsimplywonderful · 15/04/2023 15:05

I looked briefly at the accounts and my reading is as follows:

Uber has properties costing 900k in her property management company.
she has a mortgage of 400k and her FL company has loaned the balance from that company. The company has lost money 25k from any income less expenses for the year (again)

Ubers FL company has halved its pension requirements (as I guess now she has property as a pension asset in another company) , but there are rules about property and pensions - very strict ones about using them so not sure about that

I note that her cash reserves are dwindling. She spent another 90k on her property, whether that was a payment to her husband though to reflect the true cost of his work

I think her FL company lost money last year and her retained earnings would have been negative ( the pension adjustment makes it look better than it is). It looks like the glory times of FL are behind Uber as her outgoing are exceeding her income.

NormalForNuneaton · 15/04/2023 15:59

In the usual MLM "instant gratification" style it seems that Castle has acknowledged and become concerned about her youngest having some developmental issues but, hey, less than 48hrs later and all is well, he's back on track Hmm.

Maybe the fact that she's spent time with him rather than putting him in front of a screen playing the same film on repeat (which Castle seems to find endearing) has opened her eyes to the fact that children respond to interaction and their parents face to face attention that isn't via a phone being pointed at them.

Spongebobette · 15/04/2023 16:05

Yes I’d noticed that she thinks sticking him in front of a screen all the time ‘because he loves the film’ is somehow ok

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/04/2023 16:07

My thoughts exactly @NormalForNuneaton

Twentytwentyhindsight · 15/04/2023 21:14

Reminds me of the time Castle was moaning about him being awake in the wee hours and their solution was to strap him into a pushchair parked in front of the giant TV screen and leave him there. It looked like something out of A Clockwork Orange...

PieonaBarm · 15/04/2023 23:29

Bali next weekend and no mention from Yawn for a while, do we think she will even go, never mind it be the big family holiday she claimed it was going to be? Ex-BFF has been on countdown for a while now

BSintolerant · 16/04/2023 00:04

I fear Yawn will be going to the Bali non-event. There’s no show without Punch!

Howsimplywonderful · 16/04/2023 08:54

There seems to be a distinct lack of enthusiasm from most of the bots about Bali

Sugarplum48 · 16/04/2023 09:14

I bet you anything yawn won't be jetting to bali. They'll be some reason/excuse. Mark my words

PieonaBarm · 16/04/2023 09:32

I'm not convinced she'll go, there's no packing/preparing spam coming from her. Be interesting to hear what excuse she gives

Howsimplywonderful · 16/04/2023 10:30

I don’t think yawn will go, she would have been showing her new sun wardrobe in all its glory and all she has managed is a dress.

She’s probably upto her eyeballs in credit card debt, as she has a real shopping addiction, clearly just swapped addictions.

The U.K. is now pretty irrelevant to FL worldwide

NormalForNuneaton · 16/04/2023 11:52

If Yawn goes to Bali I'd be very surprised as it's not like her to miss this opportunity to bang on about it for weeks beforehand.

Like others have said it would have been endless posts about buying new summer clothes due to the weight loss, endless posts about what an amaaaaazing company FL are sending them there .....

Very strange as she definitely said she was going ages ago. Hmm

Interesting though that none of her minions have mentioned it on her posts either. You would have expected them to ask if she was excited, packed her bags or made some reference to it in some way. Hmm

Spongebobette · 16/04/2023 12:30

yawn’s ex bff is doing endless pre Bali prep - beauty treatments galore

Spongebobette · 16/04/2023 12:52

Which is exactly what I do when going to a conference 🙄

fromdownwest · 16/04/2023 13:45

Imagine being married to a bot.

Your only annual holiday is a company conference- half your holiday spent waving flags with other obsessives.

Surely they must look at these trips with a total lack of excitement?

terrywynne · 17/04/2023 17:44

Uber is sounding a bit desperate. I'm sure she didn't use that many emojis in the past...

YouOKHun · 17/04/2023 17:51

The thought of being married to a bot is a nightmarish scenario. Not just being expected to be absorbed into it but also being expected to prop it up financially while watching someone sink deeper and deeper into it and being powerless to stop it. The BBC podcast/TV programme, a Very British Cult described that powerlessness well.

As for Yawn, there is no way we wouldn’t be hearing all about Bali if she was going. She probably removes posts that make any reference to it and will eventually post some carefully crafted statement to explain why she hasn’t gone, “it’s would be unfair to all you poor shabby little people if I was to show off my immense botting wealth so I am staycationing in my gracious home” sort of thing. Meanwhile, over on Mini Yawn’s insta the false health claims are flying. She has made the claim that the aloe drink improves immunity - that has been a big no no recently hasn’t it? Where’s the “training” for her Yawn?

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Sugarplum48 · 17/04/2023 18:09

Mini yawn is also dangerously claiming the aloe goop is a cure for fibromyalgia. That's really not cool mini yawn!!

NormalForNuneaton · 17/04/2023 18:14

There's no way Yawn can be going.

2 of her current Insta stories would have been ideal to "casually drop in" something about it if she was going - one story was about rushing around doing errands (but no mention of the errands being holiday related eg. holiday nails, bikini shopping) and another one was about a customer/bot being on holiday and taking FL holiday products with her (again no reference to "when I go to Bali....")

Can't work out what the excuse will be though

Howsimplywonderful · 17/04/2023 18:47

I’m guessing yawn will feign illness - most likely covid and doesn’t want to pass it around 😀

NormalForNuneaton · 17/04/2023 20:11

....maybe, but why hasn't she implied that she's going and used it in her posts until her illness hits?

For anyone else I would say that maybe their conscience wouldn't allow them to lie and mislead but this is Yawn that we're talking about!

Twentytwentyhindsight · 17/04/2023 22:13

Maybe an explanation is that Yawn didn't really think through the implications of recruiting Mini Yawn.
Dazzled as she might be by the glamorous life Yawn is promising her, she would still probably balk at obvious outright lies. She is close enough to Yawn IRL to probably know that she isn't planning to go and if Yawn was shouting from the rooftops that she was going, that would be a real eye-opener for her.
Obviously we are merely speculating at this point, but maybe Yawn has made a rod for her own back there.

Spongebobette · 18/04/2023 06:35

Mini Yawn is claiming drinking the gel has all sorts of health benefits on her Insta
Even linking to specific medical conditions such as hers and her mum’s as well as general ‘if your children get poorly’ claims

meatbaseddessert · 18/04/2023 09:53

Just wanted to update you in case you aren't in the inner circle. Today nurse is cleaning the washing machine drawer and trying to sort her infected ear piercing.
She's made a list because lists are important otherwise you'll become completely overwhelmed.

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