Confessions of a Female Founder fails to chart this week

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It's not good news for Meghan. The podcast by Meghan is out of the Spotify 100 in the US and the UK. With Apple it's not even in the top 200 chart.

https://podcastcharts.byspotify.com/

It's not much better than those instagrammers who make weird concoctions in a tin foil tray.

The "weird concoction" instagrammers are trying to get clicks via shocking the audience. But M is trying to sell her cooking as aspirational.

However, her target market can cook. Most small "c" conservatives can roll out store bought dough, and a good chunk of these ladies can make dough from scratch.

M has posted a sub-par dish with an unappetising and confused presentation. In between the insta fails and restocking fiascos, IMHO, M's chances of becoming a spread-entrepreneur millionaire are rapidly dwindling.

Edit: Added "weird concoction"

It’s utterly baffling isn’t it and also infuriating that she is not pulled up for her hypocrisy. BBC I’m looking at you.

It is massively hypocritical and a kind of slap in the face to those parents who have lost their children and they claim to be 'helping'.
A kind of we're so sorry you lost your child due to the internet but here's ours , on the internet.

I wouldn't cook jam with a three year old, the preparation yes but not the boiling part and I'd certainly not have the child so close to the pan

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Target teamed up with Kate Spade to drop a line of shortbread cookies with flower sprinkles. Half the price and in an attractive tin. The flavors even got good reviews.

First she's lecturing parents about the dangers of the online world. Then she uses her platform with these parents to express relief that her own children being too young for SM.

Then a couple of months ago she was meeting with squaddies in NY who must have been young teens when they followed her on the Tig, and she was interacting with these stranger teens online, promising to meet up with them.

Then she launches her career as a professional trad wife and lifestyle blogger, and takes every opportunity to go on about how perfect and blissfully happy her life is. Her children now making appearances on her SM output. She's selling the sort of unobtainable life that will make some people despair at their own.

Then back to sharing a platform with parents who have lost their children and warning of the dangers of SM.

Then she's sending out more SM output featuring her children yet again.

And that's before we get into her obvious and open involvement with the Sussex Squad, the creme de la creme of online bullies. How is she getting away with the gross hypocrisy and being feted by the BBC to boot?

This, also because of the way they've carried on they're not exactly a trustworthy brand.

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What is this thing of random limbs and out of shot voices of her children?

it's a bit creepy.

Just feature your kids or don't. Just because we don't see their faces, it doesn't mean you're not using them for PR. We're all wise to that little trick these days.

I feel the same, @IcedPurple - it's showing them, but not showing them.
Plus anyway they showed scenes of Prince Archie in the bath on their Netflix show. It's all hypocritical.

The other thing with the Sussex kids is the necessary SM related behaviour around them at home - phones out, photographing/filming everything. It will be very difficult to deter your children from being interested in social media when they get older, if you’ve normalised that everything that happens in the moment is content to be recorded and shared with others online.

As a parent of actual teens, one of the biggest problems I am aware of with social media is this need to perform, be validated, “liked” and judged online, to compare and copy others (whether that is body image, unboxing expensive products, make up tutorials, TikTok dances or just posts projecting that you are having a better life than everyone else). I think it’s important that children live their experiences in the moment and not as a performance to be shared on SM. Otherwise we create a generation of anxious, “main character” performers instead of balanced kids just getting on with living their lives. H&M need to think about this now while their kids are still little.

I think those are very good points, @sleetysnowflakes . The Sussexes choose to seek publicity and have social media to promote their lives. There must always be photographing and filming around the children, even if they obscure part of the face.

After Harry’s criticisms of the Wales DC being brought up in the spotlight and Meghan saying she wouldn’t be able to take Archie to school because of photographers etc etc I am amazed that Harry is agreeing to his DC being used in this way .
As others have said, just because we are not ( at the moment) seeing their faces , it’s still using the DC .

Also, they're using the children for their own celebrity and money making purposes.
Those children aren't going to be working royals who need to get used to the Trooping of the Colour, like the Wales children.

This is genuinely a question, didnt the voice sounded a bit weird abit cartoony I thought, and very grown up for a 3 year old???

I think this is good old BBC "impartiality" at play. Where they don't get stuck into the facts and show a balance of opinions.

Puts me in mind of the point that if it's raining, a journalist should tell you that it's wet out, not canvass opinions to find out.

Ironic at best, offensively tone deaf at worst.

I keep seeing it mentioned how W&C keep a small household with no live in staff, suggesting they are trying to replicate a normal life a bit. I feel like M is now trying to pretend that’s what their life is like now. However with a house the size of theirs there must be lots of people living there.

The podcast everyone wants and which she won’t give them, is a royal themed one.

Devils Advocate here - maybe US shop bought pastry is different and doesn't need rolled out???

She didn't show the finished dish though, which you usually would, just as it's brought out the oven.

Just Listened to the excerpt. Is that really Lili ? She sounds about 15 !

The children are not going to have public facing roles. There is no need for anything about them, even random limbs and voices to be put in the public domain.

The chicken/vegetable part is spread thinly (the chicken looks like it may already have been pre cooked) and the two squares of raw pastry are about 2 inches thick.

I’m not surprised the end result wasn’t posted 🫣

I thought the chicken dish was a take on chicken with biscuits