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Confessions of a Female Flounder part 2

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foreverblowingbubbless · 14/05/2025 04:39

I've embarrassed for Meghan saying that her arranging takeaway food on a plate is the same thing as what Figs Heather Hasson has done 😬

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smilesy · 27/05/2025 13:42

FenellaFeldman · 27/05/2025 13:06

I'm going to say that it's unusual for a 6 year old to wake at 2am. I suspect it's the usual, a story to make her look good.

I would not have been happy if my 6 years old had been excited by the tooth fairy visit, woken me at 2.00 am and then expected to be cuddled all night. That’s not my definition of good parenting 😆

Thedom · 27/05/2025 13:52

When you google how many downloads for Meghans podcast, what do you get ?, the 800k reported in that article today, you could not find a download number for her podcast before that report.

No independent numbers, just Meghan putting a figure out there that will forever show up in any search.

Mylovelygreendress · 27/05/2025 13:57

@Serenster
“And, meantime, what about her customers? The ones who purchased As Ever products, had their money taken, but didn’t receive anything, and haven’t been refunded? They were promised they’d get something in the next drop. Are they expected to wait a year to receive something?”

I didn’t know about this ! How shocking .

Thedom · 27/05/2025 13:59

Harrys hair transplant looks like it might be taking hold this time, the friar tuck bald patch seems to be less obvious in Shanghai yesterday.

Confessions of a Female Flounder part 2
Serenster · 27/05/2025 13:59

In Meghan’s latest podcast she is interviewing Sara Blakely - a really interesting guest who did come up with a market-changing innovation, being Spanx (it all started when she cut the legs off a pair of tights because she was wearing trousers and wanted the smoothing effect of the tights around her midriff, but didn’t want the static cling of them on her legs. And lo - the industry of Lyra-based shapewear was born).

In the podcast she was talking about her new product though - Sneex. Sold as “comfortable high heels”. I was interested enough to look them up. And, erm, they may be the next big thing? But I’m not sure about that…

Confessions of a Female Flounder part 2
AtIusvue · 27/05/2025 14:09

NF are expanding into advertising on their platform but they actually don’t have much reach. Megs product placements and infomercials, are a trial for NF to see if it can actually work.

Her whole ‘business’, is exploiting her fandom base by doing limited drops, with adverts in NF. That’s why they won’t restock. These aren’t good products that people will want to buy over and over again. It’s overpriced rubbish that they know they won’t possibly be able to make a business out of. So this ‘seasonality’ she’s talking about, is just what crap they are going to shift in a one off dumping. It’s all a grift.

Thats why they won’t restock. That’s not the plan. It’s designed to create a buzz and a rush to buy the products. They products themselves won’t be high quality but it doesn’t matter. One it’s gone it’s gone.

This article explains how NF are trying desperately to get into advertising.
https://digiday.com/marketing/over-a-year-and-a-half-later-netflix-still-has-a-long-road-ahead-to-get-advertisers-on-board/

Over a year and a half later, Netflix still has a long road ahead to get advertisers on board

Netflix is currently left offering modest scale in terms of reach, high CPMs, limited targeting capabilities and little in the way of measurement, at least for now.

https://digiday.com/marketing/over-a-year-and-a-half-later-netflix-still-has-a-long-road-ahead-to-get-advertisers-on-board/

Knakeredd · 27/05/2025 14:12

AtIusvue · 27/05/2025 14:09

NF are expanding into advertising on their platform but they actually don’t have much reach. Megs product placements and infomercials, are a trial for NF to see if it can actually work.

Her whole ‘business’, is exploiting her fandom base by doing limited drops, with adverts in NF. That’s why they won’t restock. These aren’t good products that people will want to buy over and over again. It’s overpriced rubbish that they know they won’t possibly be able to make a business out of. So this ‘seasonality’ she’s talking about, is just what crap they are going to shift in a one off dumping. It’s all a grift.

Thats why they won’t restock. That’s not the plan. It’s designed to create a buzz and a rush to buy the products. They products themselves won’t be high quality but it doesn’t matter. One it’s gone it’s gone.

This article explains how NF are trying desperately to get into advertising.
https://digiday.com/marketing/over-a-year-and-a-half-later-netflix-still-has-a-long-road-ahead-to-get-advertisers-on-board/

"Seasonality" drops - is there only one season in Cali?

HiRen · 27/05/2025 14:19

That Fast Company article is TERRIBLE pr for Meghan. She's now squarely in the same category as Harry: the more she says, the more she reveals of herself and proves there's nothing there to see.

She reminds me of a woman I knew who, after the birth of her first child, was very vocal about how she didn't want to be defined by motherhood, that she was more than "just a mum" and needed to be a whole person to be her "true self - I can't suffocate like this". Fair enough, I thought, she'd had a fairly high-earning and high-stress job before she got married, and was married to a pretty high-earning and successful man. She went on to describe this new business she was starting up, using words like "start-up", "business management skills", "inventory management", "market research and data analysis", "quality finding its own market" etc. When I probed a little deeper, turns out she and her neighbour (who had also had a baby around the same time) were making decoupage and pressed flower coasters for their local crafts fair. They had one table, one year. I saw her again the following year and she was utterly disparaging of the local women's inability to make her "product line" go national. She trained as a life coach and I haven't bothered to look at her linkedin recently.

This is what I hear in Meghan's "female founder" bullshit. It's all talk, with zero substance - and she doesn't even realise that when she describes her "partnership" with Netflix she's betraying that they've got her dancing to their tune, that they are using her. Well, she may know it and not care because it's entirely possible that all she really cares about is the talking the talk - perhaps that's her way of using them, that this talking on podcasts and in interviews is all As Ever is really about. With MM, who knows.

Uricon2 · 27/05/2025 14:44

Serenster · 27/05/2025 13:59

In Meghan’s latest podcast she is interviewing Sara Blakely - a really interesting guest who did come up with a market-changing innovation, being Spanx (it all started when she cut the legs off a pair of tights because she was wearing trousers and wanted the smoothing effect of the tights around her midriff, but didn’t want the static cling of them on her legs. And lo - the industry of Lyra-based shapewear was born).

In the podcast she was talking about her new product though - Sneex. Sold as “comfortable high heels”. I was interested enough to look them up. And, erm, they may be the next big thing? But I’m not sure about that…

I hope not @Serenster , they are absolutely bloody hideous (IMHO)

MrsLeonFarrell · 27/05/2025 14:56

Serenster · 27/05/2025 13:02

Also, Meghan’s desire to make this seem like something more noble than a way to monetise her public status wil never not be funny. The article specifically tells us that:

“Over the past few years, even as Netflix’s subscriber numbers have continued to show impressive growth, it has also been exploring how it can create products tied to the content of shows

It then tells us how Netflix approached Meghan about products. Meghan says:

At the time, I had been working towards building out my own in-house team. But I had a complete U-turn because I completely bought into the vision she was sharing, which is where content and commerce meet, not in a product placement way, but rather in an ideological way.”

I think Netflix’s sole ideology here is to make money from its production IP, Meghan. That’s as elevated as it gets. You’re are not curing cancer, you are flogging stuff to fans.

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How she is calling herself a female founder off the back of this is baffling.

Uricon2 · 27/05/2025 14:56

From the Fast piece

“Everything comes from being rooted in the love story of your home and garden, and then you can imagine different verticals coming out of that.”

"Verticals"? Why not say "things" or "ideas" (I presume that's what she means)

It's so pseud.

FenellaFeldman · 27/05/2025 15:01

Uricon2 · 27/05/2025 14:56

From the Fast piece

“Everything comes from being rooted in the love story of your home and garden, and then you can imagine different verticals coming out of that.”

"Verticals"? Why not say "things" or "ideas" (I presume that's what she means)

It's so pseud.

😂😂
Pretentious? Moi?

IdaGlossop · 27/05/2025 15:03

FenellaFeldman · 27/05/2025 15:01

😂😂
Pretentious? Moi?

So Meghan has two love stories, her home and garden, and Harry. But the third and by far the biggest love story is the one Meghsn has with Meghan. Harry's really not that important.

FenellaFeldman · 27/05/2025 15:04

IdaGlossop · 27/05/2025 15:03

So Meghan has two love stories, her home and garden, and Harry. But the third and by far the biggest love story is the one Meghsn has with Meghan. Harry's really not that important.

😂😂❤️

Uricon2 · 27/05/2025 15:06

...the pair shared stories of wearing shoes that pinch and 'cripple' wearers, with Meghan describing how she particularly struggled during her pregnancies.

'I gained 65 pounds with both pregnancies,' the Duchess revealed, continuing: 'And you're in these five-inch pointy-toed stilettos.

'You have the most enormous bump, and your tiny little ankles are bracing themselves in these high heels, but all of my weight was in the front, so you're just going how on earth am I not just tipping, you know faceplanting.
'I was clinging very closely to my husband, I was like please don't let me fall.'"

Erm...did the Ebil Royals forbid her wearing anything lower? Not judging her for wearing heels while pregnant but if she chose to do so while feeling unsafe and uncomfortable it was pure vanity.

Knakeredd · 27/05/2025 15:20

IdaGlossop · 27/05/2025 12:04

There are some new gems in this obscure publication that isn't Vogue, and notably female founders are queuing up to be guest on COAFF series 2 and there will be no new As ever products until 2026 because Meghan is busy analysing the data from the launch sales. Oh, and she's a good mum because Archie woke her up at 2am excited because the tooth fairy had been and she cuddled him all night even though she had lots of meetings in the morning. No other mother has ever done that, have they? https://www.fastcompany.com/91340227/meghan-markle-duchess-of-sussex-confessions-of-a-female-founder-as-ever-netflix

“Those mom moments energize me to be a better founder, a better employer, a better boss.”

Since when? There have been persistent and consistent reports of her being a bully in the workpace - from Canada to the UK to the US. Hounding numerous people from their jobs and emotionally injuring others that they need to seek professional help to recover their mental health.

Besides being the Duchess of Sussex, she’s a podcaster, a philanthropist, a children’s book author, the star of a Netflix show, and the founder of a direct-to-consumer startup.

How are you 'the star' of a NF show when its a docuseries you commissioned about yourself? All the other initiatives are one offs or if repeated are done so on a smaller scale. No traction - because no talent.

“The category of fashion is something I will explore at a later date, because I do think that’s an interesting space for me,”

Hasn't she just done this with her insta shop?

“If I had to write a résumé, I don’t know what I would call myself,” she says. “I think it speaks to this chapter many of us find ourselves in, where none of us are one note. But I believe all the notes I am playing are part of the same song.”

WTAF..!!!.... She is so grandiose and delusional - top entertainment or a rainy Tuesday. Keep 'em coming MM.

FenellaFeldman · 27/05/2025 15:24

This is hilarious 😂 😆!!
Talk about zero self awareness!

IdaGlossop · 27/05/2025 15:28

She gained 65 pounds in both pregnancies. 22 to 28 is typical. (I've just checked.) I don't believe it. That's 4 stone , 9 pounds! She's small. So let's assume she weighed 9 stone before getting pregnant with Archie. That's 129 pounds. She wants us to believe she increased in size by 50% when pregnant. Her reference to her being massive and carrying the weight at the front suggests we're talking about MM (moonbump management) here.

Weepixie · 27/05/2025 15:30

65 pounds each time my arse.

crossposted with Ida.

IcedPurple · 27/05/2025 15:35

Weepixie · 27/05/2025 15:30

65 pounds each time my arse.

crossposted with Ida.

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I work in kg and that's about 30kg isn't it? For a woman Meghan's size that would be about half her pre-pregnancy weight. She did gain quite a bit of weight during pregnancy, as many women do, but it can't have been that much, can it?

Weepixie · 27/05/2025 15:38

Iced, I work on Kgs as well and yes it’s under 30kg.

JSMill · 27/05/2025 15:50

Weepixie · 27/05/2025 15:30

65 pounds each time my arse.

crossposted with Ida.

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Omg why can’t she just tell the truth now and again?

FenellaFeldman · 27/05/2025 15:51

JSMill · 27/05/2025 15:50

Omg why can’t she just tell the truth now and again?

Dunno, it's getting very strange.

IdaGlossop · 27/05/2025 16:07

JSMill · 27/05/2025 15:50

Omg why can’t she just tell the truth now and again?

Tip for you, Meghan. As you said 'both pregnancies' and not 'each pregnancy', you can pretend if You're ever asked that you meant a total of 65 pounds for Archie and Lily together. Of course that's what you meant. 32.5 pounds for each pregnancy just about brings you back into the range of normal.

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