Social influencer charlatans are imploding during quarantene

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll also add Brittani Boren to this list. Terrible DIY skills and all around basic. Feel bad for her because she lost her baby but have never thought she was very good at her “job”. Fully expect some serious disappointment if the current baby is another boy.

Agreed. There is something deeper going on as well with the constant need fo crank out babies. I thought they had announced the new baby was a boy but maybe I’m making that up because the others are. I also think there is no way she can have undergone any part of the needed grieving process for Crew before immediately getting pregnant again. I worry about her long term mental health.

The nee baby is definitely a boy and she’s now endorsing all sorts of products named after the son who died at Christmas. Very sad. I can’t even begin to imagine what it takes to profit from your child that died not even a year ago.

I did feel a little sorry for her because she was so thirsty for a girl this time around. Another boy doesn't add anything new to her brand and there's no reason for sponsors to send her a FIFTH car themed pack n' play or whatever. I low-key judge them for being reckless with sponsored travel to hotspot areas right now, especially because she's pregnant.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll also add Brittani Boren to this list. Terrible DIY skills and all around basic. Feel bad for her because she lost her baby but have never thought she was very good at her “job”. Fully expect some serious disappointment if the current baby is another boy.

Agreed. There is something deeper going on as well with the constant need fo crank out babies. I thought they had announced the new baby was a boy but maybe I’m making that up because the others are. I also think there is no way she can have undergone any part of the needed grieving process for Crew before immediately getting pregnant again. I worry about her long term mental health.

The nee baby is definitely a boy and she’s now endorsing all sorts of products named after the son who died at Christmas. Very sad. I can’t even begin to imagine what it takes to profit from your child that died not even a year ago.

I did feel a little sorry for her because she was so thirsty for a girl this time around. Another boy doesn't add anything new to her brand and there's no reason for sponsors to send her a FIFTH car themed pack n' play or whatever. I low-key judge them for being reckless with sponsored travel to hotspot areas right now, especially because she's pregnant.

Well they seem to be part of the fringe religious element that doesn’t believe in the virus so the bday trip seemed par for the course.

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I’ve never heard of any of these people. Serious question: how do people hear about these people in the first place? Do wannabe influencers use paid algorithms to get into people’s feeds or something?

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Anonymous wrote:Are we all waiting for the Holderness family to snap, or just me?

I've been waiting for the Stephanie Nielson family to explode for years. She's got FIVE kids. Surely one will rebel and come out as gay, or go to college, or stop being Mormon.

I don't see a divorce EVER happening.

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Gomi is on! Best place to discuss this stuff

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never heard of any of these people. Serious question: how do people hear about these people in the first place? Do wannabe influencers use paid algorithms to get into people’s feeds or something?

Some of these people have press agents so you will read about them in news online from CNN entertainment to Daily Mail. They will make anything a news story. It's all very thirsty, but it works.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never heard of any of these people. Serious question: how do people hear about these people in the first place? Do wannabe influencers use paid algorithms to get into people’s feeds or something?

Some of them are pretty big name and make mainstream celebrity/lifestyle news. Brittani Boren Leach went from a small time Youtuber with about 150k followers on IG to 1 million+ on IG when her baby died in an unsafe sleep situation at a relatives house, and got stories in People. Arielle Charnas owns a clothing brand/blog, Something Navy, and has had her clothing lines sold at Nordstrom. Stephanie Nielsen has had a blog forever and got a ton of mainstream media attention when she was severely injured in a plane crash. Then once you follow a few of them others start to show up. And it’s all downhill from there. Lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Gomi is on! Best place to discuss this stuff

I wish I could register an account but it always says any email address I use is blocked

That place is its own cesspool in a lot of ways.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never heard of any of these people. Serious question: how do people hear about these people in the first place? Do wannabe influencers use paid algorithms to get into people’s feeds or something?

Some of them are pretty big name and make mainstream celebrity/lifestyle news. Brittani Boren Leach went from a small time Youtuber with about 150k followers on IG to 1 million+ on IG when her baby died in an unsafe sleep situation at a relatives house, and got stories in People. Arielle Charnas owns a clothing brand/blog, Something Navy, and has had her clothing lines sold at Nordstrom. Stephanie Nielsen has had a blog forever and got a ton of mainstream media attention when she was severely injured in a plane crash. Then once you follow a few of them others start to show up. And it’s all downhill from there. Lol.

Catie Clobes received attention in a similar fashion, but only because anti-vaxxers convinced her that her daughter died from vaccines, rather than from Catie having a few drinks and bed-sharing.

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Anonymous wrote:Are we all waiting for the Holderness family to snap, or just me?

They seem reasonably well adjusted. They aren’t afraid to look imperfect, unlike some of the aforementioned IGers. Goofy is their schtick, not perfection.

They also have an actual business with paying clients and employees.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never heard of any of these people. Serious question: how do people hear about these people in the first place? Do wannabe influencers use paid algorithms to get into people’s feeds or something?

Some of them are pretty big name and make mainstream celebrity/lifestyle news. Brittani Boren Leach went from a small time Youtuber with about 150k followers on IG to 1 million+ on IG when her baby died in an unsafe sleep situation at a relatives house, and got stories in People. Arielle Charnas owns a clothing brand/blog, Something Navy, and has had her clothing lines sold at Nordstrom. Stephanie Nielsen has had a blog forever and got a ton of mainstream media attention when she was severely injured in a plane crash. Then once you follow a few of them others start to show up. And it’s all downhill from there. Lol.

I didn’t realize that is what happened to Crew. What happened?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never heard of any of these people. Serious question: how do people hear about these people in the first place? Do wannabe influencers use paid algorithms to get into people’s feeds or something?

Some of them are pretty big name and make mainstream celebrity/lifestyle news. Brittani Boren Leach went from a small time Youtuber with about 150k followers on IG to 1 million+ on IG when her baby died in an unsafe sleep situation at a relatives house, and got stories in People. Arielle Charnas owns a clothing brand/blog, Something Navy, and has had her clothing lines sold at Nordstrom. Stephanie Nielsen has had a blog forever and got a ton of mainstream media attention when she was severely injured in a plane crash. Then once you follow a few of them others start to show up. And it’s all downhill from there. Lol.

I didn’t realize that is what happened to Crew. What happened?

+1. Seems like it was suffocation (at a relatives house, baby was able to be put on life support for a while before they had to withdraw care), but I haven't heard any details. Did they share what happened?

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Anonymous wrote:Gomi is on! Best place to discuss this stuff

I wish I could register an account but it always says any email address I use is blocked

That place is its own cesspool in a lot of ways.

Reddit/blogsnark is much better THAN Gomi.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gomi is on! Best place to discuss this stuff

I wish I could register an account but it always says any email address I use is blocked

That place is its own cesspool in a lot of ways.

Reddit/blogsnark is much better THAN Gomi.

This! GOMI never works right.

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Anonymous wrote:The Love Taza/Naomi Davis crew hightailed it out of NYC for Arizona and decided to stay because “Josh got a job”

Yes, I think he "got a job" with Amber and David Fillerup of Barefoot Blonde doing....???? But let's get real, that is smoke and mirrors. Their money making scheme is raising their "5 little New Yorkers!" I think they're toast.

On the flip side, she seemed constantly stressed raising those kids in a very small space for awhile and still not great even after their move. I think they'll have a much better lifestyle outside of Manhattan with space for 5 kids. But yeah, their brand has been sinking for awhile and she can only push out these content babies for so long. It's been awhile since they were "aspirational." They were cute and aspirational when they were in DC with one kid and a dog. More and more kids in a tiny space, Josh quitting his job (no longer the "my husband works so hard!") to work on the blog exclusively and it's a full on business. When shit hit the fan they were out and I can't see a return. They're any other suburban Mormon family in a cul de sac with 5 kids. Yawn.

Really?? Spill the tea! How did you find this out?

This man has an MBA from Columbia right? He dropped a real job for the blog and then his next job is working for those 2? I figured through Mormon connections he found a real job.

He has a BA from Columbia, no further education. He had real jobs with real trajectories and backed out right quick when they realized they could monitize their life and their kids on the blog. Keep pumping them out and get sponsers. They lived the high life for awhile, but a lot of that blog was "BIG family! In NYC!" and they had the most touristy, gross version of NYC possible in my opinion, but things like their extremely cramped living quarters were real. No matter how many colors you paint your furniture, a 2 bedroom NYC apartment with 5 kids has got to be hell. They made it pretty, but IDK. Smoke and mirrors again and I am legit happy for their kids they are at least somewhere they can explore and don't have to be 100% social media props, because that's how it always seemed to me. They have space for a large family in AZ. Naomi occasionally, (VERY occoasionally) just seems super, super depressed. In a sort of "I did all the right things Mormon women are supposed to do. I met a "Columbia guy" and thought he would be successful, but now I have to post 2+ hr postpartum posts of me breastfeeding to generate engagement to fund our lifestlye." He could have been making bank at some hedge fund, but he checked the hell out at like 28 and went Mommy Blog. If you couldn't tell, I would resent him tremendously if I were her We have nothing in common.