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  • zcd
    16·
    6 months ago

    I don’t know what you’re all about but lemmy is rad

      • OddQuality
        18·
        6 months ago

        The Birds Papaya is a “body positive” influencer marketed towards women. On the surface, the values she pretends to espouse are great! Women feeling confident in whatever body they’ve got! That’s how she hooked so many of us former followers. However, once you start paying attention, it becomes apparent that she is just another capitalist shill trying to make a buck at any cost. She’ll post pictures of her body, with captions detailing all the innocuous things she “used to be” self conscious about - leading the viewer to think, “Wait. We’re supposed to feel bad about the way our armpits look?” only for her, totally just by chance, happen to find this great product that will totally fix X,Y,Z problem! She also uses face and body filters and gets extensive cosmetic work on her face, but lies to say she’s just totally natural and real because she’s so at peace with herself now! And you can be, too, for $29.99! Your friend, the Birds Papaya, would never lie to you!

        She also exploits her minor children for content. She has strapped a go pro to her toddler to film content – including ads. She has posted video of her child playing in her bed–when she thought she was alone–from a nanny cam. She forced her oldest to talk about her first period in an ad for period underwear. She talks about where they all live, where the kids work, what events they’ll be attending.

        She has completely plagiarized articles word-for-word on her blog. She deletes and blocks anyone that says anything even moderately critical - so do the brands and media outlets that work with her. And now she’s gone and got her Reddit sub, where the evidence for all of this and more was compiled, banned from the platform.

        Soo anyway, she sucks and people deserve to know lol

      • dankmEnglish
        10·
        6 months ago

        I had to search for her. First glance seemed weird, but pretty innocuous. Didn’t dig any deeper, so I’m giving the GP the benefit of the doubt here that she’s a nutter.

        • Bitchwhiskers
          16·
          6 months ago

          She is part of the body positivity community. Our problem with her is that she proclaims that all bodies are worthy, but she filters her images to holy hell, uses skinny filters like crazy, and in general is a hypocrite. It’s damaging to people who really want to feel valid and worthy in their bodies, but someone we used to find inspirational is lying to us and gaslighting us by denying filters when it’s totally obvious. We are not harassing her. We simply talk about her. It’s venting. It’s us validating each other

      • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I looked up the name of the community, pretty much what the other long comment said

            • Bitchwhiskers
              3·
              6 months ago

              It was going off about pedos and child consent etc. that is a small part of our beef with birdie. But not the primary one at all.