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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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Hello new Lemmy friends!
Word on the street tells us our community is regularly making it the all page. While this is very cool news to hear, we can see how the sudden emergence of our posts in your feed might feel jarring and probably raises some questions. And also how, without knowing the backstory, our community might appear less than virtuous, so here’s a very brief introduction which hopefully will clear a few things up.
The woman we’re discussing is a body positive influencer and media personality who has gained fame and wealth by lying, manipulating, exploiting her children for content, plagiarizing BIPOC creators and blaming her BIPOC content editor for it (thereby ruining her career), among other things. Her fraudulent behavior is no different (I’d argue worse) from the likes of Jay Shetty (google him if you don’t know who he is or what he did). She’s the latest in a long line of grifting influencers who are abusing their power, taking advantage of their position and exploiting their followers. The difference is that she’s Canadian. Our laws around social media and advertising aren’t as clear (and where they are she’s disobeyed them), add to that, our mainstream media has protected her from those who’ve tried to expose her grift and silenced/intimidated anyone who’s tried to speak out.
Our Reddit sub was taken down due to reports of copyright infringement, which is unfounded and categorically untrue as no one ever tried to steal her work and pass it off as their own. The mods have made an appeal. While at first glance it may seem like we’re just “shitting on her” the sub has been more devoted to investigation and posting proof of her lies than just bitching for the sake of bitching. The reality is that she’s hurt, manipulated and let down a lot of people. She stole intellectual property and employment, caused mental distress and has repeatedly told lies to boost engagement and profit off her audience, so people are understandably upset that their voices are being silenced.
We’re grateful to have been welcomed so kindly by so many of you, and to those sticking around to watch the drama unfold, we’re glad to have you!
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She’s on a high right now because she hit 2.4 million when it wasn’t too long along she was on a steady decline to 2.2. She’s a walking contradiction.
I don’t care if she doesn’t work out but man the lying is so damn obvious. If she worked out she wouldn’t constantly look “perfect” on stories. She’d get those flyaways from sweat, the makeup would run, the hair would be tied back, etc. No she doesn’t work out. She sits at home on her bed or couch and posts nontent. I’d love to see some healthy living content from these bopo nutcases.
It’s the lying for me as well. She says she doesn’t sweat 😅 Someone on Reddit during the RunDisney replied to me and said it’s all the Botox that’s preventing the sweat and any redness in the face! I don’t know much about Botox but I think that’s possible?
They literally use botox to block the sweat glands if you have hyperhidrosis, so I guess it's true, lol.
Oh wow! I learned something new. I thought not sweating would be dangerous.
Well, it would block only a small percentage of the sweat glands and it's used only when sweating a lot (like when it affects your quality of life).
The point of the bopo movement, though, isn’t about healthy living. It’s about accepting bodies exactly as they are. It’s about all bodies being worthy of respect.
Yeah I do understand that. I guess I don’t fully agree with the bopo movement as I don’t see the body as worthy of respect but the human in that body. I’m sure someone with a similar body to her would appreciate seeing that not all active bodies look like super athletes. Especially when someone like TBP is going to gloat about being runner to all her followers.
I just remembered that in the post referenced by this picture, she said something along the lines of how haters who troll her about not working out and being lazy don’t know how she lives her life, that they have “zero clue”. This cracks me up bc she posts every minute detail of her damn day!! oh we know lady. You’ve shown us!
Also she’s “running 3 races THIS MONTH”. Fetch the woman a cross to get up on, post haste!
Yeah don’t get me wrong I think SNL is a complete hypocrite most of the time. Her words undo some of her other words on a regular basis. See the thing is, if more people cared, like you, about the human inside the meat suit, the bopo movement wouldn’t need to exist.
I just wanted to clarify that point about bopo- they usually are not advocates for a particular lifestyle bc most of those lifestyles run parallel to the very insidious diet culture. Ya know?
That’s fair! And I appreciate the clarity. I don’t want to be the voice of misinformation 🫣. Being open to learning and being corrected when wrong is important to me. I love hearing so many other (much more educated) people’s perspectives and understandings on these topics. I learn so much on here. I used to be very pro body positivity but I see the actual harm it’s done to myself and my health so I have second thoughts now. It’s a dog eat dog world out there with the extreme sides of everything competing for our attention. It’s enough to make anyone crazy.
People are annoyed by the body positive movement not for its roots by for who took it over. People with privilege are again taking over a movement. I recommend going to read the article called “#BodyPositive? A critical exploration of the body positive movement within physical cultures taking an intersectionality approach” by Meridith Griffin, K. Alysse Bailey and Kimberly J. Lopez.
In the paper, they examine is how capitalized and white the movement because. Like how only white, cis, fitter or mid sized individuals are the ones using the movement to amplify themselves and that there’s a lack of representation by those that started the movement, and the removal of the platforms of LGBTQIA2S + , older people, actually plus sized people, and disabled people in favor of heavy set or fit white people. They also talk about how it was “commodified and packaged into a product or service for consumption.”
The true body positive movement is to be intersectional, and not meant to make white people (who don’t face as many barriers), money.
Thank you! I’ll read that with my morning coffee now ☕️ 💕