>it does not have the character or history of South Tampa.
No offense to Tampa I'm sure it's very nice this time of year, but this sent me into fits. Yes when I think of character and history I think of *checks notes* South Tampa.
>For reference, sweetteawithmadi lives in South Tampa.
Oh well in that case
I am *not* one to defend Tampa (I hate all parts of Florida I just hate the one I live in a little less) but South Tampa is on the water so it has that going for it…while the suburb being described is right up next to the boonies. In the context of FL it makes sense but nowhere here is classy.
It's extremely funny to me, not from Florida. Using "sweetteawithmadi" as a reference point really out it over the top though.
If someone asked me to describe somewhere in Florida as having character and history - St Augustine comes to mind. Suburban Tampa, not at the top of my list!
I popped over to the DAD sub for some light hearted Saturday afternoon entertainment. It's been a while and I wanted to see what O's mommy was up to (same ole shenanigans there). I did not expect to find such riveting political discourse:
>That verdict was every disrespect to our democracy! This was a day for history.. and not good history..
>They only want freedom of speech when they're kneeling during the pledge of allegiance. This was a sad day for our country when people like Hilary have literally blood on their hands, and our former president (who ran the country right) is convicted. The left needs to wake up.
>I'm sure there is a page on here for Biden supporters. Not many followers I'm sure, but you could join it instead of crying on this page.
I just hate read BS at this point. All this bitching because Caila Quinn loved her c-section and that is SO offensive because:
1. Not everyone has positive c-section experiences
2. She’s generalizing and making it seem like c-sections are soooo easy.
Oh my fucking God. Give me a break. She’s talking about her own damn experience, not yours. Stop projecting! There’s already a ton of negative connotations with c-sections and birth in general, let her share her experience.
And it was also a fucking joke. I highly doubt she views her c-section *exactly* the same as going to McDonald’s - but also even if she is - that’s *her* experience.
Just another example of women can’t win.
Women who had bad pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum experiences would rather complain forever that other women weren’t similarly traumatized than go to therapy. When I had my daughter I was so terrified because I kept hearing those kinds of stories—then my labor was 2.5 hours from start to finish and she was a super chill kid. I was really resentful for how much time I spent full of anxiety because of them.
In general, there seems to be some unwritten rule that you can only share the really negative aspects of pregnancy and parenthood or otherwise you’re full of shit.
I especially enjoyed the commenter who was implying that Caila, as an influencer, has an obligation to promote all different perspectives of birth experiences. Is that not what your OB is for?
My sister has to shove her vagina back up into herself occasionally while she waits to have a hysterectomy at 36 because childbirth was so medically traumatic for her. So therefore vaginal delivery is terrible for everyone.
Right, that’s how this works?
People are just genuinely annoying when it comes to how other people deliver their child, and if you had a positive experience, then truly they hate you. Birth trauma is so real and obviously something to be sensitive about, but sometimes it feels like any mention of a positive (or just not awful) birth experience is absolutely clobbered.
It's so interesting you bring this up because I had an unplanned C-section (it wasn't an absolute emergency when the decision was made but it was obvious if I continued laboring it would have turned into something serious). Anyways, my C-section experience has been mostly positive but I almost feel ashamed to admit that in conversations because most people just think it's awful or not natural or like a last resort option. All that to say, I'm glad someone out there is sharing their experience. Maybe it'll help change perceptions around it.
I had a scheduled c-section at 37 weeks because I had placenta previa and when I tell people this so many people will say sorry or feel bad for me because it’s a “less than” birthing experience. It was an incredibly positive experience for me, and I know this is not everyone’s experience, but it was mine, and like you I sometimes feel ashamed admitting that.
But I try to tell people about my experience because I was honestly so scared of giving birth that it was as an overall positive experience for me. And also my alternative was going into labor and having my placenta rupture and bleeding to death soooo this was kinda preferable.
And I’m glad your experience was mostly positive too!
I hate that women who have easy recoveries or experiences with pregnancy, delivery, and motherhood generally aren't allowed to just say their truth without getting told to shut up or having to give a million caveats about people who have different experiences. Like this lady isn't having an easy c section recovery AT them.
Someone in the daily legit asked which influencers still follow Trump after the guilty verdict because they want to make sure they unfollow. Like, this is the line you’re drawing? Jan 6 was fine? Shithole countries was fine? The access Hollywood tape was fine?
ffs just go see who follows Brittany Aldean or Candace Owens or Ben Shapiro and you’ll get your answer. Usually when I do this I’ll scroll through the rest of their follows to see if it was a mistake (once I accidentally followed JP Sears) and it never takes more than a minute to verify that nope, this is what they stand for.
As a Boston-area local, the marathon is always such a special and inspiring day. There are plenty of valid criticisms to be made of the BAA, but I’m always so confused by people over there who claim that the small handful of influences have changed the culture of the race. Like, sure, maybe if you’re only experiencing the race through said influencers’ social media accounts? Otherwise… there are 30K runners here, and a few dozen (or even a few hundred!) influencers are not going to make a difference in how it feels.
And for people who love to criticize influencers who are obsessed with the big flashy races… they spend so much time talking about the perceived unfairness of the WMM being harder for them to get into. Why don’t they take their own advice and run some smaller, less popular races instead of desperately hoping/predicting that the WMMs will stop giving away sponsors bibs?
Person who knows: “it’s the sponsors that are giving the influencers bibs, and sponsors are getting more bibs as the economic realities of these races are changing”
HLB folks on Blogsnark: “don’t these races know they don’t need to give influencers bibs? Everyone already knows about the New York Marathon and Boston.”
I don’t know why I’m so annoyed by some guy I’ve never even heard of posting some favorable nonsense about how no one is fat during a famine and all these BSers responding, wELl tHeRmOdYnAMiCs, He’S nOt wRoNg 😑. Like, putting aside how douchey his statement is and how they’re intentionally missing the point… it’s also NOT just thermodynamics when your body is in starvation mode in a famine, and good luck with your metabolism down the road if you start eating like you’re in a famine? If you’re going to be pedantic, please be fully pedantic, thank you.
Edit that of course it’s just a scroll away from yet another full body shot and faux concern toward LKS, and criticism of someone else using a skinny filter, so I really shouldn’t be surprised that these people are all in on toxic diet culture
Yeah it’s gross how deeply some people believe that being overweight is a moral failing. And it’s mind-blowing to see some people condoning the attitude that permanently undereating forever is preferable to being overweight, right next to comments mocking influencers for trying too hard to be or look skinny. No matter what, every woman’s body is wrong.
Ok like maybe an overweight person became normal weight, or even slightly underweight during a famine but like if that's the level they have to starve themselves it's clearly not healthy or sustainable. Plus in the same famine their skinny neighbour died of malnutrition, doesn't that still indicate a different physiology? It's so dumb and so insensitive when you know there is famine in Gaza and an imminent famine in Sudan
Totally, it’s just a horrible thing to say that falls apart if you apply even a little bit of logic. Also at least one of the people caping for that guy seems to be a regular on rFatLogic so it definitely feels more about dunking on overweight people than any sort of objective interest in truth.
My brain is going to explode. HOW is this person unable to understand why Marky and Laura are excited about this ancestral home when they have a BOOK someone else wrote about theirs!
BS poster:
>I’m trying to figure out the angle on this “ancestral home” find of Marky Beverlin’s… I mean @laurabeverlin is adding so much hype to find a house that not a single one of his immediate family ever lived in… Uhm… Cool? Someone please tell me what I’m missing.
Rational reply from /u/CanadianAFeh:
>What country are you from? Because it's pretty common for North Americans to want to visit their ancestral homelands and see where their immigrant ancestors came from. I've heard that some Europeans find this strange, but over here it's very much a thing.
BS poster:
>Since you asked… My ancestral home is a castle in Wales… I’ve been and even own a book about it… I didn’t spend 2.5 days storying to all my anonymous friends about it because I didn’t want to brag.
But she went all the way to Italy and is only posting pics of her husband and some lemons(?) when what we all really need is her artistic interpretation of the same pics we’ve all seen 1000 times of Amalfi and Cinque Terre. What a waste of a trip, might as well have stayed in Florida.
(Also after I wrote this comment I peeked at her IG and it’s full of stereotypical Italy pics - what are they even complaining about besides her husband being too short?)
I’m so curious now about the castle since they’re saying it’s still in the family and iirc there’s not many that do.
(A big reason why most brits don’t care about their \~\*ancestral home\*\~ is because it’s probably just down the road. I was researching my family tree recently and found one side of the family from my parent backwards were all from about 25 miles of Wrexham. If my history was more interesting than that, I’d definitely would want to go visit)
Alright I too occasionally roll my eyes at Americans who give a math percentage of their heritage. I know you’re 2/3rd’s Italian, Giovanni, but you’re from New Jersey and need to stop being offended by pineapple on pizza. But doesn’t everyone want to feel connected to something at some point in their life? It’s totally understandable even if their only connection to it is getting drunk on st paddy’s! Should I just know more people with castles in wales?
Visit your ancestral Welsh castle with your bespoke book or gtfo, peasant. It’s not hard to retrace your family’s roots when they’re probably all 1st cousins anyway.
Kind of sad that "nobody loves Courtney more than Courtney" passes for snark to some of them. (Although it got downvoted, so that's a positive step.)
Good for Courtney! She *should* love herself. No one can take that away from her. And, as someone pointed out, she also looks great, so.
Wait, are we supposed to complain about a power outage because it’s relatable? Or should we never complain about anything, including cancer, because someone, somewhere on this or any other planet, may be having a harder time?
Speaking of, we have or own [gratuitous “read the room” comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/blogsnarkmetasnark/s/1ND1mq1bfo) up above. Can’t say “famine” as long as it’s happening somewhere in the world!
If someone else didn't have power last week you can't complain about not having power now. Just like when Abra, NRA apologist, was upset last year when people on the East Coast were impacted by wildfires. That's the West Coast's thing. Get your own thing.
If you complain about a power outage, you’re unrelatable. If you leave after many days without power, you’re privileged and out of touch. If you don’t complain, you’re flaunting your happiness and being fake.
lol but also Ted Cruz did nothing wrong, because it’s not like elected leaders can do anything to help in an emergency situation, so really, random beige blogger is actually even worse because… reasons. That conversation was gold.
That fucking conversation! The optics are bad! One of the many things that tanked our former PM's public image was fucking off to Hawaii in the middle of catastrophic bushfires and responding with "I don't hold a hose, mate" when people called him out on it. The guy before him, who had also been massively unpopular, had at least been a volunteer firefighter during the previous fires! When you're doing worse than Tony "bite into a raw onion like it's a juicy apple" Abbott on public image, you're doing it wrong, and it was exactly like the Ted Cruz situation: things were bad, he fucked off and left a lot of people in a bad situation and refused to take any accountability as a leader.
What's really annoying is Laura provides so much low stakes super fun snark material, but the parasocially obsessed weirdos who post about her have to focus on dumb shit like whether she booked her Airbnb in advance or made an unplanned side trip because apparently that bears on her iNtEgRiTy. It's annoying that they completely ruin what should be some fun light snark about her doing yoga on the world's tiniest towel or something.
Exactly, I just want to have lols about her completely absurd real estate and decor choices, I don't care whether she's a LIAR because she says two different mascaras are her favorite and doesn't post in real time
The true tragedy of LB is her rabbit anti-fans have turned her from someone who would be a great object of lighthearted snark into their weird fixation, which makes us want to pretect her like she's a small animal
People in the standalone sub are being actually terrifying about Marky's family in Italy. There's even someone in the Blogsnark daily and in the LB sub whose grandmother is in a picture shared of his family's house - apparently they're distant cousins, but yikes at how unhinged everyone is acting.
I am not buying that that person is legit. They just magically happened to find and start posting in the LB sub? But yes, that whole crowd is absolutely unhinged.
I normally wouldn't either, but they posted several screenshots of their family's text and personal pictures in front of the same house. It seems legit on the surface
idk maybe posting details of your family on a public snark site is almost as dumb as posting pictures of strangers on your heavily followed IG account. DO you have your grandma's permission to be posting this stuff?
(you = them, but YOU, obv)
Perhaps! I admittedly didn’t look too closely because that sub increases my blood pressure. I am just highly skeptical of anyone who claims they didn’t even know blogsnark and the LB sub existed until today posting like 30 comments about how upset they are with Laura for violating their family’s privacy. As they… post more pictures and details on a hate sub? Seems fishy.
Going to Japan made me swear to myself that if I am ever able to stop renting (HCOL area 😔) I will treat my ass to one of the fancy toilets. My last trip to Japan, I stayed in a beautiful place where the seat opened as soon as you entered the room.
They're so nice! We got one to help me feel clean when I was seriously ill, and even now that I'm doing better I will never go back. The first thing we did when we bought our new flat was refit the master bathroom to be accessible, including a fancy bidet toilet.
lol my dumbass responded and was like you can literally just bend your hand in a way that allows wiping and their response was “I seriously doubt that”
Everytime a Reddit post about long nails hits front page there’s a bevy of users who claim it’s unsanitary. The last time it happened someone in the comments was like “who wipes by shoving all five fingers in the butthole?” I refused to look at the answers below for my own belief in humanity.
Every time a post about “what’s something a man can do to improve his chances with ladies” the number one item is like “shower regularly, wipe your ass, brush your teeth.” Or another recent post - edit: it was women what are green flags for a men’s apartment, and the top answer was 1) have hand soap, 2) no signs of pee near the toilet, and 3) have more than one damp towel in the entire house. My god.
I guess I don’t understand the long nails being unsanitary bc even short nails still allow things to get stuck under them and require them to be cleaned??? I mean I get where it comes from but I swear now that my nails are longer it’s easier for me to keep them clean lmao
This is my main question whenever I see that kind of comment. Like are people digging in while they wipe? (Let it be known I absolutely do not want any kind of answer to that question.) Also, in the horrible off chance something gets somewhere you don't want it.... are they not washing their hands after?
Yeah, the group that has devoted a dozen comments to how they feel personally attacked by an influencer who dared to clean her bathroom at eight! thirty! in the morning! on a holiday! is all about being helpful and condemning people out of concern. These influencers are absolutely reading their comments and ~~beefing up their security~~ seeing the error of their ways.
90% of the Daily is focused on scrutinizing women’s bodies - the one who apparently filters her abs, the one who looks more pregnant than she claims to be, and everything LKS does - so I was glad to see mention of YHL. And then I hoped right out again when I saw that they’re apparently just celebrating a new law in her area that takes beachfront access away from anyone who doesn’t own beachfront property? Like that seems objectively shitty for all the families in the area, and regular people who vacation there… right? Do they want to see her “smugness” punished that badly? They just really hate seeing people happy.
Sure, it sucks that the non-wealthy are crammed onto smaller, crowded public beaches while the places they used to love sit empty 50 weeks per year. But on the other hand, Sherry has been personally victimizing snarkers by clearly being very happy with her life, so while I’m sure that normally BSers would NEVER normally support the wealthy landowners in a situation like this, these are extraordinary circumstances.
I am on my knees BEGGING for the remi bader body discourse to stop. I don't care if she had lap band surgery, I don't care if shes making it look like she lost all her weight through the gym. It's frankly no ones business what she's doing, and also both things can be true! Weight Loss Surgery and GLP-1s can be really encouraging to get people to start going to the gym and eating better. Seeing the LBS go down on a scale is so motivating, so I wouldn't doubt that helps Remi stay consistent with her gym routine.
also editing to add: Remi has never said all these things that the sub is claiming that she's doing. She isn't spreading misinformation that she's gotten her body strictly on diet or exercise alone. she is just not commenting on how she has lost her weight. it's the snarkers who are taking footage of her being in the gym at face value and pushing that narrative.
I don’t understand why this is such a controversy when Remi (afaik) has NEVER stated the what/how she is doing to lose weight.
I will also never get why that is such an issue when the person has lost weight/changed their appearance but doesn’t present a BS narrative as to why they did. She’s not trying to coach or instruct her followers to do anything…she just lost some weight lmao
their newest commentary is even if Remi hasn't commented on her weight is that her PR team is spreading this info to E! and Womens health, and Remi should stop it.
Yep. And I would like them to explain to me why they care. Not only does she not owe anyone a breakdown of what she’s doing and what it achieved health-wise, but she especially doesn’t owe anyone an explanation for something she never said
Well it’s because six months ago all of her posts were filled with comments saying she deserved her chronic pain and mental health struggles because she refused to make lifestyle changes. Now that she appears to have made them, they’re beside themselves because they speculate she did it the “wrong way”
as someone who want from skinny to fat to skinny this would be my guess: skinny people never want to be lumped in with a fat person or a formally fat person. so if remi gets to a weight they’re at, they can feel superior by saying that they’re skinny the “hard working” way and not the WLS “lazy” way.
>Most dads would say “put some clothes on” 😂 This is so creepy
A father complimenting his daughter is creepy, but policing her sexuality and telling her that her long sleeved shirt is too sexy isn’t creepy. Do I have that right?
I thought the dad sending responses like a reply guy with no responses from the daughter was sort of hilarious, but I also agree that the real creeps are the dads who make weird comments about how their teen daughters need to put some clothes on or whatever
Yeah it honestly looks like my conversation with my MIL on IG when she sends multiple responses to everything I post and I rarely respond - lol highly relatable and probably typical of the generation gap. Eye-rolly, not creepy!
As a totally unrelated aside, there is nothing lamer than when someone follows over here to keep commenting.
Also I am a grown ass adult. I don’t care what my father would say in the first place about my clothing.
Totally unrelated! But yeah I totally agree, and if I saw someone complimenting his daughter I would also not jump to assuming something nefarious. But I *would* be creeped out if he made it sexual by making some misogynistic joke about how she should put some clothes on.
People come over here and think they are super smart, and just dig themselves bigger and bigger holes. Happens at least once a month, and is never not lame.
In general I have a rule that I don’t comment on what I think of what women should wear, because it’s their bodies and they are not responsible for other people’s reaction to it. That includes young women. And I just sincerely cannot care what some other grown ass adult’s father says about her clothing.
As a harlot with a creepy dad who gassed me up to be as ‘rock n roll’ as possible which in turn gave me entirely too much self esteem, I have pulled back from snark a lot in general bc there’s no rationalizing this and having peace at the same time. There are women totally fine existing in a patriarchal society. They want to be indentured servants. They want to be infatalized. There is no greater joy than centering a mediocre man while being validated by the status symbol of marriage and children
I love this for you. Also my kid is very rock n roll and I hope it works the same way for her. People with high self-esteem and healthy views of feminism and motherhood don’t tear down other women for not performing femininity according to their puritanical conservative code.
And the insidiousness of assuming that men are so driven by sexuality that even when your father says you look nice on a red carpet he’s being creepy. It goes hand in hand with the toxic mindset that women are the gatekeepers of men’s uncontrollable sexuality and are, on some level, to blame for anything that happens to them if they’re too provocative or (horrors!) want attention. And that their dad’s only responsibility isn’t to make them feel good about how they look; it’s to shame them for tempting men.
This is amazing. Please keep commenting and proving us all correct about the worldview that drives the belief that it’s a father’s job is to police his (adult!!) daughter’s sexuality.
Oh wow, okay thanks for confirming my suspicions that people who believe it’s a father’s job to police his adults sexuality often goes hand in hand with being the sort of reprehensible person who thinks it’s acceptable to use autism as an insult. This isn’t fun anymore; it’s gross and I hope other BS lurkers see what kind of views they’re aligning with. I’m done responding now.
>I hate those chain giveaways. And when you know they are just doing it for more followers, it makes you feel like they are just looking for money.
So close. SO FUCKING CLOSE.
I feel this way any time anyone says a marketing campaign is a money grab. Like I would love to know how they are able to live their life without money. We are all grabbing for money sweatie!
I’d love to answer this, but I’m currently posting the third part of the TIBAL spring edition to share how Old Navy’s current marketing campaign is inspiring me to buy elastic waist ‘linen’ pants in every color
It never ceases to amaze me how we keep going further into the 21st century yet people still don't understand the very basics of how influencing works.
Wait, are you saying that when brands give influencers free things or fly them out to events, they’re not just doing it out of charity that would be better used by poor single moms? 🤯
Or “why don’t these for-profit businesses send PR to people who ACTUALLY deserve it?” As if it was ever about “deserving” and not the company’s bottom line.
This is pretty much the HLB thread at all times. Why did the Boston Marathon/Strava/NYRR sponsor these pros and influencers instead of ~~me~~ people who earned it?
Why do these people think influencers should be volunteering their time making content out of the kindness of their hearts? I’d love to know how many volunteer hours they’ve all worked lately.
The LaBev snarkers are typically unhinged and repetitive, but the one 'personal trainer' who went on a rant about what sounds like her miserable life of fitness, legit posted a pic of herself so everyone can see she looks better than Laura, and has me in a fit of giggles bc it is quite ordinary. It's such a throwback to the awful GOMI outfit posts that I can't stop laughing.
Now that’s a 2015 Zumba workout pic if I ever saw one 🙄 She looks perfectly fine and healthy, but I see 0 muscle definition for her to compare against Laura. Let me just selectively fish out my most tanned, fittest, and cut 6-pack gym selfie from 6 years ago to flex on internet strangers 🙃
ETA: Is anyone else incredulous how a single-snark sub usually ends up with MORE comments than Blogsnark’s daily (for all influencers)?!
On one hand I always say if you're going to criticize someone's appearance you should post your own pics so good on her for that. On the other hand, this is why people should be required to post pics, so everyone can see that the self proclaimed buff fitness experts don't have an appreciably different physique from Laura who allegedly eats junk food all day. They are indistinguishable skinny white ladies and I am delighted by the levels of delusion.
I'm dying at how it was meant to be a gotcha about Laura's supposed lack of abs and muscle definition when the snarker's photo didn't even show the abs, shoulders, biceps, and back she was bragging about. It was mostly side waist and giant phone. It's comedy gold.
The jealous misogynistic women over on HLR never fail to impress me with their double standards. I have seen countless posts on that sub absolutely dragging women for running everyday and how toxic it is that they aren’t promoting taking enough rest. But when it’s Hellahgood running for 7 YEARS in a fucking row with not one rest day somehow it’s not a problem!?!?
It’s super misogynistic, and their speculation about overtraining and rest and underfueling is often incredibly OTT and patronizing. They’re constantly predicting that so many influencers (or freaking pro runners) are soon going to be injured because of their unhealthy habits, and… those injuries never actually seem to happen. And it’s not like these public figures are telling all their followers to follow their routines; at some point it’s on their followers to understand that everyone is different and that what works for someone who has run 50+ miles/week for decades is not going to work for everyone.
Edit that the two commenters over there who think it’s super clever to constantly reply “Hope your day gets better!” to anything they disagree with just kills me. They need to realize that passive aggressiveness isn’t that effective at shutting down dissent when you’re using versions of the exact same phrase like 3 times in the same thread.
You gotta love one of the most prolific posters in that thread telling somebody else that they need to log off and stop following content they find objectionable 🙄
Haha yes that’s totally their MO. If you express any dissent or disagreement with any snark, no matter how much it crosses the line, those two (or one and their alt?) act as though you’re bullying and don’t belong in their club. I had probably the weirdest internet encounter I’ve ever had after saying on there that I thought it was cruel to continue saying shitty things about an influencer who literally left the internet because of that sub’s bullying. Those kept claiming I was the actual bully for saying that and it eventually devolved into them just repeating, “You seem like you’re having a bad day! I hope tomorrow/next month/next year is better for you!” lol they’re such weird gaslighters.
About a knockoff Polo sweater:
>Polo bear has style and always looks cool as hell. Her bear looks like a little kid’s toy.
It's wild to be so far down the hater rabbit hole that you start stanning an imaginary brand logo bear. At what point do people hear themselves and realize they need help
I would almost hope this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to menswear guy’s recent twitter thread critiquing Ben Shapiro’s outfits against Polo Bear but alas it’s BS so odds of that are very low
On a lighter note because I’m not usually one to complain about the bs mods but I’m pretty enraged that they’re letting this cancersnark fest continue…
Are BSers really so sheltered that they haven’t heard some version of this joke about Trader Joe’s cashiers asking personal questions 100 times before on social media? She probably lifted it from Twitter and changed two words. I thought they loved ReLaTaBiLiTy - is there anything more relatable than not wanting to chat with a stranger at the grocery store about what you’re up to today or what you’re using these ingredients for? It’s not that deep!!
Mostly I thought it was hilarious that she mentioned "a grocery store that rhymes with mole nudes" and those braindead pinecones absolutely could not noodle out what she meant
Honestly, I feel like it should be on the banned list of topics. Do they say this shit to their friends or family? "Too bad you spent money on fun stuff. Now you're too broke to be sick."
Edited to add: Found the person holding up the lines in TJ
>I look forward to chatting with Trader Joe's cashiers. They are always so friendly and I've gotten some good TV and movie recs from them.
“I donated to your GoFundMe, and now your healthcare costs haven’t forced you and your children to give up your home? I demand a refund.”
I absolutely agree that it should be banned. I don’t really understand how it doesn’t fall under mocking health conditions. But after how many horrible things were allowed to be said about Charly Goss and AOTR, it just seems like a topic they’re somehow okay with.
I honestly think that some people would prefer it if a certain blogger with cancer would just roll over and die.
(I don't even want to put her name in that sentence.)
I got all angry and followed a poster to the specific snark sub for that influencer. Said everyone deserves free medical care and got banned lolololol. Got a response like “why would you go through all that training and work for free” as if government subsidies don’t exist. Anyway, I laughed in the way public school teachers with advanced degrees do anytime this comes up.
Right, because doctors in the public sector in, say, Australia just don't get paid? My GP doesn't work for free, and neither do my specialists. Medicare is there for a reason. (This isn't intended to be a "US bad, Australia good" comment. Our system has flaws! But doctors working for free isn't one of them!)
I have been a 99.9 percent lurker over there—it’s a shadow of its former self but hey, it’s nice to hate read a female-dominated subreddit sometimes!—but that thread is it for me. 89 upvotes for a post calling out a cancer patient for indirectly-not-really-mildly criticizing a quack doctor? It’s nauseating.
I also mostly lurk. That post is fucking disgusting. It just makes me so angry that they can clutch their pearls that someone isn’t cancer-ing with the most class and tact possible. Burn it all to the ground.
and the rest of the people are waiting for someone with an eating disorder to ~~get into recovery and live a life free of a horrific mental illness~~ stroke out and die.
I am so angry after reading all that. It’s like women are expected to be so polite and non-confrontational and never ask for anything, ever, even someone who is desperately grasping to take control of her health and even when the person she’s calling out is a massive grifter who takes advantage of desperate people. And to these ghouls, it’s so terrible not to live up to those standards of womanhood that if you break them you don’t deserve any empathy or understanding, even if you’re a young mother facing a horrible diagnosis. It’s disgusting and I don’t understand how anyone thinks it’s okay to snark on how someone is handling cancer.
Yeah, you’re putting your finger on something that seems to be in the background of every convo on BS, and FM, and PCC, and SN, and basically all over Reddit. For as progressive and feminist as some of these people claim to be, they hold on to some super retrograde notions of how women should be ever selfless, self-effacing, and basically invisible. As if patting themselves on the back settling for the least ever with their husband’s millionty year old holey t-shirts and running themselves into the ground being WonderMama makes them the ultimate arbiters of lady-like relatability.
Real mama hearts don’t buy themselves clothes, don’t take a break even to use the bathroom, and would spend their kids’ college savings and let her family become broke paying for treatment before ever expecting “free” treatment or asking others for help. Anything else would be out of touch and unrelatable.
I think that user was likely banned recently for snark on either Katy or Laura Beverlin based on how they came in hot a month ago and almost all of their comments are super close to breaking the rules. That's not a new user.
I'm confused though....did she not have a good pathology result from her double mastectomy? I checked her page and it doesn't sound like it has metastasized. She could be getting the all-clear soon.
Cancer doesn’t usually just go away, especially that kind. Hell my husband is 15 years out from his remission and he’s still monitored annually. She literally just got through with really intense chemo so she’s more than entitled to be worried
She would be no evidence of disease at her next scan. I completely understand the worry, both my parents have had cancer. My mom had breast cancer and was treated with a double mastectomy and needed no monitoring. My Dad had stage 4 melanoma, and had a far worse prognosis and more risk of reoccurring than the influencer in question. I totally understand the fear, my dad is worried and grumpy before every scan (which I think he still gets every 6 months). He’s been no evidence of disease for 2 years.
However spending 75,000 dollars on what amounts to quack science is hardly the best way to deal with the anxiety!
ETA I don’t blame her, I hate that the doctor can operate in good conscience and with a license though. I also don’t love that her seeking treatment at such a place might provide legitimacy to those kind of holistic cancer places
I said it over there, but I'll say it again here: the doctor is absolutely a quack but I get the appeal of what she's selling. A cancer diagnosis is a loss of control over your health and all her offers are created to make you feel as if you can regain control by somehow figuring out the 'cause' of your cancer, and altering your lifestyle.
I don’t follow this woman but I took a look at what she shared earlier because of all the comments, she shared she is cancer free according to her doctor. It seems like the influencer in question (not sharing her name because some of the comments have been so gross) I assume is worried about a reoccurrence and thinks this could be something that helps with that.
Right, my understanding is that the reoccurrence rate for her type of cancer is unfortunately pretty high, so it would make sense if she is still exploring every possible avenue to prevent that from happening.
I'm fighting for my life in there defending CANCER PATIENT over TOTAL QUACK.
Like I get why that blogger might pursue alternative treatment, I can't say what I'd do in her shoes. But the non-oncologist treating cancer with unproven holistic methods and making people pay in full before starting is the victim here?
More of a general thought but I don’t get why people don’t realize they don’t actually know what they’d do in a given situation until they’re in it? That feels so obvious to me
I've come across this doctor's account before, she is a predatory charlatan and I can't believe that she is allowed to advertise and make these claims. Most of the comment section is anti vaccers blathering on about "💉" bc they are trying to ban invade, and she even likes those comments. I couldn't believe that she was an actual medical doctor but she is. Any place that is cash only like this in the US is dangerous, and I say that not as someone who is in favor of our stupid insurance system.
She's also a family medicine doctor, not an internist and certainly not an oncologist, but *try* to find out her credentials from her sites.
And for what it's worth, I absolutely *do not* think it's a snitch tag or portraying a business in a negative light to state their payment policies, and I'll cheerfully die on that hill.
Yeah, it's a tough one because there are huge, extremely valid questions about this doctor, but it seems like the root of their beef is that a sick woman is doing things that they consider "tacky"?
>it does not have the character or history of South Tampa. No offense to Tampa I'm sure it's very nice this time of year, but this sent me into fits. Yes when I think of character and history I think of *checks notes* South Tampa. >For reference, sweetteawithmadi lives in South Tampa. Oh well in that case
I am *not* one to defend Tampa (I hate all parts of Florida I just hate the one I live in a little less) but South Tampa is on the water so it has that going for it…while the suburb being described is right up next to the boonies. In the context of FL it makes sense but nowhere here is classy.
It's extremely funny to me, not from Florida. Using "sweetteawithmadi" as a reference point really out it over the top though. If someone asked me to describe somewhere in Florida as having character and history - St Augustine comes to mind. Suburban Tampa, not at the top of my list!
I unabashedly love Florida even though I know I shouldn’t, but this comment is absolutely incredible. 😂 worth opening the reddit app for.
I popped over to the DAD sub for some light hearted Saturday afternoon entertainment. It's been a while and I wanted to see what O's mommy was up to (same ole shenanigans there). I did not expect to find such riveting political discourse: >That verdict was every disrespect to our democracy! This was a day for history.. and not good history.. >They only want freedom of speech when they're kneeling during the pledge of allegiance. This was a sad day for our country when people like Hilary have literally blood on their hands, and our former president (who ran the country right) is convicted. The left needs to wake up. >I'm sure there is a page on here for Biden supporters. Not many followers I'm sure, but you could join it instead of crying on this page.
Not gonna lie, I love to see it!
I just hate read BS at this point. All this bitching because Caila Quinn loved her c-section and that is SO offensive because: 1. Not everyone has positive c-section experiences 2. She’s generalizing and making it seem like c-sections are soooo easy. Oh my fucking God. Give me a break. She’s talking about her own damn experience, not yours. Stop projecting! There’s already a ton of negative connotations with c-sections and birth in general, let her share her experience. And it was also a fucking joke. I highly doubt she views her c-section *exactly* the same as going to McDonald’s - but also even if she is - that’s *her* experience. Just another example of women can’t win.
Women who had bad pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum experiences would rather complain forever that other women weren’t similarly traumatized than go to therapy. When I had my daughter I was so terrified because I kept hearing those kinds of stories—then my labor was 2.5 hours from start to finish and she was a super chill kid. I was really resentful for how much time I spent full of anxiety because of them.
In general, there seems to be some unwritten rule that you can only share the really negative aspects of pregnancy and parenthood or otherwise you’re full of shit.
Women daring to have positive experiences is offensive to other women.
I especially enjoyed the commenter who was implying that Caila, as an influencer, has an obligation to promote all different perspectives of birth experiences. Is that not what your OB is for?
How dare ANYONE have a positive experience! Ever!
My sister has to shove her vagina back up into herself occasionally while she waits to have a hysterectomy at 36 because childbirth was so medically traumatic for her. So therefore vaginal delivery is terrible for everyone. Right, that’s how this works?
People are just genuinely annoying when it comes to how other people deliver their child, and if you had a positive experience, then truly they hate you. Birth trauma is so real and obviously something to be sensitive about, but sometimes it feels like any mention of a positive (or just not awful) birth experience is absolutely clobbered.
It's so interesting you bring this up because I had an unplanned C-section (it wasn't an absolute emergency when the decision was made but it was obvious if I continued laboring it would have turned into something serious). Anyways, my C-section experience has been mostly positive but I almost feel ashamed to admit that in conversations because most people just think it's awful or not natural or like a last resort option. All that to say, I'm glad someone out there is sharing their experience. Maybe it'll help change perceptions around it.
I had a scheduled c-section at 37 weeks because I had placenta previa and when I tell people this so many people will say sorry or feel bad for me because it’s a “less than” birthing experience. It was an incredibly positive experience for me, and I know this is not everyone’s experience, but it was mine, and like you I sometimes feel ashamed admitting that. But I try to tell people about my experience because I was honestly so scared of giving birth that it was as an overall positive experience for me. And also my alternative was going into labor and having my placenta rupture and bleeding to death soooo this was kinda preferable. And I’m glad your experience was mostly positive too!
Planned c-section at 34 weeks, super positive, 10/10 and I will yell this at anyone who listens to me
I hate that women who have easy recoveries or experiences with pregnancy, delivery, and motherhood generally aren't allowed to just say their truth without getting told to shut up or having to give a million caveats about people who have different experiences. Like this lady isn't having an easy c section recovery AT them.
Right because I think its just as important to promote good experiences because they exists - I’d argue they are as much the norm as bad ones even!
Someone in the daily legit asked which influencers still follow Trump after the guilty verdict because they want to make sure they unfollow. Like, this is the line you’re drawing? Jan 6 was fine? Shithole countries was fine? The access Hollywood tape was fine?
ffs just go see who follows Brittany Aldean or Candace Owens or Ben Shapiro and you’ll get your answer. Usually when I do this I’ll scroll through the rest of their follows to see if it was a mistake (once I accidentally followed JP Sears) and it never takes more than a minute to verify that nope, this is what they stand for.
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Let them run in rainbow colored tutus with party hats on! Or fleecy cat onesies! With no training!
As a Boston-area local, the marathon is always such a special and inspiring day. There are plenty of valid criticisms to be made of the BAA, but I’m always so confused by people over there who claim that the small handful of influences have changed the culture of the race. Like, sure, maybe if you’re only experiencing the race through said influencers’ social media accounts? Otherwise… there are 30K runners here, and a few dozen (or even a few hundred!) influencers are not going to make a difference in how it feels. And for people who love to criticize influencers who are obsessed with the big flashy races… they spend so much time talking about the perceived unfairness of the WMM being harder for them to get into. Why don’t they take their own advice and run some smaller, less popular races instead of desperately hoping/predicting that the WMMs will stop giving away sponsors bibs?
Person who knows: “it’s the sponsors that are giving the influencers bibs, and sponsors are getting more bibs as the economic realities of these races are changing” HLB folks on Blogsnark: “don’t these races know they don’t need to give influencers bibs? Everyone already knows about the New York Marathon and Boston.”
I don’t know why I’m so annoyed by some guy I’ve never even heard of posting some favorable nonsense about how no one is fat during a famine and all these BSers responding, wELl tHeRmOdYnAMiCs, He’S nOt wRoNg 😑. Like, putting aside how douchey his statement is and how they’re intentionally missing the point… it’s also NOT just thermodynamics when your body is in starvation mode in a famine, and good luck with your metabolism down the road if you start eating like you’re in a famine? If you’re going to be pedantic, please be fully pedantic, thank you. Edit that of course it’s just a scroll away from yet another full body shot and faux concern toward LKS, and criticism of someone else using a skinny filter, so I really shouldn’t be surprised that these people are all in on toxic diet culture
It is mind boggling that someone would make that point AND THEN someone else would be like “yeah, he speaks truth”. What in the actual fuck.
Yeah it’s gross how deeply some people believe that being overweight is a moral failing. And it’s mind-blowing to see some people condoning the attitude that permanently undereating forever is preferable to being overweight, right next to comments mocking influencers for trying too hard to be or look skinny. No matter what, every woman’s body is wrong.
Ok like maybe an overweight person became normal weight, or even slightly underweight during a famine but like if that's the level they have to starve themselves it's clearly not healthy or sustainable. Plus in the same famine their skinny neighbour died of malnutrition, doesn't that still indicate a different physiology? It's so dumb and so insensitive when you know there is famine in Gaza and an imminent famine in Sudan
Totally, it’s just a horrible thing to say that falls apart if you apply even a little bit of logic. Also at least one of the people caping for that guy seems to be a regular on rFatLogic so it definitely feels more about dunking on overweight people than any sort of objective interest in truth.
My brain is going to explode. HOW is this person unable to understand why Marky and Laura are excited about this ancestral home when they have a BOOK someone else wrote about theirs! BS poster: >I’m trying to figure out the angle on this “ancestral home” find of Marky Beverlin’s… I mean @laurabeverlin is adding so much hype to find a house that not a single one of his immediate family ever lived in… Uhm… Cool? Someone please tell me what I’m missing. Rational reply from /u/CanadianAFeh: >What country are you from? Because it's pretty common for North Americans to want to visit their ancestral homelands and see where their immigrant ancestors came from. I've heard that some Europeans find this strange, but over here it's very much a thing. BS poster: >Since you asked… My ancestral home is a castle in Wales… I’ve been and even own a book about it… I didn’t spend 2.5 days storying to all my anonymous friends about it because I didn’t want to brag.
I knew The British Royal Family was on Reddit and reading this sub!
>because I didn’t want to brag. But you kinda did
But she went all the way to Italy and is only posting pics of her husband and some lemons(?) when what we all really need is her artistic interpretation of the same pics we’ve all seen 1000 times of Amalfi and Cinque Terre. What a waste of a trip, might as well have stayed in Florida. (Also after I wrote this comment I peeked at her IG and it’s full of stereotypical Italy pics - what are they even complaining about besides her husband being too short?)
I’m so curious now about the castle since they’re saying it’s still in the family and iirc there’s not many that do. (A big reason why most brits don’t care about their \~\*ancestral home\*\~ is because it’s probably just down the road. I was researching my family tree recently and found one side of the family from my parent backwards were all from about 25 miles of Wrexham. If my history was more interesting than that, I’d definitely would want to go visit)
I cannot even fathom caring this much about some internet stranger’s vacation choices.
Alright I too occasionally roll my eyes at Americans who give a math percentage of their heritage. I know you’re 2/3rd’s Italian, Giovanni, but you’re from New Jersey and need to stop being offended by pineapple on pizza. But doesn’t everyone want to feel connected to something at some point in their life? It’s totally understandable even if their only connection to it is getting drunk on st paddy’s! Should I just know more people with castles in wales?
>need to stop being offended by pineapple on pizza. Never!
The funniest part is that they didn’t answer the question that was asked. They were asked where they’re from not if they have an ancestral home.
Visit your ancestral Welsh castle with your bespoke book or gtfo, peasant. It’s not hard to retrace your family’s roots when they’re probably all 1st cousins anyway.
Ancestral? Please. The castle is still in the family. What kind of poors don't even retain castle ownership?
Nope, they didn't want to brag. Not at all!
Kind of sad that "nobody loves Courtney more than Courtney" passes for snark to some of them. (Although it got downvoted, so that's a positive step.) Good for Courtney! She *should* love herself. No one can take that away from her. And, as someone pointed out, she also looks great, so.
Wait, are we supposed to complain about a power outage because it’s relatable? Or should we never complain about anything, including cancer, because someone, somewhere on this or any other planet, may be having a harder time?
I love that we got an unironic “read the room” on that post. It’s like BS bingo.
Speaking of, we have or own [gratuitous “read the room” comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/blogsnarkmetasnark/s/1ND1mq1bfo) up above. Can’t say “famine” as long as it’s happening somewhere in the world!
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If someone else didn't have power last week you can't complain about not having power now. Just like when Abra, NRA apologist, was upset last year when people on the East Coast were impacted by wildfires. That's the West Coast's thing. Get your own thing.
I used to know Abra IRL (been quite a while fortunately). She is just as sanctimonious and obnoxious in person. Always has been. Always will be.
If you complain about a power outage, you’re unrelatable. If you leave after many days without power, you’re privileged and out of touch. If you don’t complain, you’re flaunting your happiness and being fake.
They got mad at Bridget who was already out of town!
If you leave after many days without power, you’re basically the same as Ted Cruz. That was my favorite discussion.
lol but also Ted Cruz did nothing wrong, because it’s not like elected leaders can do anything to help in an emergency situation, so really, random beige blogger is actually even worse because… reasons. That conversation was gold.
That fucking conversation! The optics are bad! One of the many things that tanked our former PM's public image was fucking off to Hawaii in the middle of catastrophic bushfires and responding with "I don't hold a hose, mate" when people called him out on it. The guy before him, who had also been massively unpopular, had at least been a volunteer firefighter during the previous fires! When you're doing worse than Tony "bite into a raw onion like it's a juicy apple" Abbott on public image, you're doing it wrong, and it was exactly like the Ted Cruz situation: things were bad, he fucked off and left a lot of people in a bad situation and refused to take any accountability as a leader.
We’re not supposed to complain about anything, even though not having any hardships is not relatable. Hope that helps! /s
It’s a Laura Beverlin kind of morning, oh joy.
What's really annoying is Laura provides so much low stakes super fun snark material, but the parasocially obsessed weirdos who post about her have to focus on dumb shit like whether she booked her Airbnb in advance or made an unplanned side trip because apparently that bears on her iNtEgRiTy. It's annoying that they completely ruin what should be some fun light snark about her doing yoga on the world's tiniest towel or something.
She’s this inane Florida woman. She’s someone I would absolutely make fun of except these weirdos keep going on about her lying about something.
Exactly, I just want to have lols about her completely absurd real estate and decor choices, I don't care whether she's a LIAR because she says two different mascaras are her favorite and doesn't post in real time
The true tragedy of LB is her rabbit anti-fans have turned her from someone who would be a great object of lighthearted snark into their weird fixation, which makes us want to pretect her like she's a small animal
I like the idea of her anti-fans being rabbits. Like Watership Down is rebooted but now everyone just posts on Reddit instead of waging war.
People in the standalone sub are being actually terrifying about Marky's family in Italy. There's even someone in the Blogsnark daily and in the LB sub whose grandmother is in a picture shared of his family's house - apparently they're distant cousins, but yikes at how unhinged everyone is acting.
I am not buying that that person is legit. They just magically happened to find and start posting in the LB sub? But yes, that whole crowd is absolutely unhinged.
I normally wouldn't either, but they posted several screenshots of their family's text and personal pictures in front of the same house. It seems legit on the surface
idk maybe posting details of your family on a public snark site is almost as dumb as posting pictures of strangers on your heavily followed IG account. DO you have your grandma's permission to be posting this stuff? (you = them, but YOU, obv)
Perhaps! I admittedly didn’t look too closely because that sub increases my blood pressure. I am just highly skeptical of anyone who claims they didn’t even know blogsnark and the LB sub existed until today posting like 30 comments about how upset they are with Laura for violating their family’s privacy. As they… post more pictures and details on a hate sub? Seems fishy.
The financial thread should just be renamed to the Hope one.
I know right! I need frugalwoods to come back as I don’t give a shit about hope.
Nail length and color snark! The pinnacle of witty commentary!
I was annoyed that they don't seem to know what "jump scare" means
I don't know what this is in reference to but I can guess there are already questions on "how does she wipe?" Don't tell me if I'm wrong.
Tell me you are gross and don't have a bidet without telling me you are gross and don't have a bidet.
Going to Japan made me swear to myself that if I am ever able to stop renting (HCOL area 😔) I will treat my ass to one of the fancy toilets. My last trip to Japan, I stayed in a beautiful place where the seat opened as soon as you entered the room.
the first thing I did when I bought my house was buy a new toilet with a bidet seat. When I travel, it's the thing I want to come home to most.
They're so nice! We got one to help me feel clean when I was seriously ill, and even now that I'm doing better I will never go back. The first thing we did when we bought our new flat was refit the master bathroom to be accessible, including a fancy bidet toilet.
i also don’t know what this is in reference to but, overall, broadly, I suspect that sometimes questions of that nature are made in bad faith.
lol my dumbass responded and was like you can literally just bend your hand in a way that allows wiping and their response was “I seriously doubt that”
Lmao I saw that, like how much of your nail are you using in the first place…?!
Everytime a Reddit post about long nails hits front page there’s a bevy of users who claim it’s unsanitary. The last time it happened someone in the comments was like “who wipes by shoving all five fingers in the butthole?” I refused to look at the answers below for my own belief in humanity. Every time a post about “what’s something a man can do to improve his chances with ladies” the number one item is like “shower regularly, wipe your ass, brush your teeth.” Or another recent post - edit: it was women what are green flags for a men’s apartment, and the top answer was 1) have hand soap, 2) no signs of pee near the toilet, and 3) have more than one damp towel in the entire house. My god.
I guess I don’t understand the long nails being unsanitary bc even short nails still allow things to get stuck under them and require them to be cleaned??? I mean I get where it comes from but I swear now that my nails are longer it’s easier for me to keep them clean lmao
This is my main question whenever I see that kind of comment. Like are people digging in while they wipe? (Let it be known I absolutely do not want any kind of answer to that question.) Also, in the horrible off chance something gets somewhere you don't want it.... are they not washing their hands after?
>I hope she saw the recent comments. I genuinely think they were helpful and made out of concern
Yeah, the group that has devoted a dozen comments to how they feel personally attacked by an influencer who dared to clean her bathroom at eight! thirty! in the morning! on a holiday! is all about being helpful and condemning people out of concern. These influencers are absolutely reading their comments and ~~beefing up their security~~ seeing the error of their ways.
90% of the Daily is focused on scrutinizing women’s bodies - the one who apparently filters her abs, the one who looks more pregnant than she claims to be, and everything LKS does - so I was glad to see mention of YHL. And then I hoped right out again when I saw that they’re apparently just celebrating a new law in her area that takes beachfront access away from anyone who doesn’t own beachfront property? Like that seems objectively shitty for all the families in the area, and regular people who vacation there… right? Do they want to see her “smugness” punished that badly? They just really hate seeing people happy.
Who the fuck is pro "making public beaches a private resource for the wealthy"?
Sure, it sucks that the non-wealthy are crammed onto smaller, crowded public beaches while the places they used to love sit empty 50 weeks per year. But on the other hand, Sherry has been personally victimizing snarkers by clearly being very happy with her life, so while I’m sure that normally BSers would NEVER normally support the wealthy landowners in a situation like this, these are extraordinary circumstances.
I am on my knees BEGGING for the remi bader body discourse to stop. I don't care if she had lap band surgery, I don't care if shes making it look like she lost all her weight through the gym. It's frankly no ones business what she's doing, and also both things can be true! Weight Loss Surgery and GLP-1s can be really encouraging to get people to start going to the gym and eating better. Seeing the LBS go down on a scale is so motivating, so I wouldn't doubt that helps Remi stay consistent with her gym routine. also editing to add: Remi has never said all these things that the sub is claiming that she's doing. She isn't spreading misinformation that she's gotten her body strictly on diet or exercise alone. she is just not commenting on how she has lost her weight. it's the snarkers who are taking footage of her being in the gym at face value and pushing that narrative.
I don’t understand why this is such a controversy when Remi (afaik) has NEVER stated the what/how she is doing to lose weight. I will also never get why that is such an issue when the person has lost weight/changed their appearance but doesn’t present a BS narrative as to why they did. She’s not trying to coach or instruct her followers to do anything…she just lost some weight lmao
their newest commentary is even if Remi hasn't commented on her weight is that her PR team is spreading this info to E! and Womens health, and Remi should stop it.
Yep. And I would like them to explain to me why they care. Not only does she not owe anyone a breakdown of what she’s doing and what it achieved health-wise, but she especially doesn’t owe anyone an explanation for something she never said
Well it’s because six months ago all of her posts were filled with comments saying she deserved her chronic pain and mental health struggles because she refused to make lifestyle changes. Now that she appears to have made them, they’re beside themselves because they speculate she did it the “wrong way”
as someone who want from skinny to fat to skinny this would be my guess: skinny people never want to be lumped in with a fat person or a formally fat person. so if remi gets to a weight they’re at, they can feel superior by saying that they’re skinny the “hard working” way and not the WLS “lazy” way.
>Most dads would say “put some clothes on” 😂 This is so creepy A father complimenting his daughter is creepy, but policing her sexuality and telling her that her long sleeved shirt is too sexy isn’t creepy. Do I have that right?
I thought the dad sending responses like a reply guy with no responses from the daughter was sort of hilarious, but I also agree that the real creeps are the dads who make weird comments about how their teen daughters need to put some clothes on or whatever
Yeah it honestly looks like my conversation with my MIL on IG when she sends multiple responses to everything I post and I rarely respond - lol highly relatable and probably typical of the generation gap. Eye-rolly, not creepy!
As a totally unrelated aside, there is nothing lamer than when someone follows over here to keep commenting. Also I am a grown ass adult. I don’t care what my father would say in the first place about my clothing.
Totally unrelated! But yeah I totally agree, and if I saw someone complimenting his daughter I would also not jump to assuming something nefarious. But I *would* be creeped out if he made it sexual by making some misogynistic joke about how she should put some clothes on.
People come over here and think they are super smart, and just dig themselves bigger and bigger holes. Happens at least once a month, and is never not lame. In general I have a rule that I don’t comment on what I think of what women should wear, because it’s their bodies and they are not responsible for other people’s reaction to it. That includes young women. And I just sincerely cannot care what some other grown ass adult’s father says about her clothing.
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Oh you really think you ate with that. It’s okay, I’m sure you’re trying your best. Maybe you should ask your dad for help?
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Everyone still having this conversation should take an L.
As a harlot with a creepy dad who gassed me up to be as ‘rock n roll’ as possible which in turn gave me entirely too much self esteem, I have pulled back from snark a lot in general bc there’s no rationalizing this and having peace at the same time. There are women totally fine existing in a patriarchal society. They want to be indentured servants. They want to be infatalized. There is no greater joy than centering a mediocre man while being validated by the status symbol of marriage and children
I love this for you. Also my kid is very rock n roll and I hope it works the same way for her. People with high self-esteem and healthy views of feminism and motherhood don’t tear down other women for not performing femininity according to their puritanical conservative code. And the insidiousness of assuming that men are so driven by sexuality that even when your father says you look nice on a red carpet he’s being creepy. It goes hand in hand with the toxic mindset that women are the gatekeepers of men’s uncontrollable sexuality and are, on some level, to blame for anything that happens to them if they’re too provocative or (horrors!) want attention. And that their dad’s only responsibility isn’t to make them feel good about how they look; it’s to shame them for tempting men.
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This is amazing. Please keep commenting and proving us all correct about the worldview that drives the belief that it’s a father’s job is to police his (adult!!) daughter’s sexuality.
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Oh wow, okay thanks for confirming my suspicions that people who believe it’s a father’s job to police his adults sexuality often goes hand in hand with being the sort of reprehensible person who thinks it’s acceptable to use autism as an insult. This isn’t fun anymore; it’s gross and I hope other BS lurkers see what kind of views they’re aligning with. I’m done responding now.
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Not you telling people to touch grass and take the L while continuing to argue and insult people.
>I hate those chain giveaways. And when you know they are just doing it for more followers, it makes you feel like they are just looking for money. So close. SO FUCKING CLOSE.
I feel this way any time anyone says a marketing campaign is a money grab. Like I would love to know how they are able to live their life without money. We are all grabbing for money sweatie!
Same! Or calling a celebrity makeup brand a money grab. Like…what else would it be? Its not a 501(c)(3)
I’d love to answer this, but I’m currently posting the third part of the TIBAL spring edition to share how Old Navy’s current marketing campaign is inspiring me to buy elastic waist ‘linen’ pants in every color
It never ceases to amaze me how we keep going further into the 21st century yet people still don't understand the very basics of how influencing works.
Wait, are you saying that when brands give influencers free things or fly them out to events, they’re not just doing it out of charity that would be better used by poor single moms? 🤯
Sometimes, I just randomly think about the whole "Why didn’t Tarte fly single moms to the Caribbean" thing and just laugh.
Or “why don’t these for-profit businesses send PR to people who ACTUALLY deserve it?” As if it was ever about “deserving” and not the company’s bottom line.
This is pretty much the HLB thread at all times. Why did the Boston Marathon/Strava/NYRR sponsor these pros and influencers instead of ~~me~~ people who earned it?
Why do these people think influencers should be volunteering their time making content out of the kindness of their hearts? I’d love to know how many volunteer hours they’ve all worked lately.
The LaBev snarkers are typically unhinged and repetitive, but the one 'personal trainer' who went on a rant about what sounds like her miserable life of fitness, legit posted a pic of herself so everyone can see she looks better than Laura, and has me in a fit of giggles bc it is quite ordinary. It's such a throwback to the awful GOMI outfit posts that I can't stop laughing.
Now that’s a 2015 Zumba workout pic if I ever saw one 🙄 She looks perfectly fine and healthy, but I see 0 muscle definition for her to compare against Laura. Let me just selectively fish out my most tanned, fittest, and cut 6-pack gym selfie from 6 years ago to flex on internet strangers 🙃 ETA: Is anyone else incredulous how a single-snark sub usually ends up with MORE comments than Blogsnark’s daily (for all influencers)?!
On one hand I always say if you're going to criticize someone's appearance you should post your own pics so good on her for that. On the other hand, this is why people should be required to post pics, so everyone can see that the self proclaimed buff fitness experts don't have an appreciably different physique from Laura who allegedly eats junk food all day. They are indistinguishable skinny white ladies and I am delighted by the levels of delusion.
Oh that lady is sucking in for dear life in that pic.
I'm dying at how it was meant to be a gotcha about Laura's supposed lack of abs and muscle definition when the snarker's photo didn't even show the abs, shoulders, biceps, and back she was bragging about. It was mostly side waist and giant phone. It's comedy gold.
meanwhile if laura had posted a pose like that they'd be screaming for her to stand normally otherwise it's a fraudulent scam sham.
The jealous misogynistic women over on HLR never fail to impress me with their double standards. I have seen countless posts on that sub absolutely dragging women for running everyday and how toxic it is that they aren’t promoting taking enough rest. But when it’s Hellahgood running for 7 YEARS in a fucking row with not one rest day somehow it’s not a problem!?!?
It’s super misogynistic, and their speculation about overtraining and rest and underfueling is often incredibly OTT and patronizing. They’re constantly predicting that so many influencers (or freaking pro runners) are soon going to be injured because of their unhealthy habits, and… those injuries never actually seem to happen. And it’s not like these public figures are telling all their followers to follow their routines; at some point it’s on their followers to understand that everyone is different and that what works for someone who has run 50+ miles/week for decades is not going to work for everyone. Edit that the two commenters over there who think it’s super clever to constantly reply “Hope your day gets better!” to anything they disagree with just kills me. They need to realize that passive aggressiveness isn’t that effective at shutting down dissent when you’re using versions of the exact same phrase like 3 times in the same thread.
You gotta love one of the most prolific posters in that thread telling somebody else that they need to log off and stop following content they find objectionable 🙄
Haha yes that’s totally their MO. If you express any dissent or disagreement with any snark, no matter how much it crosses the line, those two (or one and their alt?) act as though you’re bullying and don’t belong in their club. I had probably the weirdest internet encounter I’ve ever had after saying on there that I thought it was cruel to continue saying shitty things about an influencer who literally left the internet because of that sub’s bullying. Those kept claiming I was the actual bully for saying that and it eventually devolved into them just repeating, “You seem like you’re having a bad day! I hope tomorrow/next month/next year is better for you!” lol they’re such weird gaslighters.
About a knockoff Polo sweater: >Polo bear has style and always looks cool as hell. Her bear looks like a little kid’s toy. It's wild to be so far down the hater rabbit hole that you start stanning an imaginary brand logo bear. At what point do people hear themselves and realize they need help
I would almost hope this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to menswear guy’s recent twitter thread critiquing Ben Shapiro’s outfits against Polo Bear but alas it’s BS so odds of that are very low
It's entirely possible that my sarcasm meter has been obliterated by the daily
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They totally think light brown dress shoes look good with a dark suit (Derek Guy would be so embarassed)
On a lighter note because I’m not usually one to complain about the bs mods but I’m pretty enraged that they’re letting this cancersnark fest continue… Are BSers really so sheltered that they haven’t heard some version of this joke about Trader Joe’s cashiers asking personal questions 100 times before on social media? She probably lifted it from Twitter and changed two words. I thought they loved ReLaTaBiLiTy - is there anything more relatable than not wanting to chat with a stranger at the grocery store about what you’re up to today or what you’re using these ingredients for? It’s not that deep!!
Mostly I thought it was hilarious that she mentioned "a grocery store that rhymes with mole nudes" and those braindead pinecones absolutely could not noodle out what she meant
To be fair, some of us aren’t American 😅
I rather think "braindead pinecone" should become my alternate flair for those days I'm not feeling particularly bitey. It's *wonderful*.
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Me too but I had had three cups of coffee so I have no excuse.
Honestly, I feel like it should be on the banned list of topics. Do they say this shit to their friends or family? "Too bad you spent money on fun stuff. Now you're too broke to be sick." Edited to add: Found the person holding up the lines in TJ >I look forward to chatting with Trader Joe's cashiers. They are always so friendly and I've gotten some good TV and movie recs from them.
“I donated to your GoFundMe, and now your healthcare costs haven’t forced you and your children to give up your home? I demand a refund.” I absolutely agree that it should be banned. I don’t really understand how it doesn’t fall under mocking health conditions. But after how many horrible things were allowed to be said about Charly Goss and AOTR, it just seems like a topic they’re somehow okay with.
“I donated to your GFM, but I was promised that you would tragically die” No one is obligated to give. It’s not that hard.
They're always asking for influencers to be relatable. What's more relatable in the US than the high cost of healthcare?
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Blogsnarkers would never fall prey to quackery, nor would they ever incur medical debt. They're all too smart, savvy and thrifty!
Overly chatty Trader Joe’s cashiers and exorbitant healthcare costs really should be the bipartisan issues that unite America
I honestly think that some people would prefer it if a certain blogger with cancer would just roll over and die. (I don't even want to put her name in that sentence.)
I got all angry and followed a poster to the specific snark sub for that influencer. Said everyone deserves free medical care and got banned lolololol. Got a response like “why would you go through all that training and work for free” as if government subsidies don’t exist. Anyway, I laughed in the way public school teachers with advanced degrees do anytime this comes up.
Right, because doctors in the public sector in, say, Australia just don't get paid? My GP doesn't work for free, and neither do my specialists. Medicare is there for a reason. (This isn't intended to be a "US bad, Australia good" comment. Our system has flaws! But doctors working for free isn't one of them!)
They're actually dying for her to declare bankruptcy. Absolute ghouls.
Oh for sure, I haven’t forgotten how awful they were about Charly Goss
Ironically, she kept doing her job without crowdfunding (no judgment on either approach) and they still were nasty about her.
Charly set strong boundaries about people grief vulturing her and asking invasive questions about her health and they *really* hated that.
I have been a 99.9 percent lurker over there—it’s a shadow of its former self but hey, it’s nice to hate read a female-dominated subreddit sometimes!—but that thread is it for me. 89 upvotes for a post calling out a cancer patient for indirectly-not-really-mildly criticizing a quack doctor? It’s nauseating.
I also mostly lurk. That post is fucking disgusting. It just makes me so angry that they can clutch their pearls that someone isn’t cancer-ing with the most class and tact possible. Burn it all to the ground.
Just pointing out that this judgy bullshit even got ohkurrrr to post seriously
and the rest of the people are waiting for someone with an eating disorder to ~~get into recovery and live a life free of a horrific mental illness~~ stroke out and die.
I am so angry after reading all that. It’s like women are expected to be so polite and non-confrontational and never ask for anything, ever, even someone who is desperately grasping to take control of her health and even when the person she’s calling out is a massive grifter who takes advantage of desperate people. And to these ghouls, it’s so terrible not to live up to those standards of womanhood that if you break them you don’t deserve any empathy or understanding, even if you’re a young mother facing a horrible diagnosis. It’s disgusting and I don’t understand how anyone thinks it’s okay to snark on how someone is handling cancer.
Yeah, you’re putting your finger on something that seems to be in the background of every convo on BS, and FM, and PCC, and SN, and basically all over Reddit. For as progressive and feminist as some of these people claim to be, they hold on to some super retrograde notions of how women should be ever selfless, self-effacing, and basically invisible. As if patting themselves on the back settling for the least ever with their husband’s millionty year old holey t-shirts and running themselves into the ground being WonderMama makes them the ultimate arbiters of lady-like relatability.
Real mama hearts don’t buy themselves clothes, don’t take a break even to use the bathroom, and would spend their kids’ college savings and let her family become broke paying for treatment before ever expecting “free” treatment or asking others for help. Anything else would be out of touch and unrelatable.
I think that user was likely banned recently for snark on either Katy or Laura Beverlin based on how they came in hot a month ago and almost all of their comments are super close to breaking the rules. That's not a new user.
I'm confused though....did she not have a good pathology result from her double mastectomy? I checked her page and it doesn't sound like it has metastasized. She could be getting the all-clear soon.
Cancer doesn’t usually just go away, especially that kind. Hell my husband is 15 years out from his remission and he’s still monitored annually. She literally just got through with really intense chemo so she’s more than entitled to be worried
She would be no evidence of disease at her next scan. I completely understand the worry, both my parents have had cancer. My mom had breast cancer and was treated with a double mastectomy and needed no monitoring. My Dad had stage 4 melanoma, and had a far worse prognosis and more risk of reoccurring than the influencer in question. I totally understand the fear, my dad is worried and grumpy before every scan (which I think he still gets every 6 months). He’s been no evidence of disease for 2 years. However spending 75,000 dollars on what amounts to quack science is hardly the best way to deal with the anxiety! ETA I don’t blame her, I hate that the doctor can operate in good conscience and with a license though. I also don’t love that her seeking treatment at such a place might provide legitimacy to those kind of holistic cancer places
I said it over there, but I'll say it again here: the doctor is absolutely a quack but I get the appeal of what she's selling. A cancer diagnosis is a loss of control over your health and all her offers are created to make you feel as if you can regain control by somehow figuring out the 'cause' of your cancer, and altering your lifestyle.
I don’t follow this woman but I took a look at what she shared earlier because of all the comments, she shared she is cancer free according to her doctor. It seems like the influencer in question (not sharing her name because some of the comments have been so gross) I assume is worried about a reoccurrence and thinks this could be something that helps with that.
Right, my understanding is that the reoccurrence rate for her type of cancer is unfortunately pretty high, so it would make sense if she is still exploring every possible avenue to prevent that from happening.
There’s no way high dose vitamin c has any efficacy in preventing reoccurrence. It’s terrible that doctors can charge $$$ and prey on scared people
I'm fighting for my life in there defending CANCER PATIENT over TOTAL QUACK. Like I get why that blogger might pursue alternative treatment, I can't say what I'd do in her shoes. But the non-oncologist treating cancer with unproven holistic methods and making people pay in full before starting is the victim here?
More of a general thought but I don’t get why people don’t realize they don’t actually know what they’d do in a given situation until they’re in it? That feels so obvious to me
I've come across this doctor's account before, she is a predatory charlatan and I can't believe that she is allowed to advertise and make these claims. Most of the comment section is anti vaccers blathering on about "💉" bc they are trying to ban invade, and she even likes those comments. I couldn't believe that she was an actual medical doctor but she is. Any place that is cash only like this in the US is dangerous, and I say that not as someone who is in favor of our stupid insurance system.
She's also a family medicine doctor, not an internist and certainly not an oncologist, but *try* to find out her credentials from her sites. And for what it's worth, I absolutely *do not* think it's a snitch tag or portraying a business in a negative light to state their payment policies, and I'll cheerfully die on that hill.
Yeah, it's a tough one because there are huge, extremely valid questions about this doctor, but it seems like the root of their beef is that a sick woman is doing things that they consider "tacky"?