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!
I thought she claimed harassment, I didn’t know it was copyright infringement
It’s flimsy but a lot of these platforms will just take things down rather than fight. She can only claim copyright for the pics and videos she’s taken herself. Maybe buddy Briony claimed her copyright for the pics she had taken - was this soon after the podcast photoshoot?
You’re probably right re: Briony. She’s clearly obsessed with Sarah as she scours comment sections so she can block people. Who even has the time?
Still, the subreddit mods said they never even got a warning. It doesn’t sit well with me that Reddit allows misogyny, underage porn and outright violence but not this. Talk about inconsistent.
The whole thing smells funny - no warning is unusual and it happened after the rules were tightened up. I thought it was all very well run so they had to try for the copyright infringement. The question is why not just remove the pics deemed to be in violation? It’s really heavy-handed
Exactly, it could very easily have been remedied. I really hope mods win their appeal as they/we didn’t do anything wrong or unusual.
Briony who went in full designer clothes with friends during covid restrictions to a low price grocery store (as a joke) and was kicked out for making fun of the store and people while filming content? Sounds about white.
I know that there is also the fair use act, so using the photos for educational purposes and not claiming them as your own is supposed to be protected. But a lot of platforms just take the stuff down and give you a hard time proving it, from what I’ve seen.
Yep, it’s bullshit. The onus is actually on the person who claims copyright to prove it, so if you appeal a copyright claim then the person who reported it has to show how it is copyrighted in a certain amount of time or it will get reinstated. From my experience though, the pulling it immediately already does the damage and people don’t want to bother fighting it. I don’t know if counterclaims would help the sub get reinstated though.
Wonder if Reddit has similar rules because they’d be in violation themselves for removing the sub based on bs copyright claims.