There’s been a cursed sentence floating around the Internet this week, courtesy of an orthorexic influencer who used to write quite interesting things about fashion before the disorder (and the sponsorships) took over.
Life hack: remove clothes from your body before using steamer. (Every part of this sentence is a joke, she clarified even though she didn’t need to.) ❤️❤️
1) Whatever it is, I'm sorry. 2) The influencer trajectory explanation has clarified something for me. I was having trouble squaring what seemed to be a pleasure-full existence (beautiful fashions, hot chef boyfriend) with the optimization post, but if this is a how things were vs how things are, it makes more sense.
1) That is so kind of you and much appreciated. 2) It has been a strange thing to witness! I was a loyal subscriber for a couple years because she could be relied upon to talk about interesting brands I hadn't heard of, she was a good commenter on trends, and she wasn't saying yes to everything she saw. The shift to full spon mode was pretty abrupt.
Rachel Tashjan Wise is right that you can't be a fashion critic AND an influencer: you cannot critique a show if the brand has dressed you for the show! There was once a set of ethics around these things - probably part of the professional requirements of many now-defunct publications. But influencers make a lot of money by pretending to be critics so their audience doesn't FEEL advertised to (if you go to this person's Instagram, you will find lots of pictures of artistic-looking doors, for instance), and meanwhile, we've put so many great critics out of work.
Life hack: remove clothes from your body before using steamer. (Every part of this sentence is a joke, she clarified even though she didn’t need to.) ❤️❤️
I seem to recall a Disney cartoon where they use a boiling tea kettle to steam something, surely nothing could be more dangerous than that?
I still want the steamer
DENITA NOOOOOOO
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1) Whatever it is, I'm sorry. 2) The influencer trajectory explanation has clarified something for me. I was having trouble squaring what seemed to be a pleasure-full existence (beautiful fashions, hot chef boyfriend) with the optimization post, but if this is a how things were vs how things are, it makes more sense.
1) That is so kind of you and much appreciated. 2) It has been a strange thing to witness! I was a loyal subscriber for a couple years because she could be relied upon to talk about interesting brands I hadn't heard of, she was a good commenter on trends, and she wasn't saying yes to everything she saw. The shift to full spon mode was pretty abrupt.
Rachel Tashjan Wise is right that you can't be a fashion critic AND an influencer: you cannot critique a show if the brand has dressed you for the show! There was once a set of ethics around these things - probably part of the professional requirements of many now-defunct publications. But influencers make a lot of money by pretending to be critics so their audience doesn't FEEL advertised to (if you go to this person's Instagram, you will find lots of pictures of artistic-looking doors, for instance), and meanwhile, we've put so many great critics out of work.