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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!

**all posts are alleged.

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-Minor's Right to Privacy: No posts about the children whatsoever. No mention of full names and no photos. Minors must be completely removed from all photos/videos. No exceptions. This goes for ANY child. No just TBP's.

-No snarking on the character or appearance of any of the children. This is a site dedicated to Sarah Landry.

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this community showed up for me and i'm so confused even after reading the posts and comments, thanks!

i didn't saw any rule against off topic posts, but if my post is breakin some rule, sorry

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don’t apologize to us, lol most of a barely know what we are doing yet :) thx for asking.

I think “snark” title can be a tad misleading too bc this group has become much more than that. We do snark but we try to not be brutal about it. We mostly think she’s an attractive woman with a normal body. But she filters herself to high. Heaven and gaslights everyone about it and it’s kind of a mind fuck.

People who start to see thru her BS Google things about SNL/TBP and many found the Reddit sun. There were SO many people who showed up and were like “omg I thought I was going crazy” “she started making me feel bad about myself” etc.

We are almost a hybrid support group/detective group at this point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

thanks for the answer!

Don’t apologize to us, lol most of a barely know what we are doing yet :)

i want to help keep the toxicity low, and not spam new communities or give the impression that new people aren't welcome :b

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

S is a social media influencer who’s made a lot of money and gained a lot of followers over the years by showcasing what she says society sees as body flaws. She says she’s 100 per cent unfiltered and doesn’t have any fillers or Botox (except for migraines). This isn’t true since she presents a different face and body almost daily. She’s caused a lot of people here to feel badly about themselves because she says she’s a size 12 but often looks like she’s a 4-6. Janette is a journalist who has recently started calling her out on her lies. S sent J a cease and desist letter that was baseless and J has neither ceased or desisted. Hope this helps.

To sum up - she’s problematic on many levels and is deceiving people and now she’s trying to silence the voices of people who have left her cult and want to hold her to account

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let’s not forget to mention the constant plagiarism and stealing the ideas of others. She plagiarized two websites word for word and then blamed and fired her BIPOC staff person. She is disgusting. She said she would address it “head on” and she never did. She just tried to conceal the truth and her staff person was the fall guy. Janette Ewen has many posts on this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

There’s a post here with receipts of the plagiarism on another thread! It will never be forgotten

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

…just a wee add-on to MoonChild’s to explain why you’re seeing us all of a sudden…Originally there was a 6000+ strong sub dedicated to snark, analysis and investigation of S, aka TPB, aka birdy etc. S didn’t like this and in addition to the cease and desist she also managed to have the sub shut down. After a couple of days of trying to start new subs and getting banned repeatedly the mods came here.

Janette Ewan is wonderful. Check out her IG if you’re interested in her coverage of the story.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s Ewen in case anyone goes looking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you for catching that! Autocorrect got me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

lmao thanks!, wild to think that 1 year already passed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just wanted to mention also that she said in a podcast how consent sucks because she wanted to breastfeed her husband, he didn’t want to, and she said he should just do it for her.

That is what turned me off of her.

She also posts her baby/child excessively on instagram, and talks about her other kids personal issues.

Every single thing she does gets posted on social media like if her pants leave a mark on her body or if she has a dark mark on her armpit.

She filters herself to oblivion, you can see some posts on here with pictures but it’s actually extremely wild.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Just wanted to mention also that she said in a podcast how consent sucks because she wanted to breastfeed her husband, he didn’t want to, and she said he should just do it for her.

urg this is fucked, bit sad that this can be said public without repercution too