Bloggers including friends and family

It’s a matter of opinion whether the Instagram page did harm or good.

In my own personal opinion, I’m delighted the truth is now out there. It’s the height of hypocrisy to be flogging your own brand turkey burgers and protein shaker to the masses while photoshopping yourself 4 dress sizes smaller.

It’s damaging and misleading for women to be seeing this completely unattainable Barbie-esque figure which the blogger doesn’t even really have anyway. It’s altered to the point where it doesn’t even look like her. At the very least it’s false advertising for her #fitfam lifestyle.
It promotes poor self worth and insecurity. How can I hope to ever look like that when SHE doesn’t even really look like that?!

The word ‘bully’ is being thrown around way too loosely. No one mocked how you REALLY look. People just took issue with your photoshopped images.
Pointing out someone is selling white label catalogue items is not bullying. Pointing out that someone is selling Ali Express junk for a 900% mark up is not bullying. Pointing out that it’s irresponsible and misleading to Facetune your pics to the point of being unrecognizable is not bullying.

And lastly, I’m not sure if the person who created the Instagram is on Boards or not.
I know people here are sick of hearing about Reddit (I am too) but I just feel the need to mention that if this forum hadn’t died a death I’m sure it would have been discussed at length here instead of Reddit.
Boards is meant to be the beating heart of Ireland regarding current affairs and what Irish people are thinking. Several news stories have been published about it, similar to the findings about COD and Ali express.
The uncovering of the COD issue in particular was a great win for Boards and had we been allowed to discuss the doctoring of images, it would have been a win for here too.

Unfortunately all discussion here has been completely stifled to the point that the forum has totally died. It’s such a shame when such good findings can be made, but we aren’t even allowed talk about them.
All the effort we went to, to have this forum opened was for nothing. Everyone has migrated to Reddit.

Also, part of me is worried about the MUF. I don't know if she's in the best place to handle all this criticism. I know what she does is wrong but still, I don't want to see her hurt. She's had a tough year. It's a double edged sword.

I'm deadly serious. We as the 'influenced' need to come together and say NO to Filtering and editing body shapes. NO to lies in order to financially profit. NO to staying quite so we aren't called bullies. WE have a voice. We are not bullies, we are women and men with our own opinions and morals and when these bloggers go against our morals WE WILL speak up! We will speak up for our children growing up in a world where you need to have big boobs, injected lips, skinny waist lines and a gap between your legs in order to be popular. Let's start promoting the 'real' influencers. Share those here....

The Diet Coke has clearly gone to my head

Edit: people are naturally gorgeous and this isn't jealousy. As I said earlier my heart goes out to the MUF and I hope she has people around her right now and is okay. I'm just really disgusted that exposing these things has resulted in a campaign against those that read or follow the page or forum. It's really insulting. I'm genuinely a decent person!

pc7 wrote: »

Is there a way to see the photos without joining SC. I haven’t seen them but get the gist that they (bloggers) have completely missed the whole point.

They're on Instagram not Snapchat. The girl is from the Reddit forum. It is clear what its intention is; to show young girls that Instagram life is not real life.

Ironically, it shows how the MUF shared a post five days ago about Britney Spears, two pics side by side of her face, saying me on the Internet versus me in real life. Very ironical that she thinks she isn't a bully because Britney is American but if someone does it to an 'Irish Celeb', it's bullying.

Also can anyone remember which blogger it was that shared a recent snap of Kylie Jenner entitled 'when the Snapchat filter comes off'? I remember seeing it on a snapchat story.

Louise Cooney has totally pulled her horns back in. She said this isn't the page that caused her to go on a bullying rant and to stand up to bullies. God, more lies.

Has even one bloggers responded and not given the same copy-and-paste opinion? It’d be refreshing (to say the least) so see even half an original opinion coming from these people.

They’re well able to have strong thoughts when being paid to talk about the latest lipstick, where are all the original thoughts now?

notjustsweet wrote: »

There is thousands and thousands of requests waiting according to the owner of the instagram page. She said that on the reddit thread.
Cherry sue isnt above taking jabs at bloggers herself but doesn't name names so does it very slyly. Most people know who she's talking about though.
I don't follow her myself because I don't like those underhand tactics tbh. Either say it straight or keep it to yourself, that is bitchy and two faced.

How can I search for that thread please? I’m lost on Reddit.

notjustsweet wrote: »

Rosemary Mc did, Dublin girlo has written some very well worded insta posts on the subject.
Have a look at honthehuns on instagram they have a dear Irish influencers post that sums up the issue very well.

Yea I’m thinking Instagram but should look on Twitter too, thanks.

Just saw Sarah Hanrahan’s IG stories about it there, she takes a totally refreshing point of view. Hoping there’ll be more bloggers like her and RmC.

They mainly focus on her because she's the main culprit of distorting your appearance to such an extent it wouldn't actually be physically possible to have that kind of body without removing several organs or severely damaging them.

If I have one criticism of the page it's that it probably should have mainly focused on photoshop before and after pics, rather than old pics vs new pics. Mainly because sure we all looked at state at once but most importantly because it gave those effected a handy get out of jail free line, "sure don't we all look different now".. etc.. and enabled them to twist the narrative into something it was never meant to be about.

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lisasimpson wrote: »

I see joanne put up a post saying shes crying the last number of days. While people are feeling sorry for her they are also asking her to give up photoshop and editing pictures to be more real...

There's a very simple solution to the problem she keeps facing. Stop over manipulating your pics. It's really not that complicated but she just won't do it

I think it's fantastic that they have addressed bullying. I don't think they are referring to just the IG account with the before and after pics I believe it's the manner in which people speculate and talk about them online in general. I remember some months back being horrified by some of what I read in this thread, no one deserves to be torn down for no reason. On defending the MUF at the time separate posters asked me if I was the MUF - To me this almost suggests that alot of the time positivity is not expected , the fact that I had something good to say meant I couldn't be a genuine poster, I was then told it was because I was "fangirling", when actually I was just pointing out that there are positives to every person and really who cares what they do. My point is that there is alot of negativity towards these men / women alot of it for no good or productive reason, live and let live. I'm glad that they have addressed this and going forward I hope that people will be more considerate of the fact that these influencers are in fact real people, who likely see all the things people write about them online.