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Irish bloggers..the truth coming out

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  • #62
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,816 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Man with broke phone wrote: »
    What idiot thought people reviewing free stuff would give us honest reviews. Their only qualifications being theor looks or the fact they pretend struggle with yhe same issues as the idiots watching them.

    And now they play up to teenagers claiming sexism or some plop to give their fams a cause to fight.

    Fools and their money are easily parted, tv shows used to tell idiots what they needed to buy. The products from the companies who paid the tv shows. Its just a new way to take money from idiots.
    All true but their are rules around them that should be followed. If they aren't marking posts correctly I would report away personally.
    Btw I don't follow influencers on instagram, I follow dogs that's about the height of it.


  • #63
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Tripe. Utter tripe.


    Not in my experience. As a man, I rarely ever hear other men critiquing women. Most don't pass any remarks.


    Anytime I'm with women though, it's a massive bitch-fest about surrounding women, including people who are (apparently) friends of the person giving out about them. It's 99% of the time, in my experience, women mocking other women.


  • #64
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Lads, are you seriously saying that a man posted this:

    “I used to follow her at the beginning when she did hauls etc, she was much more relatable, not at all anymore. My feeling is that she's very fake and a lot of it is an act, I do not like the boyfriend at all, seriously bad vibes from him. Pity, she was great.”

    Or this:

    “Oh Jesus those knockoff bags, can’t believe people are allowed to promote stuff that’s clearly a knockoff. You can tell it’s cheap tatt you’d find down a market somewhere”

    Sure look, it's a given that we are all angry knuckle draggers with a dash of incel tapping away on the keys :rolleyes:

    So Johnny says anyways.


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    I'm sick of men complaining and whining about stuff on the internet.

    How about men shut up and keep their opinions to themselves when it comes to what women do or say?

    Am I right?


    (Thought experiment for you.... Switch the genders in the above.... Still men who are in the wrong isn't it? Funny that)


  • #66
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Nothing like a bit of aul patriarchy and misogyny.

    If it wasnt for the wimmins der wud b more uv it.

    "Angry Men Unite", we should get t-shirts.


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  • #67
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    That’s absolute rubbish. People, both sexes, are slated if they’re terrible. The way it’s always been.
    Exactly.

    I'm a woman and I think that vapid, vacuous people who promote a product or service to the gullible, for the sole purpose of receiving freebies, should be called out, regardless of gender.

    It's an ugly side of the Internet, and these people consider themselves celebrities. Influencers my arse.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #68
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Exactly.

    I'm a woman and I think that vapid, vacuous people who promote a product or service to the gullible, for the sole purpose of receiving freebies, should be called out, regardless of gender.

    It's an ugly side of the Internet, and these people consider themselves celebrities. Influencers my arse.

    Its not a men v women thing its a low IQ versus normal IQ thing.


  • #69
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Man with broke phone wrote: »
    Its not a men v women thing its a low IQ versus normal IQ thing.

    Read back, there's a lot of claims of misogyny and the mythical "angry men".
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #70
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Read back, there's a lot of claims of misogyny and the mythical "angry men".

    From the people with the low IQ.


  • #71
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Man with broke phone wrote: »
    From the people with the low IQ.

    You might have a point! :D
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



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  • #72
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Omackeral wrote: »
    JohnnyFlash just loves saying ''angry men'' over and over again and has a little tickle in his belly when EmmetSpiceland thanks it, which is always.

    It's a gimmick at this stage.

    Don't forget Shinners. These lads have lost all sense of meaning to their words and phrases. Like American right wing characters on Fox News that use words like the extreme left, liberal and ANTIFA so regularly that everyone that disagrees or challenges them are labelled.


  • #73
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Ok, haven't read all the posts. But I'm curious to know why are people infatuated with some bloggers? ( can somebody name a blogger of hand).


  • #74
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Influencer's, what a bunch of dull people.

    My partner calls them gannets, I can't figure out why ???

    Then you've the superficial type of male influencer's, usually more than likely bisexual clossested guy's who are white Knights and creepy...

    Absolute knobs


  • #75
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    smurgen wrote: »
    Don't forget Shinners. These lads have lost all sense of meaning to their words and phrases. Like American right wing characters on Fox News that use words like the extreme left, liberal and ANTIFA so regularly that everyone that disagrees or challenges them are labelled.

    Bit like people using alt right and racist then.


  • #76
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    I unollowed one recently. In fairness she is stunning but she was preaching about mental health in her stories, and then put up an inspirational quote and then subtly advertised a skincare product in her stories shortly after.

    That didn't sit right with me.


  • #77
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Kylta wrote: »
    Ok, haven't read all the posts. But I'm curious to know why are people infatuated with some bloggers? ( can somebody name a blogger of hand).

    I wouldn’t know the name of one of them either. There seems to be men who follow bloggers, Instagram influencers, and twitter personalities they absolutely despise just so they can be angry about what they are getting up to. Fricking weird behaviour. Go read a book or something, dudes.


  • #78
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Kylta wrote: »
    Ok, haven't read all the posts. But I'm curious to know why are people infatuated with some bloggers? ( can somebody name a blogger of hand).

    Irish archaelogly have a good blog......some v.good,well researched blogs out there on niche enough subjects aswell


  • #79
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    I wouldn’t know the name of one of them either. There seems to be men who follow bloggers, Instagram influencers, and twitter personalities they absolutely despise just so they can be angry about what they are getting up to. Fricking weird behaviour. Go read a book or something, dudes.

    Lots of “angry men” it seems.


  • #80
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    I unollowed one recently. In fairness she is stunning but she was preaching about mental health in her stories, and then put up an inspirational quote and then subtly advertised a skincare product in her stories shortly after.

    That didn't sit right with me.

    I don't know, or follow, any bloggers, but that's clearly an attempt to appear socially aware and right on with topical issues, while the real agenda is to flog products to keep the gravy train on track.

    It's actually sad that someone pursues this.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #81
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    I unollowed one recently. In fairness she is stunning but she was preaching about mental health in her stories, and then put up an inspirational quote and then subtly advertised a skincare product in her stories shortly after.

    That didn't sit right with me.

    What’s the issue? I presume these people are allowed talk about more than one thing, while also promoting the products that get them paid. It’s not an all or nothing thing. You can care about mental health, and also care about making a few shillings.


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  • #82
    AdrianBalboa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭AdrianBalboa


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    What’s the issue? I presume these people are allowed talk about more than one thing, while also promoting the products that get them paid. It’s not an all or nothing thing. You can care about mental health, and also care about making a few shillings.

    Of course it’s fine for a man to hold multiple interests but if a woman switches from talking about her mental health issues to beauty products she’s seen as shallow.


  • #83
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    Of course it’s fine for a man to hold multiple interests but if a woman switches from talking about her mental health issues to beauty products she’s seen as shallow.

    Depends on the context of the video which could be seen as click bait.


  • #84
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I don't know, or follow, any bloggers, but that's clearly an attempt to appear socially aware and right on with topical issues, while the real agenda is to flog products to keep the gravy train on track.

    It's actually sad that someone pursues this.

    I think many followers are unfortunately drawn in by the topical issues as the influencer is projecting to have all the answers to their insecurities and the follower ultimately becomes tricked in the end by clever immoral marketing. This is by the influencer and their personal "brand" but also by the product itself. Influencer is also being fuelled by the affirmation they receive.

    It's a vicious feedback loop of insecurity on all sides.

    Whatever about it, there is mammoth money to be made, that's for sure.


  • #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    Of course it’s fine for a man to hold multiple interests but if a woman switches from talking about her mental health issues to beauty products she’s seen as shallow.

    Surely its just deceitful.....luring people in talking about x,y and z....when really you just wanna flog em shìte

    Though this is everybit as big an issue with larger companies too.....


    piggy backing off popular/protest movements to cynically make money,is everything that is wrong with modern business practice imo


  • #86
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    What’s the issue? I presume these people are allowed talk about more than one thing, while also promoting the products that get them paid. It’s not an all or nothing thing. You can care about mental health, and also care about making a few shillings.

    There is no issue if it was stated as being a sponsored post which it wasn't.

    Otherwise the whole thing is disengenious off the back of a very serious topical item.

    Thats the issue.


  • #87
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    Of course it’s fine for a man to hold multiple interests but if a woman switches from talking about her mental health issues to beauty products she’s seen as shallow.

    Way to shoe horn you sad agenda into every post.


  • #88
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,155 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    What ever happened that forum on here that was set up to specifically discuss these issues?


  • #89
    AdrianBalboa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭AdrianBalboa


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Way to shoe horn you sad agenda into every post.
    The only person with an "agenda" is you following up all of my posts with some sly comment. Dont like what you see, buster? The truth hurts. ;)


  • #90
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    There is no issue if it was stated as being a sponsored post which it wasn't.

    Otherwise the whole thing is disengenious off the back of a very serious topical item.

    Thats the issue.

    I think some people are being deliberately contrary and white-knighty.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



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  • #91
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,155 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I think some people are being deliberately contrary and white-knighty.

    Ya think? It's hard to believe half the posts here are in any way serious, and the rest of us are just as bad engaging with it...


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