Mrs Meldrum #6 Flogger Reb Peep and Her Gullible Sheep

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Anyone watch fleur de force.
I always remember her doing her birthday gifts “haul” and putting affiliate links to gifts her friends had bought for her.
Like you literally have no shame when you AL a link to gifts ranging from 100-1000 ?
Meldrum. Get on it!
Next time chicken royal gifts you a tartan apron for the kitchen or some good lighting for Casper’s corner #utilityroomgoals #notspon
Get that link up to the most expensive version you can find!

Actually talking of Casper I assume there is family left who lost a loved one during this incident?
They must be absolutely loving the crime scene being decorated so publicly.
Poor things
 
@Nicolej33 I agree about the quality of Next stuff. I haven’t actually bought anything from them for ages and I’m sick of having to bin their HUGE catalogues even though I asked them to stop sending it?

Thanks for the decleor recommendation I will have a look.
Me too, I bought some work trousers from them and they are all bobbly after a couple of wears.

Closing my account with them will be no loss.
 
The culture of ad/spon/affiliate/gifted.

Just normal women (and men) trying to make a living, to pay their bills/give their children amazing experiences?

They all pitch it that way. As if the main issue anybody has with them is jealousy. A group of ‘witches’ online who can’t be happy for someone else’s fortunate position.

This is the mistake their making. Nobody is begrudging them the “stuff”. It’s not about what they’re getting for free it’s about how they’re using their followers to gain it.

Not being honest, not making things clear or easy to spot in posts, forgetting to mention information.

Transparency, integrity - that’s the issue here.

Because their followers aren’t just a number. They’re also normal women (and men) trying to make a living, to pay their bills, give their children amazing experiences...

Your average follower can’t always afford to make a mistake on a product that has been recommended to them. So give them all of the information they deserve.
 
I have a genuine question about the #gifted things, what is the difference with brands sending ‘gifted’ items to bloggers and vloggers with no obligation (although we all know the idea is they post about them) rather than celebrities being gifted things like clothes for an event which they know will get them publicity? Like I say, genuinely just curious!
The big difference for me is the context, influencers such as MrsM are based around being relatable, they live their lives like you and me. This is peer to peer marketing carried out in a sneaky covert way such that you don't realise you are being sold to. It creates a need for the same stuff that they are wearing/using/buying for their children that you probably can't shake or put your finger on (but swiping up makes it super easy to act on that need). Celebrities don't have that same context, you know they are famous and you aren't, your expectations around their wealth and means are different, so you don't feel that need in the same way and you may not be inclined to copy them to the same degree.

In reality the rules are no different though, celebs should be disclosing their ads and gifts in exactly the same way. ASA will judge them the same. TOWIE and Love Island 'celebs' are regularly ticked off for non disclosure. Holly Willoughby discloses her paid partnerships with M&S the same as the other fashion bloggers and should be disclosing her gifts and loaned dresses as well (whether she does or not I am unsure, I suspect not). I don't look at a picture of a celeb at a premiere though and think I must have the same dress, it isn't relatable in the same way as someone wearing a gifted coat from M&S or Next.
 
The big difference for me is the context, influencers such as MrsM are based around being relatable, they live their lives like you and me. This is peer to peer marketing carried out in a sneaky covert way such that you don't realise you are being sold to. It creates a need for the same stuff that they are wearing/using/buying for their children that you probably can't shake or put your finger on (but swiping up makes it super easy to act on that need). Celebrities don't have that same context, you know they are famous and you aren't, your expectations around their wealth and means are different, so you don't feel that need in the same way and you may not be inclined to copy them to the same degree.

In reality the rules are no different though, celebs should be disclosing their ads and gifts in exactly the same way. ASA will judge them the same. TOWIE and Love Island 'celebs' are regularly ticked off for non disclosure. Holly Willoughby discloses her paid partnerships with M&S the same as the other fashion bloggers and should be disclosing her gifts and loaned dresses as well (whether she does or not I am unsure, I suspect not). I don't look at a picture of a celeb at a premiere though and think I must have the same dress, it isn't relatable in the same way as someone wearing a gifted coat from M&S or Next.

Thank you, this makes sense!
 
Out of all the people I have ever watched on yt I find them severely lacking in humour. I don’t think I have ever laughed at anything they have said. Actually that’s a lie I have laughed at them just not with them.

As for Next I will be closing my account and letting them know how disgusted I am with it all.

Urgh and I use elemis toner & cleanser so I’m now going to have to find a new brand.
Use the hot cloth cleanser and skin range by Liz Earle. It’s fab and better buying direct from her website as great offers
 
The culture of ad/spon/affiliate/gifted.

Just normal women (and men) trying to make a living, to pay their bills/give their children amazing experiences?

They all pitch it that way. As if the main issue anybody has with them is jealousy. A group of ‘witches’ online who can’t be happy for someone else’s fortunate position.

This is the mistake their making. Nobody is begrudging them the “stuff”. It’s not about what they’re getting for free it’s about how they’re using their followers to gain it.

Not being honest, not making things clear or easy to spot in posts, forgetting to mention information.

Transparency, integrity - that’s the issue here.

Because their followers aren’t just a number. They’re also normal women (and men) trying to make a living, to pay their bills, give their children amazing experiences...

Your average follower can’t always afford to make a mistake on a product that has been recommended to them. So give them all of the information they deserve.
I “begrudge” it! I begrudge the fact they get SO BLOODY MUCH while other families struggle to pay bills or clothe their kids! It’s all so unbalanced & these money-grabbing parasites just TAKE TAKE TAKE!
 
What part of “You. Must. Declare. Gifts. As. Per. CMA. Rules!” does this pair not understand? So infuriating that they try to pass the blame onto people who just want them to be honest.

Also next are on my tit list now, there’s actually a campaign for coats for kids in the north east this year and a family who can afford a stinker of a mortgage get them for free - not right!

Another blogger I follow does a gift for a gift - if she’s going to advertise something she asks for one that she can then donate to a good cause. The Mel-dumbs could take a lead out of her book - the greedy so and so’s that they are.
Agree Kelly Terranova does this - she has set up Links with local health visitors to pass on freebies.
 
I also second that i begrudge them! You beat me to it! They are so undeserving and entitled it makes me sick!
I third this! I don't begrudge anyone who have luxuries when they deserve it, work for it, appreciates it and pays it forward to those less fortunate. The Meldrums are selfish, arrogant and greedy, nothing they do benefits anyone but themselves. I begrudge people like that.
 
I also second that i begrudge them! You beat me to it! They are so undeserving and entitled it makes me sick!
So she's "trying to do more mindful things about myself" according to her insta stories...

how about being more mindful about all your freebies and declaring them as such!:rolleyes:

She’s fallen off the legally required declaration wagon already (if she was ever on it)!

Yet again it’s not stamped as gifted and an ad, despite her being required to do so. Just a tiny wee affiliate link and declaration at the end. So inconsistant and just further proof of her contempt for the law and most of all her viewers. I mean she is capable of understanding the simplified guidelines isn’t she, we can give her that surely ? Lee I’m not so sure about.

This is not sustainable as a lifestyle though and one of them is going to have to find a proper job soon. More and more folk are waking up and seeing beinh the veneer.

On a depressing note, I just referred to some turnips as Bad Boys...this is all so insidious, right down to Pat’s cheesy catchphrases!
 
I don't doubt that the placement programme is a genuine thing but when she was talking about it she more or less raved about how it was more of a holiday and getting drunk/having a good time. That is also the only "job" that she seems to have had in her life!
She would have struggled in USA as drinking age is 21, (she must have been pregnant by 21 if her eldest is 7 now). I wonder if she is trying to make herself sound all "edgy" and rebellious when she actually wasn't ?
 
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