The more I read about influencers the more I see how mercenary the Meldrums really are.
Lee's Instagram is now sooo transparent to me, that picture of his roast dinner, asking the sheep to tell him what is missing, is such an obvious ploy to increase his "engagement figures" so he can charge more for advertising.. And the sheep are falling for it like lemmings, nearly 100 answered...I feel like shouting at the screen..."he doesn't care", " he doesn't give a
tit about your opinion or chatting with you, you are all statistics that he will use to demand more money for his advertisement.
Mrs Meldrum never replied to anyone on Instagram until after the DLP affair and now she is replying 'thanks hun' to half a dozen sheep at a time again sole to increase engagement.
The sheep at just numbers that they are using to make money.
And to anyone who feels they were taken in by this scam...please don't feel bad, it is human nature to want to trust people who manifest them selves as our friends, even more so at times in which we are perhaps more isolated, like maternity leave. The important thing is we now see them for what they are.
I am confident that as time goes on this will get more exposure in the press and more people will get wise to it. I am also confident that legislation will change in terms of use of children in these scams.
I do think their days are numbered. We will look back on this the way we look back on children in cars with no seatbelts on....
until then more hobbit jokes please.