Speaker 1: Let's talk about some internet drama on Big Business today. Xander,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get your mic because you're going
Speaker 1: to be in on this.
Speaker 2: Am I in on this one today? Am I? Okay?
Speaker 1: Not that this is a podcast where we talk about
Speaker 1: internet drama, because that's just not what we do here.
Speaker 1: And actually it's none of my business what happens with
Speaker 1: other influences in their life on social media, Like it's
Speaker 1: got nothing to do with me. But I think anyone
Speaker 1: that has TikTok has obviously seen at the moment there's
Speaker 1: videos being thrown around between Anna Paul and michaela Tester,
Speaker 1: who are two creators online. I'm sure you've seen it
Speaker 1: if you've got TikTok, And it's just got me thinking
Speaker 1: in another way about online personalities and content creators. And
Speaker 1: we talk about that a lot here on the pod,
Speaker 1: like you know, social media in general, and I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of videos being thrown around about you know,
Speaker 1: people are fake online. You know, I'm sure you've seen
Speaker 1: it as well Asxander. Like the whole conversation is like
Speaker 1: she's not who we thought she was, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: There is a real movement right now of exposing these
Speaker 2: and I hate saying fake, but fake influencers like they're
Speaker 2: putting on another persona and they're getting caught.
Speaker 1: Out they are, And yeah, that's what I'm noticing too,
Speaker 1: Like just influencers being called left, called out, left, right
Speaker 1: and center about things that say online and contradicting themselves xyz.
Speaker 1: And it just got me thinking more so about me
Speaker 1: and my positioning, and it just made me want to
Speaker 1: talk about something which I've lightly mentioned before I feel
Speaker 1: on the pod, before I get into that, I think
Speaker 1: by this point we all know that the Internet is fake.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of shocked at everyone acting so surprised
Speaker 1: with this whole situation, which again is none of my
Speaker 1: business what's happening between these girls. I don't know them
Speaker 1: from a bar of soap, But why are people acting
Speaker 1: surprised that people may act differently online to real life,
Speaker 1: because surely we are all smart enough to know like
Speaker 1: social media is fabricated, it is edited. Like I'll even
Speaker 1: go as far as saying, like all of my videos
Speaker 1: are strategically planned. We set the camera up and we
Speaker 1: start talking, and we know what we're going to say,
Speaker 1: and then we edit it and then we post it online.
Speaker 1: So of course social media in general isn't real life
Speaker 1: because it's not natural, like it's not natural in any sense.
Speaker 1: But one thing that I experienced that I think people
Speaker 1: would find interesting, or maybe someone listening has done this before,
Speaker 1: but one of the most interesting parts of my journey
Speaker 1: and how I was an influencer in youtubeer and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, and then I, you know, slowly
Speaker 1: over the years started fade, and then I became more of,
Speaker 1: I guess, a business owner and an entrepreneur than transitioning
Speaker 1: into employing people. But how weird it is that I
Speaker 1: still have this following online and people might see me
Speaker 1: in a different way. And what shocks me is whilst
Speaker 1: we're hearing all this conversation online now about influencers a
Speaker 1: fake and Anna Paul's a liar and Xyz she's different
Speaker 1: to what she is in her videos, people do that
Speaker 1: with my staff, not in a way where they're saying
Speaker 1: to my staff, Britney's fake. But it blows my mind
Speaker 1: how often I speak to team members of Fate and
Speaker 1: how often they are questioned about me as if though
Speaker 1: I'm some fucking alien online. And it's the weirdest thing
Speaker 1: for me to experience and maybe people don't think about
Speaker 1: it when they do this, because I genuinely think people
Speaker 1: view people online as not normal people, like they put
Speaker 1: influencers in a different box.
Speaker 2: I think I actually disagree with that a bit. I
Speaker 2: think some people awes. Yeah, I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people do view them as normal people. And that's why
Speaker 2: you're seeing such a crazy amount of people coming to
Speaker 2: their defense, Like it's kind of a bit unhinged when
Speaker 2: like things are exposed and then the things that have
Speaker 2: been exposed are pretty fed up. Yeah, and the people
Speaker 2: are writing and dying for these people. I'm like, Number one,
Speaker 2: they're not your friends, that is true. Number two, you
Speaker 2: don't know them, No.
Speaker 3: One hundred.
Speaker 1: Even even when you feel like you know someone online,
Speaker 1: you don't. It's very interesting and the interesting part, which
Speaker 1: I guess just got me thinking about me and my
Speaker 1: journey and going from influencer to business owner and people's
Speaker 1: boss when I still have a following and other people
Speaker 1: view me as an influencer, but my staff don't because
Speaker 1: they're with me in real day to day life people
Speaker 1: I don't want to say daily, but weekly. Especially in
Speaker 1: our retail stores, they go in to shop, which we love,
Speaker 1: we love people supporting fate and going in. But they'll
Speaker 1: go up to my staff and be like, so do
Speaker 1: you know Brittany what she really like? And that, to
Speaker 1: me is the weirdest thing that people would go and
Speaker 1: ask a random person what their boss is like in
Speaker 1: real life. Hmmm, Like you don't. You don't go and
Speaker 1: do that at Cohle's. You don't go to Cohl's and say,
Speaker 1: what's the manager he like in real life? But because
Speaker 1: I've got this online social media thing tied to me
Speaker 1: from like having a following, it's just the weirdest fucking
Speaker 1: thing ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's a funny question to ask because immediately
Speaker 2: my mind goes to that people want some as much
Speaker 2: as people support you or support other influences. I secretly,
Speaker 2: I think they secretly want want them to fail and
Speaker 2: want tea. Yeah, Like they don't care if you fail
Speaker 2: or if you're succeeding. They are just kind of a
Speaker 2: loong for the ride a lot of people.
Speaker 1: It's wild to me that people walk in my store
Speaker 1: and ask my staff what I'm like in real life,
Speaker 1: and that's the number one question they get asked. And
Speaker 1: they'll come to me and be like Oh, someone just
Speaker 1: came and asked, like, what she It's not even oh,
Speaker 1: it must be great to work at Faith, it's what
Speaker 1: is she really like? They have the guts to go
Speaker 1: and ask that to the people that I employ and pay.
Speaker 4: I know, as if they're going to tell them.
Speaker 3: I knows if.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's say I'm a massive fucking bitch in
Speaker 1: real life, as if my staff member is going to
Speaker 1: go and spill that to some random and risk losing
Speaker 1: their job for talking shit about me in my own workplace.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, and I've said this a billion times,
Speaker 1: I am completely different online to what I am like
Speaker 1: at work because at work, I'm working at work.
Speaker 3: I'm not an influencer.
Speaker 1: At work, I'm not there to create funny content to
Speaker 1: entertain my staff like I do the content creation online
Speaker 1: because that's my job online. My job online is to
Speaker 1: entertain people, make fun videos, give them something to laugh at.
Speaker 2: You almost have to think of it as like and
Speaker 2: people always use example of acting, it's not acting. It's
Speaker 2: like say, for example, you're going to see someone host
Speaker 2: a show, and that persona they have on stage to
Speaker 2: host the show to keep an audience engaged, to keep
Speaker 2: them interested is different to what they're like once they're
Speaker 2: off that stage exactly. It's not to say that they're
Speaker 2: like an awful person when they're when they're not doing
Speaker 2: this or performance.
Speaker 4: Sorry, we're going to be different, but they're going to
Speaker 4: be different.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And like, my staff gets so thrown off when they
Speaker 1: get asked these questions. And it's not just in our stores.
Speaker 1: It's like just say, one of our office employees will
Speaker 1: be at a party on the weekend and it comes
Speaker 1: up that they work at Fate. Like immediately it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: what she like really, and they're always like, she's the
Speaker 1: same person. But also, my staff don't see me as
Speaker 1: an online influencer and creator.
Speaker 3: I'm their boss. It's just fucking mind blowing to me.
Speaker 1: I'm all for people being curious, but it blows my
Speaker 1: mind that people have the audacity to ask my staff
Speaker 1: what I'm really like in real life, as if though
Speaker 1: they're hoping that they're gonna say, oh, she's this, that
Speaker 1: and the other. And you know what, there'd be some
Speaker 1: people that have worked at Fate that probably wouldn't say
Speaker 1: nice things about me, like, yeah, I'm not at Fate
Speaker 1: to create entertainment for my staff the same way that
Speaker 1: I'm online to create entertainment for the people that follow me.
Speaker 2: Have you had any instances of like inappropriate behavior of
Speaker 2: like people coming into stores and wanting to like interact
Speaker 2: with you or you know, approach your staff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say sometimes, like I do get people like
Speaker 1: people will DM me just randomly and be like I'm
Speaker 1: going into the store of.
Speaker 3: Yours tomorrow, like will you be there?
Speaker 1: You know, And I'm like, first of all, that's in
Speaker 1: Brisbane and it's Saturday, Like I'm not there right now.
Speaker 1: Like maybe they're wanting to see me when they come
Speaker 1: in kind of thing.
Speaker 3: But it's just I can't even put.
Speaker 1: Into words how interesting it is to have an online
Speaker 1: following and I guess be popular online but then run
Speaker 1: a company and be people's boss. It's just two completely
Speaker 1: separate things. But I'm in a position where they are
Speaker 1: overlapping and the stuff that we deal with because of that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's very interesting. And I've had a few
Speaker 1: run ins with past staff members from years ago where
Speaker 1: like they've been upset at me because I think they
Speaker 1: had different expectations coming to work at FATE. I think
Speaker 1: I said this age is ago, but years and years
Speaker 1: and years ago, I didn't invite someone that worked at
Speaker 1: Fate to my birthday party and she lost it at
Speaker 1: me as if it was the weirdest thing ever, Like
Speaker 1: this was when she was lea the workplace. Ye. And
Speaker 1: I've had one other person who we unfortunately had to
Speaker 1: take off the roster send me like a really nasty
Speaker 1: email saying like you're nothing like you are online xyz.
Speaker 1: And it's just I keep saying the word interesting because
Speaker 1: I think just the lines become blurred.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: I mean, God, I had I looked up to a
Speaker 2: lot of YouTubers back in the day, and like you
Speaker 2: do you want to be their friend, But I think
Speaker 2: that want to be their friend within that you're actually
Speaker 2: losing that they're a real person, Like they only see
Speaker 2: one side of it. So once they're around you or
Speaker 2: once they're working with you, yeah, that illusion is broken.
Speaker 1: And again like me having this big following online and
Speaker 1: creating all these fun videos and people loving them, and
Speaker 1: let's say they come into work at Fate. Let's so
Speaker 1: they come into work at one of our retail stores,
Speaker 1: and then let's say they're being late a lot and
Speaker 1: they're doing something else that isn't the best if I've
Speaker 1: then had to go to them and say, look, we
Speaker 1: know that you're being late, and this is just like
Speaker 1: a verbal warning that you need to stop being late.
Speaker 3: Instantly, those feelings.
Speaker 1: That they had about me from following me online are changed,
Speaker 1: and instantly it would be she's different. She's different to
Speaker 1: social media. But that's because I'm not on social media
Speaker 1: when I'm your boss and I'm going to call you
Speaker 1: out if you've done something wrong in the business that
Speaker 1: you're working out that I own that I pay you for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I've had instances like that where people like you're
Speaker 1: nothing like.
Speaker 3: You are online.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Correct, I'm not an influencer as your boss. Like
Speaker 1: i'm your boss, I've got to call you out when
Speaker 1: you've done something wrong. And I think this is just
Speaker 1: something that I'll always have as part.
Speaker 3: Of my life.
Speaker 1: Is just the difficulty of having those two worlds crossover.
Speaker 3: In real life. I'm a regular person.
Speaker 2: The best thing that you do, and it's important for
Speaker 2: other people who are in the industry, is that yes,
Speaker 2: you are different online, but you're being authentically you, and you're.
Speaker 4: Also not wanting to be someone online, and you're.
Speaker 2: Also not lying and doing all these sneaky things, which
Speaker 2: is where people are being.
Speaker 4: Called out and at the moment.
Speaker 2: So that's that's the biggest thing to note. It's that, yes,
Speaker 2: you're a different persona online, but you're still authentically Britge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm still me, Like I'm not out here pretending
Speaker 1: to be someone else on social media. And then I'm
Speaker 1: different at work, but like, of course I'm going to
Speaker 1: be different in a fun video than when I'm knees
Speaker 1: deep in shit at work.
Speaker 4: Making sure the orders come in exactly right.
Speaker 3: Like it's just two different things.
Speaker 1: And I guess just seeing all these videos popping up
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks about influencers being fake
Speaker 1: or not the same way that they are online, Like,
Speaker 1: no one is exactly the same as they are online,
Speaker 1: because online isn't real.
Speaker 3: It is filmed. It's captured in a mindent.
Speaker 4: My Instagram's fake, yeh. People me and probably think I'm
Speaker 4: an asshole, so someone else.
Speaker 1: I was on TikTok Live the other day and someone said,
Speaker 1: someone said that you're socially awkward in real life?
Speaker 3: Is this true?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, again, probably, yeah, Like I have had
Speaker 1: some of the weirdest fucking interactions with people, because when
Speaker 1: people come up to like, I love people coming up
Speaker 1: and saying hello.
Speaker 3: I'll say hello to anyone.
Speaker 1: But sometimes people come up and they're like hello, and
Speaker 1: they don't know what to say, and then I feel
Speaker 1: awkward because they're awkward, So of course I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to come across awkward sometimes.
Speaker 1: Or maybe sometimes I've run into someone at Aldi and
Speaker 1: maybe I've had a really fucking shit day and maybe
Speaker 1: they've met me and I've been underwhelming for them because
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, hello and asked to meet you, and
Speaker 1: maybe I look like shit and felt.
Speaker 2: Like they're expecting Brittany who just reacted to her video
Speaker 2: from ten years ago. I've got Brittany who's just had
Speaker 2: an awful day at Well Day with an order go
Speaker 2: missing and then a staff member not show up.
Speaker 4: It could be whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all FORUL being my authentic self online, which
Speaker 1: I am, And I know that influencers are getting called out,
Speaker 1: you know, especially a lot recently for like lying online,
Speaker 1: which I'm not for at all. But I think it
Speaker 1: is important for all of us to be aware of
Speaker 1: the fact that we all know that social media is fabricated.
Speaker 1: We all know that people want to show their best
Speaker 1: selves on the internet and get the most views and
Speaker 1: get the most engagement. So it's just something to be
Speaker 1: mindful of. Is like, Yeah, social media is fake. We
Speaker 1: fucking know that.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've just seen all this stuff popping up about these
Speaker 1: two girls, which again is none of my business because
Speaker 1: I don't know either of them at all. But it
Speaker 1: just got me thinking about just those lines being blurred
Speaker 1: between online and real life, and we just need to
Speaker 1: be mindful of who we are following online and whose
Speaker 1: content we are loving. And please stop going into stores
Speaker 1: and asking my staff what I'm really like in real life.
Speaker 3: Please. That's the weirdest fucking thing ever.
Speaker 1: Anyway, this has been another bonus episode of Big Big Business.
Speaker 1: I'll be back next week for my mane