Speaker 1: This is Outspoken. The podcast is not afraid to say
Speaker 1: exactly what you're thinking. Our names are Amy Kate and
Speaker 1: Sophie Torva. We're identical triplets, but we often don't have
Speaker 1: identical opinions, so sometimes things can get hated. Outspoken covers
Speaker 1: all things reality TV, influencers, entertainment, and issues facing women.
Speaker 1: That is so fat Thank you. I had a moment
Speaker 1: on the weekend where I realized I was a proper adult. Now.
Speaker 1: I know we're thirty two, but I do think you
Speaker 1: can be in your thirties and still not officially an adult.
Speaker 1: Is that a bit like Sophie not being a real
Speaker 1: adult Because I have come to her house so many
Speaker 1: times and I'll go to the downstairs bathroom and There'll
Speaker 1: be no toilet lot that happens every time I'm here.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, no, it's more the upstairs bathroom. And
Speaker 1: so I was like, oh, we didn't bring it upstairs. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm practically a gens eta here. I date someone five
Speaker 1: years younger than me. I'm trying to keep it pretty cool,
Speaker 1: so I try and you know, pretend that I've gotten
Speaker 1: these things. I do like that you've actually admitted that
Speaker 1: it is a five year age difference because in our
Speaker 1: Facebook community you were trying to push it at four
Speaker 1: and I had to correct you, Well, it's technically four
Speaker 1: point five whatever, So okay, can you tell us what
Speaker 1: it is? It actually made you an adult? Okay? So
Speaker 1: I realized that. So we've got two bathrooms, but we
Speaker 1: also have soap in our laundry and our kitchen, so
Speaker 1: basically four soap like pump dispenses and that three is it? No,
Speaker 1: we've got two bathrooms? Oh okay. So I decided that
Speaker 1: we needed more soap, and I made the adult decision
Speaker 1: to buy a one liter bottle of the liquid soap
Speaker 1: because it was cheaper and it was better for the environment.
Speaker 1: And I was walking around the house and I had
Speaker 1: such joy filling up my soap dispenses. I just felt like,
Speaker 1: really accomplished from it. I hope my boyfriend he does that.
Speaker 1: So you say that we're not adults, but he literally
Speaker 1: buys soap like it's going out of fashion. But that's
Speaker 1: more because he's a German. No, but does he buy
Speaker 1: the Lida bottle?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: He does?
Speaker 1: Okay, brand is the adult in your relationship? Do you
Speaker 1: know what makes me feel like an adult? Is when
Speaker 1: I actually bring my reusable bags to the shop. That's
Speaker 1: something I always forget and day will be like, have
Speaker 1: you got your bags? And the other day I actually
Speaker 1: remembered them and I felt like such a legend. Oh well,
Speaker 1: I mean resent and I get paid out for doing
Speaker 1: our big shop, which I think is pretty normal. And
Speaker 1: I've got to say, we always bring our disposal bags.
Speaker 1: And do you know what is the saddest thing I'm
Speaker 1: outing myself. We have a competition to see who can
Speaker 1: get closest to how much the groceries going off that
Speaker 1: I feel like my life has hit an ultimate low
Speaker 1: when that is happening on the weekend. Because we always
Speaker 1: joke that when we hear you doing your big shop,
Speaker 1: but that's like you're outing for the day. Oh that's
Speaker 1: a bit me a reward if you get it right. No,
Speaker 1: it's just the pride of guessing it correct. We'll talking
Speaker 1: about the soup mark. I feel like this is another one,
Speaker 1: another moment where you kind of realize you're either an
Speaker 1: adult or old. It's when you're walking along the aisles
Speaker 1: and you hear a song and you're like, wow, I
Speaker 1: love this song. This was an absolute banger back in
Speaker 1: the day. That's funny you say that because Reese's mum
Speaker 1: actually apparently only shops at Cole's because they play good music. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you know what another one is?
Speaker 3: I was thinking about this the other day.
Speaker 1: I actually saw this on TikTok, and it was saying
Speaker 1: that when you're in your twenties, you just, you know,
Speaker 1: you use a makeup wipe and you just chuck it
Speaker 1: in the bin. But when you're in your thirties, you
Speaker 1: use that makeup white to then wipe down your sink
Speaker 1: and your bench. And I find myself doing that all
Speaker 1: the time. I couldn't relate to that one at all
Speaker 1: because my sink is literally covered in orange powder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yours is gross. I don't use the makeup wipe because
Speaker 1: I feel like it's got makeup on it, but I
Speaker 1: do do that with a tissue. I've got to say, well, maybe, Kate,
Speaker 1: you need to start actually doing it. And so, especially
Speaker 1: if your sink's a orange, which they shouldn't be orange
Speaker 1: in the first place, you need to use a makeup
Speaker 1: whe if my landlord is listening listening white every time.
Speaker 1: I actually had a moment this week at work where
Speaker 1: I felt really old So this twenty year old girl
Speaker 1: came in and she's like doing the social media for
Speaker 1: a fashion brand in Adelaide, and she wanted to pick
Speaker 1: my brain about Facebook advertising. And I was scrolling through
Speaker 1: having a look at posts that the page had made,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, is that Lauren Gibbs. So she
Speaker 1: is about I think thirty, and she dates Bryce Gibbs,
Speaker 1: who's a Crows player, and I was like, Oh, bad,
Speaker 1: should we be naming her? It's very inchly. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I think she's absolutely gorgeous. And I was like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: so she's modeling for your page, and then the girl goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: she actually attracts a bit of an older audience, like
Speaker 1: I think she's like thirty five forty, And I knew
Speaker 1: she was younger than me, and I was like like,
Speaker 1: as in, Lauren Gibbs is younger than me. And I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh my god, how old does she think
Speaker 1: I am. It's funny you say that because we had
Speaker 1: another incident where it was about age. So when Kate
Speaker 1: and I were at kok car but this is going
Speaker 1: to pump out tops. I'm pumping up my own tires here.
Speaker 1: So we were at Kokhr and we chatted to the
Speaker 1: girl last weekend that we were there, shows them many
Speaker 1: times with it, and she knew that it was our birthday.
Speaker 1: So when she saw her, she's like, how is your birthday?
Speaker 1: Are you heading out this weekend? And I said, I'm
Speaker 1: heading to Kate's house just to go out for to
Speaker 1: have dinner at her house. I'm like, what about you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: head and to RCC.
Speaker 3: Just going over to Kekes to fill up some soap dispensers.
Speaker 1: You know, we had tacos. So she's like, yeah, just
Speaker 1: heading to the Royal Croquet Club tonight and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I haven't been there at all this year, probably haven't
Speaker 1: been there for about five years. You know. The phrase
Speaker 1: you kept using was back in the day. And I
Speaker 1: knew this girl did not think we were thirty two
Speaker 1: because she dropped that she was twenty one, and she
Speaker 1: was kind of talking as if we were on the
Speaker 1: same level, which I really appreciated. Yeah, so the conversation
Speaker 1: got so awkward. We had to say I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: we're a lot older than you. And then she was
Speaker 1: shocked and we said that we were thirty two. She
Speaker 1: thought we were about twenty three, So, like I was
Speaker 1: feeling on top of the world for the rest of
Speaker 1: the week. And then I also reflected we were wearing
Speaker 1: active wear with our hair pulled back. I was like,
Speaker 1: should I start dressing like a bit more I don't know, older,
Speaker 1: like I was a bit more sophistical. Sure, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask, were you guys wearing your new jeans
Speaker 1: and no middle part? I actually, well, I actually do
Speaker 1: have a middle part, so maybe that's sort of why.
Speaker 1: But no, I wasn't wearing my big wide fat leggage jeans.
Speaker 1: I don't have them. And I'm actually beginning to be
Speaker 1: really uncomfortable whenever I go out because I just don't
Speaker 1: even know what to wear, Like I hate everything at own.
Speaker 1: It was wearing most Guinea jeans the other day, and
Speaker 1: Brandon's like, oh, so you've opted for your old lady
Speaker 1: jeans today.
Speaker 2: See. The thing I think is just got to make
Speaker 2: charity sexy. And I did that really, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: how I started. I was one of the first who thought, well,
Speaker 2: you know, charity is pre or it just ends up
Speaker 2: like this, you know, just sounds.
Speaker 1: Up like a sort of sad shop like this.
Speaker 2: The only people who come into the shop are the
Speaker 2: ones that need the charity anyway, So what's the point.
Speaker 1: On Monday's episode, we discussed how micro influencer Caitlin Rodriguez
Speaker 1: branded her influencer garage sale as a charity event, despite
Speaker 1: not naming who the charity is and how much is
Speaker 1: being donated. Now we have a bit of an update.
Speaker 1: Since the episode aired, Wasteless has subsequently deleted its previous
Speaker 1: post about the event, including the poster, which included comments
Speaker 1: questioning where the money is going and the commentary surrounding
Speaker 1: the ah triablec laws regarding the event. Now, a new
Speaker 1: event poster has instead been put up and the words
Speaker 1: charity event have been taken down. It instead says that
Speaker 1: fifty percent of ticket sales and fifty percent of revenue
Speaker 1: from all stall higher is going to the charity. It
Speaker 1: has been confirmed by Wasteless in the comment section that
Speaker 1: no money from the sale of the actual clothing is
Speaker 1: going to the charity. It's actually so embarrassing for Wasteless
Speaker 1: because they pride themselves on donating a minimum of ten
Speaker 1: percent of every sale that they make through the website. However,
Speaker 1: for the charity event or so called charity event that
Speaker 1: goes out the window. So that doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: to me. Something on Now, you're giving fifty percent of
Speaker 1: stall higher, but what does that actually mean? Because does
Speaker 1: Wasteless only hire one stall or does each influencer that's
Speaker 1: donating clothes have their own store? And surely that's not
Speaker 1: an expensive thing to do. And I'm sorry, how embarrassing
Speaker 1: that they're charging the influencers who are in all of
Speaker 1: their marketing collateral to pay for a stall higher, Like
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. Wouldn't it be the money from
Speaker 1: their clothes that they're selling. And plus her boyfriend and
Speaker 1: is an owner. Well ex boyfriend owns the market that's
Speaker 1: been selling, so surely they're getting mates rates for those
Speaker 1: stall well, just to reiterate your original point, Kate, a
Speaker 1: follower asked Caitlin on the Wasteless Instagram whether the money
Speaker 1: from the sale of the clothes actually goes to the charity.
Speaker 1: Caitlin confirmed this is from our online store. A minimum
Speaker 1: of ten percent of every sale goes directly to PLAN
Speaker 1: when purchased from our online store. The in real life
Speaker 1: market is a one off activation and is separate to
Speaker 1: our online store. However, we still wanted to give back
Speaker 1: to Plan, so fifty percent of the proceeds from the
Speaker 1: event in brackets stall, higher and entry go directly to plan.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little bit confused here. Why when you
Speaker 1: do this automatically for a charity, do you then tell
Speaker 1: the event a huge charity event and you're not doing
Speaker 1: the original offering. What blows my mind even further is
Speaker 1: now they're offering a bring a friend along if you've
Speaker 1: already purchased a ticket, So obviously ticket sales aren't going well. However,
Speaker 1: they're cutting into the apparent donation revenue. Can I just
Speaker 1: point out it's obvious that Wasteless listen to our podcast
Speaker 1: because our podcast page has since been blocked from being
Speaker 1: able to view their Instagram and only since the episode
Speaker 1: aired have they actually answered questions about where the money
Speaker 1: is going to. Also, in regards to the fact that
Speaker 1: they're allowing people to bring in a friend for free,
Speaker 1: does that not show what their true motivations are. Their
Speaker 1: motivations isn't to get as many people there to raise
Speaker 1: as much money for the charity. Their motivation is to
Speaker 1: get people there to buy clothes, which then goes into
Speaker 1: the influencer's pocket and Wasteless as pocket. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I find embarrassing is the whole thing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: find it awful for the influencers who've been dragged into
Speaker 1: it in terms of there are some big Sydney Sydney
Speaker 1: influencers who are coming along to this event. There's Sammy Robinson,
Speaker 1: there's Amelia from Love Island and Josh from Love Island
Speaker 1: and by all accounts, these influencers have no idea that
Speaker 1: this is not truly what it has been touted as
Speaker 1: originally as a charity. Do you think that? Do you
Speaker 1: not think that they should be doing their due diligence
Speaker 1: and look into it themselves. And we don't know what
Speaker 1: they've actually been told. We don't know if they were told, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to toeut this is a charity event, except
Speaker 1: you're making bank on all of the clothes that you
Speaker 1: got for free, did you guys? See a comment also
Speaker 1: from Kaitlyn saying that they hadn't actually named the charity
Speaker 1: because they hadn't got final sign off. Why are you
Speaker 1: promoting it then? Exactly right? And it sounds odd that
Speaker 1: they didn't get final sign off despite already aligning with
Speaker 1: that brand for their apparent ten percent off on their
Speaker 1: every purchase. Would you know what was quite I found
Speaker 1: quite humorous. Another user wrote under the photo on Waces'
Speaker 1: Instagram saying, I really doubt that you guys are paying
Speaker 1: for the market still fee. Hope no one attends the event.
Speaker 1: Support local and small businesses with a great course. And
Speaker 1: Caitlyn replied, and this comment has subsequently been deleted. She said, Hey,
Speaker 1: thank you for your concern with full transparency, we are
Speaker 1: in fact paying Bronte Surf Life Saving Club a venue
Speaker 1: higher fee. We are running ads, paying other marketing expenses
Speaker 1: in brackets, signage, purchasing tables, clothing racks, and staff fees.
Speaker 1: Resistant on the assistant on the day, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: how much really goes into creating a crappy poster which
Speaker 1: you've had to redo? It looks checking a bit behind
Speaker 1: Facebook advertised. It looks like it's been created on canvas,
Speaker 1: which you can get for free. And also event bright
Speaker 1: which where how they're flogging the tickets off is a
Speaker 1: free service too. And I'm sure that the Bondi Bizarre
Speaker 1: Market have a few tables that are easily accessible. Isn't
Speaker 1: that what you're paying for when you're hiring the store?
Speaker 1: What do you guys, how do you guys think Wasteless
Speaker 1: are making money because is it the influencers that are
Speaker 1: receiving the full amount that people, you know, when people
Speaker 1: go to buy their clothes, or are they receiving the
Speaker 1: fifty percent of ticket sales? No, I believe that the
Speaker 1: influencers receive a percentage for the close the same way
Speaker 1: when they share them through the website. So do you
Speaker 1: know what though? That is interesting because yeah, normally if
Speaker 1: it's sold through the website, they claim that you know,
Speaker 1: Plan gets a ten percent. However, Caitlin then gets the
Speaker 1: money also because she's taking the photos and organizing the sale,
Speaker 1: whereas if these influencers are actually having to attend the
Speaker 1: event and sell their own clothes and pay you to
Speaker 1: have a stare, I don't know how Wasteless and Caitlin
Speaker 1: are making any money off. That's maybe why they took
Speaker 1: the ten percent. Maybe ten percent's going to her rather
Speaker 1: than Plan. You mean fifty percent? Well, I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's why they suddenly have ticket sales and only because
Speaker 1: this podcast called them out, have they gone, oh shit,
Speaker 1: we better say that fifty percent is donated to charity
Speaker 1: and they must be taking the other fifty percent. Do
Speaker 1: you know what, I found quite amusing. Today. The influencers
Speaker 1: started sharing the new poster on their social channels, but
Speaker 1: Jade Tunci's sister clearly didn't get the memo because she's
Speaker 1: not even calling her baron know who she is, Jardi
Speaker 1: Twincy's sister. She shared the old poster which had that
Speaker 1: it was a charity event and wasteless still reshared it.
Speaker 1: If you've got, you know, all this spend on marketing,
Speaker 1: would you, as the person who's doing the marketing not
Speaker 1: say take that down immediately and put up the correct
Speaker 1: marketing collateral. Well, I haven't actually seen any Instagram or
Speaker 1: Facebook ads it. That's not to say they don't exist.
Speaker 1: But do you think this marketing spend she's referring to
Speaker 1: is actually paying the influencers to promote the event? Well,
Speaker 1: she claimed it was for signing. They must have a
Speaker 1: big sign outside of the Bronti Surf Club. If someone
Speaker 1: in our Facebook community floated the idea of attending the
Speaker 1: event just to tell us what was going on, I mean,
Speaker 1: what a legend in the first place. But if you
Speaker 1: do happen this weekend to go let us know what
Speaker 1: it's like. And I mean at least the money some
Speaker 1: of the money. Don't buy any of the clothes because
Speaker 1: that's not going to charity, but support it through the
Speaker 1: ticket sale. Or maybe just go down to your Vinnie's
Speaker 1: and buy some clothes. I was gonna say maybe the
Speaker 1: Vinnie's a Beck Judd frequents. I'd like to go to
Speaker 1: that one. And just to wrap it up, we actually
Speaker 1: had our listener send us a really great podcast recommendation
Speaker 1: on this topic. So the Culture Club have done a
Speaker 1: really great podcast regarding greenwashing and fast fashion and I'd
Speaker 1: highly recommend checking that out. We'll leave the details in
Speaker 1: our show notes.
Speaker 4: How much Willter Johnny do you think has gone in
Speaker 4: to grow in the cotton necessary to make this jacket?
Speaker 4: Throwing the cotton to make that jacket will have taken
Speaker 4: ten thousand, three hundreds As Sir Elita's water.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the influencer rab and. On Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 1: Abby Chatfield went on a four minute rant on an
Speaker 1: Instagram story about her outdoor table. Now, Abby was sent
Speaker 1: the wrong table by a furniture company and she was
Speaker 1: not happy about it. I've got to say it really
Speaker 1: reminded me of Sophie. The last couple of weeks going
Speaker 1: off about her mobile phone. Oh my gosh, let's not
Speaker 1: Can we not have him repeat what the issue was
Speaker 1: with him? I know Sophie has had some issues with
Speaker 1: their phone. It's been sent back. We're not sure if
Speaker 1: said issues have been fixed. But she was a bit
Speaker 1: red ross. I would say, oh my god, Age Ragefield.
Speaker 1: Oh it's taking all of my energy not to name
Speaker 1: my phone provider because they have been absolutely hopeless. Now,
Speaker 1: let's not get you started, Sophie. But it was quite
Speaker 1: reminiscent you're ranting. It was reminiscent of Abby's rant on Instagram. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the difference is Sophie didn't put on Instagram. No,
Speaker 1: I mean I could have. Yeah, she was close to
Speaker 1: putting on Instagram. I do actually get the frustration of
Speaker 1: being sent something that's completely wrong, and I do I
Speaker 1: have a different opinion on this story than you do,
Speaker 1: K because I think it was she was trying to
Speaker 1: be funny with this read. Yeah, No, I definitely think
Speaker 1: it started off funny. So Abby explained that she'd spent
Speaker 1: a month choosing an outdoor table. She'd actually paid someone
Speaker 1: to put it together, and the company, as I said,
Speaker 1: sent the wrong table. So She actually went to a
Speaker 1: story and said that the table was so ugly that
Speaker 1: it made her feel physically uncomfortable having it in her house.
Speaker 1: So I'll just throw to a little bit of a
Speaker 1: snippet of her rant. It isn't even that bad.
Speaker 5: It just it's just, oh my god, I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 5: I know if it's like my anxiety or it's I'm
Speaker 5: actually getting angry looking at it because it doesn't go
Speaker 5: with my apartment. So like, look at my beautiful like
Speaker 5: something like eyes. Everything goes, everything makes sense, Everything has
Speaker 5: been like curated. It takes me so long to choose
Speaker 5: anything and then look, really, oh my god, it's so
Speaker 5: it's so just like it looks.
Speaker 2: Like, oh.
Speaker 5: Makes me feel physically ill. The man who made it
Speaker 5: was really nice.
Speaker 1: And really helpful.
Speaker 5: I'm not being drammic. It's given me genuine anxiety looking
Speaker 5: at it. I can't look at it.
Speaker 1: I'll give it to Abby. She didn't actually name the brand.
Speaker 1: She did threaten that if they didn't rectify the situation,
Speaker 1: she may name them. However, it was very dramatic. Do
Speaker 1: you know what I found really interesting? She was mentioning
Speaker 1: the fact that there was silver little nuts and bolts,
Speaker 1: I suppose on the table and she says, nails whatever.
Speaker 1: There was some silver element on the table and it
Speaker 1: didn't go with the rest of the aesthetics of her house,
Speaker 1: which she's a very gold bronze show, but she said
Speaker 1: she didn't. I just love Sobey's take on this. She
Speaker 1: just said that she doesn't have any silver in her house,
Speaker 1: any silver jewels. It just reminded me because I remember
Speaker 1: when I was working with a group of girls, all
Speaker 1: of them was so funny about you can't wear gold
Speaker 1: jewelry and then have a silver buckle on your belt,
Speaker 1: and I, literally, I'm not the most observant person that
Speaker 1: is never struck me as something that seemed to look
Speaker 1: I think she was joking. I know that she was joking,
Speaker 1: but it just reminded me of how so many people
Speaker 1: think that that's so important that you can't have clashing jewelry,
Speaker 1: and I get that look. I found her rant kind
Speaker 1: of funny. I found it a little bit over dramatic
Speaker 1: considering what's actually going on in New South Wales with
Speaker 1: the flooding at the time. However, I got to the
Speaker 1: point it was like, you know, as I said, the
Speaker 1: video went for four minutes, and it started to annoy
Speaker 1: me when she was going on that she hasn't had
Speaker 1: a break for six to twelve months and that she
Speaker 1: actually hires a lot of people to do stuff because
Speaker 1: she just doesn't have the time. Now, it seemed a
Speaker 1: bit contradictory considering she had enough time to rant about
Speaker 1: the table, and then she started getting really passive aggressive
Speaker 1: with her followers. It seems to be a bit of
Speaker 1: a trend at the moment. Now. I understand people can
Speaker 1: be annoying in DMS, Like I'm not talking about like
Speaker 1: not that I've ever experienced it, but when I see
Speaker 1: influencers sharing some of the feedback they get like, obviously
Speaker 1: the negative stuff's horrible, but even just sort of like, oh,
Speaker 1: like really obvious things. And if you're getting that huh
Speaker 1: hundreds of times, I can see how that would be annoying.
Speaker 1: But also, you know how to bite the hand that
Speaker 1: feeds you. But do you It's not think that she's
Speaker 1: just creating content by having a rant about the table.
Speaker 1: I think she's talking about it because it's something that
Speaker 1: is relatable. I think what Kate's saying, though, is a
Speaker 1: lot of followers were annoyed because they felt like she
Speaker 1: was ranting at them when they were trying to help her.
Speaker 1: And also, so if I've got to say, I don't
Speaker 1: think she was being relatable because for most people, purchasing
Speaker 1: a outdoor table, it's actually really expensive, and then getting
Speaker 1: someone to make the table and then having a rant
Speaker 1: about how ugly this table was when it really was
Speaker 1: a pretty basic table. I kind of liked the table, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't really like. I like the one she chose.
Speaker 1: She actually chose like a lot. However, it's not like
Speaker 1: it was some hideous thing like, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: return the table. It's not what she ordered. The whole
Speaker 1: thing is exactly No, that's fine. I completely understand the rant.
Speaker 1: I get it. I think sometimes Abby she's coming across
Speaker 1: as joking and that maybe some people don't pick up
Speaker 1: on the fact that it is a joke. And that's
Speaker 1: what she probably finds frustrating, because we've got to remember,
Speaker 1: she's receiving these dms constantly from people who were reading
Speaker 1: so much into everything she says. It would be frustrating,
Speaker 1: but she probably should have just put down her phone
Speaker 1: and not said anything more about it. Well, it was
Speaker 1: quite clear that her rant pissed off a lot of
Speaker 1: her followers because she was getting a lot of messages
Speaker 1: calling her privileged, and I did find that disappointing because
Speaker 1: I did feel like she was coming across as privileged
Speaker 1: and I felt like she's almost in that transition where
Speaker 1: she's changed a little bit, that she's been an influencer
Speaker 1: for quite a while now, and simple tasks she's sending
Speaker 1: off to air time. I disagree, though, because I saw
Speaker 1: it popping up a lot on a lot of different
Speaker 1: podcast groups that I follow and people were saying that
Speaker 1: they were disappointed by the way that she reacted. But
Speaker 1: I don't think it's any differently than she's reacted in
Speaker 1: previous insert stories. I mean, she's just I find her
Speaker 1: insert stories really funny. I think she was just trying
Speaker 1: to be funny. I think it was all a bit
Speaker 1: of a joke and then people took it too literally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get the joke part. But I think the thing
Speaker 1: that's changing is that she used to lash out at
Speaker 1: people weren't following her, like these are people in the
Speaker 1: media or other people that had made negative commentary towards her,
Speaker 1: and of course lash out at them. But now she
Speaker 1: seems to be lashing out at her own fan base,
Speaker 1: and I think that's quite dangerous for an influencer to do.
Speaker 1: As I said, it's biting the hand that feeds you.
Speaker 1: You if you're getting people to unfollow you because you're
Speaker 1: you know, they've sent you something that they think is
Speaker 1: helpful and you've actually then she was calling people out
Speaker 1: in a DM screenshotting things and you know, leaving people's names,
Speaker 1: which was not content that was like bullying. It was
Speaker 1: actually helpful advice. I do get that, and I don't.
Speaker 1: And I think if someone's sharing helpful advice, you should
Speaker 1: always be thankful for it.
Speaker 3: However it is.
Speaker 1: It would be hard to continually be called privileged all
Speaker 1: the time, and I think that Abby does a lot
Speaker 1: for women's rights, and I think that it's hard because
Speaker 1: a lot of the time people online will label other
Speaker 1: people as privileged anytime they complain about anything. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: even you referenced, oh with what's going on with the floods,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yes, it is awful what's going on,
Speaker 1: but there can be issues in your life that you
Speaker 1: were still annoyed about by something bigger happening in the world.
Speaker 1: And I was the tone, it was the tone. It
Speaker 1: was like, do you think I've got time to do this?
Speaker 1: I hire people to do this. Like it really rubbed
Speaker 1: me up the wrong way, and I was a joke though, No,
Speaker 1: I don't like. I think we'll play some of the
Speaker 1: clip to put into that I do.
Speaker 5: I think she was.
Speaker 3: Joking about that.
Speaker 1: I think she thought that she was explaining explaining why
Speaker 1: she couldn't do it, and maybe it came across the
Speaker 1: wrong way. I'm going to put the clip here and
Speaker 1: people can make their own assumption about it.
Speaker 5: Sorry, but I actually didn't ask if I should sand
Speaker 5: down the table and try out some arts and crabs
Speaker 5: and send and change the corners and change the legs.
Speaker 5: First of all, I haven't had a day off in
Speaker 5: probably at least six months, probably more towards a year.
Speaker 5: I haven't had to do some sort of urgent work,
Speaker 5: so barely have time to call mom. Don't have time
Speaker 5: to be doing sanding of tables. Sorry, m B, it's
Speaker 5: not what I ordered, So we'll just get replaced. Send
Speaker 5: the email. It's all good. Some you know, when you
Speaker 5: ask someone or you've been to someone about something and
Speaker 5: you'd asked for a solution, should they give you a
Speaker 5: solution anyway, and you're like, it's not what I want
Speaker 5: to want a bent that's what like one hundred of
Speaker 5: you do my dams right now, guys, I have such
Speaker 5: little time and energy that I get Air Tasker to
Speaker 5: do everything, Like next week, I'm then to hang up
Speaker 5: all the paintings I want.
Speaker 1: You know why, because I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't have the time or the energy, all the
Speaker 5: craftsmanship to do it. I paid someone on Air Tasker
Speaker 5: to do this. If I'm not going to put the
Speaker 5: table myself, am I gonna sand it down to make
Speaker 5: it more like the table that I bought, despite the
Speaker 5: fact that it was the issue of the supplier, not
Speaker 5: of the purchaser.
Speaker 1: Me.
Speaker 5: No, So don't need your solutions. About one hundred of
Speaker 5: you my dms literally being passive aggressive, some of you,
Speaker 5: some of you being like babe obviously just sang it.
Speaker 2: Down and restain it.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I don't want to.
Speaker 5: I don't want to, so I'm.
Speaker 1: Not going to. Moving on and Laura Burne has caused
Speaker 1: some controversy after she unknowingly labeled a inclusivity doll terrifying
Speaker 1: and also scary as fuck on her Instagram story. Now,
Speaker 1: Laura was out and about with her toddler, Marley May,
Speaker 1: and she was in the Kmart toy section and Marley
Speaker 1: was playing with a doll and she said, I think
Speaker 1: we have enough crying babies at home. We don't need
Speaker 1: another one. She's then zoomed up on one of the
Speaker 1: dolls in the island said this baby here is truly terrifying.
Speaker 1: This is a scary af doll. At that point, she
Speaker 1: zoomed up on the doll and you could see that
Speaker 1: the doll was labeled as baby Amelia with Down syndrome. Now,
Speaker 1: the second I saw this story, I knew that there
Speaker 1: was no malice intended and it had been a complete mistake,
Speaker 1: And I actually felt sick for her because she's just
Speaker 1: given birth to her second daughter, Lola, a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago, a couple of weeks ago, really not long.
Speaker 1: I think it's been six weeks, and she was obviously
Speaker 1: racing around trying to do everything, and it's just been
Speaker 1: a complete disaster, especially with well Down Syndrome day celebrated
Speaker 1: on the day after on the Sunday. Yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: this too, and my stomach drop because you just knew
Speaker 1: that there was As you said, Kate, there was no
Speaker 1: malice at all behind this, and I just knew that
Speaker 1: this was going to be huge on social media. I
Speaker 1: was just thinking about the daily mail headlines. I think
Speaker 1: the thing that was really promising, though, was people saw
Speaker 1: it for what it was a mistake and not something
Speaker 1: that she intended, and I think that was really helped
Speaker 1: by the heartfelt apology she put out there. So let's
Speaker 1: play a clip of it.
Speaker 6: I just want to quickly jump on here, and I'm
Speaker 6: probably drawing more attention to something that I fuck me.
Speaker 6: I just can't even begin to describe how sorry I am.
Speaker 6: I have just received a whole heap of messages from
Speaker 6: people I put up a story make were running through
Speaker 6: Kmart and I was like, this doll looks scary. Af
Speaker 6: is exactly what I said. And there was a dole
Speaker 6: in Camart that I thought, genuinely just thought looked tired.
Speaker 6: And so many of you guys have messaged me to
Speaker 6: let me know that it was actually an insity doll
Speaker 6: and I feel sick.
Speaker 1: To my stomach, but a mistake that I made, so
Speaker 1: I had no idea and I'm really really sorry for
Speaker 1: it was totally unintentional. This is an excellent example of
Speaker 1: how to make a public apology. She was extremely sincere,
Speaker 1: and she took full responsibility. I mean she even cried
Speaker 1: in it. You can't put that on I do think though,
Speaker 1: it's a really helpful reminder for those who have big
Speaker 1: followings to be so careful with what you post. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe film and then once you're sitting down and you're
Speaker 1: you know, looking at the story properly post. I mean,
Speaker 1: this poor woman, she's got a newborn baby and also
Speaker 1: a toddler. She's probably had no sleep and has taken
Speaker 1: her daughter to the shop. So I do feel really
Speaker 1: sorry for her, and I also feel for anyone who
Speaker 1: may it may have caused any upset for any families.
Speaker 1: But I think she's addressed it really well and hopefully
Speaker 1: we can all just move on from it. And as
Speaker 1: you said, Kate, a great example of maybe how other
Speaker 1: influential people should apologize if they've been caught out doing
Speaker 1: the wrong thing. Are you ready to hear POD's verdict?
Speaker 1: If I messed, Yeah, you have computes. You are a fantastic,
Speaker 1: totally plastic queen of the umpo lumpers. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: do to me? Card? I'm going to turn you into
Speaker 1: a natural beauty. Okay, let's get into snog Mary and avoid,
Speaker 1: and we've actually decided to rate triplets. Well they're not
Speaker 1: really triplets, but they bloody all look the same. They're
Speaker 1: influencers Tylia Scanes, Alie Alton, and m Davies. Because I
Speaker 1: thought it was quite interesting because, as I said, they
Speaker 1: all look the same, but they've got a different personality.
Speaker 1: So they're all blonde, about a size six. You're kind
Speaker 1: of typical looking influence, big boobes, big boobs, yep, lip
Speaker 1: fill of that type of thing. I feel like this
Speaker 1: is going to be really difficult to choose. Look now,
Speaker 1: it's quite easy for me. I would marry Tarlia Scanes.
Speaker 1: I actually think she's got a great personality. She's smart,
Speaker 1: she's a lawyer, she's got a biller and Barley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick Tarlia. I think I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: choose to avoid. Alie Outon after her terrible brand launch
Speaker 1: the other day, has at She also been known for
Speaker 1: injecting ten or something. Yes, it did come out on
Speaker 1: a YouTube video. So she put up a clip of
Speaker 1: her to do list and it said in jec tan
Speaker 1: and that was swiftly taken down. Yes, I don't think
Speaker 1: that really aligns with my value, so I will pash
Speaker 1: M Davies. She'd be a bit wild on the party scene,
Speaker 1: I believe, so party pash with M Davies. I have
Speaker 1: to agree with. I have to agree with the Tylia
Speaker 1: Scaines one because I actually genuinely do like her. She
Speaker 1: comes across as a really likable person on her Instagram,
Speaker 1: a bit more down to earth than the other two.
Speaker 1: She even gets macis let's be fun, and she seems
Speaker 1: to cook for Mitch, which I like, and she is smart.
Speaker 1: I reckon I'd have a bit to talk to her about.
Speaker 1: But with the others, can I choose to avoid both
Speaker 1: of them? Because I just would have zero interest in
Speaker 1: speaking to you. You have to be one to kiss. Oh,
Speaker 1: I reckon Allie's maybe Alie. I don't like how M
Speaker 1: Davies has that chair that looks like it belongs in
Speaker 1: the hospital. Oh my gosh, she just told what I
Speaker 1: was going to say. I was literally going to say
Speaker 1: that I could not live with M Davies so I
Speaker 1: couldn't marry her because of her taste in furniture. That
Speaker 1: shocker chairs A Pasha still surely Yeah, Pasha on the chair.
Speaker 3: Oh anyway, I think.
Speaker 1: I would have to choose to Pash m Davies just
Speaker 1: for the Cloud, because I think she's a bit more
Speaker 1: she's more famous.
Speaker 3: I suppose you realize that we're actually joking.
Speaker 1: I don't. No one thinks I'm being serious. Anyway, I've
Speaker 1: got an I think they seriously think we want to
Speaker 1: pass it. But I met through the cloud. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously Tulliuscaines. She seems really lovely, really switched on,
Speaker 1: really intelligent. She's got absolutely bang a body as well.
Speaker 1: I've got to say that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And then i'd avoid Allie.
Speaker 1: I think. Well, I think that's all we've got time
Speaker 1: for today. We do have a really exciting episode coming
Speaker 1: on Monday. I'm salivating over it already. I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: We're going to be joined by a huge media lawyer
Speaker 1: in Sydney, a very well known one. It's actually your
Speaker 1: personal lawyer, isn't it, Amy. He's fine.
Speaker 3: How fancy do I have sound having my own personal work.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's my he was. That's my lawyer when I
Speaker 1: was going through certain legal issues with a big network.
Speaker 1: He's well known in the business, and he's going to
Speaker 1: be talking to us about the legalities around celeb spulture.
Speaker 1: Can I just specify that he's not your lawyer to
Speaker 1: defend this podcast. He's been your lawyer to defend you
Speaker 1: in a previous life. But he's around if anybody does
Speaker 1: you know, if any influence comes out of the woodwork
Speaker 1: tries to sue us, is this like, are you trying
Speaker 1: to threaten them that you know? Yeah, we know lawyers.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to threaten anyone. We're just going to
Speaker 1: have a great chat with him on Monday. We really
Speaker 1: want to get to the bottom of whether influencers like
Speaker 1: this is defamation if it actually is. Yeah, So you
Speaker 1: can't wait for you to join us. And as we said,
Speaker 1: if you do have time, this is a passion project
Speaker 1: of ours and if you do enjoy the podcast, we
Speaker 1: would love if you could leave us a review, preferably
Speaker 1: a five star one. Please drown out some of the
Speaker 1: negative reviews that the influencers, I mean, other people have
Speaker 1: been leaving alms.
Speaker 3: If you love our toilet Talk, maybe that's a reason
Speaker 3: to give us five stars.
Speaker 1: And could you also share it with a friend because
Speaker 1: I suppose that's the only way it's going to grow
Speaker 1: as well. Or share it on your Instant story and
Speaker 1: tag us at outspoke an Underscore the Underscore Podcast, and
Speaker 1: have a lovely weekend