She makes a good point.
Erika Fox, the woman behind Retro Flame has weighed in on the recent controversy in the Irish blogger community.
As many of us know by now, anonymous Instagram accounts, such as Bullshitcallerouter and Irishbloggerscammer, have been calling influencers out for photoshop and faking competitions.
Many of Ireland’s top influencers such as SoSueMe, MakeUp Fairy Pro and Terrie McAvoy were targeted throughout the past few weeks.
But now Erika, who lives in New York, has had her say on the entire thing, and she certainly didn’t hold back.
On a new YouTube video uploaded to her channel, she said: “This could just be me, but lately I find that online, it’s probably not just me I’m pretty sure everyone’s noticing it, but there’s been a lot of negativity put towards bloggers and influencers and YouTubers and whatever.”
“I think sometimes, not all of you of course, but I think sometimes people jump to conclusions about us a little bit.
“And that’s the thing, when it comes to bloggers, we’re not all the same, and there’s been so much negativity and a lot of weird conversations I’ve come across online.
“And to be honest, I don’t really ever get involved that much, but you just can’t paint us all with the same brush, like we’re all so different. I just think before you judge you should always look into people, and respect the journey we’ve taken.
“I just see so many people online bashing bloggers, and a lot of them probably have no idea or taken the time to look into that persons background or taken a step back to see how hard they’ve worked, they just assume that all bloggers are the same.”
She didn’t stop there though, and admitted that while all bloggers are not the same, there are certainly some that deceive their fans.
“100 percent there are certain bloggers out there that maybe don’t deserve where they are or they’ve lied, or they’ve cheated, or they’ve bought followers, or they’ve photoshopped pictures. Whatever it is, and they’ve, like, conned their way to the top.
“So I think that when you do follow a blogger and if they are annoying you or if you don’t really like them or you don’t think they deserve the follow, just kind of unfollow them and move on.”
Solid advice.
