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‘Social media influencer’ requests free hotel stay. Drama ensues

That pretty much sums it up.
In three generations I've seen a shift from the seriously hard grafters of my parents' era, to a generation of entitled pricks who believe the world owes them a living.
in your parents era they were saying the same. Its ever the way of this moan. We were harder women and men back then. Walked to school barefoot over broken glass etc
 
I don't even think this is real now, and at this point it doesn't matter whether it originally was or not - they're both using it to promote their social media brands.
I can't help thinking that mouthy controversialist met mouthy controversialist and the inevitable ensued. I honestly don't know why anyone pays attention. They're probably related to each other.
 
The hotel owner seems to have played the media like a fiddle, maybe he should give her tips?
White Moose Cafe owner sends YouTuber Elle Darby invoice for publicity | Metro News

Now, after the initial controversy gained international media coverage, Stenson claims to have sent Darby a tongue-in-cheek invoice for the value of the publicity she received – which he then posted on Facebook. Under the ‘description’ of the work, the invoice says: ‘The provision of features in 114 articles across 20 countries with a potential reach of 450 million people’
 
That pretty much sums it up.
In three generations I've seen a shift from the seriously hard grafters of my parents' era, to a generation of entitled pricks who believe the world owes them a living.

That's why the pleasure is even greater when one of them is taken down. Like that prize twat 'vlogger' (oh, pur-lease!) who posted footage on youtube of a suicide victim whilst cracking jokes. These vacuous, narcissistic morons have no proper moral compass whatsoever; indeed they don't even have a modicum of basic common sense. So wrapped up are they in their little social media world ("look at my followers!" "look at my fake Facebook friends!") that they fail to realize one fundamental point; their sense of self-importance and self-entitlement means fuck all to the vast majority of people. They exist, for the most part, in their delicate little echo chambers, their lives defined by how many of those followers and how many of those fake Facebook friends orbit around their own vapid egos. Little Miss Entitlement here got her just desserts. But like the rest of these 'professional' bloggers, vloggers (or whatever they class themselves as) it won't be a lesson learnt. She'll probably put it down to 'a hurt experience'. And write another blog about it.
 
He's a prick, but a funny one.
I don't see why he's a prick. He simply took a leech's sponging email and turned it to his advantage.
If she didn't want people taking the piss out of her leeching lifestyle, she shouldn't push her leeching lifestyle into other people's faces.
 
I've been reading about this not sure what to think , one one hand I thought fair play to her for trying to get a freebie,we all like a freebie, and his answer to it was admittedly a bit dickish ( not looked into his form yet.)

But to vlog in tears about it is just extreme, but also watching some of the vlogs posted on here before , totally in her style and I'm sure has given her bad as well as good exposure.

What I dont really get is, it seems her target audience are of the younger end of the spectrum ( nothing wrong with that ) and this seems to be a pricey hotel, when offering her services who does the hotel think she is going to reach out to ? I'm not sure its her demographic, so she doesnt really have anything to offer, also from what i can tell , it wasnt a weekend or an overnight stay , it was a 5 day stay over valentines weekend and that imo is what takes the piss and prompted ( rightly or wrongly ) the hoteliers reponse..
 
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I've been reading about this not sure what to think , one one hand I thought fair play to her for trying to get a freebie,we all like a freebie, and his answer to it was admittedly a bit dickish ( not looked into his form yet.)

But to vlog in tears about it is just extreme, but also watching some of the vlogs posted on here before , totally in her style and I'm sure has given her bad as well as good exposure.

What I dont really get is, it seems her target audience are of the younger end of the spectrum ( nothing wrong with that ) and this seems to be a pricey hotel, when offering her services who does the hotel think she is going to reach out to ? I'm not sure its her demographic, so she doesnt really have anything to offer, also from what i can tell , it wasnt a weekend of an overnight stay , it was a 5 day stay over valentines weekend and that imo is what takes the piss and prompted ( rightly or wrongly ) the hoteliers reponse..

I, too, don't know much about this hotel owner. He may have 'form', he may not. But his response in this particular instance was wholly correct and justifed. I mean, wouldn't we all like a freebie stay in a nice hotel, while staff wait on us and we use their facilities and utilities for nowt? But, hey, guess what? we can't. Most people (no, make that 99.9% of people) expect to pay for such things and work hard to save up for it. Unlike Little Miss me-Me-ME! and her ilk. She got what she deserved I'm afraid (ditto that loathsome cretin who filmed the suicide victim for his vlog) and hopefully it won't be the last time either, if these type of chancers try and pull the same stunt again.
 
What I dont really get is, it seems her target audience are of the younger end of the spectrum ( nothing wrong with that ) and this seems to be a pricey hotel, when offering her services who does the hotel think she is going to reach out to ? I'm not sure its her demographic, so she doesnt really have anything to offer, also from what i can tell , it wasnt a weekend of an overnight stay , it was a 5 day stay over valentines weekend and that imo is what takes the piss and prompted ( rightly or wrongly ) the hoteliers reponse..

But isn't that the industry she's trying make living in, social marketing?
 
Anyone with the front to claim that she “worked with Universal Studios Florida and that it was great for them” when in reality she blagged a couple of day-tickets, can fuck right off as far as I care.

Presumably if this clown can grab any freebies at all, editor has a far better claim to be able to dine out gratis on a different Brixton posh burger every day of the year for the rest of his life.

Alex
 
The thing is that taking a side at all is exactly the goal. Engagement. They're all like this, X vs Y, share for yes like for no, which flavour wins the Walkers crisp deathmatch.
 
The thing is that taking a side at all is exactly the goal. Engagement. They're all like this, X vs Y, share for yes like for no, which flavour wins the Walkers crisp deathmatch.

I don’t think much of her, but there’s not much I can do about that, but I won’t be booking this prat’s hotel for people. I wil continue to flog tickets to Universal Studios though as they gave me a free day out in their LA Park, and it was great for me.
 
The thing is that taking a side at all is exactly the goal. Engagement. They're all like this, X vs Y, share for yes like for no, which flavour wins the Walkers crisp deathmatch.

I’m sure she’s dead chuffed that the whole internet is slagging her off, for being a cunt.

Alex
 
“I can offer you publicity to a demographic who can’t afford to stay in your hotel” doesn’t have a very good ring to it though.

It's £50 a night. If here demographic is women here own age I can't see it being a problem. She seems to want to build a business, good luck to her. The people I find odd are those that have taken the time to go to her social media accounts to tell her to kill herself.
 
Like a lot of these high profile blogging shitheads/online reviewers, she's quite happy to mislead her followers by writing dishonest and deceptive reviews in exchange for freebies, cash and whatever else she can grab for herself.

Whereas the real-deal Simon Calder never accepts a feebie or upgrade. Or so he claims.
 
Presumably if this clown can grab any freebies at all, editor has a far better claim to be able to dine out gratis on a different Brixton posh burger every day of the year for the rest of his life.

Alex
Except I don't and never have. I've never accepted a freebie/payment/gifts on the condition that I write something positive in exchange.*

And that's probably why this site is still going and these self-promoting, self-obsessed vbloggers/'reviewers' and their rented opinions will soon be forgotten forever.

I don't blame her for grabbing all she can, mind, but I'll never respect her or her ilk.

*That said, I'll happily swill down any free beer from any Brixton establishment, any time.
 
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