Influencers and Hermes

[Prada Prince]

he mentioned here some kind of subscription/coaching services...

I liked him at the beginning as I thought he was pretty funny and honest about how he got bags.. but he buys so much (and I thought he had some implication that he spends all he makes), I am really not a fan of overconsumption, so I stopped watching him until recently his short video appeared in my Instagram and I saw how he brags about bags he got offered in Paris, which sounds super familiar, and not surprisingly... the subscription follows.
ETA: it's true that i just watched that video that he also says he can offer coaching services phone calls and going to Paris with you and shopping with you to play the game. It's quite mind-blowing.

Ugh, I followed him for a hot second before he already started grating on me. Never unfollowed someone so quickly LOL!

 

[SOF Dolls]

I love her twillys. The ones with the animal story. I forget what it is called. I have it in black and is is the only one to unravel/get snagged on me. So sad, as it was my favorite print. I wanted to repurchase but they don't have it. I love LABUBU lol but they are doing the hermes game on steroids. online order only, but you have to beat the bots. I dont know how people get lucky other than paying at least double or triple through a reseller. at least it's easy to authenticate because the box has a code you scratch off and scan.
I love the rodeos/pegase, etc. my husband bought me the hermes octopus charm which are sold out in the US I think. I saw one that was display only at my "home store". The bag charm trend is fun. in Vegas, I had my lababu wearing a green dinosaur costume on my green garden party and the SA was so amused she offered me a green pegase. best hermes experience.

Wow! 🦖 thats so cute and a great way to get a Pegasus! I’ve seen the octopus and it’s soooo cute!! 🐙

I was on a road trip last weekend and stopped in a nowhere town in Texas (between Dallas and Houston) and at the counter of a large gas station chain (not Buccees) there were about 6 boxes of Labubu V3 Pop Mart stacked there for sale. I don’t know anything about the V3 other than it being version 3. I know they’re impossible to get and was shocked to see a handful for sale there. I asked and they’re legit PopMart and they’re a distributor. So I figured the craze was waning or the v3 wasn’t collectible. But if anyone is in that area I will tell you the store name.

 

[themk888]

Here’s some more tea on Becca Bloom and her false persona and narrative that she was claiming to be real.

 

[SDC2003]

So many of these so called influencers are just so very sad in how they carry out their day to day lives. Incessant discussion of materialistic things and so desperate to come off wealthy. It is one thing to have discussions about luxury and quality and what’s new and what was purchased because one is simply a lover of luxury goods like many here on tpf. But the type of influencers we see since just before the pandemic and since are just over the top. People like Becca are just so 2000 and late as the BEP would say. I do not get how so many people follow such vapidness. When you have the money sure you can buy whatever but then what and so what? Why are these luxury influencers so desperate for the attention of complete and total strangers? How many jewelries and bags do they really need? If these people spent the amount of time and funds to do good in this world imagine what a different place we would be in. If I didn’t have a real purpose in this world other than constantly shop and go to parties I would literally die of boredom. And Becca I’m sorry to say needs to go eat several hamburgers. She is a really bad example for young people. Absolute skin and bones. And also she’s not what you would traditionally consider beautiful in Asian culture either. There are so many prettier rich Asian women to follow on the gram like Heart or Lisa of Blackpink etc! There I said it!

 

[atnur]

So many of these so called influencers are just so very sad in how they carry out their day to day lives. Incessant discussion of materialistic things and so desperate to come off wealthy. It is one thing to have discussions about luxury and quality and what’s new and what was purchased because one is simply a lover of luxury goods like many here on tpf. But the type of influencers we see since just before the pandemic and since are just over the top. People like Becca are just so 2000 and late as the BEP would say. I do not get how so many people follow such vapidness. When you have the money sure you can buy whatever but then what and so what? Why are these luxury influencers so desperate for the attention of complete and total strangers? How many jewelries and bags do they really need? If these people spent the amount of time and funds to do good in this world imagine what a different place we would be in. If I didn’t have a real purpose in this world other than constantly shop and go to parties I would literally die of boredom. And Becca I’m sorry to say needs to go eat several hamburgers. She is a really bad example for young people. Absolute skin and bones. And also she’s not what you would traditionally consider beautiful in Asian culture either. There are so many prettier rich Asian women to follow on the gram like Heart or Lisa of Blackpink etc! There I said it!

I actually agree with alot of what you're saying about materialism and influencer culture post-pandemic, but what you said about Becca's weight and appearance does not sit right with me. I find it harmful rather than a productive point that retracts from your message.

 

[SOF Dolls]

So many of these so called influencers are just so very sad in how they carry out their day to day lives. Incessant discussion of materialistic things and so desperate to come off wealthy. It is one thing to have discussions about luxury and quality and what’s new and what was purchased because one is simply a lover of luxury goods like many here on tpf. But the type of influencers we see since just before the pandemic and since are just over the top. People like Becca are just so 2000 and late as the BEP would say. I do not get how so many people follow such vapidness. When you have the money sure you can buy whatever but then what and so what? Why are these luxury influencers so desperate for the attention of complete and total strangers? How many jewelries and bags do they really need? If these people spent the amount of time and funds to do good in this world imagine what a different place we would be in. If I didn’t have a real purpose in this world other than constantly shop and go to parties I would literally die of boredom. And Becca I’m sorry to say needs to go eat several hamburgers. She is a really bad example for young people. Absolute skin and bones. And also she’s not what you would traditionally consider beautiful in Asian culture either. There are so many prettier rich Asian women to follow on the gram like Heart or Lisa of Blackpink etc! There I said it!

You have so many points that I agree with. These women (and a handful of men) have nothing but consumerism to keep them happy and feel relevant. It’s hard for us here in this thread, who are true lovers of luxury, to understand these people who just buy buy buy because they think it makes them someone important. It’s all they have until they don’t. Then they swing so hard in the opposite direction and lord that over us in another bid to feel important. Buy the things that make you happy, but ask yourself if you’re going to use them or display them as a trophy. And the majority of these influencers display them as trophies.

 

[SDC2003]

I actually agree with alot of what you're saying about materialism and influencer culture post-pandemic, but what you said about Becca's weight and appearance does not sit right with me. I find it harmful rather than a productive point that retracts from your message.

I don’t think it’s harmful to say that she is too skinny and not a good role model for other women. She is not. People like her contribute to the very many eating disorders that exist among the young people today. As for her being unattractive, Becca has put herself out there like other individuals in the public eye. I don’t see what’s wrong with saying that someone thinks another person does not measure up to what is considered beautiful in a culture. Part of that comment has to do with what qualities does her social media profile have that makes her so appealing? I don’t get it. I think the problem with a lot of the culture today is shaming others for their honesty. I think there’s more harm when people can’t be frank.

Edit let me add there was no name calling here on my part either.

 

[atnur]

I don’t think it’s harmful to say that she is too skinny and not a good role model for other women. She is not. People like her contribute to the very many eating disorders that exist among the young people today. As for her being unattractive, Becca has put herself out there like other individuals in the public eye. I don’t see what’s wrong with saying that someone thinks another person does not measure up to what is considered beautiful in a culture. Part of that comment has to do with what qualities does her social media profile have that makes her so appealing? I don’t get it. I think the problem with a lot of the culture today is shaming others for their honesty. I think there’s more harm when people can’t be frank.

Edit let me add there was no name calling here on my part either.

You're emphasizing that you didn't name call, but you called her out for being "skin and bones" or that she "need hamburgers". It comes across as shaming, even if it's meant as concern (is it really tho?). The core message of my previous comment was that we can and should have meaningful critiques of influencer culture and materialism, but without having to narrow beauty standards.

 

[SDC2003]

You're emphasizing that you didn't name call, but you called her out for being "skin and bones" or that she "need hamburgers". It comes across as shaming, even if it's meant as concern (is it really tho?). The core message of my previous comment was that we can and should have meaningful critiques of influencer culture and materialism, but without having to narrow beauty standards.

Providing a description of how she appears as unhealthy is not name calling. Calling her vapid or hideous would have been name calling. This forum is a conversation about influencers and there have been many comments above that really went into mean girls territory with hateful comments yet you choose to pick on my comment for what reason? Really bizarre. Please stop. You’re going on ignore.

 

[chanellover333]

You have so many points that I agree with. These women (and a handful of men) have nothing but consumerism to keep them happy and feel relevant. It’s hard for us here in this thread, who are true lovers of luxury, to understand these people who just buy buy buy because they think it makes them someone important. It’s all they have until they don’t. Then they swing so hard in the opposite direction and lord that over us in another bid to feel important. Buy the things that make you happy, but ask yourself if you’re going to use them or display them as a trophy. And the majority of these influencers display them as trophies.

Exactly. I think what bugs me is that their entire platforms are built on the allusion of wealth and they are using Hermes bags as tokens of said wealth, when in this case many of those bags are not even authentic or theirs. I have seen so many stories of this, especially in the "Tiktok" "Instagram" influencer realm. They lead folks to believe they are brand VIPs, have this epic collection of birkins and kellys, jet set the world, etc. then you find out the bags are either fake or borrowed, the Pj pics are photoshopped, etc.. there's always a 'catch'. There is another young influencer who is Asian-American I cannot recall the name but she sits in front of a collection of bags include many Mini Kellys and the whole time she was sitting in her friends closet pretending it was hers and that she was some ultra wealthy trust fund kid.

I am willing to bet most of these people's followers are pre-teens and teenagers. Prior to tiktok/short form content, in the youtube H influencer days, influencers had to be very stylish,charming, big personalities, or knowledgable in order to win over viewers. Now the short form content of tiktok sensationalism has made it possible for so many untruthful people to gain millions of views and followers. And young people's brains are especially susceptible to this nonsense. They want to be these influencers bc the influencer is now the aspirational goalpost, now keeping up with the Joneses has turned into Keeping up with Tiktok Influencers all over the world!

Don't want to get too off topic but the eating disorder thing @SDC2003 mentioned is actually a tiktok trend now. It is called 'wealthy skinny lifestyle' or something like this, apart of a community just recently banned on Tiktok called "Skinny Tok", where some young influencers tell other young women they have to engage in disordered eating in order to live a glamorous lifestyle. The women in this mindset also focus on the 'presentation' of the food and how lux it appears instead of the nutritional value (like our favorite Hermes influencer becca who has so many videos "plating" food on her H plates -- lol). Don't even get me started. Tiktok desperately needs more regulation.

 

[Beachbunny_chanel]

The new bag really is one of the most beautiful ones in her collection.

What's her new bag? Don't want to watch her videos

 

[authenticbbq]

Here’s some more tea on Becca Bloom and her false persona and narrative that she was claiming to be real.

Ngl I don’t care to follow most (if not all) luxury influencers, but I am here for the tea

 

[shazzy99]

What's her new bag? Don't want to watch her videos

Have DM’d you, just in case others like to watch the videos…

 

[themk888]

Ngl I don’t care to follow most (if not all) luxury influencers, but I am here for the tea

Same! I don't care for influencers who revolve their entire persona around luxury, but I do love good tea on them. I will say that this one in particular is quite entertaining as Becca's tea has others to confirm her false persona. Not only is it just fake Hermès and jewelry, but fraudulent business operations were discovered when her parents' company tried to go public! I wonder if there is more tea to spill that we don't currently know of? I guess only time will tell if more of Becca's lies will surface...

 

[stupidolive]

Cassie new video

I really like how she stays true to herself and seems honest