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Yes it’s very weird, because people have been asking influencers and celebrities to boycott Disney for almost 10 months. Everyone should boycott Disney. Given the fact that these influencers are on their phones, 18 hours a day, you’d think they know who they should be boycotting but apparently not.

Boycott Disney, period.

I also wanted to add that, although I have never had any type of injections, my friends who get lip injections have complained about getting cankers, and I know one time when I was using crest white strips. I was getting cankers all the time with white strips and didn’t make that connection. They are extremely painful, and I don’t wish pain on anybody. Honestly gargling with warm salt water helps so much!

Yes! Also acidic foods (yes coffee is acidic) and cola as well as any lemonade, spicy food, strawberries etc hurt and can make cankers worse. Do not drink coffee or cola when you have cankers. Rinse /gargle with warm salt water several times a day and they heal very quickly. Rinse your mouth after eating acidic foods too if you can’t resist.

trigger warning eating disorders A lot of medication’s can cause cankers, as well as stress, and I remember having cankers all the time when I was suffering from ED (bulimia) even after rinsing and brushing right afterward.

Also, having someone in the dental field in my family I will say get screened for cancer at your dentist appointments and know the signs of oral cancers.

Pre 2020.

My feelings on how these people dropping in feel:

Vidcon is awful. Panels at vidcon aren’t thoroughly checked at all! Creators I know in real life (personall) were on a panel years ago where one fellow panelist was freaking deadnamed by someone on the stage. They didn’t even apologize when called out, so this made me question the caliber of guests. They are not guaranteed to be high quality, referenced or even checked for problematic possibilities. Anyone can start a podcast, anyone can document their lives online, but not everyone will be good humans. When it’s a “look at me, look at me” type event, then of course the level of morality will drop. They all choose fame over humanity whenever given the chance.

People who abandon their friends who have kids not at the same age when you do are trash anyway. Superficial internet posted friends are just that- it’s the real ones people keep hidden to maintain privacy. I am private on all social media but I have friends who don’t want their photos anywhere online even on private anccounts, and almost all my friends refuse to have photos of our kids online anywhere. It’s possible this mom friend has simply not shared her connection to avoid people creeping on her family. I ask my friends with larger followings to never have me tagged or in their pics. It’s a boundary that most of the world keeps, which is why we see the redundancy of these influencers everywhere.

No she’s there. I have an account I didn’t block them on . She’s likely blocked you then.

Not that it will help, but a lot of us (like me) are here to call her out on her refusal to call out things like genocide, and her refusal to say anything to support the LGBTQIA2S community or body autonomy (I see from Sam, her other comments that you’ve posted on that you are not OK with people being complicit in genocide, and this influencer has been completely silent , even endorsing products on the BDS list).

This isn’t a celebrity. This is someone who built a platform by selling crummy products to people, to the point where she’s made a name for herself, and has the means to use her platform to help a lot of people, and she is just continuing to be greedy and unethical. I attend protests, donate to community organizations and volunteer my time, and I definitely am active politically. So when I see people who are white cis privileged women being amplified over marginalized people who are making a difference in the world o call it out.

I wouldn’t stress about any of them blocking you because they just do what they think will preserve their images.

As for AM well AM’s hubby told someone to literally unalive themselves, and yet A’s friend F has had 2 siblings pass this way. Most of the shine people are openly sober but AM was going to push booze. AM threatened to punch someone and was working with anti violence organization.

B supports an incredible trans account (this is good news) who had their t-shirt designs stolen (this is awful, and we should all be mad) and yet S&K t-shirt company that B used for her viral water thing uses designs that aren’t her own (for the S&K pride merchandise). Go look at the more pride less prejudice, frog umbrella one and the angry woman one- they are all over the web and are dated before launch). B took down the links to help stop genocide to put up merch link.

With mental health posts they get $ from organizations too. They still buy Disney, Coke, Amazon, all of which are complicit in genocide.

These friends are all about consent but S is not cool with consent. The friends are mostly all against showing their kids or child relatives, but S isn’t and they are okay with this. S doesn’t speak up for pride, trans rights or genocide but B & AM did (B removed link, A only posted half-assed thing in fall then a link but showed no contribution). So I think friendships with S and shine people have seemed to lower moral compass.

There’s more, but they aren’t worth worrying about. Let’s call them out for disappearing stories when it’s anything of substance, pushing links for environmental damaging food and clothing companies and just overlooking bad behavior.

Would you be upset if you were in high school and you called out a mean girl for bad behavior but then got cancelled or ignored by her friends? No you wouldn’t. Treat this like high school. After high school (or adulthood with superficial friendships with popularity or financial benefits in this case) people discover themselves and either get worse or they improve themselves. I think, let’s let these adults figure out that they are contributing to problematic behavior and let’s let them show that they can grow.

In the meantime keep calling them out (as you should in real life too), attend protests, contribute to mutual aid, donate your time to worthy causes, stop over consuming and ignore these people. Look for community in groups even like this if it’s all you can do, to search for people who are looking to disrupt the status quo. Let these ones figure out life a little longer.

They can block and we can too. I suggest blocking anyone that is harmful to your mental health. It could be perhaps that them getting called out or they are looking for comments that call their friends out causes them mental distress because they aren’t ready to face the facts yet. And ultimately if it’s not good for their mental health, they will have to block you too. To an outsider that seems really silly. You would think that when people are making suggestions to become better people that people will try to take strides, but it’s often once they’re through the fog that they will see the error of their ways.

I am pretty pissed off (after looking at the instanavigation at her profile) that people are commenting how it’s unaffordable and she replies with payment plan stuff. During an economic crisis, where she’s making money doing nothing but pushing off vulnerable people with (likely) little (to no) financial literacy to buy stuff with her codes or her collab stuff, she’s coming out to look pretty villainous. Her assuming that people are poor because is they don’t know how to budget their money or that they should be making payment plans is so friggin dangerous and classist. In general people in Canada are poor, because they do not have generational wealth, they are immigrants, and have been robbed of opportunities that should be given to them but are not because of the racism in our country, or because they refused to do things that debase themselves, and take advantage of others, in order to make money.

She could have replied to people saying it’s too pricey with “I am doing a free giveaway if you want to take your chances with this” and even had more traffic to her page by forcing people to comment some stupid word on a post.

I also noticed that her husband replied back about a comment and basically told someone to stand in the middle of the highway? What is going on with this? I’m so glad I’m not following her anymore.

I haven’t gone to the S&T page in ages, but has she said any proceeds from sales are going to any type of LGBTQIA2S charity since she’s said she’s part of the community? This is pride month after all. It is a missed opportunity. Of course, she has friends that she wants to send stuff to, but she literally could have chosen only people in the LGBTQIA2S or Indigenous community (Indigenous History month too) for her PR.

OK, so if people comment that they don’t want to get “early access” to an overpriced, cheaply made fast fashion factory romper (that she didn’t personally make herself with her own hands, so you’re not calling out her talent or skill or worth) she attacks with telling you that nobody should love or date you, then blasts you publicly? So people who cannot afford $140, and do not want to support a company that has now switched their manufacturing out of Canada (and who are constantly sending stuff to the same shine people who all fly around nonstop and pollute the earth) are all supposed to like the garment? You didn’t attack her body, looks or worth. You called out a clothing garment. If people were more concerned about actual genocide, and the rights of trans kids, being stripped from them, as they were about being told, the romper is ugly , then we might have more freaking goodness happening in the world. I would say don’t engage with people like her. I blocked her about a year ago? Don’t delete your account, let her minions get in a tizzy about you not liking 3 metres of fabric, and let her show how ridiculous her priorities are.

I realize that we all have to somehow take part in capitalism and a lot of things people can only get by going to big box, stores, or Amazon, but I always think it’s a big win for the planet and a loss for billionaires when influencers post less about consuming. I never actually want influencers to over consume and thereby influence others yo do the same. I’ll give credit where credit is due and I hope this is a trend that continues and that all the other shine people also stop pushing everyone to buy all the time. Little victories for the planet are little victories am I right? We need less fast fashion (instead let’s support local and small and NO s&t isn’t small) , more activism (or even some activism like speaking up for Sudan, DRC and Palestine, and trans kids) and less trips (local shops need influencers to give them business to drive business). When I see even small changes I HOPE they are moving to being more authentic (I won’t get my hopes up too much but you never know). Calling people out on snarks is the only way they can see what people think and it’s necessary to demand more from people on platforms.

I’m not opposed to hats, especially since they do protect us from skin cancer (well, trucker hats with mesh backs don’t), and can give confidence to people with hair loss, or alopecia. Maybe it’s an ode to Laguna Beach and Trey’s “active young America” hats or Paris Hilton hats. The style was big when the 40+ crowd were younger (unfortunately). I really hate that hot niche trends are so harmful to the environment though because people aren’t reusing hats from the 2000s they’re just buying a bunch of new hats and they always have to have ones that match their outfits. I don’t think hats are bad though because cancer fuck*ng sucks , but please wear actual sun safe hats fellow snarkers.

Prediction: it will be the arrae (that brand that apparently fixes bloating instantly that no doctor will recommend). They are now pushing a “faux-zempic.”

We don’t need brand collabs with blonde white women influencers, we need influencers talking about Indigenous History Month, Pride Month, genocide and boycotting. But sure. Let’s see another collaboration.

I’m not really into swimsuit clothing that don’t cater to non-cis people, plus sized people or people requiring modest coverage. There are brands out there that offer longer suits, ones with more coverage for people needing modesty, and suits with accessible features etc. Of course, no clothing brand can do it all, (well, they can, but they choose not to because they’d rather collab with white and white presenting rich cis women). And like I said before, asking a member of the LGBTQIA2S community , or BIPOC artists to design patterns might seem performative, but pride month , Indigenous History Month and Juneteenth aren’t new. They (along with all clothing companies) should be pressured (by customers) to be reaching out now, for next year, and paying people accordingly. Seeing the suits on the same bodies and influencers all the time also doesn’t give anybody an opportunity to see what they would look like in the suits.

Her heart is wiser? Then she should speak up about Palestine! She should post about trans rights AND keep posts up. A wiser heart would Boycott Coke instead of putting it in her stories. A wiser heart would stop flying everywhere when the world is on fire and climate experts have said FLYING is AWFUL for carbon emissions. A wise heart would know to stop buying clothing constantly from companies that are having their products manufactured it countries that are not monitoring labor policies and water usage. A wiser heart would not put their own kids on a public account for strangers to see. I frankly don’t care what she actually looks like physically.

Whoa! Consent is EVERYTHING! Omg I unfollowed her and the friends all ages ago for lack of care about anything of substance, but I didn’t know this was also something that had happened! okay this doesn’t sit well with me at all. I don’t want to see the recording I trust this is something that would be out there plus non-consensual anything could trigger people affected by SA trauma. I’m not weirded out by people’s different “things” they are into (everyone is different when it comes to what makes them “happy”) but body autonomy is body autonomy! Partners need to be okay with everything. No means no, and that applies to a partner not being into something taken as something that shouldn’t be brought up or suggested again.

What?!