Names_Ames wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:42 am
Very basic question... but WHY has she got into this mess? I don’t believe she actually is stupid enough to scam everyone... so is she just lazy/has shitty priorities? Did she lose interest in giving money to charity after she was praised for raising it? Just a bit baffled at her thought process.
I believe she didn't think things through. She wanted to jump on the trend of influenzas fundraising to raise her profile and look like she was a decent human being- perhaps she was actually trying to be a decent human being and use her platform for good?
She got hyped, raised some money,
got the praise (the most important bit- and the bit she focused on at the end of her stories today was how people were telling her how wonderful she is), then she just moved on to business as usual. If you look at her insta grid- Fundaiser total posted, then hair salon promo, workout vid, home renos, cooking vid... she just moved on to her usual content, with no actual thought of how important it was to follow through on the donations.
She's so focused on her hustle and herself, that she did not realise how grave an issue it would be to withhold those donations for any length of time. The cynic in me thinks she was also trying to earn some interest off of the money, hence the delay until eventually getting around to actually donating it.
Had we not begun calling her out on here, she would not have moved at all this week. She's off to Byron, then she says she has a product launch at the end of Jan...so conceivably, she may not have donated until Feb when she happened to have a free day and happened to remember she's got an extra 400k in her account.
At least that's the only explanation I have for this fiasco. But my irritation is with how simple it would have been to either:
Just link people directly to the charities (but she wanted the praise, the sales, the engagement boost on her channel)
or
Make a post explaining how much you will be donating, when you will be donating, and when you'll post receipts. She could have even said there would be delays due to the amount of money and banking procedures- it would have been acceptable and nobody would be alerting scamwatch. But by ignoring it and moving on like it never happened, she made it look suspicious (who knows what her actual intentions are)!
And by playing victim now she's taking away from the true victims of the fires. It's tone deaf.