So the debunking video above led me to watch another debunking video, which started down a very intriguing wormhole of asking why people are producing fake how-to videos like this, and the short version is they’re exploiting algorithms to generate ad revenue and the long version is they’re produced by a Russian content farm that has made some forays into American political ads.
She seriously doesn’t deserve the treatment youtube’s been giving her, so please support her as much as you can and make sure this shitty farming channel goes down in flames.
It promotes EXTREMELY DANGEROUS activities such as PUTTING STRAWBERRIES INTO A GLASS OF BLEACH TO TURN THEM WHITE WHICH IS POISONOUS. AND POURING LAVA HOT CARAMEL ONTO A SPINNING WHISK, WHICH WOULD EASILY BURN YOU AND LEAVE A SCAR.
It’s amazing how youtube still tolerates this kind of behavior just because it’s pumping out videos 24/7 and sucking up all of the views. It’s unacceptable and it needs to be stopped as soon as possible.
Again, support Ann Reardon and her cause as much as possible and report the opposing videos promoting this shit. DO NOT LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE VIDEOS! YOU’LL ONLY GIVE THE ALGORITHM THE IDEA THAT THIS VIDEO IS SHAREABLE!
Every day I mark 12 of these Spam or False information on Instagram and every day there’s 12 more. Usually the same video, with different accounts.
The tl;dr is that they make these videos to be intentionally misleading, both to people who don’t know why they can’t recreate these “simple” things as well as to people who know they won’t work, just so they get the interactions because clicks = $$
SCAM ALERT!! Told Magazine Inc / New Media International are scams targeting vulnerable creatives.
They lure you in with a very professionally worded email promising an interview with their magazine, saying you were nominated for it by one of your followers. Their website is also very professional on the surface, but if you look closely you’ll notice weird things about it. Lots of photoshopped stock photos of models wearing their logo, no real content or articles, blurry images of text where articles might be.
If you say yes, they send you a link to a questionnaire where they get your personal information, along with some questions about your art peppered in. Then they’ll ask you for money so they can mail you a copy of the magazine with your interview when it’s out, and that’s where the biggest part of the scam is. Once you send them money, they disappear.
I made it to the interview phase before going NAH, (I asked them a ton of questions about where the heck their articles were and why their magazine didn’t appear in any Google searches - they ignored me and just sent their next copy/paste email in the scam - a real editor would’ve addressed my questions). Then I found more artists talking about this scam on Twitter, but I haven’t seen anything about it on Tumblr. So, here you go.
There’s a lot of scams aimed at creatives right now because many us are more vulnerable than ever. Of course I’d love a sweet interview to boost my online shop sales while my entire convention schedule is canceled. But we can outsmart them by doing research, asking questions, and warning others.
Bumping this because the Told Magazine Inc scam has been sending lots of emails to artists again this week. Watch out for them, and ignore or block their emails if you get one.
So “Told Magazine Inc” emailed me today with this threat, all because of this tumblr post.
I’m not sure how seriously I should take it, since it’s a bunch of very harsh emotional threats and doesn’t come off as very… professional? On one hand, I’m still 100% convinced Told Magazine Inc is a scam organization, (as of today, googling them still doesn’t bring up anything unless you do so in quotes, their website doesn’t even load, and the third hit is my tumblr so lol). On the other hand, if they’re horrible enough to try to scam small artists out of some money, then they’re horrible enough to try to sue a small artist for exposing them as a scam. I won’t be removing this post as of yet, and will be reaching out to several local lawyers for consultations on the matter.
“Despicable actions” does not sound like a lawyer was involved at all.
They said “me”. Not “us”, not “the company”, etc. They’re totally fronting.
I keep seeing actresses or models who are trying to get the role of Katara and are trying to catch the attention of casting directors for Netflix despite the fact that they’re not Native or dark skinned, let alone Inuit/Inupiat/Yupik Native
On one Tiktok where somebody actually points out how this actress shouldnt audition for Katara because she’s not Inuit and the Water tribe definitely is, some weirdo is like “how do you know they’re inuit -_-” like UHHHH??
Probably all the imagery that’s nearly exactly copied from Northern Indigenous (namely Inuit) culture(s)??? And that’s not even getting into the written dialogue & world building that mimics Northern Indigenous culture like Sokka mentioning eating seal blubber, the near genocide of the Southern water tribe, the landscape etc etc literally the ONLY thing that’s asian about Sokka and Katara are their names and KIND OF the clothes they wear
The creators actually said that the water tribe is based off of the inuit people.
Earth kingdom is China
Fire Nation is imperial Japan
Air nomads are Tibetan Buddists
Exactly. So idk why Asian actresses are trying to land a role on a very obviously Inuit character when we don’t even make up 2% of representation in media and in a series that gave us one of the most beloved, most well known positive examples of Native characters
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