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TikToker claims red carpet photographers ignored her for “not being hot enough”

Jun 23, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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When you watch red carpet videos and reels, there’s always a celebrity posing awkwardly and a bunch of speedlights flashing as photographers snap away. But a TikToker Tiff Baira recently took the awkwardness of red carpet posing to a whole new level when no one took a photo of her. She blamed it on the photographers, of course, claiming that they didn’t take her photos because “they didn’t think she was hot enough.” Oh, honey… You got it all wrong!

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Egypt female TikTok influencers sent to jail over “human trafficking”

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Apr 19, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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A female TikTok influencer from Egypt, Haneen Hossam, recently had her content on the platform send her to jail. The only thing she did was what influencers generally do – she invited and taught other users to monetize their social media activity. For this, the young woman was charged with “human trafficking” and sentenced to three years in prison.

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Dry ice poured into pool at “influencer” party kills three

Mar 5, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 23 Comments
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Russian influencer Ekaterina Didenko recently threw a party that went incredibly wrong. During the party, her husband reportedly poured 55 lb of dry ice into a swimming pool for “visual effects.” This caused him and two other guests to die from carbon dioxide poisoning, and what started as celebration ended in a terrible disaster.

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YouTuber faces three months in prison for pretending to enter coronavirus “red area” in Italy

Mar 4, 2020 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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The things people will do for social media. Italian YouTuber, 24-year-old Francesco Belardi is facing three months in prison after he made his 80K Instagram followers and 390K YouTube subscribers believe he had evaded checkpoints in Lodigiano, Italy, according to Corriere, and entered what they call the “red zone“. An area of quarantined towns in the Lombardy region around Milan.

Going by the name “Social Boom” on YouTube, Belardi made his Instagram followers believe he had eluded checkpoints to shoot “exclusive footage” of what’s going on in the cut-off area of Italy. His Instagram account has since been made private, but the video of his Instagram Stories still exists on YouTube. It’s in Italian, so you may want to turn on subtitles.

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Instagram influencer jailed in Egypt for climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza

Jan 17, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 24 Comments
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Instagram and YouTube star Vitaly Zdorovetskiy was recently jailed after climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza. He claims that he spent five days in an Egyptian jail and “saw horrible things” during this incredibly long imprisonment. And even though his half-witted venture didn’t really meet approval, he claims that he did it all “for a good cause.”

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Three influencers come under fire for promoting a fake weight loss drink containing cyanide

Dec 19, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 3 Comments
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The world of Instagram influencers is a strange one. And certainly, to a large extent, a fake one. But what happens when influencers are ready to turn fake into downright dangerous? In a recent documentary by the BBC, three influencers were approached to promote a fake weight loss drink that contained cyanide. And they all said yes, agreeing to promote poison to hundreds of thousands of people.

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Instagram soon to restrict posts about diet products and cosmetic surgery

Sep 19, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 3 Comments
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As a part of its efforts to reduce the negative impact of its platform, Instagram is restricting posts about diet products and cosmetic surgery. From now on, posts like this will be hidden from users under 18 years of age, or even deleted from the platform completely. What’s more, the same rules will also be applied to Instagram’s parent company Facebook.

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This travel blogger was called out for having the same clouds in her photos all over the world

Sep 3, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
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Famous travel bloggers and Instagram influencers have hundreds of thousands, even millions of followers. But Argentinian travel blogger Tupi Saravia seems to even have the same clouds following her on her travels. She was recently called out for posting photos from different locations – but most of them having the exact same clouds.

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Social media influencer woes – It happened to me, too!

Aug 29, 2019 by Missy Mwac 14 Comments
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Note: I had read THIS story on Buzzfeed about a social media influencer who posted professional photos of her accident on Instagram along with what appeared to be a product placement. I thought it unbelievable until…it happened to me.

Okay guys…the first thing you need to know is that I AM OKAY. Seriously, I’m okay, but in the interest of self-promotion, here’s the scary, magical series of events exactly as they happened.

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Instagram influencer accused of faking and staging a motorcycle accident for promotional gain

Aug 26, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
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Nashville-based lifestyle blogger Tiffany Mitchell recently posted professional photos of a motorcycle accident she had. As if posting (and even having) such photos wasn’t weird enough, they also contained conveniently placed bottles of water. Because of this, the post seemed like it was sponsored, and she received lots of criticism from the community. People have been calling her out for glamourizing an accident, even for staging the whole thing for the sakes of product placement.

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