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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    7 months ago

    I’m just a random lemming who saw this community, would you mind returning the favour and explaining what a birdpapaya is?

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        7 months ago

        I have. Who is this person? What does she do? Why is she worthy of an online community? What reason does the internet have to dislike her?

        • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          Got some more info from that comment: https://lemmy.ca/comment/9669464

          We are a group of concerned consumers who are having public discourse over an internet influencer who is scamming her followers by posting filtered photos and by denying her obvious physical enhancements such as lip fillers and passing it off as natural and unfiltered. She also sells products on her platform that she does not disclose are sponsored content and that she makes kickbacks from the sales. In Canada, this is illegal under the Competition Act. She has also been caught plagiarizing BIPOC creator and has never addressed this, nor apologized for it, and she certainly has not compensated the BIPOC creators foe the “borrowed” content, either. She also exploits her 3 yr old for content, which is extremely concerning because the child cannot legally give consent for their image and likeness to be used for commercial gain. She also posts so much private information about her children that we know where they work, live, go to school and take part in their hobbies. This is extremely concerning from a safety perspective.

          If you want to have a look at plagiarism: https://lemmy.ca/post/22735011?scrollToComments=true

          Post where the lemmy.ca admins affirm that they don’t see a problem with the community as long as it follows the instance rules: https://lemmy.ca/post/22638028?scrollToComments=true

          To me the main interest in the community is seeing people who are completely out of the usual Lemmy demographic learning how to use the platform (and they seem to adapt quite well). If you don’t care about this or about the topic itself, it’s probably better to block the community and call it a day.