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The Birds Papaya is a "body positive" influencer marketed towards women. On the surface, the values she pretends to espouse are great! Women feeling confident in whatever body they've got! That's how she hooked so many of us former followers. However, once you start paying attention, it becomes apparent that she is just another capitalist shill trying to make a buck at any cost. She'll post pictures of her body, with captions detailing all the innocuous things she "used to be" self conscious about - leading the viewer to think, "Wait. We're supposed to feel bad about the way our armpits look?" only for her, totally just by chance, happen to find this great product that will totally fix X,Y,Z problem! She also uses face and body filters and gets extensive cosmetic work on her face, but lies to say she's just totally natural and real because she's so at peace with herself now! And you can be, too, for $29.99! Your friend, the Birds Papaya, would never lie to you!
She also exploits her minor children for content. She has strapped a go pro to her toddler to film content -- including ads. She has posted video of her child playing in her bed--when she thought she was alone--from a nanny cam. She forced her oldest to talk about her first period in an ad for period underwear. She talks about where they all live, where the kids work, what events they'll be attending.
She has completely plagiarized articles word-for-word on her blog. She deletes and blocks anyone that says anything even moderately critical - so do the brands and media outlets that work with her. And now she's gone and got her Reddit sub, where the evidence for all of this and more was compiled, banned from the platform.
Soo anyway, she sucks and people deserve to know lol
I had to search for her. First glance seemed weird, but pretty innocuous. Didn't dig any deeper, so I'm giving the GP the benefit of the doubt here that she's a nutter.
She is part of the body positivity community. Our problem with her is that she proclaims that all bodies are worthy, but she filters her images to holy hell, uses skinny filters like crazy, and in general is a hypocrite. It’s damaging to people who really want to feel valid and worthy in their bodies, but someone we used to find inspirational is lying to us and gaslighting us by denying filters when it’s totally obvious. We are not harassing her. We simply talk about her. It’s venting. It’s us validating each other
Looks like one of those low-key hate subs for one of the few types of online personalities who actually deserve it (and to a certain extent kinda need to be watched): people who put their children's likenesses online, usually for advertising money from pedos.
In plainer terms (if you don't already know), people like this will take video of their children, usually in situations that it kind of makes sense for them to be scantily clad like at the beach or pool in a bathing suit, then upload them in bulk to YouTube or another monetized platform and rake in money from the kind of people that like watching small children run around in inappropriately styled bathing suits softcore porn of toddlers.
To me it's the in bulk part and the style of the videos that prove its a pedo upvote mill. An account called T1Dmama or something similar keeps slowing up in my feed because she does "health education" about her child's type 1 diabetes (T1D), type 1 being the one that requires blood glucose monitoring (ideally continuous if they're real brittle) insulin, glucose and glucagon for accidental insulin overdose, the whole bit.
Except she keeps uploading low-light ASMR style shorts of applying dexcom monitors to her completely still, unmoving small child. Now, she does comment that it's easier to apply when the child is sleeping which isn't impossible. It's similarly easier to do a heel stick while a baby is breastfeeding because sometimes they don't even notice = no wiggling and much easier to get the blood sample. But there is definitely a needle involved (it withdraws and leaves a flexible plastic catheter, but there is very much metal doing the initial stick) and the kid never even twitches. I certainly can't prove the kid is drugged (maybe she really is just that used to it) but she's put up a bunch of these videos and the kid never shifts or moans in any of them. Then there's the lighting and asmr-style package opening. She's got this kid laid out on the bed in the lowered light, stage set, all the clutter put away, and she slowly peels open all the packaging for the microphone and wiggles the cute little cartoon decorated securing sticker in front of the camera (it may as well be decorated, but the lady's showmanship about it is what gets me). Then she peels back the kids clothes and gets to work stabbing the unmoving kid (you have to put it on a fatty area, typically thigh abdomen or arm, and rotate the site regularly to reduce wear and tear on any one area). Again, nothing specifically weird but the style and sheer quantity just give me the ick.
I just have so many questions. Why are there so many? If it was educational material wouldn't you want to do it in full light? And wouldn't you only need a couple educational videos at most? Wouldn't they be full length and not shorts? If you were showing off a cool trick for how to do it while they're sleeping wouldn't you do a voiceover and be showcasing that specific technique in the video? And wouldn't you open everything beforehand and set it up on a tray so the packaging won't wake the kid? That's what I do when I'm trying not to wake a patient. If you're showing off the cute cartoon decorated securing stickers the kid doesn't even need to be there. And pretty much none of this ever requires showing the kid's face so some weirdo can tell them they saw them half naked as a toddler when they're older.
But they do all of this because it's what their pedo audience is willing to spend their ad-viewing minutes and premium subscriptions to see, not because it could be necessary or helpful (in this case) to people with or parents of children with diabetes, because I really feel she'd be approaching it differently were that the case.
You're welcome for the information, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I remember this every time I'm involved in a discussion about parents monetizing small children because it's the one I'm personally most familiar with and it bothers me every time they show up in my social media feeds.