Imagine if every business blocked and attacked every customer that asked for a return on a faulty product, or they put your name on their sign if you called and complained about the service you received? This is to me the equivalent of what she’s been doing, and as you mentioned she’s living in an echo chamber of yes people so this is the result of it all. Let’s have thoughtful, educated (formal or life, not ones that pretend they are) and empathetic people like you be the next version of what an influencer is. It’s what this world needs now (and I’d vote to use a new term too)
Jillian has become totally unhinged to what reality is like in Canada now. People are struggling and the world does not need more consumerism. Most of her products in her Jilly Box are junk and can be found in your local thrift store within a few weeks or on the BST site. She says she supports Canadian women owned small businesses but yet has never addressed her collab with Joe Fresh. The factories where these products are made ( Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia) have inhumane conditions where the workers including children are treated as slaves and beaten if they can’t keep up on the assembly line! All for the almighty dollar!! Small businesses here in Canada lose money and are basically donating their products for these boxes for nearly free as she is such a cheap negotiater. She has no morals or ethics when it comes to her business practices. If I were her, I would not be able to sleep at night!
This is amazing!! I listened to your podcasts before and fully agreed with what you had said. It did take till this incident for me to fully unfollow Jillian . All of it does feel too icky and I can't continue to support her anymore.
If I remember correctly, she DID run a fan contest to win Taylor Swift tickets and we never saw who won, but suddenly her influencer friend was being gifted her set of Toronto tickets…
thank you for unpacking, I was fooled for many years as a fellow canadian, influencers give me the ick now. I think so many people need a wake up call on falling victim to materialism. who needs 10 Stanley cups anyways? jilly must be sick to her stomach trying to sell sell sell... all for a family trip to europe
Great article. One thing that’s often on my mind about influencers donating gifted items to charity is whether they (the influencers) then claim a tax write off for the value of those gifted donations. I would bet they do.
Being critical of her is important but some of the comments on Reddit went way too far. Jillian isn’t my favorite person and she’s clearly lost her way, but some of what was being allowed in that group was unacceptable.
Well done!
Imagine if every business blocked and attacked every customer that asked for a return on a faulty product, or they put your name on their sign if you called and complained about the service you received? This is to me the equivalent of what she’s been doing, and as you mentioned she’s living in an echo chamber of yes people so this is the result of it all. Let’s have thoughtful, educated (formal or life, not ones that pretend they are) and empathetic people like you be the next version of what an influencer is. It’s what this world needs now (and I’d vote to use a new term too)
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Jillian has become totally unhinged to what reality is like in Canada now. People are struggling and the world does not need more consumerism. Most of her products in her Jilly Box are junk and can be found in your local thrift store within a few weeks or on the BST site. She says she supports Canadian women owned small businesses but yet has never addressed her collab with Joe Fresh. The factories where these products are made ( Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia) have inhumane conditions where the workers including children are treated as slaves and beaten if they can’t keep up on the assembly line! All for the almighty dollar!! Small businesses here in Canada lose money and are basically donating their products for these boxes for nearly free as she is such a cheap negotiater. She has no morals or ethics when it comes to her business practices. If I were her, I would not be able to sleep at night!
This is amazing!! I listened to your podcasts before and fully agreed with what you had said. It did take till this incident for me to fully unfollow Jillian . All of it does feel too icky and I can't continue to support her anymore.
The fun is gone, it's just chaos......
Thanks so much!
well thought out and beautifully written!!
Thank you for reading!
If I remember correctly, she DID run a fan contest to win Taylor Swift tickets and we never saw who won, but suddenly her influencer friend was being gifted her set of Toronto tickets…
You could be that person in Canada!!!
Thank you!
thank you for unpacking, I was fooled for many years as a fellow canadian, influencers give me the ick now. I think so many people need a wake up call on falling victim to materialism. who needs 10 Stanley cups anyways? jilly must be sick to her stomach trying to sell sell sell... all for a family trip to europe
Great article. One thing that’s often on my mind about influencers donating gifted items to charity is whether they (the influencers) then claim a tax write off for the value of those gifted donations. I would bet they do.
As of 4:30 today, the official JH Reddit page has been completely shut down….by Reddit!
Being critical of her is important but some of the comments on Reddit went way too far. Jillian isn’t my favorite person and she’s clearly lost her way, but some of what was being allowed in that group was unacceptable.