Featured Image Credit: jamiesonmayyy/TikTok
Topics: Social Media, TikTok, Business, Food and Drink, Australia
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: Social Media, TikTok, Business, Food and Drink, Australia
An influencer has had to address criticism after being called ‘entitled’ for her rant against a restaurant.
If you ever end up uploading a video to the internet complaining or moaning about something, chances are you hope people on social media are going to side with you.
Well, a supposed influencer has found that isn’t always the case.
After uploading a near 3-minute video about how a restaurant responded to her after she asked about collaboration, many sided against the content creator and levied a bunch of criticism at her.
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Melbourne-based Jamieson May who considers herself a travel, lifestyle, fashion and food creator took to her TikTok page @jamiesonmayyy, to complain how vegetarian restaurant Patsy's interacted with her.
Speaking to her 9,000 TikTok followers, she argued that their response left her ‘absolutely gobsmacked’ and she advised against other content creators working with the restaurant.
“I received the most horrible message yesterday from a restaurant [after] wanting to work with them and I need to make you aware so you guys never work with them and know your standards,” she said in the clip.
She added she sent them her standard template for when she wants to work with business and received a blunt response.
The restaurants response read: “You don’t seem to have any followers maybe you should approach us when you have over 100k,”
She responded that ‘is extremly rude’ to which they answered: “Perhaps... but you are pretending to be influential on social media and that’s just not true and rather than me just saying that you are lying and pretending to be beneficial to our business. I just said come back when your'e actually able to do what you think we should engage you to do.
“Is it rude to question something that is obviously not true?”
In the video, May continued to complain about their ‘rude response’, however, the comment section - which has now been turned off - didn’t really side with the content creator.
Explaining this backlash she said: "When I first outed the restaurant on TikTok, it reached the wrong audience of non-creators and influencers who didn't understand what was happening.
“People sent extremely rude comments that I am just an entitled influencer who just wants 'free' stuff and I am complaining about it all."
She added: “I am standing up for small creators who might have amazing content but don't get the recognition they deserve.
“Most people have just been called me entitled when they don't fully understand how content creation works in the marketing world.
“All of my content creator audience and friends have agreed with me on the matter.”
Well, either way, I don’t think the content creator and restaurant will be patching things up and collaborating anytime soon.