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Katie Notopoulos
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I propose to social scientists The Calloway Point: the point at which stans don’t believe they’re getting scammed, even if they are, and does that even mean it’s a scam? buzzfeednews.com/article/katien…
This influencer promised all sorts of things to her fans to buy $165 tickets to a “creativity workshop”. She failed on many of her promises, yet nearly all the attendees I heard from (about 50 young women) said they enjoyed it and didn’t feel scammed.
She poorly planned the venues, food and details for goodie bags. But most people didn’t care about those small things - they just wanted to meet her and talk with her because they loved her confessional, personal postings. The one thing she bailed on that hurt people was...
She had promised to send each paying attendee a person letter in response to a personal email about their life they’d send her. She determined writing 50 letters was too hard. And even worse...
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