gala darling: trust fund visionary?
Gala Darling is a self-described "visionary" who is famous mainly for having pink hair, being an "international playgirl", starting the Things I Love Thursday meme, and writing articles about living a fabulous life and being fashionable. Her audience consists mainly of young teenage/young adult girls who swarm her comments both on GalaDarling.com and on her personal site.

Gala's story is that she quit the 9-5 life to be a full-time blogger, and that almost all her income comes from blogging professionally through ad sales and sponsorships, as well as freelance writing. However, lately there's been a rash of comments on articles mentioning her claiming she is a fraud and really is a trust fund kid with rich parents. People who bought one of her podcasts about starting a business were disappointed at the lack of information on how Gala earns her money exactly.

It all comes to a head on her cover article on Cut Out + Keep, where various people - including someone claiming to be Gala's former good friend, speculate that she is either a trust fund kid, uses boyfriends for money, or is a high-class prostitute. In the meantime, Gala's devoted fans stand by their idol, claiming that "it's illegal to post untruths on the Internet" and that her critics are negative people with no lives. Meanwhile, Gala's denied the trust fund story; her only comment on her income currently is "it's none of your business".

(disclaimer: I'm in the comments of the Cut Out + Keep article as Tiara.)
edit: added a couple more links, including a direct link to the "illegal to post untruths" comment.

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	keri 2009-08-02 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	Huh. There's something about her photos that is really weird, and I can't just place my finger on what it is. Please, someone, tell me why Gala Darling sits so heavily in the uncanny valley? Also, lololololololol: it's illegal to post untruths on the internet. Srsly? Someone ACTUALLY said that?! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mydemand 2009-08-02 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, in the "devoted fans" link in the comments. Gala doesn't seem to care either way, which just annoys the haters more. personally I'm just there for the linkspam XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	keri 2009-08-02 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	OMG. The "untruths" comment isn't there anymore! Is it the right post (about the dayglo eyeshadow?) or did it get deleted?! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mydemand 2009-08-02 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	oops! Wrong post. The makeup one was where someone asked her point blank about the trust fund. Here's the direct link to the untruths comment. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	keri 2009-08-02 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	Awww, I'm a little disappointed that we don't have Gala deleting comments. :( Still, illegal to post untruths about people on the internet can never be not funny. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

mydemand
2009-08-02 04:24 pm UTC (link)

I've been wondering about that deleting-comments claim myself. She did get a lot of flack on her comments (which are still there) from her Bridget Marquardt interview and her post saying that bills are the Universe's way of trusting you with money. But I've never really paid attention, so who knows.

I did get an email from one of her close friends (won't say who) asking me to kindly tone down my slight snark about her on Metafilter (mainly in terms of my questions), which was interesting.

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	mockygogo 2009-08-02 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	"Illegal to post untruths on the internet." I'm debating whether that should be followed by a sporfle, a snerk, or a ROFL. In any case "You'll never take me alive, coppers!!11!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ruslan 2009-08-04 12:01 am UTC (link)
	I think it's her nose. She's overshopping it, so the tip of her nose just kind of vanishes off into the ether. At some angles it looks like her face ends in some kind of blurry beak. Ew. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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