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Tiara [my demand] ([info]mydemand) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-08-02 21:46:00


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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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[info]katemonkey
2009-08-02 09:51 pm UTC (link)
Okay, wait a second. If you have pink hair, like old things, and occasionally make stuff, you're a visionary?

I've got pink hair, like old things, and make stuff. Why aren't I a "visionary"?

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[info]_goblin_
2009-08-02 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Say you are one. I think that's all that's required.

That, and hubris.

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2009-08-02 10:53 pm UTC (link)
I have many, many visionary friends, by those criteria. Most of them, from what I've read of the blog, are also 110% more interesting than this person and prettier /catty.

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[info]mydemand
2009-08-03 04:50 am UTC (link)
That annoyed me so much when I first saw it in her profile in the TimeOut NY dating edition thing. At first I wondered what the heck TONYC saw in Gala's stuff that they decided to call her a visionary (other people had more conventional-ish job titles). It did my head in when I realised that's what she called herself. Woman, you're no Buckminister Fuller, wait till you've actually made a huge impact on the world with some sort of new paradigm, study, or invention.

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