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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]lied_ohne_worte
2009-08-02 09:55 pm UTC (link)
God, yes. Recently, there are quite a lot of people using icons on LJ that depict only the lower part of some girl with short skirts, standing like that, and I always wonder what on earth is supposed to be aesthetically pleasing about them. I think it is some "child poses are sexy" thing that my feminist self rebels against, in addition to it being downright creepy.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2009-08-03 06:53 am UTC (link)
Oh thank god I'm not the only one irritated by it.

I mean, my younger sister's feet do turn in naturally (mine point out, yay childhood ballet lessons), and when she was in high school she was beset by infinite creepers because the way she just happened to STAND was LOLOLOLOLANIMUGIRL and an infinite number of girls DO affect it out of some weird infantilism related - fetishy - weird - thing. Type thing. Or something.

And I once witnessed a prof threaten to beat a guy into unconsciousness with his own sketchbook if said guy didn't stop drawing that cutesy woo pose on every woman he ever depicted.

So yeah. It's not just you? And not just women who find it obnoxious and creepy in implication.

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[info]adevyish
2009-08-03 07:52 am UTC (link)
Mine turned in for a few years, but my mom constantly reminded me to point them out until pointing out became a habit.

And then I grew up and decided to be as un-cute as possible.

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