Influencer tries to shame restaurant owners and things quickly backfire leaving her ‘absolutely gobsmacked’
Melbourne-based Jamieson May faced a backlash after complaining about a restaurant that wouldn’t collaborate.(jamiesonmayyy/TikTok)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.
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.
The restaurant questioned May’s influence due to her small social media following (jamiesonmayyy/TikTok)“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.
