Influencers Admitted They Scammed Their Fans

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These influencers thought Tiktok was going away forever - and revealed that their claims to fame were based on lies. But now that Tiktok is back, their fans are furious and the influencers are scrambling to save face.  See all our content on FAIL Blog: http://www.failblog.org Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FailBlog

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00:00While we're here admitting things.

00:01These influencers thought TikTok was going away forever

00:04and revealed that their claims to fame were based on lies.

00:07But now that TikTok is back, their fans are furious

00:10and the influencers are scrambling to save face.

00:13It all started when TikTok was set to be banned for US users on January 19th.

00:17What the heck?

00:18As thousands of users mourned the end of the beloved social media app,

00:22it caused an audio snippet from an episode of Family Guy to go viral.

00:26Users lip-synced a line from the series

00:28while sharing their faux-dramatic, end-of-days-style confessions.

00:32Since we're all gonna die,

00:34there's one more secret I feel I have to share with you.

00:37I did not care for the Godfather.

00:39What?

00:39Did not care for the Godfather.

00:41How can you even say that, Dad?

00:43Didn't like, didn't like it.

00:44But for some reason, many of the platform's biggest influencers,

00:47including those who earned major money from posting on the app,

00:50figured it was time to spill their biggest secrets ahead of TikTok's shutdown.

00:54Beauty influencer Meredith Duxbury became a viral sensation on TikTok

00:58for the, uh, rather unique and controversial way she prefers to apply her foundation.

01:03Her technique involves squirting 10 pumps of foundation directly onto your hands

01:07and then smearing it all over your face.

01:09Meredith's foundation technique was widely considered a scam for fake outrage and views,

01:14but she swore by it,

01:15even challenging other beauty creators to give it a try and share their results.

01:19But when she decided to do the confession trend days before the TikTok shutdown,

01:23she admitted that she was in fact wiping off some of those extra foundation layers.

01:27Another TikTok creator who earned millions of followers is Baby Dumpling,

01:31who gained a huge following for her unbelievable What I Eat In A Day,

01:34vlogs that document the 23-year-old gorging herself on enough food to feed a small army.

01:39She's faced accusations of faking her meals for years,

01:43with commenters speculating she pretends to take bites or spits out food once the camera cuts.

01:48She joined the confession trend to admit that she actually doesn't eat all the food,

01:52but quickly backtracked and posted multiple proof videos to soothe her angry fans.

01:57Charli D'Amelio, one of TikTok's biggest influencers with nearly 160 million followers,

02:02jumped on the confession trend by clearing up a fan-generated rumor.

02:05A scandalous clip of a 16-year-old Charli illegally using a vaporizer went viral a

02:10few years back and caused so much outrage, Charli's fans concocted their own explanation.

02:15Fans began spreading the rumor that Charli was actually using an

02:18anxiety pen, whatever that means.

02:25Most of the TikTok influencer end-of-day's confessions were either lighthearted jokes

02:30or simply revealed the obvious, but a few genuinely rubbed users the wrong way,

02:34especially when the fraud was related to weight loss and body image.

02:37Lexi Hidalgo, an influencer who posts wellness and lifestyle content,

02:41used a trend to admit that she only did about half of the workouts she posted.

02:46Considering that Lexi is a yoga instructor, fans who felt betrayed were quick to unfollow.

02:52Body positivity influencer Serena Kerrigan, who branded herself as the

02:56Queen of Confidence, confessed to using Monjaro, a weight loss injection similar to Ozempic.

03:01Her disappointed fans called Serena out for blatantly lying about not using the

03:05weight loss drug in the past. To market yourself as the Queen of Confidence and

03:09then undergo such a rapid weight loss and not say anything about it is crazy work and

03:14completely undermines your authenticity, wrote one user. So if you're one of the TikTok users

03:19who feels betrayed by the confessions of your favorite influencer, the moral of the story is

03:23this — don't believe those random people on your phone screen.

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