TikTok influencer labelled ‘entitled’ after failed restaurant collab
Social media influence Jamieson May has faced backlash after she posted a video to Tik Tok complaining about a restaurant that rejected a request to collaborate.
May has been labelled entitled, after calling out the response to her as rude in a three video minute rant.
The Melbourne-based influencer who calls herself a travel, lifestyle, fashion and food creator has 9,000 TikTok followers.
She told her followers that she was ‘absolutely gobsmacked’ by the restaurant owner’s response to her request and advised other content creators to avoid working with the restaurant.
“I received the most horrible message yesterday from a restaurant [after] wanting to work with them and I need to make you aware so you guys never work with them and know your standards,” she said.
The restaurant’s response read: “You don’t seem to have any followers maybe you should approach us when you have over 100k.”
When she told them the response was ‘extremly rude’, she received another terse reply.
“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 you’re actually able to do what you think we should engage you to do.
“Is it rude to question something that is obviously not true?”
May, who thought she would garner support faced the opposite, but doubled down.
"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.
“People sent extremely rude comments that I am just an entitled influencer who just wants 'free' stuff and I am complaining about it all.
“I am standing up for small creators who might have amazing content but don't get the recognition they deserve.
Most people have just called me entitled when they don't fully understand how content creation works in the marketing world.
Jonathan Jackson, 22nd May 2024
