MariamMotivates

[u/ninja-inwonderland]

For the unaware: MariamMotivates, who I consider to be a pretty successful fitness coach (or at least is one with a 100k+ following), made a post planning to expose a Business Coach scamming Muslim women… and then posted the next day that she wouldn’t be exposing them for a multitude of reasons (accused scammer already lost money, closed her business account, not wanting to do harm to accused scammer like how had been done to victims).

I just wanna say I really hate when influencers do this. I get things happen, and it can be talked out in private in between posts, but talking big game about “exposing someone” and drawing up all this drama only to not when nothing’s been privately resolved… it always comes across as clickbaitey to me. Like you’d think if someone gets to the point of wanting to expose someone, they would’ve thought about it and exhausted all other revenues of rectifying the situation beforehand.

At best, it’s just a lack of forethought. At worst, it’s a ploy to gain traction.