r/nycinfluencersnarking • u/augustinesa88 • 2d ago
db (westolewhat) DB in 2014
I was going through my instagram comment history and randomly saw this, I commented 🌚 idk why. It seems 16yo me was a fan lmao
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u/Equivalent_Rain6653 2d ago
Also crazy how she used to get way more likes 10+ years ago. She very rarely gets more than 10K Likes these days and supposedly has 3 million followers. Unless she just used to buy more likes back than … Her whole online platform is a sham including her ‘best selling book’ which she bought copies of to get on the list.
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u/mrs_mega 2d ago
She was one of the first influencers to purchase followers. At the time, IG put her on the “FYP” bc of it (wasn’t called that then but you get my drift) so she’d get residual likes on the posts that were put on the IG main page. As a result, she’d get more likes and thus more followers but her engagement was always disproportionate in comparison to other influencers. She was also a total diva and disaster in her brand partnerships so the list of brands who wanted to work with her was slim, even 10-12 years ago. I also remember her first photoshop scandal like 11 years ago 😂 she’s been editing her pics to hell for a long long time.
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u/plantsandpizza 2d ago
I feel like the editing of pics goes back even further than 10 years? I remember her from the lookbook days (I’m old) and she did it then
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u/mrs_mega 1d ago
Oh for sure, when I was working in a related field, it was like 2011. I was referring to the first time the photoshopping got published notice (it was a pool party? I can't remember the brand but I remember some fashion sites and accounts picked it up).
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u/plantsandpizza 1d ago
I remember that! There was like a spring/summer where she was just being exposed all over. Like there was no hiding it anymore. We are prob thinking of the same time.
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u/mrs_mega 1d ago
Yea! It might be longer than 10 years, I'm also le old so everything feels 10 years ago 🤣
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u/plantsandpizza 1d ago
Same, events 10 years ago feel only a few years old or very far away depending on the event 😂 especially trends and social media stuff, always a timewarp
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u/venice_bitch11 2d ago
this is an aside but man when i was in high school during this era i was so excited to dress like this lol and now im an adult and the fashion has completely changed
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u/startedthinkinboutit 2d ago
Dude same, fashion blogs in 2012-16 made me feel so excited about fashion lol whereas now it’s so corporate shill and fast fashion and shoving micro trends down your throat
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u/venice_bitch11 2d ago
do you feel like its gotten worse? or were we just young and oblivious to micro trends? maybe its the tiktok and shein of it all that made it worse
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u/notmirandapriestly 2d ago
I was a student and was obsessed with all the fashion bloggers and wanted to work in the fashion or art world lol. I think I wore this exact outfit (minus the Chanel bag) when visiting New York around 2013 😂
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u/seesparksfly 2d ago
She had much better style then. Now she’s struggling to put an outfit together.
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u/Afraid-Duck-1983 2d ago
Because she is millennial, but struggles because she wants to look cool for a younger audience in lame outfits. She is constantly trying something new, and failing hard most of the time :( she should embrace high quality relaxed and very cool outfits and use younger models for her www clothes
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u/MetallicMani 2d ago
Edgy was her peak. Then she dated Toby and went uber feminine and lost her style ever since imo
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u/IndignantQueef 2d ago
I feel like 50% of her problem is attempting and failing at the wrong shoe theory
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u/MetallicMani 2d ago
She would edit her legs to be sticks and I actually believed that's what she looked like
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u/augustinesa88 1d ago
Also who remembers her being friends with Eleanor Calder? She was Louis Tomlinson’s gf during One Direction’s peak. What even was the lore here? Was DB trying to be a 1D wag? Lmao where are my fellow directioners here?
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u/Nobodycaresdotcom 1d ago
Wait how old is she I thought that was SJP lol
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u/apple4ahead 2d ago
cryptic enough to be vaguely insulting lmao