An aspiring influencer has gone “offline” after she was inundated with backlash following a video she shared about a restaurant rejecting her collaboration offer.
Melbourne-based Jamieson May, a self-described “travel, lifestyle, fashion and food creator,” said she was taking a break from social media in a post shared to her Instagram Story on Tuesday night. .
“I’ll be offline for a few days,” May wrote along with a purple heart emoji.
It comes after a video shared by May last month about vegetarian restaurant Patsy’s located in Melbourne’s CBD caused a stir among Australians.
Melbourne-based Jamieson May (pictured), who describes herself as a “travel, lifestyle, fashion and food creator”, received backlash after sharing a complaint about a Melbourne restaurant that rejected their marketing offer.
The aspiring influencer has told her 15,600 Instagram followers that she was taking a break from social media following the avalanche of criticism she received.
May explained in the nearly three-minute speech that she was stunned by the restaurant’s overwhelming response to her marketing offer.
“Yesterday I got the most horrible message from a restaurant (after) wanting to work with them and I need to let them know so they never work with them and know their standards,” May said in a TikTok video.
May messaged Patsy’s restaurant on Instagram asking if the owner would work with her to create marketing content.
The restaurant account responded: “It looks like you have no followers, maybe you should approach us when you have over 100,000.”
May has 15,600 followers on Instagram and just over 9,000 followers on TikTok.
The influencer said she was “stunned” by the response and responded by claiming the message was “extremely rude.”
‘I am absolutely stunned. I had no words,’ he said.
‘It actually upset me that someone could say that to someone else.
“This is clearly someone who is not in marketing; they understand literally nothing.”
However, her online rant about Patsy backfired when she was inundated with an avalanche of criticism from social media users.
May was “absolutely stunned” by the response she received from vegetarian restaurant Patsy’s, located in Melbourne’s CBD.
May offered to collaborate with Patsy’s, but the restaurant claimed that the aspiring influencer did not have enough followers for the marketing to be effective.
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“When I first discovered the restaurant on TikTok, it reached the wrong audience of non-creators and influencers who didn’t understand what was going on,” May said.
“People sent extremely rude comments saying I’m just an entitled influencer who only wants ‘free’ things and I complain about everything.”
May told Daily Mail Australia that she “never asked for free service” and simply objected to Patsy’s “customer service.”
“I’m standing up for small creators who may have amazing content but don’t get the recognition they deserve,” he said.
‘Most people just called me entitled when they don’t fully understand how content creation works in the marketing world.
“All my friends and audience of content creators agree with me on this.”
Meanwhile, Patsy’s, owned by restaurateurs Mathew Guthrie and Clinton Trevisi, defended its response and said it was “obvious” they did not want to work with May given her fan profile.
“Their followers aren’t really the people we have in the room often and probably aren’t the market we’re looking to engage with,” Guthrie said. news.com.au.
‘I think she was just hoping to increase her visibility with these outrageous posts.
“In some ways it’s already worked, but I’m not sure how it can be monetized as marketing.”
