🥸 They've Gone Underground

You know the food bloggers group on Facebook that I got kicked out of a couple of months ago?

The one where all those butthurt recipe bloggers were mobilizing to mass report suspected AI sites to Mediavine (and Pinterest)?

They’ve gone into hiding!

What A Bunch Of Cunts

I don’t know when exactly it happened, y’know since they kicked me out a while back, but my guess is in the the last two weeks.

They’ve made their little Facebook group so that you cannot see it in the Facebook search results. You gotta have the new link or get invited.

If they think what they’re doing is “right” then why are they hiding?

The group was (is?) called Food Bloggers Central. If you search my newsletter archives for “food blogger” or “recipe blogger” then you can see some of the screenshots I’d taken in the group back when I was still in it and trying to get these cunts to realize that they’re not AI experts.

Like this one from when I asked them to explain to me how AI sites hurt them -

and this one …

They don’t like having to compete with AI.

That’s what it’s all about.

My favorite thing about this group back when I was in it was all the complaining they did about how suspected AI sites post more recipes in a week than they can….yet they never acknowledge how much time they spend each week looking for sites to be jealous of and report as AI.

When I was in this group, they were also regularly complaining about sites stealing “their recipes” - but the problem with this argument is that the law is clear on copyright and recipes.

You can’t copyright a recipe in most instances.

Yet there were people in the group reporting that they were contacting Mediavine about this theft.

I suspect that’s what led to this message someone got from Mediavine today -

Charged with intellectual property theft and not given a chance to defend yourself.

That’s Mediavine today.

Coming up…

More on what I’m working on and how it’s going.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

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