Instagram model reveals the truth behind FAKE social media couples.
With YouTubers and social media stars making millions of dollars a year, it is pretty easy to understand why people would fake relationships in order to gain more followers. That’s why it is not really surprising to hear that many of these social media couples are actually fake. In fact, former Instagram star, Essena O’Neill alleges that some social media couples are fake. The 19-year-old former Instagram model spoke openly about her own experience on social media.
She says she was approached by a supermodel who wanted an “online” relationship as it would increase their followers, get them free trips and make millions of dollars off of the fake relationship.
From Daily Mail:
‘He referred to other couples that had been doing it he said we’d have all this free travel and that if we became a couple we’d both bump up our followers and we could make YouTube videos and get heaps of money,’ Ms O’Neill said.
‘He said in the industry it’s not unheard of to do this that it’s actually really smart and that I should think about it seriously as a business proposal – so here I am, 18, in Thailand and this A-class supermodel wants to propose a business deal and that is an online relationship.’
Ms O’Neill said it’s ‘sad’ and that a lot of people realise their followers are a business so ‘collaborate with someone else and a relationship and get more followers.’
The unidentified man proposed the idea as a “business relationship”.
This had such an impact on her that Essena O’Neill recently quit social media calling it “dishonest”
There are several popular online couples such as YouTubers Zoella and Alfie and Jenna Marbles and Julien.
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