c/drama-drop-zone

My cousin's 3-hour airport meltdown made me rethink travel vlogs

She missed a connection in Atlanta and filmed the whole thing for her channel, but what stood out was how calm the gate agent stayed while she cried about a $240 rebooking fee. It hit me that the real drama is never the chaos, it's the person who has to deal with it. Has anyone else watched a breakdown and just felt bad for the staff instead?

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mia748•7d ago

My backup mic finally saved a live stream meltdown

Hosting a giveaway stream last Friday, my main mic died 10 minutes in. I grabbed the $30 lav I almost left at home, clipped it to my shirt, and nobody noticed the swap. Has anyone else had backup gear come through at the worst moment?

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jamesfox•10d ago

Tried the 'quiet delete' on a shady collab, now the brand is PISSED

Last week I accepted a paid shoutout from a wellness influencer with 200k followers. Before posting, I dug into her engagement and saw 90% of comments were bots from the Philippines. I quietly deleted my drafted post and sent the brand screenshots. Now their PR person keeps calling me a 'liability' because they already paid her. Has anyone else dodged a fake influencer deal and had the brand come after them?

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perry.evan•11d ago

TIL that 'hiding' your Instagram story views still leaves a trail in the archive

I was digging through my Instagram data download last night, the one they email you as a zip file, and found a folder called 'story_viewer_archive' that logs every single viewer even if you use the hide feature. It showed me who watched my story from 3 months ago, including my ex's burner account, which I thought I'd blocked. The funny part is I only learned this because I was trying to find a screenshot for a friend's drama post and stumbled onto it. Has anyone else found shady stuff buried in their data download that they weren't expecting?

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drew_martin•12d ago

That 'just post every day' advice wrecked my engagement for 6 weeks

A creator with 200k followers told me to ignore quality and just push out 2 posts a day. I did that for 6 weeks straight, and my views dropped from 4k average to barely 700. The algorithm clearly punishes rushed content, but nobody in these circles admits it because they sell courses on consistency. Has anyone else seen their numbers tank after following the daily posting push?

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ray_miller41•13d ago

That $450 'verified' shoutout got me zero sales, here is what happened next

I paid a mid-tier influencer $450 for a story shoutout last month, and my clickthrough was basically nothing, like 12 clicks total. Then I spent $30 on a niche micro page with 3k followers and actually got 40 orders from one post. Has anyone else had way better luck with the smaller accounts or am I just bad at picking influencers?

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lilykelly•14d ago

Got ratio'd by a burner account for the first time, did the slow reply thing and it worked?

So last Tuesday I posted a screenshot of this micro influencer who was clearly buying followers. Nothing wild, just pointing out the math. Then this burner with like 12 followers comes at me with the nastiest comment, calling me obsessed and saying I should mind my own business. My first instinct was to fire back immediately, but I waited like 4 hours. By then people had already piled on the burner and the thread kind of flipped in my favor. It felt kinda cheap but the slow response killed the momentum. Has anyone else tried just... waiting instead of defending yourself? Does it actually work long term or did I get lucky?

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nathanj56•16d ago

That time a stranger called me out in line at the DMV over my pest van

I was waiting in line at the DMV in Fresno last month, and this lady behind me points at my company logo on my shirt and goes, 'You're the guy who sprayed my neighbor's yard and killed their tomatoes.' I mean, I wasn't even on a job, just renewing my license plate. Turned out she had me mixed up with some other exterminator down the street, but she doubled down for like five minutes. I offered to show her my license and insurance card, but she just huffed and walked off. Has anyone else gotten blamed for something you clearly didn't do just because of your job?

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max415•24d ago

That influencer told me to quit my day job for dropshipping, 14 months later I'm $9k in the hole

Some lifestyle guru with 2 million followers kept posting these videos about passive income, so I bought her $197 course back in March. She said if I followed her exact ad strategy, I'd see sales within 30 days. I did everything she said, spent another $600 on product samples and ads, and my first real order came in July, a single $12 item. Turns out her 'foolproof' method relies on a TikTok loophole that got patched in April, right after I paid. Has anyone else been burned by these guru courses that are basically just recycled advice from 2021?

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elizabethhayes•25d ago

That call with a former brand rep made me rethink who I trust

I was on the phone with a girl I used to follow who got dropped by a big skincare brand last fall. She told me the brand paid for fake reviews and staged a lot of the "drama" between other influencers to keep engagement up. She gave me exact screenshots and dates, like the one from October 12th where two creators fought over a lipstick shade that was clearly planned. It hit different because I'd been defending one of those creators for months in threads. Has anyone else gotten direct proof that some influencer feud was staged the whole time, and did it change how you watch them?

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keith_rodriguez•27d ago

I wasted $120 on that 'premium' skin care subscription box and got nothing but breakouts

The ads promised luxury brands and glowing skin, but I ended up with three tiny sample tubes and a rash that took two weeks to clear. Should I just stick with drugstore stuff from now on or did anyone actually get a decent deal from those boxes?

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max415•27d ago

Caught an influencer copying lowkey soundbites from a 2021 podcast

Was scrolling through TikTok last night and saw this girl I follow dropping these heavy life advice lines. Something felt off so I searched one of her quotes in quotes on Google. Turned out she was basically reading transcripts from a therapy podcast episode that only got like 2k listens back in 2021. Nobody in her comments clocked it at all. Has anyone else caught someone stealing old obscure content and passing it off as original wisdom?

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jamie_white•27d ago

Saw an influencer recycling the same drama from 3 years ago and nobody called her out

I was scrolling last night and noticed a big beauty influencer posting about a feud with another creator. The screenshots looked familiar, so I checked and she literally posted the exact same story back in 2021. Different apology, same fake tears. Did anyone else catch this or am I the only one who remembers that far back?

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