wait... i am confusion.... whats going on? somehow ive avoided clique drama for 6 years (no idea how tbh) and so this is the first ive heard of this "pyramid scheme"??? may i ask what thats about?
Tylerâs sister Maddy has been involved in multiple MLM (multilevel marketing) scams to make money. Her most recent one is called BeachBody which sells workout routines and supplements and shakes and shit. She promotes her scams to her Instagram followers, many of whom she has because of her famous brother and many of them impressionable people and children who may get involved just because someone connected to Tyler is promoting it.
MLMs are predatory schemes which drain the wallets of people who sign up for them because youâre always having to recruit more people to buy from you and then sell under your line to move you up the pyramid. 90% of people who get involved with MLMs fail and lose money rather than receive any of the success that is falsely promised. They manipulate and prey upon peopleâs insecuritiesâ body image, finances, supporting oneâs family, especially women/mothers. They steal empowerment slogans like âboss babeâ and use CULT LIKE MIND CONTROL TACTICS to convince people itâs not just sales... itâs a whole lifestyle movement that will BETTER YOU. They make it appear like you own your own company when really youâre just a fool making high levels rich.
So you sign up to work for them, investing your own money to start selling the product and you go through training of âwinning sales strategiesâ and if you follow everything they tell you, youâll be ROLLING IN CASH. Then they tell you exactly what to say to your friends, family, and every single person on your social media to guilt them and deceive them into buying whatever youâre selling. Thereâs an MLM for everything and most of the products are GARBAGE. Some actually cause damage like Monat hair products (chemical burns). They act like these are the best products ever but are unregulated, not clinically tested, and dangerous... some claiming to cure illnesses and coronavirus and cancer (thatâs more of the nutritional supplement and essential oils worlds but yeah they make massive claims).
But the products donât even matter sometimes... the real scheme is recruiting more people to join. Someone got you to join and they make money off what you sell and who you recruit (your up line). You want to recruit more people so you can become an upline too. These schemes have levels you can âachieveâ and they promise you more money, more rewards, cars, vacations, etc. itâs always about selling selling selling and recruiting. They have ridiculous scripting, formulaic social media posts, and people will cold message others to try and recruit them (Iâve seen posts where people message people going through a major loss and being like X product will HELP YOU SO MUCH). Predatory and disgusting. They bombard everyone with their company and often ruins relationships because all they want is YOUR MONEY and are completely disingenuine. I could go on forever about patterns of strategies they us and theyâre always changing what theyâre doing because people catch onâ nowadays they tell the salespeople to not even name the company.
Anyway, I could go on and on forever. Thereâs lots of anti-MLM videos on YouTube, thereâs a website that tells you if a company is an MLM (some may surprise you because theyâre established brands and even have physical shopsâ Pampered Chef, Body Shop, Avon, etc. I learned a lot from the fb group âsounds like mlm but okâ which shares real posts sent in by members, and some members even were formerly involved in MLMs and answer questions about them. They keep a massive list of known MLMs and update frequently. Thereâs literally an MLM for everything.
So Maddyâs in this MLM which is all about fitness and weight loss (which is scary to be promoting this to young, impressionable fans/children especially while sheâs pregnant). Sheâs been posting NOT SOCIALLY DISTANCED PHOTOS AND VIDEOS with Jenna while working out. Sheâs trying to recruit people to her team and she frequently posts on her IG story/page about it. Most recently she is trying to get 10 new sign ups and she posted a list of whoâs signed up so far and âJenna Jâ is on the list. Most people assume itâs Jenna and some are trying to defend her that it may be a strategy of Maddy to trick people into signing up.
Several things could be going on:
Jenna could think sheâs just helping out her sister in law with her business. Sheâs ignorant and ill-informed and misusing her platform of even more followers, many of whom may sign up because she appears to be the ideal standard of beauty and body typeâ people want to look like her even though thatâs extremely toxic. She may or may not even participate in this, but regardless her name is there and makes it seem like she is endorsing a dangerous pyramid scheme to over a million people.
Someone online is claiming Maddy made up her name because Jenna isnât part of the private Facebook group that Maddy has for people that signed up... 1. Do yâall really think Jenna would have a Facebook or be in a setting where people could find her secret account? No... and IF maddy is using her name and making it up and implying sheâs involved... they all need to be more aware of Maddyâs rogue posts manipulating the audience she primarily only has because of her famous brother. Because tying Jennaâs name to this is dangerous.
In conclusion, thereâs a reddit post getting a lot of attention and making people aware of whatâs happening and whatâs the risk. Iâve seen a lot of people on twitter warning people. Some Instagram comments are calling Maddy directly out (though thereâs many who are in support.... and the negative comments can be deleted. Be careful what you see people promoting online and do your research. MLMs are insidious and Iâve personally seen people get involved in them.
The irony that Tyler literally posted a few days ago about companies asking him to promote their âgarbage productsâ. Heâs extremely anti ads and endorsing specific brands or doing celebrity ads (Josh on the other hand... he sure does love Nike and there was a lot of Nike product placement recently...). I really appreciate that about Tyler and I think itâs awesome he knows the power his support wields because of the very invested fan base. I just wished heâd notice that two of his siblings often use and manipulate the attention they get because of him to try and get rich quick. I get that heâs very supportive of his family, but thereâs got to be some line where he protects his fans.
I hope he finds out about this from either reddit or twitter lurking (which he does a lot) and puts a stop to it because itâs dangerous and manipulative and not at all what he is about as a person.
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