[0:00]You guys lying about certain scenarios and the times that they're taking place is so unbelievably common with influencers. And you can catch a lot of it if you look really closely. This video is titled how much I spend in a day. That's all good and dandy until you look at the receipts and you see that they're all from different days. Ryan finished the race seconds behind in second, but I asked my oldest son what he learned and he said to work hard like dad. Except for these results are posted publicly and he did not come in second place, he came in 30th place. For the last month, I've been saving up all of our honey jars so I could turn our paint into a gummy bear paint display. Really? You saved up all of your honey jars for the past month just so you could do this project? No, you didn't. You bought these bear-shaped honey jars on Amazon for 19.99. This is pathological liar type behavior because it's such a small, insignificant detail to feel the need to lie about.
[0:54]Hello, and welcome back to another episode of my new influencer insanity series where we cover all things social media and influencer culture. My name's Hannah, and I make a lot of commentary videos about the wacky things I see on the internet, and don't tell my other videos, but I think this one is my favorite. Today we're going to cover some of the common things that influencers will lie about to make their lifestyle look more desirable and appealing on the internet. This video is going to be fun because I want you to treat it like a game. There's a hidden lie within each of these clips I'm going to show you, and you can catch it if you look closely enough. So we get to be little lie detectors and play spot the BS together. It's pretty entertaining, actually, because there is no shortage of lying when it comes to influencer culture. A lot of what they put on the internet is carefully crafted and curated and edited to portray a certain lifestyle. 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If you'd like to maintain and deepen connection with your partner, I cannot recommend Paired highly enough. You can click my link below and this is going to give you a 7-day free trial plus 25% off Paired Premium. Thanks again to the Paired app for your long-term support of the channel, now let's get into exposing some of these influencer lies. There's no better way to kick off this video than showing you the Instagram reel that inspired this topic for me. I found this video in the wild months ago, I saved it with the idea in mind that I have to talk about this in a YouTube video one day, and the time has come. I think we all understand that the lives influencers portray on social media are glamorized to an extent and that creators will specifically and intentionally shoot or edit their content. To give off an air of unattainable perfection. But this was the first video I came across a few months ago where I was like, oh, they're straight up lying to us, huh? Like they're full-on faking their content and think that we're too dumb to notice, cool, love that. And it was from that point forward that I started to play this game for myself as I was scrolling on social media, where I just assumed that every influencer video I see is fake. And I try to catch the inconsistencies and that's how this video was born. So here we go, the Instagram reel that started it all, watch closely and see if you can spot the lie.
[5:46]All right, did you catch it? This video is titled how much I spend in a day, and she walked us through her day of going out to breakfast, then they go grocery shopping, then they get gas, etc, etc. Spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars, over $800 total, I believe. And she made sure to mention that she's a stay-at-home mom who lives in New York City with no budget. That's all good and dandy until you look at the receipts and you see that they're all from different days. First they went to the diner for breakfast and the receipt shows that this happened on August 20th. Then supposedly they go grocery shopping at BJ's right afterwards, except for the receipt shows August 21st at 6:47 p.m. Even if this was happening on the same day, things are not happening in the order that she's claiming they are. Next they supposedly go and get gas, there is no receipt shown for this part. And then they time traveled back to August 15th to go to GNC to buy protein powder. And finally they end up at Whole Foods to get ingredients for dinner that night. Cuz she set up this whole narrative of going to BJ's in the morning to get all their drinks, but they didn't get ingredients for dinner, so they have to go to Whole Foods later on. She's creating an entire storyline that did not happen. We can't see the date on this Whole Foods receipt, either she's covering it with her finger or it's super blurry down at the bottom. But we can absolutely assume that she's lying. Why wouldn't we assume she's lying? The whole video is a lie. We can confirm that at least three of the five places she claimed to go all happened on three different days. What's so infuriating about this is that the entire concept of her real of how much I spend in a day is a bold-faced easily disproven lie. I will show you some other examples later in the video where there's a little bit of room to maybe give the benefit of the doubt. But not in this case, the basis of the reel is to straight up say, this is how much money I spend in a day as a stay-at-home mom in New York with no budget. And then the receipts expose her, but why? What's the purpose for lying? Maybe it's to make herself seem like she's really well off and lives a comfortable life, and it's nothing to her to spend $800 in a single day. Even though these purchases are happening over the course of at least six days. This icks me out so bad, like, what is the purpose of lying? It's so unnecessary. Compiling all of these clips over multiple days, knowing that you're going to creatively splice them all together. With the intention of fooling your followers into believing something about your life is so gross. And for what? People who lie about such trivial things scare me. Because there's a chance that the deception runs a whole lot deeper with their content. This creator in particular is known for faking her lifestyle videos and here's another example of a much more minor offense comparatively. But it still exposes that things are not always as they seem.
[9:15]Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky. You have to be paying really close attention to catch this one. Here's the issue. At 11:00 a.m. she gets an iced coffee with a black straw. Then at 12:15, she's getting another coffee, a hot one in a white cup this time. Then 15 minutes later, she goes home at 12:30, and what do we know? She walks in with the first iced coffee half gone, no hot coffee in sight. So you're telling me that you went and got an iced coffee, you drank half of it, then you went and got a second hot coffee, chugged it within 15 minutes. And then you went back to drinking the iced coffee. I guess it's possible. I'm not saying that this can't be done, but like, who does that? It's strange at the very least. I think it's more likely that all of these clips were filmed out of order and then she rearranged them and spliced them together, just like she did with the receipts. To fit a completely different made up narrative. Another, albeit nitpicky thing about this reel is, girl, I know you're not going for a run in that top. Give me a break. She spends the whole video adjusting her top, pulling it up so that she doesn't flash the whole city of New York. Not a chance that she went for a run. She probably just set up her tripod, jogged 30 feet for this video clip and then moved on to the next thing. I know that these are minor nitpicky things, but the point is that we already know she lies. If she was willing to fake the receipts video, why wouldn't she fake this too? We're going to revisit this creator, so just put a pin in this. I want to show you the next video first. Here's a fitness influencer guy who's walking us through his supposed morning routine.
[29:43]All right, so the whole purpose of this video is to say, here's how to inspire your kids to do hard things. We all went to the family to support dad at his competition, and he just barely came in second, but we're still so proud of him and the example that he's setting. She made sure to mention on more than one occasion that her husband was like neck and neck with the guy in first place, the guy in the blue shorts as she called him. It sounds like it came right down to the wire and her husband finished in second place right behind this guy. Except for these results are posted publicly and he did not come in second place, he came in 30th place. And he came in fifth for his age division. Girl, why lie about that? What is the point? This is such an impressive physical feat, that's something I could never dream of doing at this point. He did an incredible job. You're still teaching your kids this amazing lesson about going for your goals, why do you have to lie for content? And about something that's so easy to disprove too. The only thing I can think of as to where she's coming up with the fact that he got second place is maybe they competed in groups or in heats. It looks like there were almost 500 men competing in this competition, and logistically, they can't all go at the same time. So it would make sense that they would break them down into smaller groups, or maybe stagger their start times or something, so maybe he came in second within that smaller group. But in my opinion, you don't have the right to be claiming second place overall if you only got second place in your heat. I used to be on a competitive dance team, so I kind of equate this to when they would have district competitions in order to qualify for the state competition. So there'd be a competition on the west side in Seattle and another one on the east side in Spokane and one down south in Vancouver. And we could go to districts in Vancouver and get first place at that competition, but that doesn't mean we're first place in the whole state. You can't claim that you're the best in the whole state when you only competed against people in your district. In the same way that I don't feel like you can claim second place at Hyrox when in reality you only came in second against people in your heat. I feel like this is common sense. This is not a hard concept to understand. Full disclosure though, I've never competed in an athletic competition or a race of any kind, so maybe it is totally normal for people to claim that they got a certain place in their heat. I don't know. But as an outsider, claiming second place feels very unfair to the person that actually got second place based on their overall scores. This feels like such a silly conversation to be having, and a silly point to be making.
[32:14]Because this is such a pointless lie. The integrity and purpose of her video would still hold up regardless of what place her husband got in the competition. You can still create this content to share the message of setting an example for your sons without lying about what place he got. Just say that he got 32nd out of 500 men. Say that he got fifth in his age group. That's still incredible. That's still impressive. And after all, what example are you really setting for your kids if you're teaching them that it's okay to lie about your achievements publicly? Here's another example of a downright dumb, pointless lie. The very first thing out of her mouth is a lie. Here it is again. Really? You went through 10 bottles of honey, averaging a third of a bottle a day for an entire month? No, you didn't. You bought these bear-shaped honey jars on Amazon for 19.99. This is pathological liar type behavior because it's such a small, insignificant detail to feel the need to lie about. In the previous example, I could see how there would be a motive to lie about getting second place to make her husband look like he performed better than he actually did. But in this case, what is the motive? To make people think that you drink honey by the bottle? So you can claim the title of number one honey consumer in North America. Like, what is going on? What's the issue with being truthful and just saying you bought them? It's not that big of a deal. It could not matter less to the viewer about where you got these bottles from. It doesn't add anything, it doesn't take anything away by just being truthful. My only thought is that maybe she intentionally slipped the lie in there for engagement purposes, as I've suspected with other examples in this video. And this is a topic I'll definitely be covering in a future video called Ragebaiting. This is where the creator will try to incite anger or rage in the viewer. And what this does is baites them into leaving comments about what they're angry about. Therefore heightening the exposure and performance of their content. That's a whole video topic in itself. I'm already collecting different examples of that. If you have examples of that, please feel free to send them to me. But either this girl is a liar or a ragebaiter, neither of which are a good look. And the last thing I want to show you for this video is also kind of a teaser for another potential topic. Because it deals with fitness influencers specifically. Again, this is its own thing that deserves its own in-depth video. In the same way that I did not include any examples in here of influencers who edit their bodies for photos or videos. In this video, I didn't touch on faking your physical appearance. I only touched on faking a lifestyle because I feel like the physical appearance aspect could also be its own video. So in all of these cases, I have all these offshoot ideas that I want to take more time to look into. But here's a little sample of what might be to come.
