• facialSwelling@lemmy.ca
      15·
      21 天前

      hahaha probably! She doesn’t trust LGBTQ+, AND sheesh her face looks different! Looking like Nana K here.

    • crownofgold6@lemmy.ca
      15·
      21 天前

      Can’t help but wonder if these people really like her or if she shows up and they’re eying each other like “ugh she’s here?” Lol

      • MoonChild@lemmy.caOPM
        17·
        21 天前

        I like to think they can see through her fake facade and don’t like her but have to tolerate her since she’s friends with another one of their friends. I also like to think they see her as someone who’s trying to attach herself to them for her own gain and get followers from their community since she knows her own is built on bots and could be wiped out with one click.

        • ThatOrangeBird@lemmy.ca
          17·
          21 天前

          I suspect every last one of them is either already an influencer of some sort or wants to be, so it’s doubtful they have these thoughts at all.

        • Idontbelonghere@lemmy.ca
          17·
          21 天前

          Agreed! I think they’ve never run in the same circles before, so they’re trying to be welcoming, but it’s all transactional on her end. I hope they see through it quickly.

  • MoonChild@lemmy.caOPM
    21·
    20 天前

    Her voice in this is nails on a chalkboard and she’s talking about a hair band. No one cares.

    • crownofgold6@lemmy.ca
      17·
      20 天前

      She babbles on about the most mundane things, like who cares about this???

      She’s so boring. Then she spent ages reposting about foods that don’t exist anymore. Her content sucks.

    • Uterusofsteel@lemmy.ca
      17·
      20 天前

      Omg it was HORRIBLE. it sounds like bad acting. That’s not her voice. It’s like wannabe valley girl but she has a Canadian accent so it will never work!

      • MoonChild@lemmy.caOPM
        16·
        20 天前

        Do you think she’s trying to talk like the younger women she met on the patio in TO or has she been watching a show she’s imitating? It just sounds ridiculous coming out of her mouth.

    • Poofluencers@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      20 天前

      She’s feeling herself today that’s for sure. I wonder how she feels when she sees herself with the filter off?!

    • ThatOrangeBird@lemmy.ca
      15·
      20 天前

      The audacity posting this. She does NOT look like a 21 year old fresh-faced ingenue. She doesn’t even look young for her age, which makes this even more ridiculous. What is she fucking thinking? It’s outrageous and beyond delusional. It seems she tends to go harder on the filters when she’s around younger women. Just wow. It’s likely she looks much closer to the mocked up image that shows what she might look like on the right. The side by side makes the deceit very clear.

  • facialSwelling@lemmy.ca
    20·
    15 天前

    In March 2026, the CRA announced crackdowns on influencers and is very focused on mega influencers. Here is a summary:

    New Mandatory Platform Reporting Rules: Digital and social platforms operating in Canada are now legally required to send user income data directly to the CRA. The agency no longer relies on self-reporting; it already has the data before you even file your return.

    AI-Driven Audit Matching: The CRA has deployed advanced machine learning and AI-powered data-matching tools. These systems automatically flag discrepancies between a creator’s reported income and their actual digital footprint, cross-referencing brand campaigns, affiliate links, and online storefronts.

    Social Media Scouring: Audit teams utilize open-source intelligence to explicitly audit public profiles. If a creator’s tax return claims low income, but their Instagram or TikTok feed features high-end promotional vehicles, luxury clothing, or luxury vacations, the automated risk-scoring system triggers a formal manual review.

    The Core Targets of the Audits. The CRA’s primary focus is on capturing unreported, non-monetary value and missed sales taxes.

    The “Gifts as Cash” Rule: The CRA treats free PR packages, gifted clothing, electronics, skincare, hotel stays, and flights as taxable business income. Creators are being heavily audited for failing to declare the Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of these items. 😀

      • facialSwelling@lemmy.ca
        12·
        15 天前

        I’m sure it helps. According to the new regulations, even if Apple doesn’t pay Sarah, she has to report the flight, hotel and any gifts (at market value) as taxable income. 😂

        *The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) considers trips, free products, and other “gifts” received through brand or platform relationships as barter transactions and taxable business income.

        Declaring the Trip as IncomeTaxable Value: The influencer must declare the Fair Market Value (FMV) of the trip (including flights, hotel, and the ticket value) as self-employed business income on their tax return.

        No Exemption for Unpaid Work: The fact that the influencer is not paid in cash does not exempt the trip from taxation. The CRA treats non-monetary perks received for your work (e.g., attending an Apple event) the exact same as cash.

        Intent Matters: The CRA looks at intent. If the influencer accepts the invitation with the expectation of generating content, building a brand, or engaging with an audience, it is considered business income rather than a personal gift. 😂

        • MoonChild@lemmy.caOPM
          15·
          14 天前

          I don’t think she’s in compliance since she posted this, years ago, on Threads.

            • MoonChild@lemmy.caOPM
              10·
              14 天前

              I really think she believes this is true because she was giving advice in an influencer thread. She’s taken an awful lot of no pay trips in the last few years and I would love to know if it’s being declared as income. From the outside it looks like she’s had a lot fewer paying jobs and I wonder how sustainable the business becomes with all the trips. Someone did mention the Club Med DR trip was valued at more than $10,000 without flights. I would like to see all these Influencers audited.

          • facialSwelling@lemmy.ca
            13·
            14 天前

            There is an address that people can send a letter to the CRA.

            I wonder if she reported the $4,000 bike. Her original free car (the Van), did she pay tax on all the free stuff from her home and cottage reno? Like the new kitchen?

            For every single item she is gifted, every hotel room, every trip to Club Med, Disney, etc., she owes the tax on that item, service, or trip, and she has to pay market value.

            For example, the bike: she owes $535; the Club Med trip: $1,695; and the van: $10,450. The laser facials are $910. A couple of packs of Quickies for $26, a family trip to Disney (min $2, 300), the kitchen $6,500, all the clothing, she owes TAX on it all. ALL OF IT!

            It’s always been this way. This is why broadcast and publishing companies don’t allow editors, producers or hosts to accept gifts over $300. Gifts under $300 must be approved. Trips must be approved because the companies paid the tax. Beauty products sent to magazines stay in the office, are used for testing or photography, and are then donated to a shelter or sold for donation.

            The few items mentioned that Sarah and Shane received are a drop in the bucket, and they bring their tax owed to $20,721. Sarah is listed on many ranking charts as Canada’s #1 influencer. She has posted being gifted all these items. There are clips of her stories where she shows off her freebies.

            She could be a precedent-setting audit. 😂

          • facialSwelling@lemmy.ca
            11·
            14 天前

            AN influencer still owes tax to the CRA if they receive a gift without a contract.

            The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) views gifts received in exchange for brand promotion or exposure as “barter transactions”.

            A formal contract is not required to establish this business relationship.

            Key details of how the CRA handles this:

            The Barter Rule: If you receive goods, services, or PR packages in exchange for an agreement to promote them (or if you simply post about them voluntarily), the CRA treats it as business income.

            Fair Market Value: You must claim the Fair Market Value (FMV) of the gifted item. For example, if you are sent a free $1,500 camera to review, that $1,500 is counted as taxable business income.

            Intent Matters: Genuine, unsolicited personal gifts (e.g., a birthday present from a fan) are generally non-taxable.

            However, if the brand is sending products to you as an influencer to showcase on your platform, the CRA considers it taxable compensation.

            • facialSwelling@lemmy.ca
              12·
              14 天前

              Hi snarkers, don’t mind all my posts; I want to give you the full CRA picture. Off to my ‘big girl’ job now. Enjoy your day.

              Think about how influencers have been willfully ignorant about gifts. Compare the influencers’ feeds and stories (regarding gifts, trips, and all their bragging) with those of former traditional media personalities and editors. You don’t see mass gifting or trips. There are no PR boxes posted. (Except for a few greedy ones.) The rest of the former media are off the “freebee” radar.

              Google AI:

              Did the shift to influencer gifting hurt the traditional media advertising space and reduce tax income for the Canadian government?

              Yes, these losses resulted in a significant net loss of tax revenue for the Canadian government. The rapid shift of advertising dollars away from traditional media companies toward influencers and foreign digital tech platforms directly reduced government revenue in several major areas:

              1. Vanishing Corporate Income Taxes. Traditional Canadian media companies as major TV broadcasters, newspaper chains, and radio stations — historically generated robust taxable profits. As their advertising revenue plummeted (with conventional TV ad revenues down nearly 40%), these companies began posting multi-million dollar losses.

              The Tax Impact: Corporations that operate at a net loss do not pay corporate income tax.

              1. Massive Losses in Payroll and Personal Income Tax Because 74 cents of every advertising dollar now leaves the traditional Canadian media industry, legacy companies were forced to cut costs aggressively. Between 2019 and 2024, the Canadian media sector lost more than 11,000 stable, salaried jobs.

              The Tax Impact: High-paying, structured corporate jobs generate dependable income tax and payroll deductions (like CPP and EI). When these positions disappeared, the federal and provincial governments lost millions in annual personal income tax revenue.

              1. The “Tax Leakage” of the Influencer Economy. While the influencer marketing economy grew rapidly, it did not immediately replace the lost tax revenue. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) faced distinct challenges collecting taxes from this new sector:

              The Gift Loophole: For years, many influencers did not realize—or report—that free luxury trips, hotel stays, and gifted products legally count as taxable “non-monetary” business income.

              Foreign Platforms: Much of the ad spend that bypasses local media goes straight to foreign parent companies (such as Meta, Alphabet, and TikTok). Historically, these global tech giants utilized legal tax loopholes to avoid paying Canadian corporate taxes on those revenues.

              1. The Double Hit: Government Subsidies. Not only did the government lose tax revenue, but the crisis also forced them to spend taxpayer money to keep local journalism alive. To prevent the complete collapse of the news sector, the federal government had to introduce hundreds of millions of dollars in media payroll tax credits, subsidies, and aid programs – effectively turning a former tax-generating industry into a tax-funded one.

              If you are interested, we can look into how the CRA is currently auditing influencers to recoup these funds, or explore Canada’s new Digital Services Tax aimed at foreign tech platforms.

              *There are newspaper articles from March 2026, as the CRA issued a press release. This times well with the loss of trust in influencers.

              😁

              • Mostlycivil@lemmy.ca
                14·
                14 天前

                Wow! Thanks for all the info! I really hope this leads to the downfall of these crooks like 🐦💩, ⛰️ and 📦

              • GumboYaYa@lemmy.caEnglish
                12·
                14 天前

                So what about alllllll the PR they receive whether it’s shown on their platform or not considered a gift no matter the value… or is it only taxable if it’s shown on their socials? Because they still received merchandise. Should they be returning it if they don’t use it and therefore not have to pay taxes on it?

                • bunniculamonroe@lemmy.ca
                  10·
                  14 天前

                  This is the loophole. If something is sent without obligation to post about it, then it is not looked at as barter or a contractual obligation; therefore, they don’t have to claim it. I would say a huge portion of the PR she gets falls under this category because brands just send stuff hoping she will say something. But there are very obvious times that you know she is only saying something because she has to, and I guarantee she isn’t claiming those.

                • facialSwelling@lemmy.ca
                  6·
                  14 天前

                  Yes, if they KEEP anything, they need to pay the tax on the item’s MSRP. In traditional media, when you borrow a product, say for a photoshoot (clothing, furniture, etc.), it goes back. It’s not kept.

        • Honey_Lemon1105@lemmy.ca
          5·
          13 天前

          I wonder if the companies sending PR report it for their taxes? Like the product itself and the shipping etc would be a taxable expense, right?

  • MoonChild@lemmy.caOPM
    19·
    21 天前

    Traitors won a Canadian Screen Actors Guild award. Why isn’t Birdie taking all the credit for the win?

  • Adavison@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    20 天前

    You can tell when it’s not her week with the kids. She just sits and does nothing. She books all her work when they are home so she can avoid them.

    • MoonChild@lemmy.caOPM
      11·
      12 天前

      I’m sure she follows for the faith content. I’m sure she isn’t interested in the glp 1 stuff.

    • GumboYaYa@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      12 天前

      Is Hello Fresh on that guide? I just read the comments from 🐦 and ⛰️ on the 🧑‍🎨’s vulva art. The 🐦 doth protest the 🌭 comment!

  • MoonChild@lemmy.caOPM
    15·
    18 天前

    I am a woman in this demographic and would NEVER use the word elderly as an identifier. I don’t know if these comments are real or if the commenters are just batshit crazy. I would also never be throwing flowers at this one’s feet for taking and posting pictures of her body, talking about all her insecurities and foisting it on other women and pretending to be the saviour of women everywhere.

  • FraudulentFruit1@lemmy.ca
    14·
    18 天前

    The headbands she keeps trying to pull off look goofy 🤣 also the diseased looking tongue is more of a concern than underwear lines nobody even gives a fuck about.

  • Honey_Lemon1105@lemmy.ca
    14·
    12 天前

    Anyone who thinks Sarah isn’t filtering her photos and videos is completely delusional. Two screengrabs taken less than 1 second apart from her recent podcast clip. She is walking down the beach and if you watch in slow motion she is definitely ebbing and flowing.

  • facialSwelling@lemmy.ca
    14·
    13 天前

    Dumb-Dumb posted a story on her IG and the body filter is super glitchy. You can see the building wave and her hand tries to turn into the decorative grass. It’s not helping her face either, it mashes it up, or maybe she has a mashed face because who knows what this bitch looks like IRL.