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Influencer who tried to shame restaurant owners which quickly backfired makes radical move amid the backlash

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Updated 09:18 22 May 2024 GMT+1Published 08:57 22 May 2024 GMT+1

Influencer who tried to shame restaurant owners which quickly backfired makes radical move amid the backlash

An Australian influencer that faced a backlash after attempting to 'expose' a restaurant has now spoken out

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

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An influencer who has faced some heat after taking to social media to 'expose' a restaurant has issued an update.

Australian influencer Jamieson May faced the fiery sting of the internet after posting a video seemingly hoping people would side with her.

Last month she uploaded a video attempting to expose a restaurant that denied a collaboration with her.

After uploading a near three-minute video about how vegetarian restaurant Patsy's responded to her after she asked about collaboration, many sided against the content creator and began criticizing her in the comments.

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Last month she uploaded a video attempting to expose a restaurant that denied a collaboration with her. (jamiesonmayyy/TikTok)
Last month she uploaded a video attempting to expose a restaurant that denied a collaboration with her. (jamiesonmayyy/TikTok)

Melbourne-based May said she considers herself a travel, lifestyle, fashion, and food creator and took to her TikTok page @jamiesonmayyy, to complain about how the company responded to her.

Speaking to her 9,000 TikTok followers, she argued that their response left her ‘absolutely gobsmacked’ and she advised against other content creators working with them.

“I received the most horrible message yesterday from a restaurant [after] wanting to work with them and I need to make you aware so you guys never work with them and know your standards,” she said in the clip.

She added that she sent them her standard template for when she wants to work with business and received a blunt response.

The restaurant's response read: “You don’t seem to have any followers maybe you should approach us when you have over 100k,”

While complaining the response was rude to her followers, under the video, many sided with the restaurant and pointed to the fact she likely wouldn’t be able to offer as much as she promised due to her relatively low following. Comments have since been turned off on the clip.

At the time, Mathew Guthrie and Clinton Trevisi - who own Patsy's - said: "Her followers are not really people that we have in the venue often and probably not the market that we are looking to engage with.

"I think she was just hoping to increase her visibility with these outrage posts.

"It, sort of, has worked already but I am not sure how it will be able to be monetised as marketing."

However, in a dramatic turn of events, on May 21, May announced that she would be taking a break from being online.

The influencer did not give a reason as to why she would be taking a break in the post, however.

On her Instagram page, which has 15,600 followers, she shared the message saying ‘heading offline for a few days’ along with a heart emoji.

May previously defended her video and said it reached the wrong audience.

On her Instagram page, which has 15,600 followers, she shared the message saying ‘heading offline for a few days’.  (jamiesonmay/Instagram)
On her Instagram page, which has 15,600 followers, she shared the message saying ‘heading offline for a few days’. (jamiesonmay/Instagram)

Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, she said: “When I first outed the restaurant on TikTok, it reached the wrong audience of non-creators and influencers who didn't understand what was happening.

“People sent extremely rude comments that I am just an entitled influencer who just wants 'free' stuff and I am complaining about it all.”

She also claimed that in her template message to the restaurant she never asked for free service and overall simply objected to Patsy’s customer service.

Featured Image Credit: jamiesonmayyy/TikTok

Topics: Social Media, TikTok

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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