Another round of my unedited thoughts.
- 0:01 | all right so this is morning let’s get
- 0:04 | ready for the day we’re going to do a
- 0:05 | little quick unedited Lulu and get it
- 0:08 | together so I’ve changed up my toner to
- 0:11 | this good molecules ni my brightening
- 0:13 | toner love it love it all right so let’s
- 0:17 | talk let’s
- 0:19 | talk so I got a few things in my head
- 0:21 | and I wanted to talk about so you know I
- 0:25 | know a lot of y’all found me liked me
- 0:28 | based on the last thing I about my
- 0:30 | unedited about Crea a burnout and why
- 0:33 | it’s coming up and sustain
- 0:35 | unsustainability so I want to talk about
- 0:37 | a few things though I want to make a few
- 0:39 | things clear let me get my water cuz my
- 0:41 | voice sounds terrible so hold
- 0:44 | on all right so let’s go I’m put on my
- 0:46 | my eye cream so some of this I’m not
- 0:48 | going to be in your face cuz I’m doing
- 0:49 | this all right so let’s talk so I want
- 0:53 | to start out because I’m on this I’m
- 0:56 | calling it fragrance
- 0:58 | flexing and the reason why I’m saying
- 1:00 | that is because honey we are in the
- 1:02 | space and that’s kind of what I was
- 1:04 | talking about in reference to how you
- 1:07 | know the female fredom is it’s all about
- 1:10 | the fragrance Flex whether it’s you’re
- 1:12 | getting the the new fragrances even the
- 1:16 | Middle Eastern now which are Super
- 1:17 | trendy or being that you know Niche
- 1:22 | person who’s always getting the niche
- 1:24 | and you but wait a minute but you shop
- 1:27 | at nean markets and you go to you know
- 1:29 | you have
- 1:30 | essays those are the fragrance flexers
- 1:34 | um and the ones who are even doing the
- 1:38 | um middle Easter and a lot of the
- 1:40 | fragrance flexors will go and D to get
- 1:43 | those you
- 1:45 | know um Middle Easterns and everything
- 1:48 | because they’re popular so you know a
- 1:50 | fragrance flexor is going to flex and a
- 1:52 | lot of them are flexing in whatever way
- 1:54 | you have the ones who are now rushing to
- 1:56 | get every Middle Eastern possible I
- 1:58 | would love to see their collection
- 2:00 | how many are they actually keeping
- 2:02 | because them damn things um add up so I
- 2:06 | mean cuz in a minute I had like 40 or 50
- 2:08 | in them things around so with everybody
- 2:11 | with the onslaught of Middle Easterns
- 2:15 | I’m just curious to see how many people
- 2:18 | are um what their what their collections
- 2:20 | look like I’m just curious uh I’m just
- 2:23 | really curious about this I’m using this
- 2:25 | this is this Peter Thomas Roth water
- 2:27 | drench hyaluronic Cloud Hy draining
- 2:30 | toner M I’ve had this for years in here
- 2:32 | I used up one I’m finally trying to use
- 2:33 | this one the only thing I don’t like is
- 2:35 | the mister is Terri okay it spits
- 2:40 | out it spits out all right so here we
- 2:45 | go I feel good I’m I’m moving fast okay
- 2:49 | but what I really wanted to talk about
- 2:51 | was PR affiliate marketing and
- 2:53 | everything because it’s getting this
- 2:55 | really bad name and so let me just put
- 2:58 | it let me make this clear I don’t think
- 3:00 | there’s anything wrong with PR I think
- 3:02 | it’s necessary I think that as a as a
- 3:05 | person who does things like this see
- 3:07 | y’all y’all quit to like get on this
- 3:10 | bandwagon and be like yes them people
- 3:12 | getting PR are terrible no not every
- 3:14 | person who gets PR is terrible they need
- 3:17 | to disclose it but they also need to be
- 3:20 | more honest with their um reviews now
- 3:24 | let me say this that doesn’t mean
- 3:26 | they’re not being honest maybe they
- 3:27 | really do love these fragrances I think
- 3:29 | we’re so quick to say they got to be
- 3:31 | lying that we don’t give things a chance
- 3:34 | now what I will say is when you hear
- 3:36 | certain words coming from everybody that
- 3:39 | means that that’s a talking point so if
- 3:41 | you hear similarities from the people
- 3:43 | who are getting PR then you know there’s
- 3:45 | a s there’s a a a talking point involved
- 3:50 | now what you’re going to find which is
- 3:51 | funny now is everybody’s going to try to
- 3:54 | the ones who get PR are going to try to
- 3:56 | be a little honest about things about
- 3:58 | the pr to like say now they’re not going
- 4:02 | to tell everything but they are going to
- 4:04 | say things to make you say okay they’re
- 4:07 | being honest and make you go okay I love
- 4:09 | them again but what let me say this PR
- 4:13 | is necessary if you’re going to do
- 4:15 | things like this y’all know this is an
- 4:18 | expensive expensive thing to do this
- 4:20 | ain’t makeup makeup you could be doing
- 4:22 | makeup and not spend that much at all
- 4:24 | but when you’re talking about fragrances
- 4:27 | we are talking about people we’re buying
- 4:29 | bottles that are $2 $300 and up
- 4:33 | considering some of these people are
- 4:34 | buying them retail so if you look and
- 4:38 | see how much they’re buying I mean you
- 4:40 | could do a quick like mental math and
- 4:43 | come up with there’s a lot of money
- 4:44 | being spent and if you’re continuously
- 4:47 | doing that it can become it can become
- 4:51 | um economically un
- 4:54 | unfeasible so getting PR takes some of
- 4:57 | that off now the thing about PR and like
- 5:00 | I said before it’s on us as creators to
- 5:04 | be honest about the pr and be willing to
- 5:07 | say these companies will not allow won’t
- 5:09 | give me PR again because of it and
- 5:11 | here’s the thing say that if you
- 5:13 | say something and you’re honest about
- 5:15 | your opinion about it it doesn’t last it
- 5:18 | smells similar do you really need it no
- 5:20 | if you say those things about a specific
- 5:23 | fragrance from a brand and they say
- 5:26 | you and they never reach out to
- 5:28 | you again espe the bigger ones then move
- 5:32 | accordingly and let people know see
- 5:34 | don’t be scared to say that
- 5:37 | don’t be scared to say that
- 5:40 | cuz it’s necessary
- 5:46 | now on the next space it’s affiliate
- 5:49 | marketing let me just tell y’all
- 5:51 | something I’m going say this real clear
- 5:55 | I’m going to need people to stop trying
- 5:56 | to tell people how to make their
- 5:58 | money that’s it that’s off now
- 6:02 | let me say this when it comes down to
- 6:04 | affiliate marketing we already most of
- 6:08 | the time we are already repping these
- 6:10 | spaces these Brands these things now
- 6:13 | we’re just trying to make a little money
- 6:15 | off the you off the people who are
- 6:17 | listening to us and going and purchasing
- 6:20 | that just makes sense hell I’m
- 6:23 | just I’ve got some affiliate links and
- 6:25 | it’s not like they making me a whole lot
- 6:26 | of money but the reality is is I tell
- 6:29 | y’all to go to J shop I talk about
- 6:31 | triple Traders I talk about fragrance
- 6:33 | net why wouldn’t I try to make sure that
- 6:36 | okay since I’m sending money their way
- 6:38 | that I don’t get something in
- 6:40 | return for someone to say something’s
- 6:43 | wrong with that that is an elitist
- 6:46 | statement saying that here’s the thing
- 6:48 | they don’t need to the money they don’t
- 6:50 | need to supplement whatever they’re
- 6:52 | doing because they’re they’re making
- 6:54 | enough to afford
- 6:55 | it and they’re and whatever whatever
- 6:58 | they choose to do on these platforms
- 7:01 | they’re able to maintain and okay
- 7:04 | putting it out of all of their cash
- 7:06 | where some of us are like I’m
- 7:07 | spending all this money I’m telling
- 7:09 | people to go here I would like to get
- 7:11 | something for this matter you know what
- 7:14 | I’m saying I tell y’all to go to drummer
- 7:16 | shop all the time hell yeah I want to be
- 7:18 | an affiliate marketing for them what get
- 7:20 | a get get a little coin off of off of
- 7:22 | all my recommendation say yeah I got
- 7:25 | this there and it’s a super good deal
- 7:27 | hell yes yes
- 7:30 | now for me will I be do will I do
- 7:32 | affiliate marketing with other companies
- 7:35 | that I really don’t shop at for me
- 7:37 | that’s a no but that’s a personal thing
- 7:39 | but understand people are just trying to
- 7:41 | maintain these channels that y’all like
- 7:44 | to watch so to tell people that they
- 7:46 | can’t figure out a way to help
- 7:49 | pay to pay for this damn channel is
- 7:51 | ridiculous and that’s and you don’t have
- 7:54 | that right and other creators don’t have
- 7:57 | the right listen I don’t have any
- 8:00 | problem with anybody making their coin I
- 8:03 | don’t now I might not choose to help
- 8:05 | make that coin sometimes but I ain’t
- 8:07 | going to knock your hustle that’s the
- 8:09 | one thing I’m not going to do is knock
- 8:11 | your hustle for figuring out a way to
- 8:14 | help take offset the the amount of
- 8:17 | outlay financial outlay that people are
- 8:20 | putting out to put out content now do we
- 8:23 | have to put out content we absolutely do
- 8:25 | not we don’t have to put out content but
- 8:28 | we do we enjoy it and you enjoy watching
- 8:31 | us so to in so to Brand people who have
- 8:35 | affiliate marketing links to Brand
- 8:37 | people who actually get PR is wrong it’s
- 8:41 | all about how they’re doing it and
- 8:43 | everybody’s doing something different
- 8:45 | and everybody has a right to figure out
- 8:49 | how they’re going to maintain these
- 8:51 | channels that you all
- 8:55 | enjoy now before y’all get you don’t
- 8:57 | have to do it you you are absolutely
- 8:59 | right none of us have to but we do and
- 9:01 | you all watch it and we enjoy doing it
- 9:04 | so like anything hell I work a job this
- 9:07 | is a job we videotape we we buy things
- 9:11 | to show we we sit here and we edit and
- 9:15 | we do all things this is like a
- 9:17 | part-time job so a part-time job should
- 9:20 | pay you something even if it’s not a lot
- 9:24 | like my little coins that I get ain’t
- 9:26 | that much but it’s enough to offset a
- 9:28 | few things pay a credit card bill do
- 9:31 | something with right surprise me and say
- 9:33 | oo let me I could go buy some something
- 9:36 | for my garden things like that is what
- 9:40 | it does so to say that or hell some
- 9:44 | people to the point where they stop
- 9:45 | working and they’re and they are doing
- 9:47 | this you know 100% And there’s
- 9:51 | absolutely nothing wrong with it I’m
- 9:53 | going to need everybody to get out of
- 9:55 | this space where we’re going to be so
- 9:57 | judgmental about how people figure out
- 10:01 | how to make their money now if you feel
- 10:03 | like they’re being disingenuous then
- 10:04 | stop watching them cuz everybody ain’t
- 10:07 | going to feel that way and they have
- 10:08 | every right and I talk about people
- 10:10 | and I talk about things but I don’t
- 10:13 | care how they do it honey if they
- 10:15 | disingenuous and everybody watches them
- 10:16 | and they make their money more power to
- 10:18 | them and their
- 10:21 | money so let’s get off of that and I
- 10:24 | don’t you know so yes I talked about the
- 10:26 | unsustainability of it from the
- 10:28 | standpoint that we are doing that of how
- 10:30 | it’s being handled but I did not talk
- 10:32 | about how people make their money or how
- 10:35 | they should spend their money I’m just
- 10:38 | saying that it’s
- 10:39 | unsustainable at the rate we’re going
- 10:42 | and it’s going to become um not as uh
- 10:52 | lucrative and that’s for real
- 10:56 | now let’s talk about something else
- 10:58 | before I get off of
- 11:00 | here I talked about recently and I
- 11:04 | pulled it because I know how people can
- 11:06 | be so I pulled it for
- 11:08 | now I talked about some things that
- 11:10 | happened in the fragrance community in
- 11:12 | reference to some black
- 11:14 | men and I talked about it from a racism
- 11:17 | standpoint now during that conversation
- 11:20 | somebody also said that this is actually
- 11:23 | happened to somebody um that was that
- 11:28 | was non a person of color right a white
- 11:32 | man now even before I had finished
- 11:35 | saying that I said well let’s just be
- 11:37 | honest um the two people involved who
- 11:40 | feel one has definite receipts on why
- 11:43 | you know that he was asked to do this
- 11:45 | number one number two
- 11:48 | um what I said was afterwards I said
- 11:51 | well it’s also let’s be honest about
- 11:55 | their aesthetic it’s not that they’re
- 11:58 | necessarily racist in reference it can
- 12:02 | smack of racism but it really smacks of
- 12:05 | elitism because what it is is that these
- 12:07 | Brands don’t want these particular
- 12:08 | people talking about them because of
- 12:10 | their style not you know and so since
- 12:14 | and once they and and I will admit that
- 12:16 | it could be also with any person of any
- 12:19 | race their style you know which could be
- 12:22 | a little more urban which could be a
- 12:24 | little more country you know what I’m
- 12:25 | saying I don’t you know what I’m saying
- 12:27 | so whatever the style is is these
- 12:30 | companies are trying to say don’t talk
- 12:32 | about our fragrances number one if I pay
- 12:35 | for something and I want to talk
- 12:37 | about it on my channel you ain’t going
- 12:39 | to tell me I can’t you and then to try
- 12:41 | to report people for it is insane and so
- 12:46 | here’s what I’m going to
- 12:47 | say whether or not it’s about racism or
- 12:50 | not that is um from a business
- 12:54 | standpoint I I I you and the reason
- 12:57 | why I say that is because how dare you
- 12:59 | tell somebody you didn’t give them this
- 13:01 | you didn’t you ain’t you ain’t
- 13:03 | paying them for Content you’re not doing
- 13:04 | any of this they’re buying and telling
- 13:06 | PE talking about your fragrances because
- 13:09 | they want to because they choose to and
- 13:11 | usually it’s in a positive manner you
- 13:13 | just don’t like the positive manner it
- 13:15 | doesn’t fit with your your um luxury
- 13:17 | aesthetic well you and your
- 13:20 | luxury aesthetic because how dare you
- 13:22 | have you don’t have the right to tell
- 13:24 | somebody on their platforms on social
- 13:27 | media cuz see you okay with other people
- 13:28 | talking about about you because you feel
- 13:30 | like they they they promote your
- 13:32 | aesthetic like I said there’s other
- 13:34 | people that they’re not bothering which
- 13:35 | makes sense but these two in particular
- 13:38 | have a certain aesthetic which is a
- 13:39 | little more urban would be considered
- 13:42 | Urban hoodish so therefore they’re not
- 13:45 | they don’t want them talking about their
- 13:47 | brand on the flip side it could be any
- 13:50 | person of any color any race that is
- 13:53 | saying that that’s number one now number
- 13:55 | two I did speak of it from a racism
- 13:59 | standpoint which I then flipped in the
- 14:01 | middle of it after I was told about a
- 14:03 | person a white person having the same
- 14:06 | issue apparently some people were
- 14:08 | offended said I was race baiting and all
- 14:11 | this other so let me just say this
- 14:15 | and I’m going say this very
- 14:18 | clear I hey I don’t do that I’m not a
- 14:21 | race baiter we know this I talk about
- 14:23 | things from the the you know and I’m not
- 14:25 | even going to justify what I speak on
- 14:28 | what I am going to say is is I’m a black
- 14:29 | person and sometimes I’m going to talk
- 14:31 | about race and I’m going to talk about
- 14:33 | the inherent racism within any system
- 14:36 | that we are in in our society and to be
- 14:39 | offended if I say it that means that
- 14:42 | some of those words hit home to you have
- 14:45 | are some of the things that you that you
- 14:47 | might agree to that you might think make
- 14:50 | sense so that offends you so
- 14:54 | what cuz here’s let me let me tell you
- 14:56 | what what I will always be is a black
- 14:59 | black woman I breathe black I speak
- 15:02 | about black I am black no matter how
- 15:05 | much you like me and say oh she’s so
- 15:08 | cute and you feel like I am not or I
- 15:11 | blur the lines or I am I am not
- 15:14 | offensive to your
- 15:16 | sensibilities because I don’t come off
- 15:18 | as black as you think you know in the
- 15:21 | regular black that you associate with
- 15:24 | being black let me tell you something
- 15:26 | I’m blacker than a lot of them don’t let
- 15:29 | light skin fool you and if you ever come
- 15:32 | to me talking about I am race basting
- 15:35 | you you need to go on and move on if you
- 15:37 | don’t like when I talk about about
- 15:40 | things in reference to being a black
- 15:42 | person you need to move on no I don’t
- 15:45 | talk about it all the time but it is a
- 15:48 | part of me and I have every right to
- 15:50 | speak on it so so if it offends you if
- 15:53 | you feel it’s
- 15:55 | negative sucks to be you and I don’t
- 15:58 | care if you and and you don’t have to
- 16:00 | watch me you don’t have to I don’t you
- 16:02 | know unsubscribe don’t watch do the ever
- 16:05 | you need to because all every day
- 16:08 | of my life I am black and my experience
- 16:11 | and other black people’s experience and
- 16:13 | other people of color experience you
- 16:15 | can’t understand or relate to so of
- 16:18 | course it’s going to offend you when we
- 16:22 | speak of it because then it means that
- 16:24 | you have to face the fact that the
- 16:26 | still exists all right so that’s it that
- 16:28 | I’m I’m jumping off that I’m jumping off
- 16:31 | of that one but but I’m making that very
- 16:34 | clear to you all so if I’m talking about
- 16:37 | things like that trust me I will not say
- 16:41 | the only reason why I took it down was
- 16:44 | cuz I know how some people can be and
- 16:45 | they’ll report you and try to get your
- 16:47 | uh shut down based on they’re going
- 16:50 | to say that I’m race baiting in things
- 16:53 | so if you think that I’m race bating now
- 16:55 | it shut me down I don’t give a
- 16:56 | no more you know it is what it is but
- 16:59 | the reality is is in order to be
- 17:01 | offended by something that I said
- 17:03 | immediately with on a visceral level
- 17:07 | that means that some there’s somewhere
- 17:08 | in your in your space that I hit on
- 17:12 | something that B that made you say ooh
- 17:15 | to yourself made you see yourself in
- 17:18 | those
- 17:20 | comments just think about that all right
- 17:23 | y’all so I’m done with this unedited
- 17:26 | Lulu I’m going to post it up let me
- 17:28 | finish putting on my did I put this on
- 17:30 | already I think I did yeah I did um I’m
- 17:34 | going to finish putting on my skin care
- 17:36 | for the day and you all have a fabulous
- 17:39 | day and um happy
- 17:41 | Monday I will go live later on I’m sure
- 17:44 | somebody have something to say to me
- 17:46 | then all right y’all have a great day
