The ENTIRE story… allegedly
Haters will say…. whatever the fuck they want lol
It is with great sadness, love and respect to share that…. okay pause. Did you really think I would go all Bachelor Nation on you guys 🥴?
The answer is: absolutely not.
It’s katrinaforeal so let’s get real. Allegedly the Podcast will not be continuing. It was my decision and up until this morning, I didn’t believe there was any need to write this. I made this decision less than a week ago and here’s why.
When I approached GG via Instagram back in June, I saw someone who was rising to internet “fame” (more or less). I had no idea who GG was, I didn’t even know her real name! All I knew was that whatever she was doing, it was working. Her IG page was thought provoking and “risky”. The idea of calling people out for making my industry a worse place, was badass.
Hell, I even started learning from her.
There is no “but” — I still believe GG’s headspace, at the time, was pure and still might be. Having a partnership with anyone is difficult and it takes work. Just like marriage, friendships, family, etc.. Both people have to be invested in the common truth of their mission. Personally, I don’t believe we had a 50/50 partnership.
On multiple occasions I offered GG an “out”. “Are you sure you want to be equal partners? It seems like this might be better off if it was your thing”. She kept saying no and eventually I gave up and said fine. But it didn’t FEEL like a partnership at all.
I was responsible for:
🎧 Editing
🎧 Publishing
🎧 Graphics
🎧 Allegedly DM’s & Emails
GG was responsible for running her page and getting the info. She said it was unnecessary for me to do the research, even though I wanted to do it.
This post is not to bash. No words of hate, just my side of the story.
This is my way of explaining everything at once for anyone who sends me DMs or is curious what happened.
Unfortunately, it’s been implied that I am one of four people who know certain personal information about GG that is now leaked information. I don’t know what that information is BUT she said ever since I became her partner: “her hate has increased, that she doesn’t trust me and that she doesn’t feel safe.” If someone doesn’t feel safe with me, I will never ask them to continue feeling that way. And, that’s why the partnership is over!
GG has created a very controversial platform. But then again, I don’t know how it could not be by the nature of the topic.
TO BE CLEAR:
I have never had control over GG’s main page.
She claims she “lost control of her page”.
No one else has access to her page other than her.
Allegedly was completely separate.
Fact: GG wanted to give me access to her main page in order to help HER sift through DM’s, but she couldn’t remember her password. Not sure if that’s true, but I believed her. I never wanted any access to her page or to “ruin her image”. I only had access to the Allegedly IG page and briefly to the GirlGangz7744 page. Every time I answered a DM, I would put “-Kat” so people knew who it was coming from. Always tried to be a fair partner 👊🏼!
I bring this up just to put everything out there. I have never publicly said anything bad about GG.
All of this came to a head because GG called me out for not disclosing an affiliate link on my personal page (“#amazonpartner”).
She told me: “It goes against everything I stand for”.
My first thought reading this was ‘isn’t it everything that WE stand for?’ But okay 🤨. Apparently she was getting DM’s left and right about me “camouflaging” my disclosures. I’m going to be very clear. I make mistakes (as all humans do). However, I feel that if you’re my partner it’s your job to have my back and not agree with the person hating on me in your DM’s.
I came up with a solution. Now that I have access to the link sticker (so does everyone btw), I have created a sticker that blatantly says “#amazonpartner”.
cute, right 💁🏼♀️?
I’m going to close this out by saying, when it comes to Influencing: the entire field is flawed. We were #blessed to have someone like GG to step up and shed light on the bad. It’s a tricky thing to navigate…
How could she make her platform better?
I don’t know.
Could I do it any better?
Honestly, I don’t want that spotlight.
More and more “GG’s” will emerge. She will not be the last. I am so happy (even if it was for a brief time) that we showed people a little TRUTH behind influencing.
I also want to take responsibility; if I was camouflaging my disclosures, I want to know because it was definitely not intentional. GG’s overarching message is to “turn the bad behavior into good” and I will continue to do that!
It’s about being a good person at THE CORE… even when you make mistakes!!!
I thought this would be a short post but… here we are.
TLDR:
We were about to start monetizing the podcast. Before we did, I took a step back to evaluate if it was really something I wanted to continue. I didn’t want to let down the agency we signed with and I didn’t want to let GG down.
That being said, I took a look into what our future held and I immediately saw more con’s than pro’s. I left the corporate world so I could be my own boss. Unintentionally, GG was becoming my boss and that’s exactly what I was trying to move away from.. Plain and simple.
So yeah, my time with Allegedly the Podcast is over. What GG does with it now is not up to me! If she wanted to continue on her own or even find a replacement host, I’ll gladly transfer everything over to her that I set up.. If her message is so important to her, then I think she SHOULD continue. Even if that means taking a break!
Meanwhile…I’ll be here keeping it real.
