An aspiring influencer has gone ‘offline’ after being flooded with comments following a video she shared about a restaurant rejecting her partnership offer.
Melbourne-based Jamieson May, who describes herself as a “travel, lifestyle, fashion and food creator”, said she would be taking a break from social media in a post shared to her Instagram Story on Tuesday evening.
“I’m going offline for a few days,” Ms May wrote along with a purple heart emoji.
It comes after a video Mrs May shared last month of vegetarian restaurant Patsy’s in Melbourne’s CBD caused a stir among Australians.
Melbourne-based Jamieson May (pictured), who describes herself as a ‘travel, lifestyle, fashion and food creator’, received backlash after sharing a rant about a Melbourne restaurant rejecting her marketing offer
The aspiring influencer has told her 15,600 Instagram followers that she was taking a break from social media after the barrage of criticism she received
Ms May explained in the nearly three-minute tirade that she was baffled by the restaurant’s blunt response to its marketing offer.
‘Yesterday I received the most horrible message from a restaurant [after] I want to work with them and I need to make you aware so that you never work with them and know your standards,” Ms May said in a TikTok video.
Mrs. May messaged Patsy’s restaurant on Instagram asking if the owner would like to work with her to create marketing content.
The restaurant’s account wrote back: “You don’t seem to have any followers, maybe you should contact us if you have more than 100,000 followers.”
Ms May has 15,600 followers on Instagram and just over 9,000 followers on TikTok.
The influencer said she was “stunned” by the response and replied that the message was “extremely rude.”
‘I’m absolutely stunned. “I had no words,” she said.
‘It actually disgusted me that someone could say that to someone else.
“This is clearly someone who is not in marketing, he literally doesn’t understand anything.”
However, her online rant about Patsy’s backfired when she was inundated with a barrage of criticism from social media users.
Ms May was ‘absolutely stunned’ by the response she received from vegetarian restaurant Patsy’s, located in Melbourne’s CBD
Mrs. May offered to work with Patsy’s, but the restaurant claimed the wannabe influencer didn’t have enough followers for marketing to be effective
The comments have now been disabled under the video.
“When I first published the restaurant on TikTok, it reached the wrong audience of non-creators and influencers who didn’t understand what was happening,” Ms May said.
“People were sending extremely rude comments saying that I’m just an entitled influencer who only wants ‘free’ stuff, and I’m complaining about it.”
Mrs May told Daily Mail Australia that she ‘never asked for a free service’ and that she had only objected to Patsy’s ‘customer service’.
“I stand up for small creators who may have great content but aren’t getting the recognition they deserve,” she said.
“Most people just mention me when they don’t fully understand how content creation works in the marketing world.
“All my audience and content creator friends agree with me on this.”
Meanwhile, Patsy’s, owned by restaurateurs Mathew Guthrie and Clinton Trevisi, defended its response, saying it was “clear” they did not want to work with Mrs May given her follower profile.
“Her followers are not really people we have in the room very often and probably not the market we want to connect with,” Mr. Guthrie said. news.com.au.
“I think she was just hoping to increase her visibility with these outraged posts.
“It’s already worked in a way, but I’m not sure how it can be monetized as marketing.”
