After fashion influencer Emily Gellis Lande slammed Tanya Zuckerbrot and her F-Factor diet plan, a group of anonymous women launched a three-year-long campaign in revenge.
that was particularly vicious, even by the standards of today’s anonymous internet correspondence. The subject line of the message was “Shopify Order,” all but ensuring she would read it since that is the e-commerce platform Emily uses to sell jewelry and clothes:
Their followers have also waged a proxy war in various corners of social media—fueled, in part, by the digital vigilante work of the Volunteer Bake Circle . When it comes to the anti-Emily trolls online, what emerges from screenshots reviewed by The Daily Beast is the VBC was part of an organized effort—sometimes using anonymous burner accounts, known as finstas—to wreak havoc on Emily Gellis Lande’s life.
“I know how relentless they are… it’s such a big part of their lives. I don’t think they can let go,” she said. Still, the vigilantes felt justified in their crusade—many of them were supporters of Tanya and felt Emily had worked to get her wrongly canceled, even though they claimed to have never met Tanya in real life. And when someone insulted their glossy leader, there was hell to pay. When one member of the Volunteer Bake Circle broke rank in a way that Tanya felt threatened by, another member wrote to the VBC: “She needs to leave Tanya the fuck alone.
“You can’t even distinguish between levels of threat. You are so emotionally hijacked … you spin a story of the world being against you and you have to protect yourself.” Alexandra E. put a finer point on it: “Many of the women in that chat don’t think Emily deserves to be as confident as she is.”to red-flag Emily’s brand partners. Alexandra E. and the other former chat member confirmed that people from the chat would contact Emily’s sponsors, mostly from finstas, and try to paint her as a horrible person. “I was dropped by brands being overly responsive to claims calling me ‘a racist’ or ‘antisemite,”’ Emily, who is Jewish, confirmed.
A member of another subreddit, who claimed Fiber Feuds blocked them, called it an “Emily hate group,” noting, “I dislike Emily & Tanya equally … their behavior and towards towards Emily is so severe. It’s really unhinged behavior.” And recently, a member of the FiberFeuds subreddit who goes by the name flindsayblohan, wrote in a goodbye message to the forum, “Make no mistake, Emily deserves to answer for what she did. But she is a human.
to go after Gellis Lande. Gellis Lande would have to subpoena the internet company or social media platform to unmask her tormentors, says Felix Wu, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law. But that strategy is resource-intensive and rests, Wu says, on the company complying, which may not happen if they think the case is not strong and decide to challenge the subpoena.a Mediterranean restaurant favored by the social set in Manhattan just off Madison Avenue.
Still, she’s praised them publicly—on an Instagram Live, she said, “they call you hate accounts … I don’t view you that way. I want to thank you for the work you do on my behalf—and on behalf of humanity.” “Each time I would be glad I was not in contact with those people and had them blocked. The only group chat I was in when someone bullied Emily was when someone claiming to be from New Zealand sent Emily an email calling her daughter a ‘boy.’ It was awful. After that, the tone of the chat changed. It was not something I wanted to be a part of and I left the group.”
Given the VBC’s loyalty and admiration for the F-Factor founder, Alexandra E. believes that “Tanya Zuckerbrot could have denounced the Bully Moms Club, Romy, EGTruth etc. a long time ago,” as she wrote on Instagram last year. “She could have made them STOP. But she has not done that.”
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