I saw a vendor for them at a local festival (after watching a documentary about it and how it ruined lives) and I was just shocked at how many people were in line-
What was the worst for me was when I needed a job and my supposed friend got me an "interview" for an assured job with a growing telecom company. Of course when we got to the rented business space downtown it turned out to just be a recruitment session for a phone service MLM. Half of the people there (like me) all in interview clothes had been conned into coming by the other half who were their friends promising a job. Several people just straight up got up and walked out loudly complaining "I thought this was for an ACTUAL JOB!" I was too nice to ditch my friend so I stayed to see what their whole scheme was. My "interview" was just the recruiter trying to talk me into the something like $550 startup fee and ways to borrow money/get a loan when I complained that I NEEDED A JOB BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE MONEY. The only reason I gave them even half a thought of consideration afterwards was because they did offer a legitimate product (home phone service) that was actually a good deal at the time. I figured if the rest of my family wanted to save money on their phone plans, we could have just ordered it from my friend cuz I was NOT going to get into that bogus recruiting shit. They understandably said no, so I dropped it and that was basically the end of my friendship with the MLM buddy because he got mad at me for not taking advantage of such an awesome opportunity and wanting to make my life better.
I was approached by an Amway distributor and how I'd be a perfect fit. After listening to him go on and on about how fabulous this was I told him this. "If you show me your profit/loss statement and last year's tax filing, I will join up" Never heard from him again.
I joined it works! Because my boyfriends mom sold it. I did it for like two weeks and then i was like “i literally cannot do this. It’s so embarrassing”. I had to block like all of my boyfriends moms friends who were my upline . Just don’t do it guys. Learn to say no.
When I was a kid, my mom agreed to do a children toys MLM. She bought their $50 starter package that had like $200 worth of toys, then just kept it for me and never sold it. They didn’t make her sign a contract or anything, she just scammed the scammers.
my first experience with MLMs was 3 different girls trying to sell me weight loss products while i was recovering from an eating disorder... so yeah, not really a big fan lmao.
ashlyn marie This happened to me!!! this bitch wanted to sell me an Arbonne detox which consisted of 2 protein shakes a day and a "clean dinner".... sis i just got out of ED treatment im good
ashlyn marie same! I had to recover on my own (do not recommend, hated it, only did because there was zero accessible treatment) and got endless spam from people wanting to dEtOx mY bOdY like....ma'am. ...
I legit saw a on a closed fb support group for sexual assault victims where a girl had posted how traumatized she was after what happened to her a few nights ago and an mlm rep for young living essential oils commented suggesting what oils might treat her various PTSD symptoms. I ripped that B a new A Hole.
When people ask to meet you at a coffee shop or a restaurant after just meeting you, and also bring their spouse to discuss their big plan... Run. Also never agree to free facials.
Be careful graduating highschool and the early years of being an adult is a very vulnerable time of your life. Many scammers will try to take advantage of your financial inexperience. I remember my friend in my sophomore year of college tried to get me to join a mlm that sold camping gear and other shitty outdoor products. They had infiltrated the campus and would hold seminar in clubrooms. Luckily I've already knew about how mlm worked from an aunt who got caught up in one. So I was able to explain why they were bad and their dirty tactics. He totally left once everything I said turned out to be true and thankfully didn't lose too much money. Also another *HUGE* scam for young adults is credit cards. Now yes credit cards can be a useful tool don't get me wrong but not the ones directly offered to those aged 18-22. The credit card company are hoping due to inexperience that you'll spend way too much. They'll all send you new credit cards in the mail once a month in hope to hook you in. The interest rates on the cards are usually very high. Lots of people develop huge credit card debt in their early 20s. A good rule for cards I learned is never make a credit purchase you can't easily payoff at the end of the month. Before you make any big financial decisions you should always do a bunch of research.
i’m so looking forward to graduating high school so 5 years down the road i can be harassed by the mean girls who are now military wives and sell arbonne
Haley Mitchell omg wow good luck. i’ll pray for you during these challenging times of “become a boss babe and earn your white mercedes like me 🤩✨” and “join my team and own a big ridiculous house and go on extravagant vacations to Aruba and the Bahamas ᵃˢ ˡᵒⁿᵍ ᵃˢ ʸᵒᵘ ᵖᵃʸ ᵃ $⁵⁰⁰ ᶠˡᵃᵗ ᶠᵉᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵉˡˡ ʸᵒᵘʳ ˢᵒᵘˡ”
At least Tupperware is a product that gets used and is good quality. I’ve had mine for years. I would never sell it though! The other MLM’s are crap products.
in all seriousness it’s absolutely foul that these MLMs directly target vulnerable women, ESPECIALLY mothers searching for a community to belong to. i can totally see my mom being pulled into one and it’s heartbreaking to know that they’d chew her up and spit her out.
When my dad died, a beach body babe slid into my DMs to say “working out makes me feel better, so I wanted to tell you about to help you out”. Like... wtf
I saw an anti mlm video where someone shared a story where a boss babe told their friend that their mother should use the money her husband- who had died a few WEEKS earlier- had left her to buy a new outfit from her ‘business’ to make her feel better. Then when the friend said no, she turned on her and said the mother needed to GET OVER IT. 🤯 So your story is pretty par for the course for these scams. It’s awful.
it sucks so much that that had happened to you but y e a h they prey on the ignorant, the weak, the desperate, etc. etc. and it's horrible. they're so deaf to situations usually.
I actually tried the lipsense eyeshadows, they are actually kinda nice. But I wont buy them again, because I dont want to support an mlm. most lipsense lipcolor sucks though.
THAT’S WHERE THOSE LEGGINGS COME FROM! my last job was sorting & pricing clothes that were donated to a thrift store. we got STACKS of those leggings & i had no idea why. it all makes sense now 🤦🏽♀️
Where the f did “boss babe” come from. No ligit business woman calls herself a “boss babe”. Imagine you are the CEO of a major corporation in standing in front of the executive committee. And you referred to yourself as a “boss babe”. Good bye credibility and professionalism!
My older sister was involved in one when she was 18, too. Thankfully she had a stable job and didn't go into too much debt. They seem to target young adults, fresh out of highschool too.
People won’t care\you won’t have to worry if you have like dog hair on your leggings like you might for a class No humans: no other people around so good if you’re self conscious of scared of being judged or whatever (also ties into the dog hair part)
Or teenage post-partum depression (with or without implications of the child being adopted/legally taken away and placed in a foster home and/or keeping the child-with the occasional guardian-/kinship care by the child's grandparent/s,if available-or not,unfortunately..) alternatively..? I mean-that COULD HAVE been that one or the other,obviously..? I dunno!
Mog of War oh,I understand dude.. But still,that _should REALLY be a clear warning sign_ to *_avoid something like that_* ,especially with the _mention that they possibly had and/or has have TARGET (ED) TEENS,not JUST TEEN/unMarried MOTHERS amongst other kinds of women in these schemes,mind you._
When I was 7 I was friends with this girl whose parents worked at herbalife. Apparently, everytime their daughter friended someone they would invite the friend's parents to a breakfast where they would try to sell them Herbalife at all costs. My parents told them they weren't interested because the death of a family member was correlated to the use of herbalife (it probably caused liver failure). Literally, after my parents told them that, the girl came to school angry at me because we hadn't bought their products. Also, she later told me that at her house they used to call me "Ugly Betty" as a way of mocking me. You could tell that her family where and are still a part of the little amount of people who actually make lots of money from MLM's, and literally their sons and daughters are also a marketing product: all of them have to show how much they workout, how much they travel and in general flex subtly on you so you think that you can get all of that just by buying and promoting their products.
@@multijxde1855 thank you so much, you just made my day! :) and yes thankfully she changed schools, so everything's better now xd I hope you are doing well too
Ooh. I have a story about one of those gals. I was waiting for the professor on the first day of a college class last year. This girl sitting next to me starts to chat with me. I was so excited, I thought I was about to make a friend. I mentioned I was a nutrition major and her eyes LIT up and she started talking about Arbonne. She asked for my number. I knew where this was going to lead, but I didn't want to be rude so I gave her my number. Then, the "hey girl" texts came. And boy, they came. After rejecting her for a month, she stopped texting me. I didn't see her or hear from her.... until, a year later (last month) I get a "hey girl! you are so inspirational and blah blah bullshit" message. I was so offended, mainly because she was saying shit like "you are so influential," like b**** we only talked ONE time. I blocked her after that. The end.
I went through this whole phase of being paranoid about everything even slightly related to pyramid schemes. Why's that? I realized my school's Booster Festival was just a big pyramid scheme where they gave out horrible prizes for us to recruit more members. And those members had to recruit more members, and each member would have to pay one dollar to join the "club". The grand prize was a $250 coupon to the Scholastic Book Fair, so I fricken got 300 people to sign up. 300 people, who each recruited an average of 30 members, who then recruited an average of 40 members, and so on. I was in a pyramid scheme at age 7. Great.
There’s a girl that I went to school with and she joined a pyramid scheme before she even graduated high school, so now her instagram story is just her talking straight to the camera about how her product has changed her life and then tries to get everyone to go to her product parties. Honey, you have 1000 followers and all of them are still in school, they don’t have time for this. She also got really upset when someone called it a pyramid scheme.
My ex friends family got all their kids involved in a pyramid scheme and in her bio she called herself an "independent business owner" 💀 She hasn't graduated yet.
Me too, I didnt know that pyramid schemes were also called mlms so when I first heard someone insult them I was like "wow ok thats pretty rude, its none of your business if their gay" lmao
RIGHT the first time i ever heard the term mlm i was talking with a friend and she was ranting about them and i was so confused because i was like “shes bi.... why does she hate gay guys??” and i felt so dumb when i looked it up akcjxncnsjjs
Do not ever belong to a direct sales business that *requires* you to buy inventory. It's completely unnecessary, especially when there are plenty of companies that let you buy off a consultant's website, letting the consultant get a commission and the company ships it from their HQ. Companies that require you to "front load" create the false impression of sales numbers that are really just consultants buying it in the hopes of selling it.
Dude once upon a time some girl managing at the local Lululemon asked me if I wanted a career op because at the time I was broke, disabled, with nowhere to go. Hell yeah I'm gonna give her my info. A week later she and her mum sit me down in a cafe basically trying to extort that $500 from me, that I kept saying I didn't have, when her mum busts out "Imagine someone was going to see you your dream car, right now, for $500. Would you have that $500?" 'Uh, no, I have $36.43 to my name. When I said broke and homeless, I meant broke and homeless.'. Dude. I wish they took the L but they kept emailing me for years 😭
Ew, sounds like they targeted you specifically because they thought you were desperate and vulnerable. That’s really gross, glad you didn’t buy it dude
I would have been disappointed and told the girl that I thought she was offering me a job at Lululemon. A place that could pay a paycheck for hours worked.
My favorite tactic: the doom and gloom job market scenario. "Oh, I know you have a Master's degree in a science field and want a full time job with benefits and a pension, but I know TONS of women with PhDs who can't find a job and have tons of student loan debt". Sure, you know tons of women with PhDs who joined your MLM downline. Please.
I got one for a woman and when I politely declined saying I was already doing my own thing with making art she got mad saying I ‘wasn’t motivated’ and ‘wouldn’t achieve my dreams’ like so rude too.
I got convinced into one of these MLMs and was too depressed and anxious to even try to make an effort to buy or sell shit 👏🏻 the only one time depression was good to me 😂😭
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hey girlie!! 💖💖 you should try my essential oils!!!!!!! they will cure your depression and make you life sooooo amazing!! 💖💖 one set is $300 but it’s SOOOO worth it!
I know that you are joking. But I actually had a "friend " who told me essential oils would cure my insomnia, bipolar and....that she even had some that would help my cats stay calm. I was dying. Hell no thanks but no thanks.
I hate these bc they make self-employment seem cheap and stupid. I’m a self-employed graphic designer, I studied it in college, I work for actual different companies. Yet so many of my ex-classmates call themselves self-employed bc they sell tea on Facebook so I always feel like I have to explain myself when ppl ask what I do because if I just say self-employed they might assume I harass my friends to buy oil or smthg
I remember when Lularoe was first entering the world, my mom and I went to what was advertised as a craft show (you know, with HANDMADE crafts and stuff) and literally EVERY SINGLE ONE of the probably 10 or so vendors there was selling those fucking awful leggings out of the backs of their cars. Most MLM purveyors are guilty of that kinda stuff though. Every craft show I've ever been to, no matter where it is, has at least one poor woman shilling scentsy or tupperware amongst all the other people selling actual handmade and nice things.
I like “pyramid scheme influencer” lmao but ppl have been calling them “hun bots” also lol:) bcuz they always try to hit ppl up like “hey hun...nlahblah join my cult”
Imo that’s probably the worst pyramid scheme, I fucking loathe young living essential oils with a passion. They target desperate people e.g. people who are sick with medical conditions. Also those fuckers use essential oils on their babies and pets, which is SO dangerous, but because it’s “natural” they think it’s harmless...legit fucking hate anyone who is involved with young living essential oils, I will fight them all
Me: Sorry KAREN but since I just graduated high school I don’t have $400 laying around for your PyRaMiD sChEmE Karen: Okay love, if you find yourself interested let me know🤪💞
tell me why the video next to this was "Why Women Are Quitting Their Side Hustle: Leaving LuLaRoe", probably the video that she was talking about in the beginning
“mlm” is also a word for any guys who likes guys (similar to wlw for girls)... and considering i follow quite a bunch of gay dudes on twitter... Multi Level Markets confuse me a lot
That sucks. Herbalife targets Hispanic communities, especially those who don’t know a lot of English. At least, that’s what they said in Betting on Zero.
John Oliver did a really good episode on this where he talked about how Herbalife targets Hispanic communities. It's disgusting. Here's the link (with subtitles in Spanish; not sure if they are needed in this case or not). Not sure if you would be able to get her to watch it, but it might be worth a try: th-cam.com/video/Cy-O4myeUzg/w-d-xo.html
honestly when you watched the video of all the girls dancing to music it reminded me of sororities and when i went through recruitment (thankfully i left like a week in) and it just makes me think that college sororities are basically a scheme. Especially everyone in white like that.
These pyramid schemes honestly creep me out while simultaneously grasping my interest. This shit really ruins lives. One of my favorite episodes of Brooklyn 99 is the nutriboom episode cause its hilarious but also a little to accurate lmaooo
pyramid scheme: That shit you did in middle school when you went around and sold hundreds of dollars of chocolate to people in your neighborhood... to then “win” a 2lb bag of gummy worms
My friend sent me one of those “boss babe” messages the other day. I about near HD a heart attack and probably completely ruined her excited by berating her with all the negatives of MLMs
These "Boss Babes" all have 1 fatal misunderstanding: it's not _their_ business. You're selling an established company's products, not your own. The money you make passes through them before it lands in your bank account. You aren't your own boss. They own you. They succeeded in getting you to join their cult.
Yeah… you aren’t pursuing your own dream, just sucking more people into that of someone else. Basically what you do at an office, minus all the reasons you still work (steady income, expenses covered in pay, less risk, in most civilized countries insurance, etc.)
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Lularoe leggings look like the awful phone background you got when you got your first smartphone
this one hit home
Lol 😂 so dead
Or that one pattern wallpaper you stuck on your creaky XP desktop you played the Sims on
Or that one pattern wallpaper you stuck on your creaky XP desktop you played the Sims on
Or the patterns we wore in elementary school back in the 90's (aka Kimmy Gibler from Full House).
lularoe leggings are the worst thing to ever happen to the world after 1D imagines
Liking this and trying to act sleek knowing full well I was all over those imagines 😭
How dare you insult 1D imagines like this
I saw a vendor for them at a local festival (after watching a documentary about it and how it ruined lives) and I was just shocked at how many people were in line-
1D imagines can be funny ironically. Lularoe leggings cannot.
And that is the big difference
@@Claire-kz3ku I THOUGHT YOU MEANT A VENDOR FOR 1D IMAGINES IM SOBBING
“warm buttery chocolate” makes me feel so uncomfortable??
What was the worst for me was when I needed a job and my supposed friend got me an "interview" for an assured job with a growing telecom company. Of course when we got to the rented business space downtown it turned out to just be a recruitment session for a phone service MLM. Half of the people there (like me) all in interview clothes had been conned into coming by the other half who were their friends promising a job. Several people just straight up got up and walked out loudly complaining "I thought this was for an ACTUAL JOB!" I was too nice to ditch my friend so I stayed to see what their whole scheme was. My "interview" was just the recruiter trying to talk me into the something like $550 startup fee and ways to borrow money/get a loan when I complained that I NEEDED A JOB BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE MONEY.
The only reason I gave them even half a thought of consideration afterwards was because they did offer a legitimate product (home phone service) that was actually a good deal at the time. I figured if the rest of my family wanted to save money on their phone plans, we could have just ordered it from my friend cuz I was NOT going to get into that bogus recruiting shit. They understandably said no, so I dropped it and that was basically the end of my friendship with the MLM buddy because he got mad at me for not taking advantage of such an awesome opportunity and wanting to make my life better.
5th grade me would've *DEFINITELY* excepted a whole shipment of those leggings
now that cody ko never posts anymore i’m just binging ur videos
LMAO my favorite part is the NUMEROUS typos in EVERY post by mlms. 17:15 is a great example of this, “finical” vs “financial” 😂
I was approached by an Amway distributor and how I'd be a perfect fit. After listening to him go on and on about how fabulous this was I told him this. "If you show me your profit/loss statement and last year's tax filing, I will join up" Never heard from him again.
Oh my goodness. I just found you and I am very entertained. This video is like my ongoing inner monologue. *Subscribed
I joined it works! Because my boyfriends mom sold it. I did it for like two weeks and then i was like “i literally cannot do this. It’s so embarrassing”. I had to block like all of my boyfriends moms friends who were my upline .
Just don’t do it guys. Learn to say no.
**insert The Office pyramid scheme clip here**
The term “Boss Babe” makes me irrationally angry 😭
Not irrational haha
Same😭 it infuriates me
That and "Girl Boss" makes me want to CRINGE.
Haha me too
@@NSUDemon14faintly when i read this i can hear gaslight gatekeep girlboss
Why support pyramid schemes when you can support actual pyramids... all im saying is, pyramids are cool pyramid schemes are not
Adwitaa Negi support pyramids gang 😎
pyramid squad!!
We stan pyramids, not pyramid schemes
@@cyberbxarb y'all are a part of the illuminati
I highly support this
“It$ N0t @ Pyr🔺miD Sch3mE, th0se are ILLEGAL” - every Boss Babe ever
It's not a pyramid scheme! It's a company who's based in everyone bringing in x people to work under them!
That always reminds me of this meme static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Club+penguin+setting+down+the+laws_046273_4736064.png lmao
We here at give us money INC. don’t like the term pyramid scheme, we prefer “Triangle Plan”
The Boss Baby would NEVER say something like that 😤😤😤😤😤
“Wanna go to Target and take things without paying?”
“That’s stealing!”
“Thats not stealing, stealing is illegal!”
When I was a kid, my mom agreed to do a children toys MLM. She bought their $50 starter package that had like $200 worth of toys, then just kept it for me and never sold it. They didn’t make her sign a contract or anything, she just scammed the scammers.
This is a genius move
Hahaha your mom is genius!
What a queen lmao
She is the best
my mom just became a Mary Kay ambassodar so she can buy us all a bunch of makeup and skincare for the half the price. great deal of you ask me !
If your Merch isn’t lularoe style leggings with Ratalouis on them I will riot
Sophia Wilhite oh my GOD yes
We need to make this happen
Yes please
omg if Casey ever makes merch she is the only youtuber I'll get merch from
I literally had leggings with Donald Duck on them
my first experience with MLMs was 3 different girls trying to sell me weight loss products while i was recovering from an eating disorder... so yeah, not really a big fan lmao.
If hell exists, you know where they're going.
ashlyn marie This happened to me!!! this bitch wanted to sell me an Arbonne detox which consisted of 2 protein shakes a day and a "clean dinner".... sis i just got out of ED treatment im good
ashlyn marie same! I had to recover on my own (do not recommend, hated it, only did because there was zero accessible treatment) and got endless spam from people wanting to dEtOx mY bOdY like....ma'am. ...
Bro same!! I was recovering really well even and this bitch messaged me about how I "might wanna try" her weight loss tea, I was pissed
ashlyn marie that must be horrible! Where they aware of the situation or could they know before they tried to sell it to you?
I legit saw a on a closed fb support group for sexual assault victims where a girl had posted how traumatized she was after what happened to her a few nights ago and an mlm rep for young living essential oils commented suggesting what oils might treat her various PTSD symptoms.
I ripped that B a new A Hole.
Kandi Comarawski do you know where this rep lives? Bc I’m about to pull up
You, sir, are a legend
Victoria Stargle I’m coming with I just wanna talk I swear 🧍🏼🔪
Ooh I wish I could've seen that
Omg that’s the same brand a girl I know works for. She tried to pull me into that shit as well. Who’s so naive...
I’m in high school right now and the bare minimum standard I have set for myself for when I get out is that I don’t fall into an MLM.
When people ask to meet you at a coffee shop or a restaurant after just meeting you, and also bring their spouse to discuss their big plan... Run. Also never agree to free facials.
Also, don't ever listen to someone who recommend anything, just stick wisely to one scheme = School and Job
Be careful graduating highschool and the early years of being an adult is a very vulnerable time of your life. Many scammers will try to take advantage of your financial inexperience.
I remember my friend in my sophomore year of college tried to get me to join a mlm that sold camping gear and other shitty outdoor products. They had infiltrated the campus and would hold seminar in clubrooms. Luckily I've already knew about how mlm worked from an aunt who got caught up in one.
So I was able to explain why they were bad and their dirty tactics. He totally left once everything I said turned out to be true and thankfully didn't lose too much money.
Also another *HUGE* scam for young adults is credit cards. Now yes credit cards can be a useful tool don't get me wrong but not the ones directly offered to those aged 18-22. The credit card company are hoping due to inexperience that you'll spend way too much. They'll all send you new credit cards in the mail once a month in hope to hook you in. The interest rates on the cards are usually very high. Lots of people develop huge credit card debt in their early 20s. A good rule for cards I learned is never make a credit purchase you can't easily payoff at the end of the month.
Before you make any big financial decisions you should always do a bunch of research.
For one thing, don't trust any6 company whose sales recruitment video looks like recycled Fyre Festival marketing.
Watch out for Cutco! They did the rounds at my HS when I was there advertising professional skills and marketing experience 🤦🏻♀️
*war flashbacks to 8 year old me going to Mark Kay parties with my mom and trying on the shitty makeup only to get acne*
Bruhh i am dead!
mary kay has some really good makeup though
Holy crap me too 😭😭 my aunt was involved in the Mary Kay one and I didn’t even realize then 😭
coney island queen kill the non believers
nobody realized like 10 years ago that these things were all MLM's honestly lol i never did!
i’m so looking forward to graduating high school so 5 years down the road i can be harassed by the mean girls who are now military wives and sell arbonne
payton c. I just graduated and the huns are already requesting me on ig
Haley Mitchell omg wow good luck. i’ll pray for you during these challenging times of “become a boss babe and earn your white mercedes like me 🤩✨” and “join my team and own a big ridiculous house and go on extravagant vacations to Aruba and the Bahamas ᵃˢ ˡᵒⁿᵍ ᵃˢ ʸᵒᵘ ᵖᵃʸ ᵃ $⁵⁰⁰ ᶠˡᵃᵗ ᶠᵉᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵉˡˡ ʸᵒᵘʳ ˢᵒᵘˡ”
Haley Mitchell THE HUNSSSS that never doesn’t kill me LMAO
Spill ALL the tea sweetheart
Haley Mitchell me too! girl from middle school just hit me up how do i block them all in advance
Me now just realizing all my grandma’s tupperware parties were a giant pyramid scheme
Man but those things are good quality. Lasts for years.
my parents used to have stainless steel pot parties 😂
At least Tupperware is a product that gets used and is good quality. I’ve had mine for years. I would never sell it though! The other MLM’s are crap products.
Mary Kay & Avon
I also realized a few days ago, that my mom selling tupperware was kinda a mlm. Just not as ....malignant as the mlms going round nowadays.
who the hell even needs $500 worth of essential oils like i just wanna talk
Soap making?
Jasmine Elanor, ik this is late but I like ur profile pic
Jasmine Elanor well the way some of them are marked up “$500 worth” is only like a total of 10 ounces of oils 😂
Crappy makeup that makes your face burn lol
@lilstaargirl omg missy
in all seriousness it’s absolutely foul that these MLMs directly target vulnerable women, ESPECIALLY mothers searching for a community to belong to. i can totally see my mom being pulled into one and it’s heartbreaking to know that they’d chew her up and spit her out.
12yo me wore red and black checkered hot topic leggings and even she wouldn’t have touched those lularoe abominations
jordan !! this comment hurt
That shit was lit
wow. another jordan. but also, same lmao
jordan !! Lemme add you on snap 😩
Anyone else obsessed with watching mlm exposing videos or is it just me 🙋🏼♀️
Meeee!!
Super obsessed haha
Grace Charron I really need someone to take my TH-cam away bc I can’t stop watching anti-MLM content
My whole recommended is anti-mlm videos now and I'm not mad about it lol
Sameee
When my dad died, a beach body babe slid into my DMs to say “working out makes me feel better, so I wanted to tell you about to help you out”. Like... wtf
I’m so sorry for you loss. That messenger was incredibly rude, I hope you’re doing as okay as possible now
So sorry for your loss, and for having to endure that gross interaction! They truly have no boundaries or human decency, yikes.
I saw an anti mlm video where someone shared a story where a boss babe told their friend that their mother should use the money her husband- who had died a few WEEKS earlier- had left her to buy a new outfit from her ‘business’ to make her feel better. Then when the friend said no, she turned on her and said the mother needed to GET OVER IT. 🤯 So your story is pretty par for the course for these scams. It’s awful.
it sucks so much that that had happened to you but y e a h they prey on the ignorant, the weak, the desperate, etc. etc. and it's horrible. they're so deaf to situations usually.
"hey sorry our lip products didn't work out for you. would you also like to try our eyeshadow?"
yeah because i also wanna burn my eyelids off!! 🙄
😂😂😂
I actually tried the lipsense eyeshadows, they are actually kinda nice. But I wont buy them again, because I dont want to support an mlm. most lipsense lipcolor sucks though.
7:14 you know is some type of cult when they’re all wearing white
just passing by really reminded me of that new horror movie midsommar. falling into a pyramid scheme would be the scariest shit i’ve ever seen
It’s a white party. Rich white people do these at the beginning of summer when they’re “allowed” to wear white again.
hmm... white people wearing white outfits... coming together to dance around... i’m getting some kkk vibes 😳
That reminds me of this cult in Hawaii where the women where white dresses on the beach and dance around for the aliens
Dwight Schrute how can i join?
THAT’S WHERE THOSE LEGGINGS COME FROM! my last job was sorting & pricing clothes that were donated to a thrift store. we got STACKS of those leggings & i had no idea why. it all makes sense now 🤦🏽♀️
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What did you price the Leggings at tho? lol
That’s so funny 😂
A lot of thrift stores are refusing to take these MLM leggings. They don’t sell and are ugly.
Where the f did “boss babe” come from. No ligit business woman calls herself a “boss babe”. Imagine you are the CEO of a major corporation in standing in front of the executive committee. And you referred to yourself as a “boss babe”. Good bye credibility and professionalism!
You don't know what's going on in the world do you hun?
@@iramage2235 It was Girlboss :DD And she created Nasty Gal, a (fucking expensive) clothing brand.
lmao that term reminds me of the movie boss baby idk
Michele Turner 😂 exactly!!
Just because you said that i am now extremely invested in becoming a CEO and calling myself a boss babe
The arbonne video reminds me of a bad sorority recruitment video.
Daniella Hunt that’s what I was thinking. It looked like a sorority for Gen X women
I’m glad someone else thought that omg
I’m kinda confused, was that the font she was talking about not trusting? It looks like times new Roman
it looks like a cult
Lol true
Good thing my social anxiety made the thought of cold-contacting people so repulsive that I could never have been sucked into one of these scams.
Haha could I interest you in some leggings to overcome ur social anxiety
my 18 yr old sister is actually a "BoSs BaBe" and AVIDLY claims it's not a scam.
*disappointed but not surprised.*
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I'm laughing because your handle is awesome and I can completely relate to you with regard to your sister
It's sad, most of these schemes involve cult-like brainwashing so she's not just lying to you but also to herself
Brainwashed
My older sister was involved in one when she was 18, too. Thankfully she had a stable job and didn't go into too much debt. They seem to target young adults, fresh out of highschool too.
Sisters, amiright?
I’ve been ghosting the Mary Kay person for like 2 years now and she still sends me texts and booklets!
Omg same!!! And the emails 🤦
@@KT-rk6fn , I am so glad she doesn't know my email! lol
Why not just tell her to stop ?
Going on 4 years of ignored texts. Like I met you ONCE honey!
Girl one of them came up to me in the store and I blocked her number right away I’m sorry but I can’t
Is anyone still confused about the "dog hair/no humans" part
It’s supposed to be a gym you can do at home.
bucca2 or maybe a dog gym!
People won’t care\you won’t have to worry if you have like dog hair on your leggings like you might for a class
No humans: no other people around so good if you’re self conscious of scared of being judged or whatever (also ties into the dog hair part)
"Overcame teen pregnancy..." That's a weird way of describing an abortion.
Or teenage post-partum depression (with or without implications of the child being adopted/legally taken away and placed in a foster home and/or keeping the child-with the occasional guardian-/kinship care by the child's grandparent/s,if available-or not,unfortunately..) alternatively..?
I mean-that COULD HAVE been that one or the other,obviously..? I dunno!
@@sharonspears-mandeville2369 Those are indeed possibilities... But It's been 11 months, I don't even remember the context in which I said this.
Mog of War oh,I understand dude.. But still,that _should REALLY be a clear warning sign_ to *_avoid something like that_* ,especially with the _mention that they possibly had and/or has have TARGET (ED) TEENS,not JUST TEEN/unMarried MOTHERS amongst other kinds of women in these schemes,mind you._
@@sharonspears-mandeville2369 my husband was adopted out and his parents were teens. I’m glad he’s alive. We have two sons.
Don’t open your legs and you won’t need an abortion simpleton
When I was 7 I was friends with this girl whose parents worked at herbalife. Apparently, everytime their daughter friended someone they would invite the friend's parents to a breakfast where they would try to sell them Herbalife at all costs. My parents told them they weren't interested because the death of a family member was correlated to the use of herbalife (it probably caused liver failure). Literally, after my parents told them that, the girl came to school angry at me because we hadn't bought their products. Also, she later told me that at her house they used to call me "Ugly Betty" as a way of mocking me.
You could tell that her family where and are still a part of the little amount of people who actually make lots of money from MLM's, and literally their sons and daughters are also a marketing product: all of them have to show how much they workout, how much they travel and in general flex subtly on you so you think that you can get all of that just by buying and promoting their products.
That’s so disgusting oml, that whole family is on smth. I hope you’re good now 🤧
@@multijxde1855 thank you so much, you just made my day! :) and yes thankfully she changed schools, so everything's better now xd I hope you are doing well too
Not gonna lie, but my distrust levels would have gone 📈📈📈
Ooh. I have a story about one of those gals. I was waiting for the professor on the first day of a college class last year. This girl sitting next to me starts to chat with me. I was so excited, I thought I was about to make a friend. I mentioned I was a nutrition major and her eyes LIT up and she started talking about Arbonne. She asked for my number. I knew where this was going to lead, but I didn't want to be rude so I gave her my number. Then, the "hey girl" texts came. And boy, they came. After rejecting her for a month, she stopped texting me. I didn't see her or hear from her.... until, a year later (last month) I get a "hey girl! you are so inspirational and blah blah bullshit" message. I was so offended, mainly because she was saying shit like "you are so influential," like b**** we only talked ONE time. I blocked her after that. The end.
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Lol!!! 😂😂😂😂 you are so influential!
Love this story !
I’ve heard them called “hunbots” because they call other women hun in a condescending way, and they use copypastas from their upline like robots
Calling a female in public "hon" is the equivalent of telling someone in the South "bless your heart"
That's how I used the term Ma'am while living up North. It's such a great way to piss someone off without losing your job.
Call me "hon," when I don't know you and you're liable to get smacked.
@@jenm9099 That's funny calling someone Ma'am is respectful here xD
Jennifer M north of the states? I like in Canada and maam is what you use in respectful situations
those leggings are like something i'd buy on justice when i was 8
"momtepreneur" 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Holy moly that’s a bad one
My favourite thing about #bossbabes is their usage of emojis. 💁♀️💰🙏🔥💯😊❤🙋♀️
can we pick a new acronym tho because every time I see “I hate mlms!” I think “what did gay men do to you damn”
What does it stand for in that context?
Miguel Zavaleta “men who love men”, includes bisexual and gay men, similar to “wlw” or “women who love women”, includes bisexual and lesbian women.
Brian SAME! I was so confused looking through these comments
Men Loving Men
Marxist Leninist Maoists
I went through this whole phase of being paranoid about everything even slightly related to pyramid schemes. Why's that? I realized my school's Booster Festival was just a big pyramid scheme where they gave out horrible prizes for us to recruit more members. And those members had to recruit more members, and each member would have to pay one dollar to join the "club". The grand prize was a $250 coupon to the Scholastic Book Fair, so I fricken got 300 people to sign up. 300 people, who each recruited an average of 30 members, who then recruited an average of 40 members, and so on. I was in a pyramid scheme at age 7. Great.
Holy fucking shit! Did your school ever get some sort of punishment or stop the festival?😰
Your school must have been gigantic jeez
But also: JAIL. JAIL FOR WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THAT
i think is so funny when people talk about multi level marketing and say “mlm” because i read mlm as men loving men
For a while I thought that’s what people meant when they said that.
It reminds me of m'n'm s cause I don't pronounce mlm and mnm that different 😅😅😅
same
I read it as emlem
There’s a girl that I went to school with and she joined a pyramid scheme before she even graduated high school, so now her instagram story is just her talking straight to the camera about how her product has changed her life and then tries to get everyone to go to her product parties. Honey, you have 1000 followers and all of them are still in school, they don’t have time for this. She also got really upset when someone called it a pyramid scheme.
Yikes
My ex friends family got all their kids involved in a pyramid scheme and in her bio she called herself an "independent business owner" 💀 She hasn't graduated yet.
@@Isafoodie theyre in a cult and don't even know it
Every time you said mlm I immediately thought of man loves man and I was dyeing laughing
lmaoo I always THOUGHT it was that 'cause I couldn't think of anything else, but I was like "this can't be it"
Me too, I didnt know that pyramid schemes were also called mlms so when I first heard someone insult them I was like "wow ok thats pretty rude, its none of your business if their gay" lmao
Lol same, either that or "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist" djjfhjdjd!
RIGHT the first time i ever heard the term mlm i was talking with a friend and she was ranting about them and i was so confused because i was like “shes bi.... why does she hate gay guys??” and i felt so dumb when i looked it up akcjxncnsjjs
My mom sells lularoe leggings and lipsense...
I apologize to everybody involved with her
Same my mom is involved in MLM (pyramid scheme) 😪🙃
Mukbang Newbie
My aunt is an “independent consultant” at Scensy.
@@majesticchinchilla8692 My mom sold Mary Kay Cosmetics for a while
Zillah Locke
I hope you’re recovering well.
@@majesticchinchilla8692 I was one of those kids who "grew up Pink" and ... I thank you for your concern :-D
Do not ever belong to a direct sales business that *requires* you to buy inventory. It's completely unnecessary, especially when there are plenty of companies that let you buy off a consultant's website, letting the consultant get a commission and the company ships it from their HQ. Companies that require you to "front load" create the false impression of sales numbers that are really just consultants buying it in the hopes of selling it.
Dude once upon a time some girl managing at the local Lululemon asked me if I wanted a career op because at the time I was broke, disabled, with nowhere to go. Hell yeah I'm gonna give her my info. A week later she and her mum sit me down in a cafe basically trying to extort that $500 from me, that I kept saying I didn't have, when her mum busts out "Imagine someone was going to see you your dream car, right now, for $500. Would you have that $500?" 'Uh, no, I have $36.43 to my name. When I said broke and homeless, I meant broke and homeless.'. Dude. I wish they took the L but they kept emailing me for years 😭
Ew, sounds like they targeted you specifically because they thought you were desperate and vulnerable. That’s really gross, glad you didn’t buy it dude
I would have been disappointed and told the girl that I thought she was offering me a job at Lululemon. A place that could pay a paycheck for hours worked.
Bold of you to assume I wouldn't want a free rubber ducky giveaway from you.
Rachel Mayes 😂😂😂
Imagine: Rattaloiue slides into your dms and asks...
*"want my feta stock"*
LMAO💀💀
I would buy all his feta
My favorite tactic: the doom and gloom job market scenario. "Oh, I know you have a Master's degree in a science field and want a full time job with benefits and a pension, but I know TONS of women with PhDs who can't find a job and have tons of student loan debt". Sure, you know tons of women with PhDs who joined your MLM downline. Please.
I feel like half of the reason you filmed this was just to complain about those leggings lmao
They DO kinda look horrible-looking though..
Samantha Bee was _RIGHT_ : *_They ARE designed by Lisa Frank's blind sister!_*
ok u and tiffanyferg are 2 of my fav youtubers and u both shouted each other out in ur latest vids i’m so happy rn
makenna brown BRO I KNOW I WAS FREAKING OUTTT
Same!!!!
makenna brown bro same
I really wanna see a collab with you and Tiffany Ferg
Bryson Taylor that's how i found her!!
Bryson Taylor Tiffany is my fav
*instantly ignores any message starting with **_hey girly!_*
I got one for a woman and when I politely declined saying I was already doing my own thing with making art she got mad saying I ‘wasn’t motivated’ and ‘wouldn’t achieve my dreams’ like so rude too.
I got convinced into one of these MLMs and was too depressed and anxious to even try to make an effort to buy or sell shit 👏🏻 the only one time depression was good to me 😂😭
Girl same though 🙈
saaaame
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Nobody :
Casey : listen you cannot trust that font okay ? do you hear me ? it's so not trustworthy just look at it you just can't trust a font that -
ngl the duck scheme is pretty effective bc now I too want a rubber duck
the trifecta of truth:
Casey
D'Angelo
Salvatore
not to be one of those people, but i see you in almost every comment section i scroll through. how do you do it?
@@slightlypeevedpossom8510 this is my goal, I want to be an internet comment section cryptid. I comment on e v e r y t h i n g.
@@slightlypeevedpossom8510 also u probably watch a lot of the same channels as me
Also Tiffany Ferg
Triangle lady illuminaughty as well?
Hey!👋👋 You will no longer be lonely if you join us!😍😍 All you have to do is worship our king Malcolm!👑😉 This is your chance to start anew.🤫 And all we’re asking you to do is change your name, and clean your brain.💯❗️And forget about anything you ever knew! And your heart will find it’s home.❤️🏠 And our love will never go!😘🥰 Now wear this ring💍and join the king!👑 And you will never be alone.🙌
*hufflepuffs are particularly good finders* i-
I support all Starkid fans so here’s my like
Lauren Fouts Thanks😂
*hufflepuffs are particularly good finders* DHMIS 😼
My favorite DHMIS episode
hey girlie!! 💖💖 you should try my essential oils!!!!!!! they will cure your depression and make you life sooooo amazing!! 💖💖 one set is $300 but it’s SOOOO worth it!
I know that you are joking. But I actually had a "friend " who told me essential oils would cure my insomnia, bipolar and....that she even had some that would help my cats stay calm. I was dying. Hell no thanks but no thanks.
I fell down an MLM hole on TH-cam then you post this. You know exactly how to target ur audience
Exact same thing happened to me the whole week I watched MLM videos for some reason and then this drops, wow
The algorithm does at least
SAME
Why does everyone apart of these pyramid schemes talk like they're a 35yo soccor mom on facebook?
Lol 😂 that and there husbands don’t pork them anymore
I hate these bc they make self-employment seem cheap and stupid. I’m a self-employed graphic designer, I studied it in college, I work for actual different companies. Yet so many of my ex-classmates call themselves self-employed bc they sell tea on Facebook so I always feel like I have to explain myself when ppl ask what I do because if I just say self-employed they might assume I harass my friends to buy oil or smthg
conspiracy theory: jojo siwa and her mother founded lularoe and have been doing muLTi lEVel mArKEtInG since 2012
Every time I here my mom’s name now (it’s Karen) it’s always to portray someone annoying lol. She’s not too happy with people using her name now lmao
an innocent victim of the entitled Karens, I feel for ya mom
The slang made me promise myself to not call the manager when I turn 30
7:04....... haven’t seen one person of color yet.... 🤣
Hahaha he was someone's plus one 😉🤣
I've been down this rabbit hole all evening and that was my #1 observation.
I remember when Lularoe was first entering the world, my mom and I went to what was advertised as a craft show (you know, with HANDMADE crafts and stuff) and literally EVERY SINGLE ONE of the probably 10 or so vendors there was selling those fucking awful leggings out of the backs of their cars. Most MLM purveyors are guilty of that kinda stuff though. Every craft show I've ever been to, no matter where it is, has at least one poor woman shilling scentsy or tupperware amongst all the other people selling actual handmade and nice things.
I like “pyramid scheme influencer” lmao but ppl have been calling them “hun bots” also lol:) bcuz they always try to hit ppl up like “hey hun...nlahblah join my cult”
Honestly the second worst MLM pyramid scheme is definitely Young Living Essential oils
Imo that’s probably the worst pyramid scheme, I fucking loathe young living essential oils with a passion. They target desperate people e.g. people who are sick with medical conditions. Also those fuckers use essential oils on their babies and pets, which is SO dangerous, but because it’s “natural” they think it’s harmless...legit fucking hate anyone who is involved with young living essential oils, I will fight them all
Me: Sorry KAREN but since I just graduated high school I don’t have $400 laying around for your PyRaMiD sChEmE
Karen: Okay love, if you find yourself interested let me know🤪💞
Flashback to my friend in the eighth grade giving me Mary Kay concealer and saying “i wANT tO sELl mARy KaY wHeN i gET olDeR”
tell me why the video next to this was
"Why Women Are Quitting Their Side Hustle: Leaving LuLaRoe", probably the video that she was talking about in the beginning
it is the video shes talking about
"the ones that compare their moustutizer bussines to Martin Luther King" ok WHAT
So...do I get my subscription duck or not?
my math teacher tried to get some people in my class involved in the leggings one
That's definitely illegal...
“mlm” is also a word for any guys who likes guys (similar to wlw for girls)... and considering i follow quite a bunch of gay dudes on twitter...
Multi Level Markets confuse me a lot
Yes. My friends and I started calling Multi Level Markets "mlem"... like... the sound u make when u lick something... To distinguish the two
I heard a Jaclyn Hill shade and went to give a like immediately.
what time stamp is that?
When your Hispanic mom is always buying Herbalife protein shakes and tea 🤪🤙🏼🤡
For real tho. 😂
That sucks. Herbalife targets Hispanic communities, especially those who don’t know a lot of English. At least, that’s what they said in Betting on Zero.
John Oliver did a really good episode on this where he talked about how Herbalife targets Hispanic communities. It's disgusting. Here's the link (with subtitles in Spanish; not sure if they are needed in this case or not). Not sure if you would be able to get her to watch it, but it might be worth a try: th-cam.com/video/Cy-O4myeUzg/w-d-xo.html
it isnt a pyramid scheme if theyre seling invigaron berries, then its a reverse funnel system
honestly when you watched the video of all the girls dancing to music it reminded me of sororities and when i went through recruitment (thankfully i left like a week in) and it just makes me think that college sororities are basically a scheme. Especially everyone in white like that.
Loving this video. I work for a law firm and sued both Herbalife and LuLaRoe and got vindication for our clients. They are awful AWFUL companies.
let’s get down to business... to defeat the HUNS
I’m dead. I laughed so hard I almost woke up my son. 😂😂😂
Lets avenge the military wives from the *hun bots*
YES, I’m about to be a military wife too so I’m ready to rise up against the huns 😤 Sofia
josiepie I SHRIEKED
You've officially won the TH-cam comments section for this week. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I was on vacation there was a herbalife convention and they would be outside at 8 in the morning exercising and blasting music😔
“I own my own business” no Becky you sold out your friends
"Can you imagine dying"
After some of those posts, yes.
These pyramid schemes honestly creep me out while simultaneously grasping my interest. This shit really ruins lives. One of my favorite episodes of Brooklyn 99 is the nutriboom episode cause its hilarious but also a little to accurate lmaooo
Hey hun wanna join my group of #bossbabes??
"...if this stuff were so great, it would be in stores at half the price." WORD!
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@@caseyaonso4270 done and done
pyramid scheme: That shit you did in middle school when you went around and sold hundreds of dollars of chocolate to people in your neighborhood... to then “win” a 2lb bag of gummy worms
My friend sent me one of those “boss babe” messages the other day. I about near HD a heart attack and probably completely ruined her excited by berating her with all the negatives of MLMs
Did she listen to you?
Barbra went OFF! Damn, girl;) Whoever she is, I'm legitimately equal parts scared and proud of her!
my parents have been part of an mlm for the past 8 yrs send help
midgrace what company ?
there is a show called, on becoming a God in Central florida. Maybe that will help.
These "Boss Babes" all have 1 fatal misunderstanding: it's not _their_ business. You're selling an established company's products, not your own. The money you make passes through them before it lands in your bank account. You aren't your own boss. They own you. They succeeded in getting you to join their cult.
Yeah… you aren’t pursuing your own dream, just sucking more people into that of someone else. Basically what you do at an office, minus all the reasons you still work (steady income, expenses covered in pay, less risk, in most civilized countries insurance, etc.)