A look at Tattle Life, a gossip forum where users dox celebrities and influencers, dissect their personal lives, and target them with vicious comments
When the lifestyle influencer Jessie Lethaby - better known as SunbeamsJess - announced she was pregnant in December … Tweets: @carnage4life , @iamnotlucymoon , @thedalstonyears , @kerrymflynn , @niamh_mcintyre , @imteddybless , @linzasaur , @kirstiejbrewer , @sarahmanavis , @leckerpodcast , @sarahmanavis , @ruqaiya_h , @hxneybun , @edcumming , @mlothianmclean , @laurennotlozza , @alicej_t , @annieknk , @ruthselina , @_helen__w , @muzzer_daftbat , @demarionunn , and @sarahmanavis Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The good thing about the Internet is that it enables you to transcend space & time to find your tribe. The bad thing about the Internet is that you and your tribe could be terrible people. https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... Lucy Moon / @iamnotlucymoon : A friend sent this to me just now - it feels weirdly validating to have some acknowledgement of how shit it is having a Tattle Life thread about yourself? Thanks for writing this @sarahmanavis 🙏 https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... Sirin Kale / @thedalstonyears : This is a really excellent piece about one of the internet's nastiest corners from @sarahmanavis https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... @kerrymflynn : “Although Tattle Life is relatively unknown among the general public, for the individuals whose lives are constantly scrutinised by its users - or ‘gossipers’ - it is a daily nightmare.” - @sarahmanavis https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... Niamh McIntyre / @niamh_mcintyre : grim & fascinating read on online communities dedicated to exposing influencers by @sarahmanavis https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... Beth McColl / @imteddybless : v interesting read. never heard of TL but I know this sort of thing goes on all over. it's obviously awful for any of the subjects of gossip (especially where it concerns kids or address) but i also think it hurts a person deeply to be so obsessively vicious about strangers https://twitter.com/... Lindsay Dodgson / @linzasaur : I thought Kiwi Farms was as bad as it could get 😬 https://twitter.com/... Kirstie Brewer / @kirstiejbrewer : I can just imagine the stomach-lurch of seeing yourself written about on Tattle Life, and then the compulsion to keep reading and checking it https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... Sarah Manavis / @sarahmanavis : The number of people who've DMed me in the last day to say how they've had to leave social media because of this site has blown my mind. I wrote about Tattle Life, the “gossip” site that doxxes influencers, and the severe toll it's having on its subjects: https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... Lecker / @leckerpodcast : I'm really glad someone has written about this - the little I've read on Tattle has left me astonished at the lengths people go to in their nastiness towards Internet people they've never met https://twitter.com/... Sarah Manavis / @sarahmanavis : I wrote about Tattle Life - the gossip forum dedicated to tearing apart the lives of influencers - and spoke to influencers who have had invasive personal details shared, entire stories fabricated about them, and their home addresses doxxed on the site: https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... Ruqaiya / @ruqaiya_h : Such a good read. These people who are active on gossip forums are sooo incredibly unhealed and weird, and the jealousy people have towards influencers is truly unprecedented lol https://twitter.com/... Maisie Smith-Walters / @hxneybun : The vitriol aimed at influencers on this site, including plus size creators, is honestly mind-boggling. This article is well-needed to expose this mouldy little corner of the internet https://twitter.com/... Ed Cumming / @edcumming : The world has been waiting for a great piece on Tattle Life and here it is https://twitter.com/... Moya Lothian-Mclean / @mlothianmclean : Good to see the horror of TL laid bare https://twitter.com/... @laurennotlozza : People who post on this website are the grimmest lowest form of human life. Imagine falling in love with someone and finding out they doxx people. Imagine finding out your mum/best mate/boss spends hours a week bitching about someone they've never met. Gross https://twitter.com/... Alice J-T / @alicej_t : I recently de-activated my Instagram for 5 months because the doxxing and fabrication of lies on Tattle became too much. This is a great piece on a site that exists only for mis-directed hate. https://twitter.com/... Conceptual Knk / @annieknk : good article, i find it really interesting how much less attention sites like these get than places like 4chan. but then i'm always reluctant to publish anything about them because they contain so much private information that you feel reluctant to shine a light on it https://twitter.com/... Ruth / @ruthselina : Many influencers dislike the existence of Tattle Life because that is where the receipts of their lies and inconsistencies still live on, despite them deleting thousands of their own tweets. I think Tattle provides an excellent repository for informed research. https://twitter.com/... Helen W / @_helen__w : This article by @lauraewaddell highlights criticism of gossip forums/influencers and why scrutiny doesn't always equate as abuse. No sweeping generalisations either. https://www.scotsman.com/... https://twitter.com/... Muzzer Daftbat / @muzzer_daftbat : I found this site when I googled a certain person whose career I had followed (and contributed to financially) for a long time but who I had come to have doubts about. It was an interesting and forensic read, but they weren't ‘torn apart’. Readers I cancelled my direct debit. https://twitter.com/... Jonathan Nunn / @demarionunn : i checked to see if i was on here because i wanted to read myself getting dragged, only to find out i'm the sole person on the forum they've said nice things about. actually quite upset. https://twitter.com/... Sarah Manavis / @sarahmanavis : A lot of people have been sharing this saying it's the natural response to how influencers have acted in the pandemic, and I have to just say: no! Not only was this was happening pre-pandemic, but also random people are literally getting doxxed! https://www.newstatesman.com/ ...