Stacy McCain at The Other McCain has been following this train wreck for a while. I am not so surprised by Caroline Calloway or Natalie Beach's behavior, than I am so many others literally bought into it. Then again publishers and marketers are always looking for the next best thing. As grifters can tell you, the easiest marks are those who think they are so damn smart. I don't have any sympathy to the publisher who gave Calloway a big fat advance.
So Caroline Calloway got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a book she never wrote (and apparently never could have wrote). With the Frye Festival, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin (granted they are not Millennials, but they were celebrity moms scaring for their kids), posers at Burning Man, NXIVM Sex Cult, heck even Barrett Brown, you could call this the Greatest Generation (of Scammers).
It almost makes you lose faith in them, but (fortunately) not all Millennials are low talent scammers like Caroline Conway or celebrity train wrecks. Compare Calloway's story to that of Idaho off-the-grid Mormon girl Tara Westover, who never stepped foot in a class room until she was 17, but went to Cambridge on a Gates scholarship and ended up writing Educated (which is an excellent memoir--and I used her as an example because she actually wrote a book worth reading). But there are many other Millennials who are working hard in jobs, serving in the military, living their lives honestly, and who don't get a lot of compensation or hype.
Caroline Calloway's tale is a pathetic and depressing, but could be a decent social satire in the hands of the right author (we miss you Tom Wolfe). I could also see it being made into a movie. And look on the bright side Caroline-- some influencers have had worse happen to them.
Rotten Chestnuts: The Basic College Girl (depressing, however, while it is bad out there as RC notes, it is not universal)
Natalie Beach (getting her hands dirty for Caroline).
Caroline reading Natalie's story about her (where's her therapist).
Does the Vox 'Juice Box Mafia' get they are a lot like this pair
Bacon Time: Sun Links
Daily Gator: Sunday Faces
Wired Right: Posada Sunday
Lem's Place: Fresh Vegitbells
Daily Gator: Sunday Faces
Wired Right: Posada Sunday
Lem's Place: Fresh Vegitbells
Right Way: Rule 5 Link-O-Rama
American Elephants: Immigration
A View From The Beach: Russiagate
Hogewash : Robert Mugabe is Dead!
Raised on Hoecakes: 18th Century Pie
Don Surber: Tarrifs Work. Ask Mexico
American Power: Tulsi Gabbard's Workout
American Elephants: Immigration
A View From The Beach: Russiagate
Hogewash : Robert Mugabe is Dead!
Raised on Hoecakes: 18th Century Pie
Don Surber: Tarrifs Work. Ask Mexico
American Power: Tulsi Gabbard's Workout
Animal Magnetism: Saturday Gingermageddon
EBL: Wombat, Adobe Walls, and Kirby McCain
American Spectator: R.S. McCain: The Hate Factory
357 Magnum: Saturday Links and Saffir Simpson Winds
The Pirates Cove: If All You See..., and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
The Feral Irishman: Tooth Extractor and Obama's New House: Hypocrisy
Camp of the Saints: Pax Anglo-American and Adobe Walls Needs Our Help
EBL: Wombat, Adobe Walls, and Kirby McCain
American Spectator: R.S. McCain: The Hate Factory
357 Magnum: Saturday Links and Saffir Simpson Winds
The Pirates Cove: If All You See..., and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
The Feral Irishman: Tooth Extractor and Obama's New House: Hypocrisy
Camp of the Saints: Pax Anglo-American and Adobe Walls Needs Our Help
Knuckledraggin My Life Away: I’m sure she’s taken, men and I’ll leave you with this
Political Clown Parade: Comey: "I'm just a catty bitch..." and Flowing Curves of Beauty
Diogenes Middle Finger News: Morbid Obesity, Free Smells, and A Good Monday Morning
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links
Political Clown Parade: Comey: "I'm just a catty bitch..." and Flowing Curves of Beauty
Diogenes Middle Finger News: Morbid Obesity, Free Smells, and A Good Monday Morning
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links
Mark Steyn: The Rubber Hits The Road, Triumph of the Will, Ending of the Peer Show (Mann gets his hockey stick where it belongs), and A Return of Biden's Mojo
TOM: In The Mailbox: 09.13.19, The Family Business, In The Mailbox: 09.12.19, Beto in Democrat Debate: ‘Hell Yes, We’re Going to Take Your AR-15, Your AK-47!’, The Instagram Influencer Grift: What Is Caroline Calloway’s ‘Brand’ Value Now?, In The Mailbox: 09.11.19, Eighteen Years Ago Today, In The Mailbox: 09.10.19 (Evening Edition), Brain Candy UPDATE: GOP’s Dan Bishop Wins Special Election in North Carolina’s 9th District, CNN Story ‘Simply False,’ CIA Says, Oluwakayode Adewole Adebusuyi, He Was the Walrus, Goo Goo Ga Joob, In The Mailbox: 09.10.19 (Morning Edition), She’s Crazy and Married to a Democrat, No, the KKK Hasn’t Taken Over Arkansas (and Never Trust the SPLC Anyway), Ace Is Sick and Tired of Jim Swift, Nigerian Immigrant Ayoola Ajayi Now Charged in Another Sex Crime, Atheist Vegan YouTuber ‘Onision’ Accused of Being a Creepy Sexual Predator, In The Mailbox: 09.06.19, Democrats 2020: ‘Ban All the Things!’, Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani
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