Before you read, this is not a hate-post. I know hardcore fans will start attacking me once they read this, but that is not the intention & I'm just posting this for those who want to know. This is not meant to upset anyone by no means.
Incidents where Zoe has gotten negative press
1# Amity Fest
Now, there are mixed opinions on this and loadss of tiffs on Twitter for this. Jack Howard, best friend of Louise Pentland (Sprinkle of Glitter) has slammed Gleam and loads of the Brit YouTubers for doing this. If you didn't know what happened, basically Zoe, Joe, Alfie, Caspar, Marcus, Niomi, Jim, Tanya, Caspar and Louise have decided to not do SITC-Summer in the City which is the largest UK
YouTube convention in the summer, hence the name. Instead they've decided to do Amity Fest, their own convention created by Gleam {their talent company}. This pretty much creates a rivalry against Summer in the City considering they're both scheduled at the same time. What are fans going to choose, and more importantly, who are they going to put before the other? So much rivalry, goodness this sounds like some battle. According to SuperFame, the Amity Fest prices are much more expensive than SITC and the meet and greets {which normally happen in events} aren't included unless you decide to pay even more for the VIP package.
The Brit gang all began pulling out, tweeting to their fans on Twitter that they wouldn't be able to make it this year. Amity Fest and SITC soon both began trending, and poor SITC had no idea why. Once figuring out, they responded with caution, mentioning 'community' quite a few times in their tweets. Jack Howard soon tweeted how he felt about the whole Amity Fest VS SITC, saying 'I probably will be at summer in the city and we'll probably do a performance. Or you can go see challenges on stage fest.'
Stage fest? Ouchh. However, Louise never responded.
Fans felt torn, and clearly expressed this on Twitter, some agreeing with Jack and others sticking up for the Amity Fest YouTubers by saying that SITC YouTubers were jealous of their success and fame, questioning what happened to 'team internet'. This was ages though, so I can't really say much more. On to number two.
2# Girl Online was ghost-written?!
Yes, yes it was. By author Siobhan Curham, a mother who became threatened by fans who put negative messages up saying she was 'doing it for the fame'. Siobhan quickly reacted, writing a blog post explaining to everyone that she never did it to become famous, get rich or whatever petty statements strangers were spreading {which could get pretty nasty}. Zoe's already cleared this all up and again I don't want to get all nitty-gritty with all the details because this
is in the past and I'm sure you can find thousand of news reports online. Just saying though, plenty of authors starting out have had ghost writers, but again everyone's overreacting because it's a famous YouTuber that relies heavily on their fanbase {not that this is a bad thing okay, put your knives down!!} and exposing anything of their can give some a heavy satisfaction because they know that they'll get loads of cash by publishing this story.
3#: Vlogging whilst driving
This subject was raised by a senior policeman, who claimed she could have killed someone for her 'reckless' driving on what was a busy road. In her vlog
Pug Party, Zoe is seen to be driving while talking to the camera at the same time. Her spokesperson responded, arguing that Zoe is an extremely careful and conscientious driver and that when filming she was mostly in stationary traffic. Although she is in the wrong for vlogging when she was driving, fans do have a good point when they point out that many other YouTubers have vlogged whilst driving, so Zoe shouldn't be the only one slammed for this. Funnily enough, this happened right after the whole ghost-writing incident.
What do you guys think?
Is this just a cry for more negative attention and press....?
Your YT Gossip Girl. xx
