There has been a recent crackdown on social media influencers flogging dodgy products to their followers, and no one is more on board with it than Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner.
In a recent Instagram post, Turner used the filter that enlarges your lips to take the piss out of Instagram influencers who are paid to promote potentially harmful products.
“Hey guys, just kind of going for my influencer look today,” she said. “Today I just wanted to promote this new powder stuff that you put in your tea. Basically it makes you sh*t your brains out.” LOL.
Just when you thought Sophie Turner was posting the video as a joke, she took a more serious note. “And, it’s totally really really bad for me to be promoting to young women and young people everywhere, but I don’t really give a f*ck because I’m getting paid money for it. Influencer life,” she said.
While Turner’s video provides the chuckles, she’s got a point. The skinny tea was well and truly spilled last month when Instagram announced a new policy that would restrict users under the age of 18 from seeing content that promotes weight loss products or cosmetic procedures.
Actress and activist Jameela Jamil’s organisation I Weigh was also behind the policy change. “We are changing the world together. After a bunch of shouting, screaming and petitioning…we have managed to get the attention of the people at the top, and they have heard us and want to protect us,” Jamil wrote on Instagram.
Jamil has been campaigning for restrictions and removal of harmful content on Instagram for several years now. Over the course of the last few years, she has called out celebrities like Iggy Azalea and the Kardashian for exploiting vulnerable users by promoting get-thin-quick weight loss products and procedures.
Soph, we commend you – not only are you hilarious, but you’re calling it what is. It’s time to throw the skinny tea in the bin, once and for all.