I dragged boring NYC influencers in a viral video then I got fired for it

Let it go or be let go.After harping on how “boring” New York City fashion influencers are, a social media content creator was canned for her comments.Bridget, who goes by @martinifeeny on social media, posted a long-winded rant — which scored 2.4 million views on TikTok — about how she thinks Manhattan-based creators are “boring as f–k” because they are “carbon copies of one another.”Despite the overwhelming majority of viewers agreeing with Bridget in the comments, she was ultimately fired from her job at “the biggest luxury fashion brand in the world” because of her viral video.“Do you guys want to know what’s crazy? Yeah, I lost my job because of that original video,” she revealed in a follow-up clip posted this week.“I worked for the biggest luxury fashion brand in the world…That’s why I was bored because they’re obsessed with those girls.It’s crazy, it’s like the only people they work with.”Despite never naming creators explicitly, viewers speculated that Bridget was referring to fashion and lifestyle influencers Brigette and Danielle Pheloung after Brigette, who goes by @acquiredstyle, posted a since-deleted reaction video.

She, along with multiple other 20-something NYC-based content creators, responded to Bridget’s comments, which viewers say “struck a nerve.”“Don’t let them bully you,” wrote one commenter.“Acquired style felt seen by this so you’re absolutely correct.”“The amount of influencers that took personal offence to this, and felt the need to chime in is crazy,” someone else chimed in.

“You hit a nerve.I hope you stick around, and are very successful.

Your opinion is necessary.”“I can only see so many GRWM of everyone doing their makeup they exact same, wearing the exact same workout sets, and sitting in their bare white walled beige aesthetic high rise apartment,” lamented another.While Bridget went so far as to say “influencer culture ruined” New York, others advised...