‘Toxic’: Facebook post that stunned 28yo influencer

A young Aussie was minding her own business when came across a Facebook post in a group - that was about her.

Influencer Brodie Jenkins was minding her business when she saw a post about her in a popular Facebook group – and she just couldn’t let it slide.

Ms Jenkins is a makeup artist that has amassed over three million likes and 50,000 followers on TikTok by sharing her different makeup looks.

She’s an influencer, but she’s never considered herself famous. So she was horrified to discover someone was lying about her online.

Brodie responded to what was written about her. Picture: Instagram/BrodieJenkins

The Melbourne woman called the post ‘toxic’. Picture: Instagram/BrodieJenkins

The post was in Tea Time, a Facebook group where people share stories, observations, and opinions about various topics, often about influencers.

Someone had posted anonymously that they’d encountered Ms Jenkins at a supermarket and accused her of being “rude” and giving the fan a “dirty look” after they’d just complimented her TikTok videos.

The anonymous person alleged that Jenkins snubbed her and “walked away laughing” after she approached her.

“Sucks when influencers you look up to give you such a mean girl vibe when you meet them,” the poster wrote.

This was the post she responded too. Picture: Facebook

Ms Jenkins was stunned to learn that someone had accused her of being rude. She reposted the anonymous post with her own version of events — it didn’t happen.

“Some of you just make sh*t up and talk sh*t for the sake of it. I did not have any interaction with anyone in a grocery store,” she wrote.

“In fact I’ve never had anyone come up to me and say they love my videos. I’m simply not that relevant.”

The 28-year-old told news.com.au that she saw the post because a follower sent her a screenshot and she immediately felt “anxious”.

“At first, anxious about who was believing something that wasn’t true, but then I thought, what’s stopping me from making a statement from my perspective,” she said.

“I was worried how it would land, but it landed well and I feel I made the right decision.”

She has over 3 million likes on TikTok. Picture: Instagram/BrodieJenkins

And 50,000 followers. Picture: Instagram/BrodieJenkins

Ms Jenkins said that the whole saga gained her a few followers, but it hasn’t made her feel famous, she’s still just an “average girl from the burbs of Melbourne”.

The content creator explained that anonymous posting about someone, whether on a Facebook group or Reddit, has become “extremely toxic”.

“The problem is people can post fabricated material with no evidence and no consequences for their actions as they can do it anonymously,” she said.

“I don’t agree that people should be able to post anonymously or that they can make statements about others without facts or evidence to back up their claim.”

Ms Jenkins said it might sound small, but she runs a business and word of mouth really counts.

“I run a small makeup artistry business so misinformation like this can be damaging, and it’s frustrating that the poster has no repercussions for this,” she explained.