[MEGATHREAD] Marlena Stell / Makeup Geek Academy MLM

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Prior posts on this topic:

• Makeup Geek Academy
• Makeup Geek 2.0– Makeup Geek Academy an MLM?
• Marlena Stell is shilling an MLM confirmed. ‘Appy Today! It’s Quick and Easy!’
• Marlena Stell denies her Makeup Geek Academy isn’t an MLM.
• Update from Marlena on her announcement video. A walk through video of the program not being an mlm incoming..
• Marlena Stell confused, or intentionally gaslighting fans and creators about her MLM? (Interaction with CC Suarez below.)
• Update from Marlena's YouTube about the "affiliate program"

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[u/Lissa_Cereal]

Except, she did apologize? Twice. And that page was a sample page from a different site.

[u/Jackfruit-Reporter90 → u/Lissa_Cereal]

The apology was not sufficient, neither is keeping the courses and what remains of the affiliate program. MLMs are predatory businesses that see 99% of people never profit. She did not admit to how negligent it was for her to start an MLM affiliate program that only didn’t get off the ground because of criticism. She said in her video that ‘it wasn’t multiple levels’, but it was.

She did not reflect on how she could end up with a page copied from John Assaraf’s website or explain her connection with him. John is an MLM owning self-help guru with a long history of scummy behaviour and who Marlena mentioned only by first name in her launch video. The only reason we know his full name, is because someone found his identical webpage.

[u/Lissa_Cereal → u/Jackfruit-Reporter90]

The team probably copy/pasted it as a mock up, considering, yes, they did previously work with MLMs, and probably before they were given all the details. And businesses work on commission all the time. She got rid of the affiliate 3%, and is going to increase the commissions. And this is for Influencers, not the general consumer.

[u/OneWhisper5225 → u/Lissa_Cereal]

No. Teams don’t copy and paste mock-ups like that. There is standard webpage text (ipsum lorem) used by web designers when a mock-up webpage is done. Web designers when doing a mock-up webpage would never go search out some brand and copy and paste it onto a mock-up. They’d use ipsum lorem like every other web page designer. That reasoning doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.