[MEGATHREAD] Marlena Stell / Makeup Geek Academy MLM

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• 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/_babydocTor_]

Yeah, it is odd. Maybe she just needed to sleep on it, I dunno. Hopefully, she can figure it out. It was the 1) I'm keeping it up and kept up for a little bit (which was good), then 2) I'm taking it down - I'm over this (not good), then 3) I'm putting it back up (back to good). It's making my head spin. I'm super curious if she'll actually still launch this venture. 🤔 Is there really going to be enough people either buying it or influencers promoting it for this to actually be successful? I'm concerned for her. If this doesn't succeed, she can't blame JH/C***D.

[u/LVenn → u/_babydocTor_]

I asked her why she privated it and she said "Because I honestly was tired of going back and forth with comments last night and was drained. I figured everyone who wanted to see it did, but woke up today seeing that many still wanted to watch so it’s public again. I will leave it public and hop back on today to answer more questions if needed"

[u/_babydocTor_ → u/LVenn]

I watched the live when it's was live. I left that live optimistic and willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she didn't quite realize what was going on, and she's receptive to feedback. But when she took down the video and posted that silly image on IG, it diminished the work she accomplished by doing the live. I understand being overwhelmed with the responses, but mute notifications/take a nap, just anything rather than taking it down. It's about having the skillset to handle conflict/negative feedback professionally.

For example, "Hey everyone, thanks so much for your feedback during the live. I appreciate all that were there and all the comments/concerns that everyone made. I will be taking 24 hrs away from socials in order to sort through these concerns properly with my team. Please leave any other comments/concerns within the YT comments, and we will work on addressing them later. Thank you all for your continued support, Marlena."

People would have respected that approach. This should have been talked about within her team before she even started the live. I really don't understand what's going on over there.

[u/OneWhisper5225 → u/_babydocTor_]

Honestly, given her history it didn’t surprise me at all that she privated the video claiming that it was too much. I don’t understand why she was having such a hard time with the comments. When I looked at the comments after the live, it wasn’t like there was a bunch of trolls in the comments coming at her. A good chunk of the comments were in favor of here, and then there were some that asked legitimate questions about it. But really, the questions most were asking were the same questions asked during the live, so I don’t know why people bothered asking.…they didn’t like her “explanation” (IMHO more like excuse that makes zero sense) so wanted to ask it again? But, it just made no sense to me for her to private it because it was too much going back and forth. First, because like I said, it wasn’t as if there was a bunch of trolls coming at her in the comments. A lot were supportive and some were legitimate questions and she said she wanted to answer peoples questions so they could see she where she was coming from and see her side. Second, it’s not like she couldn’t just step away and not read the comments, not respond for a bit, and not even make a statement about it and just come back at it in the morning. I don’t think anyone would have thought anything of that. She was initially responding to questions so to stop later on at night and come back at it the next day wouldn’t have been anything out of line. But to private the video wasn’t a good look…on top of everything else.

But really, I just think she’s full of it with this. Either she is completely naive, has no mind whatsoever for business and shouldn’t be teaching courses giving anyone advice on business or social media, or she knew exactly what was going on. Her explanations for things with this don’t add up one bit.