Zoe LaVerne, an American influencer, has sparked a controversy.
On social network TikTok, the 20-year-old, who has 21 million followers, offered to pay her subscribers $ 15 to see exclusive photos of her daughter, Emersyn,
Capital
reports
according to information from
Insider
and
Newsweek
.
The latter was born on October 3.
The Instagram post in which she made the offer has since been deleted.
To view photos of the newborn, TikTok users had to click a link that took them to Koji.
This platform allows social network users to sell specific content to fans.
🤯 For $ 15, influencer Zoe Laverne offered her subscribers exclusive photos of her newborn baby.
A case that provoked an uproar https://t.co/5aULj6RGAZ pic.twitter.com/2XzCiPrB52
- Capital (@MagazineCapital) October 7, 2021
An option "Meet Emersyn!"
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Journalist Def Noodles took a screenshot. According to this, an option titled "Meet Emersyn!" "Thus allowed Zoe LaVerne subscribers to" unlock "some of the first photos taken with her daughter for $ 15. “I have offered exclusive photos in this link, which represent very special moments for me during childbirth,” she explained on Instagram. But after the controversy caused by this story, the young mother apologized to her fans in a video posted on her TikTok account.
The American explained that the money raised had only one purpose: to take care of her daughter who is in a neonatal intensive care unit and to help families who find themselves in the same situation.
Moreover, during her pregnancy, the influencer received death threats targeting her and her child.
She thus thought that hateful people would not spend a single dollar to see these clichés and that only benevolent people would be capable of such a gesture.
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