Social media influencer and former podcast co-host, Gisela Amponsah, has shared interesting details about her experience on the ‘Rants, Bants, and Confessions’ podcast, produced by Glitch Africa.
She has alleged that the show’s producers intentionally paid bloggers to post negative commentary about the hosts.
According to her, their goal was just to spark controversy and drive attention to the podcast.
Gisela made these claims during an appearance on ‘The Creative Inc’ channel with her best friend Ama Burland.
According to her, what upset her the most was discovering that producers of the ‘Rants, Bants and Confessions’ podcast worked behind the scenes to create negative buzz by using bloggers to attack the very personalities that moderated the show.
“One thing that got to me was, I get it, you have to promote your show and all of that, I don’t know if you believe in the personalities, you are putting on the show, that’s one thing but to pay bloggers who intentionally insult them for them to trend is another thing,” Gisela said.
The influencer explained that after she and Ama Burland became suspicious of the pattern of attacks and they confronted the producers directly.
However, the production team denied the accusations.
Despite the denial, Gisela noted that a particular blogger, who consistently targeted one of the co-hosts with harsh criticism and personal insults, always appeared to have access to insider information about the show.
She pointed out that this same blogger was the first to report their departure from the podcast.
This, to her, raised even more questions about who might have been feeding the blogger sensitive information.
“After we found out about that, I just felt very out of place, I felt these people didn’t care about me because how do you lie to your people and say that no you are not paying anyone, especially when I draw your attention to it that this person keeps attacking one particular co-host, keeps insulting her, calling her all sorts of names and you people claim you are not paying anybody like that to promote the podcast.
“We later come to find out that this same person comes to announce we are leaving the podcast, it doesn’t make sense because who else will tell the person and also how does this person even get the first trailers before we even have it,” she stated.
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