Decameron: The Goss [III/7]
Alright, people, so I feel like a lot of you have been asking me on the lowdown for what happened between @telado, @ermellina and @aldobrandino last year so sit down and buckle up this story is wild and I've been following it since the very beginning. (1/??)
So for those of you out of the loop, @ermellina is a fashion influencer who you probably know best as the woman who launched that line of sun dresses that had to be recalled after the FTC detected measurable levels of cadmium in them. She's pretty huge. (2/??)
Anyway @ermellina has been dating @aldobrandino, another influencer, for a couple of years now. He's mainly in the "hustle" genre of influencer, giving business advice, but it's not entirely clear what he actually does and the general understanding is he's born rich (3/??)
So the FIRST piece of gossip going around was that @ermellina was seeing @telado on the side. This was pretty widely understood to be the case, and someone leaked some DMs she had with a confidant basically copping to it and feeling kind of bad about it. (4/??)
Then out of nowhere, @telado deletes like ALL of his accounts, just locks everything down. Even though he's not as big, he still had a pretty solid fanbase and they're frking out and flooding the comments on @aldobrandino's IG Live saying he pulled strings to get him banned 5/?
This is not out of the question, as @aldobrandino was constantly bragging about knowing people at IG and Twitter even though most people thought he was bluffing.
Anyway, after two weeks of radio silence basically everyone has it out for aldo for nuking @telado (6/?)
Now this is where things really get out of hand because some of @telado's squad files a missing persons report and fingers @aldobrandino as the main culprit. Some of his fans even call the Winnipeg police on him, and while they find nothing of @telado they do find some weed 7/?
And also @ermellina is having a full on meltdown right now because both the dudes in her life are in a mess and also they found out her vegan lipliner was actually made out of ground-up sharks, I know it's insane but that's why you don't subcontract that people (8/?)
It gets weirder still! Because then the @telado account resurfaces but it's renamed and deleted and the person running it says @telado gave it to them, which makes zero sense at all, but the most important thing comes later that week when they dump ALL the @ermellina DMs (9/12)
So this is not the first time we've seen this kind of thing - influencers sometimes rebrand or even completely redo their accounts while still keeping the followers - but the DM dump kind of made @ermellina look fine, like maybe she handled stuff badly, but the original DMs were
...obviously really taken out of context. then @ermellina recorded a 20 minute apology video to @telado for all the crap he went through. That seemed to clear the air because then @telado signed back on and told everyone that he had just taken a break from social media (11/12)
Anyway, the whole @aldobrandino situation is cleared up with the cops and everyone gained 6 million followers after the whole ordeal. (12/12)
ONE LAST THING: rumor is @ermellina and @telado are still going at it. (13/12)
Decameron is a newsletter recounting the 14th Century set of quarantine tales for 2020. Read the original story.
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