YouTuber asks for free hotel room -Gets refused!

I can understand why the hotel would refuse, and the hotel is completely justified in refusing. Going so far as to post this all online and then ban all bloggers, however, is a completely unjustified overreaction. They could have sent the nasty reply email and said no and then left it at that, but they didn't. That's entirely on the hotel, and I will not be staying with them in the future if I am ever in their area because of it.

The YouTuber is also not entirely in the clear here. I'm not a big fan of the idea of people using social media followings to get free stuff, I mean I can see why some places would say yes to that but I just don't see it as a good thing to do. Any review or video that comes from such an agreement would likely be biased in favor of the hotel. I'm not saying that people shouldn't try this, people try this all the time. I'd just prefer it if more people were like NerdCubed and didn't do stuff like that.

As for the YouTuber getting bullied on the internet, I believe her on that. Honestly though, I'm not surprised. It's horrible that anything like that would happen, but that's sadly the nature of the internet. Not going to say "get thick skin" or anything like that because it's horrible for anyone to have to go through that. I'm just not surprised, some people on the internet are total dickwads.

If you're wondering who's side I'm taking on this - I'm not taking any. I can see why the hotel did what they did, but this whole situation seems to have escalated due to mistakes on the part of both sides.
 
If you care to view the Hotel videos you will understand why the Blogger got the response she did. It's categorised under comedy by the way.

Certainly the blogger/influencer couldn't have picked a worse "target" and got her just deserts, from a much more experienced user.

So the outcome was totally predictable and Paul has turned the whole experience around and used the "influencer" to the hotels advantage - touche !!!!

There's no room for cry babies in social media. If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Good one Paul.
 
PictureFIT said:
You underestimate the cult effect of an influencer. Have you seen the Logan Paul reactions? Many negative, sure, but LOTS of positive and defense for the guy.

As for being paid for the room, that's a fair stance. But if I accommodate a complimentary room for a YouTuber that gets a "million views per minute," and convert even 0.5% of that, that's 5,000 paid rooms for one accommodation. Better yet, that 1 million views per minute is a whole lot of brand recognition built.
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But you have to have a certain viewership for you to be classed as an influencer - there are many YouTubers in her range of viewership, and most of them wouldn't dream of referring to themselves as an "influencer" at any point. She overreached here, massively.

Also, you have to understand that most people in hospitality have a deep distrust of social media in all of its forms. Very, very rarely do we see anything from it but negativity, so it's a natural progression of that that there would be a deep-rooted mistrust of anyone who proclaims themselves a social media celebrity. I've known real celebrities get turned down for these kinds of deals, and often. She was really punching above her weight attempting to get a freebie at a popular hotel in a major city on a holiday weekend. If she'd tried somewhere smaller, she'd have maybe had a shot, but she tried to go for luxury and it bit her hard on the a**.
 
She was entitled to propose a business arrangement but it wasn't the smartest. Valentines weekend in Dublin, like most cities, there will be plenty of business for the hotel to trade. Did he need to go to the extend that he did to reject her offer? Probably not, but the crazy thing is they've both gotten a ton of publicity out of this. I'd be interested to see how much traffic it drove to her channel. Bad publicity isn't always necessarily bad publicity
 
There is a huge moral issue. She will give positive reviews in exchange for free products or services. What if the product is bad? Will she lie about its quality to her audience? What if the hotel was dirty and poorly ran by its staff? Would she lie and say it has great customer service?
 
Franklin said:
There is a huge moral issue. She will give positive reviews in exchange for free products or services. What if the product is bad? Will she lie about its quality to her audience? What if the hotel was dirty and poorly ran by its staff? Would she lie and say it has great customer service?
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Even if the hotel is not that good at the service, they will do their best, when they know that they are being reviewed. That's the problem with the social media influencers reviews (or any popular media reviews) - you just can't trust them. That;s why I prefer to be incognito (I am no influencer in any way, but still) when I go to a hotel. I do quick review of my room, but it's all paid by my budget and I know there was no special treatment for me - I am just an ordinary guest with a camera.
 
Soooo.... the hotel owner never mentioned her identity in his response, she revealed herself in a video that currently has over a million views reached in what, five days? Compare that to her other videos that are mostly in the 20-30 K range. The Universal Studios video that she claims was "amazing for them" has 17K views.
Looking at Socialblade, she went from 30K views a day to half a million, gets 1,5K subs a day now.

I don't think she regrets this experience much.
 
Agree. Why else did she respond ?

Probably the only incident worthy of any mention in her life lately.
 
This story is so cringe and embarrassing.
The whole universal comment is absolutely ridiculous. Shes completely oblivious about being in the wrong.
 
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