Influencer Jinky Cubillan-Anderson, popularly known as Madam Kilay, criticized other ‘vloggers’ like her who promote gambling games on their social media pages.
According to her, vloggers should not promote vices to their followers, and if they keep insisting on promoting gambling, they should stop calling themselves ‘vloggers’.
“Sa mundo ng vloggers hindi ganyan, pag sinabi na vloggers ka, vlogging ka [ay] kinukwento mo ‘yung buhay mo, kung ano ‘yung mga nangyayari sa’yo, sa paligid mo, sa buhay mo, yun ang pagba-vlog.” she said.
“Pero ‘yung mag-influence ka at mag-invite ka ng tao para magsugal, hindi na vlog ‘yun, bad influence ka na. Hindi na siya vlog, hindi ko na kayo matatawag na vloggers, wag niyo ng tawagin ang sarili niyo na vloggers kayo,” she added.
However, she understood that some vloggers only wanted to earn money, but she said that promoting gambling already showed their greediness.
“Kumikita na tayo sa vlogging natin, kada post natin kada views natin, kumikita yan [at] may pera diyan. Okay na sana don, gumawa ka nalang ng content na maganda, yung nakakapagpasaya yung nakakatanggal ng negative ng tao, positive na content diba, kumikita ka na naman doon,” she stated.
Madam Kilay received thousands of positive reactions from the netizens.
It can be recalled that some popular influencers were actively promoting gambling apps to their followers.
Some netizens already urged Meta to penalize the said influencers.