The Chef vs.The Influencer

 


Eh, whaaaat? I don't do TikTok. Maybe I'm just too old for the fast paced, mindless antics on it. I know there are some good toks because I can watch them through Bluesky when someone posts one. Otherwise, it's off limits to me. Anyway, I just read this weird story about a TikTokker who met up with a fancy schmancy chef who just opened a restaurant in San Francisco. Apparently she wanted to promote his business, or vice a versa, but left in tears after meeting with him. In a TikTok spot I have not watched, the influencer cries and tells her small audience that she was disrespected by the chef. He wanted nothing to do with her and her toks. She claims he was condescending and scoffed at her tiny following, telling her he couldn't help her to help him help her. Something like that. So after she sends this wah wah out, her followers are outraged by the way she was treated and how he allegedly belittled them as well. Somehow this whole thing grew into a big kerfuffle where the chef was vilified to the point he frickin closed down his new restaurant. He apologized to the influencer for being a cad because he wasn't interested in her attempt to make them both household names. Well, they certainly are now but not how either expected. He lost everything. She gained over 300,000 followers. 

What. The. Fuck.

Someone with little talent other than to have a TikTok account gains a massive amount of minions while a skilled, supposedly talented professional is ruined simply because she shed a few tears and he was rude to her.

There has to be more to this story. You don't work your ass off to try and attain the ultimate dream only to throw it away because a bunch of bullies ganged up on you. Maybe the business was a bust. It is San Francisco after all where you're either a well to do la dee da, or, you're someone who can only taste his food by searching in his dumpster behind the restaurant. 

I guess the word, "influencer," really means just that. One person can influence the weak and willing into believing anything. These people would lay down their iPods for their idol. It's beyond weird. I still cannot figure out why some people have a massive following when they have no discernable talent other than to talk. The chef had little interest in social media prior to this debacle. I'm assuming he's going to keep it that way. Perhaps if he had been less focused on having a career and spent more time cosplaying as a human being, there would have been a better ending. I suggest another meeting, this one out in the parking lot a la 'Anchorman.'

Top chefs against famous influencers. 

Team Chef: The chef, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Paul Hollywood and Rachel Ray.

Against the influencers

Team Minnow: The TikTokker, Kim Kardashian, Mr. Beast, Gordon Ramsay (he's in everything) and Drew Gooden.

Place your bets and get out your phones to upload to the world. 


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