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WOW serious negative backlash from readers-had to pull a post

HillaryH

Published on August 20, 2016

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so within hours of posting a blog post promoting a child's gummy vite I got numerous emails asking if my site had been hacked, why am i posting stuff promoting that "crap". I think the readers are right, to be honest, and felt weird writing a post about it, but the company had sent me free products and i felt weirdly obligated to say something positive.

I feel awful, like i betrayed my readers. Which I guess I did but it was unintentional. Still trying to find the balance between money-making (fairly non-existent at this point) and staying true to myself.

It will be okay, right?

:(

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