Ongoing feud between hotel and YouTuber escalates even more dramatically

Remember that rapidly-escalating feud between the Irish hotel and the British vlogger from last week?

Well, it’s escalated yet again.

So first things first: a quick recap. Basically the whole thing started last Tuesday, when The White Moose Cafe in Dublin, Ireland, shared an email they’d received from vlogger Elle Darby. Darby had suggested a deal where the hotel give her free accommodation in exchange for publicity across her YouTube and social media channels.

The post went viral, Darby’s name was discovered (the hotel had blanked it out but someone discovered it was visible when they turned the brightness up on their screen), and basically everything went south from there. Darby responded in a video, the hotel hit back, both parties were trolled, the hotel issued a blanket ban on all bloggers, and all-in-all it was a splendid example of the internet at its absolute worst. Read more…

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