Social media - where psychos can feel powerful.
17 Likes
[quote=“Core6430,post:137,top.
Total should have been at most $4,500.
SJ paid $3,500.
SW said (in her voice) that the months of May through Sept were half off since she was using all of SJ’s material to provide content for SW’s other blogs and channels.
So really, the total cost was $500 for Jan through April and $250 for May through Sept.
Total of $3,250 owed. SJ paid $3,500.
SW owes SJ $250.
You had no contract. You clearly stated in your own voice that SJ did not agree to any increases or additional services.
No ad revenue ever went to SJ. That all went directly to SW. SW repeatedly posted content she was told not to post by SJ, SW posted it against SJ’s wishes.
Come on [edit]… Post your proof that SJ owes you $7,500 or $8,000 or whatever amount you pulled outta your… ! Show us how wrong we are.
7 Likes
She’s now posted a video that I think is slanderous and the description is downright libelous without proof that SJ actually practices what DH has said that she does.
I commented my thoughts on her post and it was deleted and I was blocked in seconds.
1 Like
But!but but but she’s “learned from the best in Wellington!”
so despite being neither a rider nor an instructor nor a trainer she knows allthethings!!
[edit]
5 Likes
That’s not the “c” word I’d use to describe her, but sure…that works. (And still remains w/in the BB rules.)
8 Likes
Wow. I never once heard this chain tip even during the great UDBB war she waged after they parted ways. I hope she gets sued.
Since she deletes any comments that disprove this it’s even worse.
5 Likes
In the good old UDBB days, ankywannabe (later with numbers), had a long history of the “I can’t believe she posted that” kind. Silverbridge covered the riding-related exploitations but she was a well rounded young lady. She was, among other things, an internationally known personal trainer and a model (the modeling gig came up on a thread where she asked for advice on a haircut, and posted a rather “before” type of a modeling picture, to put it kindly. Because what top level model doesn’t solicit straight mouse brown shoulder length hair advice on an anonymous bulletin board?). She was, naturally, a world class rider with an international quality horse. Which (the horse) was found dead on her mothers property after not being seen for some months (don’t ask). How or why nobody inquired about an international level horse’s whereabouts for months or even noticed it missing was shrouded in some mystery but you know how it goes when you are an international level talent who’s just So Busy … things slip. The horse had been done in by her abusive, violent father who had also beat the other family pets and members, including the childhood dog who was found dead in the closet. Or maybe it was the mother dead in a closet or, gosh, it’s been so long i really can’t remember but there definitely was something dead in a closet, and it wasn’t the international level horse because that one I remember clearly was found dead in the back forty one spring, just bones and skull, or just about. When the father wasn’t engaging in offing the family pets, he was a loving and kind father though, according to another thread, and purchased her small tokens of appreciation like condos and such. And so it went, in long run-on sentences with no paragraph in sight …
It was all fun and games until real live people started getting dragged into the mess. I felt very badly for Susan Jacoma, and, really, anyone who came in contact with her in real life. By the time she started the Dressage Hub it was very clear that the best course of action here is to stay as far away as possible. Not a good situation.
16 Likes
^^^And I finally have an outline for that novel people keep telling me to write.
VC Andrews meets Dick Francis meets Jilly Cooper. Hello Man Booker Prize!
14 Likes
[edit]
What I am still wondering is how, with ample evidence she was a loose cannon, to put it mildly, she ever got any co-operation from the horse world.
I am guessing that when she corners you and tells you things you want to hear (exposure! revenue stream! the social media era! I will make you a star! Probono PR!) it sounds convincing for a while, but because she is clearly a fabulist from the ground up, none of it is remotely true. If she comes from a wealthy family she will have some confidence schmoozing other folks from wealthy families. And if she has money to spend, a trust fund, someone to buy her horses, that probably makes her attractive as a client.
[edit]
2 Likes
There’s always a new fool ready to be parted from their money, and plenty of people at the lower end of the sport have no idea who she is or why DH is such a joke.
Soeaking of jokes, has anyone seen the crazy crap on her personal FB page? Deleting posts and comments that disagree with her is apparently “reputation management” now (despite being a universally acknowleged no no in social media for business.) She thinks riders should be afraid because she can damage their reputations and is seemingly oblivious to the fact that the only reputation she’s ruining is her own.
She thinks she’s the Kim Kardashian of the dressage world and - even better - seems to think that’s a GOOD thing :lol:. She LOVES that there are threads here about her here and doesn’t care that they are all about what a fraud she is, both as a rider and a business person.
She apparently thinks getting as many clicks as Dressage Today’s page one week makes her “bigger” and more influential than DT. Perhaps she doesn’t realize that to be influential a site / source has to be respected, and thought of as a source of credible, knowledgeable, valuable information. Clearly DH is neither credible nor respected - a bunch of clicks from rubberneckers wanting to see [edit] for themselves is not exactly a good indicator of “influence.” If anything, she makes the people’s she’s trying to tear down like SJ seem more credible by the day.
9 Likes
I’m assuming that DH is essentially over as any kind of real blog about showing, if she’s been banned from Wellington and lost her sponsors (she was crying out for viewer support back in November). Then it can just lapse into a little node of [edit] on the internet, until she gets someone riled up enough to write a cease and desist order.
1 Like
My concern is that the people who are getting duped by her video war against Jacoma (who has nothing but a good reputation) are going to start harassing her and threatening her. Since you can’t comment your personal experience with Jacoma without getting blocked the posts are generating nothing but hate.
1 Like
But you can message people individually. Not saying anyone should do that, but it wouldn’t actually be that hard to write something up and put it in an individual message to each person that comments on those videos. Does it reach everyone who agrees silently? No. But it is a way if you are really dedicated to get your message out to everyone.
Doing it in a positive and non-accusatory way is tough though, and fighting drama and nastiness with more of the same is no good.
Well, if anyone starts harassing and threatening Jacoma based on some video, then they are of the same craycray troll school as SW, and that’s a whole other kettle of fish. Most normal people wouldn’t start harassing a third party based on a video on line, even if they thought the video showed something bad.
If DHub turns into a predominantly SJ Haters Club then really SJ needs to get a lawyer’s cease and desist letter to Dhub/ SW. That is the only way to shut this kind of thing down. Costs, but maybe a lawyer rider would do it pro bono.
