Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160223183610/@comment-28120689-20160404170135

Sparkstoaflame wrote: ''mentioned that the show is now down to only a few sponsors? That was quick, like a week ago, I think, it was only Maybelline who dropped the100 and since the fans didn't target specifically the sponsors with their tweets.'' i've heard that at least 4 or 5 sponsers since maybelline - no names - have since dropped out. don't quote me on that, though.

About the sponsors, do we know that because they SAID that they retracted tbeir money or because they SAID that they don't support the show?

maybelline, at least, said they agreed with a fan's argument in an email that they sent and that's why they're no longer advertising on the show. idk. the tweets are floating out there somewhere; you can find it if you do a little digging.

Julie Plec did apologize

lmao........sorry, but no. she did not.

she's making the same excuse as JR has. it's the same old story: "we didn't know about the dead lesbian trope and we will endeavor to do better next time." um. no. i find that very difficult to believe that you didn't know about this trope. it's a trope for a reason: it's happened many times before in popular media. and as a showrunner, you are completely responsible for knowing about the toxic tropes and not falling into them. stop using that as an excuse, because that's all it is: an excuse. A) Just because Maybelline said they don't advertize on the show doesn't mean they did. I said before I read an article that an insider of the company confirmed that maybelline DID NOT pull the money out of the show, no matter what they said. So, it might not be true, but it gets you thinking. A show that everyone is paying attention to because of the scandal that just happened advertizes your products and you pull it out the moment all eyes are on it? You wait a bit until you do that. And then you cut all ties with it. That's probably how they'd do it. So, just because someone announces publicly that they pull out it doesn't mean they did

B) Producers are like politicians. You need to unravel the words layer by layer. So maybe she meant it maybe she didn't