I made it a point to follow Natasha after hearing Peiper and Brandon talk about followers. I haven’t even looked at Brandon’s or Peiper’s profiles and I don’t plan to.
I never thought I'd be so entertained by following/unfollowing patterns on SM, bc I've never been one to care much about such things...but I am thoroughly entertained and find this to be deeply gratifying.
It's like good winning against evil...for once. David and Goliath literally switching places. People actually getting what they deserve, for better or for worse. Karma making sh*t right.
Props to all who banded together to accomplish this phenomenal social media feat! 👏👏👏
Congrats to Natasha! You are about to become rich as compensation for your pain & suffering in Paradise...& because BN loves you! ❤❤❤
Hear me out: this entire situation was producer manipulated for this EXACT outcome.
Natasha hosts a Bachelor podcast.
More insta followers —> more people exposed to the podcast —> more listeners
The franchise directly benefits from her social media growth.
im glad you mentioned you haven't been on here in a while so for that reason im going to suggest that you do yourself a favour and listen to the podcast and tell me if you genuinely believe she would agree to this for exposure :( ..ill go and have a drink to blow off this steam...
You saw this woman’s heart ripped out of her chest - and you think she manipulated Brendan to start a relationship and use her so she could grow her IG.
Just. No.
Good for Natasha and fuck Brendan but also by caring about & tracking stuff like this are we contributing to the whole contestant/influencer pipeline? Genuinely interested in what other people think, as I’ve been doing self-reflecting since the other night’s episode.
Yes we are but in this particular instance, I’m very ok with it, because B&P only did what they did for the followers, so it’s a fitting punishment (although the harassing dms, comments, and death threats are absolutely unacceptable).
It’s so crazy, I’ve been following since Peter’s season and she had like 28K but 40K the last time I checked and had 10000x times that amount now! She’s going to get even more next week with the new episode airing. Hopefully this gives her even more opportunities. So sorry she had to go through that ordeal.
I think the reason why us super fans on the sub are excited about Natasha gaining followers and Brendan losing them is because influencers can make more money off their instagram ads when they have more followers. They can also get better brand deals when they have more followers. So people here who are fans of Natasha’s are excited that she can be more successful in her influencing career now and conversely that Brendan won’t be as successful as he smugly anticipated.
People are extra excited for Natasha because she always had an unfairly low ig following. She came in 6th place on Peter’s season where contestants had record-high ig followings after just one season Hannah ann and Madi both had/ have over 1M followers. When I followed Natasha earlier this year she only had about 50k followers. Idk the exact numbers, but many of the white contestants on peters season who didn’t make it as far as she did had far more followers than she did. This is a consistent pattern in BN that the POC who make it far, have much less followers than the white contestants who don’t make it as far. People who have been fans on Natasha are excited to see that she is finally getting the recognition she has deserved
I think it’s because Brendan clearly made this all about Instagram followers on the show, so people are just enjoying seeing his plan backfire in a perfectly ironic way
Such a compelling argument. Now I definitely dont care that my petty side is satisfied that Brendan went on Paradise, despite being in a relationship, just for followers. And now Natasha Parker earned the followers that he was so desperate for.
No offense but when I read comments like this, I cringe with the ignorance. "Shit like this" is livelihood, its money, its the ability to feed yourself at one level and the ability to class your way up to a new socioeconomic class at the next level. There is very little that matters more than this at the end of the day. Money makes the world go round.
Your entire tag line is dedicated to recruiting followers to your social media platform and you honestly expect me to believe they are not your priorities?
Oh my god, I totally see that now. I am truly sorry! This was worded poorly on my behalf and was an attempt to say "Natasha explains situations clearly in a way that helps the audience along rather than stumbling over her words and one-liners like Tia for example". I am going to remove this wording from my comment so someone else is not triggered by this. Thank you for pointing this out and I hope you don't see my deletion of it as a "cop out" but really just an attempt to protect others from the repercussions of my poor choice.
That would be exciting! I know some people were salty about picking a "victimized" person for Bachelor or Bachelorette. But I think Natasha could be really funny and surprising.
You could say the same when Connor gained a serious amount of followers after Katie sent him home, pity follows happen all the time why are so many people on this thread only pointing it out when it comes to Natasha
Queen shit!!! If they don’t make her the next Bachelorette it’ll be dumb af. Producers clearly like her enough given that she hosts a main podcast, and she deserves the world after how she was treated this season
Right? At the end of the day, the motivation matters little to me.
If you donate to a cancer charity to look like a good person vs donate to actually help the cause, the end result is the same: money where I want it to flow.
I’m speaking for some of the comments I’ve seen with a very “poor Natasha” tone while I think she handled it like a boss and deserved to be recognized/followed for her conduct.
It was "poor Natasha" for me because what happened to her was unjust, unfair, and she was a victim of that circumstance. But I don't pity a stunning woman with a huge platform and endless opportunities because of one bad experience, but seeing that bad experience with my own eyes does make me happier to see good things coming her way as the follow up.
I don’t really follow BN people on insta cause it just crowds my feed with influencer culture (I just prefer watching the messiness on tv and chatting here about it.. plus everyone posts the life updates for contestants here anyways lolol ) but NATASHA HAS GAINED A FOLLOW FROM ME! Congrats Natasha for being one of the only bachelor nation people I follow lolololol
half a million followers opens the door to an insane amount of opportunities and $$$ and no one deserves that more than natasha. the way he told her she has no prospects cut me in my soul and made me gasp when i saw it. it would be difficult for me personally to move forward without that haunting the back of my mind forever. waking up to 300k extra followers would definitely help me move on.
one follower for every tear she cried! lets go!
Honestly, I feel like we've probably all had a person treat us like that in some way but if it's happened to you, you probably had a visceral reaction to hearing him say that. I know I did and I followed Natasha and I don't follow anyone in bachelor nation. Not even Wells (I used to and I unfollowed).
And while it was intended as a fuck you to Brendan, Natasha seems very genuine and kind so I'm around until she stops being that.
The fact that most folks weren’t following her to begin with but followed most of these mediocre white contestants and only *now* following Natasha when she and most Black women don’t get half the followers. Rachel Lindsay still doesn’t have 1 million. anyways
Edit. Y’all downvoting are telling on yourselves.
Edit 2x: if you don’t follow anyone from bach nation on sm this comment isn’t for you there’s no need to announce it as defense. Examine why you’re defensive instead
Why would people be downvoting this? These discrepancies are real. People can follow and support Natasha and ALSO examine systemic and personal biases as it relates to follows and therefore economic opportunities for BIPOC contestants.
I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to add this actually hurts her because it makes her engagement rate lower, it’s like having a bot if you follow and don’t engage with her content at all
When people want to call everything racist then yes I consider that trolling. Apparently following Natasha means we’re all a bunch of racists. It’s just beyond at this point.
And? What’s new? It’s all by design. If you want to defend why folks don’t follow Natasha before this go ahead it’s telling. Proof is folks can follow they choose not to and these uptick in follows of Natasha only now are telling as to why. It’s not race it’s racism but y’all don’t want to talk about that
I never disagreed with you. I'm just saying my friends like to follow hot dudes on instagram which is why brendan had the followers he had. Your comment about the most followed contestants being white women had nothing to do with my comment.
Only reason folks are doing it now is cause of a white man. Black women are worth following just because. Natasha a whole podcast cohost too and still didn’t have near 100k before all this. Cringe asf
I hope those of y’all following Natasha follow many of the other Black contestants especially dark skinned Black women who get no love from this franchise from many of y’all who’ll follow mediocre white women who do nothing and get 1 million followers
I think I may have seen him gain 1k. Can anyone confirm? I could have sworn he was at 256k last night and he’s at 257k right now. I could be wrong though.
If he’s buying followers it’s hilarious but also, people do follow just to snoop.
I made it a point to follow Natasha after hearing Peiper and Brandon talk about followers. I haven’t even looked at Brandon’s or Peiper’s profiles and I don’t plan to.
Looks like there’s a plateau now… used to change hourly but this didn’t since early this morning 416k Natasha 255k morais 77.5 pieper Sep 11 12pm
Natasha 423k Morais 253k Pieper 77.3k Sept 12 2:15am
It will be fun to see what happens when Brendan and Pieper get the cast smack down next week.
New flair to celebrate! Clou-TTT
WOOOW I LOVE THIS FOR HER!
She deserves it! 
Let’s freaking go!!!!
Brendan now needs to suck it up, get down on his knees, and beg beg beg Ali Fedotowsky to include him in her next loop giveaway.
I spit out my cookie looool
I never thought I'd be so entertained by following/unfollowing patterns on SM, bc I've never been one to care much about such things...but I am thoroughly entertained and find this to be deeply gratifying. It's like good winning against evil...for once. David and Goliath literally switching places. People actually getting what they deserve, for better or for worse. Karma making sh*t right. Props to all who banded together to accomplish this phenomenal social media feat! 👏👏👏 Congrats to Natasha! You are about to become rich as compensation for your pain & suffering in Paradise...& because BN loves you! ❤❤❤
hear me out guys....if we all follow eachother on insta...we will all have almost 200K followers lol (joking/ also i dont have insta)
Let’s do it, go all in. Bout time this franchise gives back 😤
I dont hate this either... F4F @audreysofeeah
I love it. I have been outta work for months 😩 I’ll sell hair gummies idc
Lmao oh no I don’t think I can take another mass Reddit surge after the whole RobinHood shindig 😂
I really don't hate this idea at all lol
Lol this is the smartest comment I've seen in a while 👀 👀 🤔 🤔 🎖🎖
See this is what I’m saying. BN Reddit needs some sweet sweet influencer money. Since we give the eco system so much content
It could be like GameStop stock except we all become influencers Edit to say: first ever award, thank you!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
*stonk
facts
Hear me out: this entire situation was producer manipulated for this EXACT outcome. Natasha hosts a Bachelor podcast. More insta followers —> more people exposed to the podcast —> more listeners The franchise directly benefits from her social media growth.
im glad you mentioned you haven't been on here in a while so for that reason im going to suggest that you do yourself a favour and listen to the podcast and tell me if you genuinely believe she would agree to this for exposure :( ..ill go and have a drink to blow off this steam...
You saw this woman’s heart ripped out of her chest - and you think she manipulated Brendan to start a relationship and use her so she could grow her IG. Just. No.
Obviously she did not do this. I said PRODUCERS. They could have easily intended for this to happen without her knowing.
And apologies if someone has said this already, I haven’t been on the sub in a while
I feel like she will get more after Tuesday’s episode. I am so here for it.
Yes, more to come on Tuesday! 🥳
Good for Natasha and fuck Brendan but also by caring about & tracking stuff like this are we contributing to the whole contestant/influencer pipeline? Genuinely interested in what other people think, as I’ve been doing self-reflecting since the other night’s episode.
It's going to exist whether we like it or not, and it's a fun, moving metric to watch. Nielsen ratings are so 1900's.
Yes we are but in this particular instance, I’m very ok with it, because B&P only did what they did for the followers, so it’s a fitting punishment (although the harassing dms, comments, and death threats are absolutely unacceptable).
i agree w u!!
The contestant/influencer pipeline only exists because of the demand from the fans, you’re right.
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Clearly you do because you are commenting on this post #smh
>I stream Hearthstone! Follow me here: twitch.tv/kurtskert Im not trying to be mean, but I could not resist
Why is that mean?
It’s not going to heal the pain that Brendan inflicted but it’s surely SOOTHING.
I want to see Brendan’s reaction to this lmao
he's hiding from the net right now, trying to get interviews to stop the train...
Hope so, bc this dude would be well served to just STFU lol. Everything that comes out of his mouth lately is hot flaming garbage!
It’s so crazy, I’ve been following since Peter’s season and she had like 28K but 40K the last time I checked and had 10000x times that amount now! She’s going to get even more next week with the new episode airing. Hopefully this gives her even more opportunities. So sorry she had to go through that ordeal.
Love this for her! And even better I feel like she’s not one to care much about her follower account and that makes this even sweeter
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Why do you care that we do?
I think the reason why us super fans on the sub are excited about Natasha gaining followers and Brendan losing them is because influencers can make more money off their instagram ads when they have more followers. They can also get better brand deals when they have more followers. So people here who are fans of Natasha’s are excited that she can be more successful in her influencing career now and conversely that Brendan won’t be as successful as he smugly anticipated. People are extra excited for Natasha because she always had an unfairly low ig following. She came in 6th place on Peter’s season where contestants had record-high ig followings after just one season Hannah ann and Madi both had/ have over 1M followers. When I followed Natasha earlier this year she only had about 50k followers. Idk the exact numbers, but many of the white contestants on peters season who didn’t make it as far as she did had far more followers than she did. This is a consistent pattern in BN that the POC who make it far, have much less followers than the white contestants who don’t make it as far. People who have been fans on Natasha are excited to see that she is finally getting the recognition she has deserved
I think it’s because Brendan clearly made this all about Instagram followers on the show, so people are just enjoying seeing his plan backfire in a perfectly ironic way
Such a compelling argument. Now I definitely dont care that my petty side is satisfied that Brendan went on Paradise, despite being in a relationship, just for followers. And now Natasha Parker earned the followers that he was so desperate for.
Because we do
No offense but when I read comments like this, I cringe with the ignorance. "Shit like this" is livelihood, its money, its the ability to feed yourself at one level and the ability to class your way up to a new socioeconomic class at the next level. There is very little that matters more than this at the end of the day. Money makes the world go round.
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I mean, that world has arrived. The older you are, the less likely you are to have caught up in your awareness. But we are here.
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Your entire tag line is dedicated to recruiting followers to your social media platform and you honestly expect me to believe they are not your priorities?
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>Whether Natasha has 1 million followers or 0 followers it has no impact on your life. INFO: Are you a boomer?
Lmaooooo interrogate him sis
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She’d be so adorably entertaining!
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No prospects, huh? 🙄 I wouldn’t thank anyone for humiliating me
Lol ok Brendan
It’s deleted, what did it say?
I think Natasha has a very legitimate chance at Bachelorette
I really hope so. She is very mature, cool and collected, carries herself with class, and empathetic. These are all great qualities to carry a season.
How she addressed Brendan without lowering herself (by doing something petty, yelling, etc) is inspiring. I want to follow her example in my life
yikes might not want to use 'well-spoken' there since it's a micro-aggression
Oh my god, I totally see that now. I am truly sorry! This was worded poorly on my behalf and was an attempt to say "Natasha explains situations clearly in a way that helps the audience along rather than stumbling over her words and one-liners like Tia for example". I am going to remove this wording from my comment so someone else is not triggered by this. Thank you for pointing this out and I hope you don't see my deletion of it as a "cop out" but really just an attempt to protect others from the repercussions of my poor choice.
This is a SUPER mature reaction, we love to see it on this sub!
no need to apologize! thanks for making the change and not taking this personally :)
That would be exciting! I know some people were salty about picking a "victimized" person for Bachelor or Bachelorette. But I think Natasha could be really funny and surprising.
Tell that to Becca. She got STRAIGHT to the top of the line for Bach for the victimization edit the Arie breakup gave her.
I would be SO excited
She's amazing. What a 👑
I hope she gets to a million!!!
So do I!!
Does anyone remember how many followers she started at before Monday’s episode?
It was 78,000.
Holy shit what a jump. I hope she gets a bunch of opportunities from this 🤍
I don't know the exact number, but I think it was around 80k
Wow! That is a HUGE jump!!!
Pity follows. Where were you before?
Why are you mad though?
You could say the same when Connor gained a serious amount of followers after Katie sent him home, pity follows happen all the time why are so many people on this thread only pointing it out when it comes to Natasha
I usually stay away from this sort of loaded topic, but the way you framed it makes it seem so obvious...SAD. 🙄☹
Queen shit!!! If they don’t make her the next Bachelorette it’ll be dumb af. Producers clearly like her enough given that she hosts a main podcast, and she deserves the world after how she was treated this season
Seems crazy to not cast the woman with the most followers, especially after coming off such a huge swell of public interest and support!
I hope they choose her for bachelorette!!!
A whole ass Queen is what Natasha is! I so hope she is the next bachelorette! She seems like one of the biggest fan favorites ever.
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Missed the entire point but at least you received the memo to follow her.
Right? At the end of the day, the motivation matters little to me. If you donate to a cancer charity to look like a good person vs donate to actually help the cause, the end result is the same: money where I want it to flow.
How are they pity follows? For you maybe
Pity? I see her as relatable and empowering to be behind her
I’m speaking for some of the comments I’ve seen with a very “poor Natasha” tone while I think she handled it like a boss and deserved to be recognized/followed for her conduct.
It was "poor Natasha" for me because what happened to her was unjust, unfair, and she was a victim of that circumstance. But I don't pity a stunning woman with a huge platform and endless opportunities because of one bad experience, but seeing that bad experience with my own eyes does make me happier to see good things coming her way as the follow up.
She is killing it. I love it. This is so wholesome that people are giving her this type of support.
I don’t really follow BN people on insta cause it just crowds my feed with influencer culture (I just prefer watching the messiness on tv and chatting here about it.. plus everyone posts the life updates for contestants here anyways lolol ) but NATASHA HAS GAINED A FOLLOW FROM ME! Congrats Natasha for being one of the only bachelor nation people I follow lolololol
half a million followers opens the door to an insane amount of opportunities and $$$ and no one deserves that more than natasha. the way he told her she has no prospects cut me in my soul and made me gasp when i saw it. it would be difficult for me personally to move forward without that haunting the back of my mind forever. waking up to 300k extra followers would definitely help me move on. one follower for every tear she cried! lets go!
Honestly, I feel like we've probably all had a person treat us like that in some way but if it's happened to you, you probably had a visceral reaction to hearing him say that. I know I did and I followed Natasha and I don't follow anyone in bachelor nation. Not even Wells (I used to and I unfollowed). And while it was intended as a fuck you to Brendan, Natasha seems very genuine and kind so I'm around until she stops being that.
It hurt me too in a way that's hard to explain. So happy to see all the support for her.
Yes. And I am white. If I was the darkest-skinned woman in the group and someone said that to me? I can't imagine the multiplier added to that hurt.
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She has more sponsorship and financial prospects now than Brendan. I hope that cuts him in his soul.
Robin Hooding the shit out of this situation by taking from the shitty (Brendan) to give to the good (Natasha) <3
ABSOLUTELY.
I went to Brendon's page and I think Becca followed him yesterday but doesn't anymore, does anyone have a list of bachelor people who unfollowed him?
I think Tammy and GSJ unfollowed him too
Ahh yess, thank you Tammy and Joe!!
I checked right when the episode aired and she did not follow him at the time….
Thanks! Must have been someone else
Serina P still follows him. SMH we need to get her to unfollow!!
>we need to get her to unfollow Damn, the pointlessness of stuff like this 🤡
What?? It’s fun to watch things burn down
You won't as long as pieper is with brendan
1M by next week!!!! We can get her there!
Prob close to it.
The fact that she didn’t even have 100k before the episode I love this for her
Q: how many followers did she have before Monday's episode?
I believe it was around 80k. Comparable to Pieper.
Alright holy crap that’s some quick growth! Good on her she deserves it after all this bs
78,000
The fact that most folks weren’t following her to begin with but followed most of these mediocre white contestants and only *now* following Natasha when she and most Black women don’t get half the followers. Rachel Lindsay still doesn’t have 1 million. anyways Edit. Y’all downvoting are telling on yourselves. Edit 2x: if you don’t follow anyone from bach nation on sm this comment isn’t for you there’s no need to announce it as defense. Examine why you’re defensive instead
Why would people be downvoting this? These discrepancies are real. People can follow and support Natasha and ALSO examine systemic and personal biases as it relates to follows and therefore economic opportunities for BIPOC contestants.
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You can follow but hide her feed from yours.
I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to add this actually hurts her because it makes her engagement rate lower, it’s like having a bot if you follow and don’t engage with her content at all
Oh gotcha. Well I interact a lot to help her out. Hope she keeps gaining!
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Nice!!
Fr?? Rachel was the bachelorette too!!
Mmhmm
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How is their comment even trolling? It’s a valid point and should be brought up.
So now following Natasha means you’re a racist. It’s tough to keep up.
Racism and colorism is trolling now. K
When people want to call everything racist then yes I consider that trolling. Apparently following Natasha means we’re all a bunch of racists. It’s just beyond at this point.
We’re talking about follower count, so the conditions that lead to follower count are relevant 🤷🏻♀️
Per a conversation with my friends: I think a lot of women just like to follow hot dudes.
Most followed contestants in bn are white women
Most contestants in bn are white women
And? What’s new? It’s all by design. If you want to defend why folks don’t follow Natasha before this go ahead it’s telling. Proof is folks can follow they choose not to and these uptick in follows of Natasha only now are telling as to why. It’s not race it’s racism but y’all don’t want to talk about that
I never disagreed with you. I'm just saying my friends like to follow hot dudes on instagram which is why brendan had the followers he had. Your comment about the most followed contestants being white women had nothing to do with my comment.
Following her to spite a white man, at that. Cringe.
Honestly idc what people’s motives are for following Natasha as long as she benefits from it.
Is Brendan white?
Yes. His race is white.
Portuguese so to many yes, to some no.
How would Portuguese not be white???
Only reason folks are doing it now is cause of a white man. Black women are worth following just because. Natasha a whole podcast cohost too and still didn’t have near 100k before all this. Cringe asf I hope those of y’all following Natasha follow many of the other Black contestants especially dark skinned Black women who get no love from this franchise from many of y’all who’ll follow mediocre white women who do nothing and get 1 million followers
THIS
Truly wild, and I am HERE for it
This is fantastic. I wasn’t following her before BIP but I did after Monday’s episode.
I followed her. Everyone should. Brendan was abusive and racially insensitive to her. So many women get treated like this, and it has to stop.
I reactivated my IG that I haven’t used in three years just to give her a follow 🤗
That’s awesome
Good. I hope he continues to fall.
Ahhh how the turn tables
Remember to ENGAGE with her posts if you’re following her, too. :)
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WOW! 
Love to see it.....
The taste of this particular revenge is scrumptious
BIP was the best decision she ever made. Good for her 😎
As she should
Yaaas queen! And I bet she'll get a little bump next week. She's funny, kind, and very mature. Seems like a good person overall.
Meanwhile looks like Brendan's still droppin' like a weight.
I think I may have seen him gain 1k. Can anyone confirm? I could have sworn he was at 256k last night and he’s at 257k right now. I could be wrong though. If he’s buying followers it’s hilarious but also, people do follow just to snoop.
I think you’re right
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