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Free food in exchange for social media exposure - that was the deal. But an eatery was left high and dry when a social media influencer 'ghosted' them after promising a «collaboration». Taking to Facebook last Saturday (May 27), Chiang Mai Thai'Don't ruin my life': Influencer refutes Thai eatery's accusations he ghosted them on promised collab after free meal
Free food in exchange for social media exposure - that was the deal. But an eatery was left high and dry when a social media influencer 'ghosted' them after promising a «collaboration». Taking to Facebook last Saturday (May 27), Chiang Mai Thai Kitchen shared that Marcus Lo – with over a million likes on TikTok – first reached out to them on April 2. In a message to the Ang Mo Kio eatery, the 20-year-old social media influencer promised to post a TikTok video and up to three Instagram Stories after the free meal. «I've 23,000 followers on TikTok and [over] 2,300 on Instagram,» he told Chiang Mai Thai Kitchen, while the eatery responded by giving him $100 worth of credits to use for dinner. «Remember to help us take nice photos,» the restaurant quipped. In the Facebook post, it showed that Lo did not reply to Chiang Mai Thai Kitchen's messages after he went for dinner there on April 29. «The market is bad now. $100 [worth] of food we might as well give to those who really need it,» the eatery lamented. «We are sorry. We thought we could gain some exposure through him.» Read more