Hey angels today we're finally recapping the pearl parties on tiktok and we've got more info!! Stay tuned for a deep dive on the pearl MLM as that company has only grown in the past year and its badddd
Hello Love!! As a “survivor” of a MLM filled childhood I ADORE your channel!! My mom was a single mom of 2 in the 80’s and 90’s… from NuSkin, Melaleuca, Aspen, Amway, Cutco. Avon, Mary Kay… I know I’m forgetting some. You do great work by exposing these predatory “companies”~ keep it up girlie!! Stay safe! Happy New Year!! P.S. I AM OBSESSED WITH YOUR FRAMES.
One thing that is stuck in my head is that they put a pearl in a dead oyster or shuck a dead oyster, and dead mollusks have a TERRIBLE smell, worst that any rotten fish, so i just keep imagining the houses of those people, with a foul stench and full of dead oysters. Im glad we can't smell it 😅
Worse. They're preserved with formaldehyde. I went to mortuary school and the smell gets into clothes/hair/belongings etc. It was pretty common to change and shower on campus. They're bringing that to their homes...around pets/family and handling them with maybe only gloves on.
@@xeracalm2023thats the weirdest part to me. they could be doing this ethically, planting the material into the oysters, keeping them alive and healthy, and using them many times. it seems much more cruel to let them die and play hide the pearl with the corpse.
I think what gets me most about these is that real pearl factories don’t always need to kill their oysters to obtain their pearls. And after the oysters are dead, their bodies aren’t *always* just thrown in the garbage, unlike these pearl party oysters. Idk, it just feels like a huge waste for such a farce.
It’s so weird to me that people can be so disconnected from the animal cruelty that they’re contributing to. These animals have their place in the world and yet… they’ve been reduced down to a scammy commodity
I never thought id feel bad about oysters/clams but these are so bad. Real oyster farming wont kill the oysters because, well it takes time for new ones to grow and then even make pearls. Like you cant even eat these oysters cuz its all preserved.
I can't even kill a spider or wasp when they come into MY HOME (with the exception particularly sus ones maybe near or in my bed 😅), to the point that I'll scoop them up in a cup or something & carry them outside! I honestly couldn't count on my fingers & toes the #'s of them that I've 'saved'! So you're not going to catch me or my loved ones participating in this depressing stinking (pun intended) pastime 😅 I couldn't imagine smelling the stench of them wafting 😷 and not thinking this must be God's way of telling me, this was a terrible idea & the horrible smell is lingering his reminder of the poor innocent sea creatures that were sacrificed. 😮😅
@@danysanerd2383 Thank you for catching and releasing spiders. They’re my favorite animals and the ones I have bring me so much joy. They really are vital to our survival and just trying to live life and survive like the rest of us 🫶
@@witchy90210 Not only that, most of those oyster wouldn’t have even had pearls in them in the first place. It is extremely rare to find an oyster pearl, hence why they are so expensive.
Whats even more devastating about all of this is these creators have no respect for life. People that do this professionally take a lot of time and skill to retrieve the pearl without harming or killing the oyster. These people on tik tok are butchering them and then on top of that I guarentee they completely waste and throw them away. Most creators and influencers these days have no morals and will do ANYTHING to make a quick buck. Love your channel!
I get what you mean, but the oysters are already dead when they get sent to these people, and someone said they're preserved in formaldehyde so what the hell else are you going to do with them? Eating them would kill you. I'm not saying it's not wasteful in general, but it's not like people are cruelly killing live oysters and then dumping them in the trash, they're opening already-dead oysters that are preserved in a smelly poison.
Thank you for exposing this! People don’t realize that natural pearls without human intervention is very rare and those pearls are worth tons of money.
It's also really important to note that perfectly sphere pearls are RARE, coloured pearls are equally as rare (as they depend on the Nacre, the colourful hardened spit of the oyster that you can see lining the inside of the shell) and would never be that vibrant AND pearls that big simply cannot come from oysters that small. They (the oyster) would spit out the offending pearlized debris long before they pearl could get that big. These pearls are likely completely fake, dyed, and placed inside the oyster then sold as a novelty gimmick. There used to be a big trend on youtube with Chinese channels "hunting" for river oysters and they did the same thing.
I’ve known of the pear MLM for a few years because of Isabella. AND I ACTUALLY GOT APPROACHED IN PUBLIC at a craft show event (I am a young small business owner and do craft shows, events, Street celebrations) by a women who wants to TRADE her oysters for MY HANDMADE STOCK of product. And how many pieces of product you gave was how many oysters you got to shuck for pearls. I’ve never seen or heard of stock trading before in my time of shows, but the fact that of being approached to trade handmade items that take man hours to make…for a couple oysters genuinely shocked me 😭🤣 Like I’d understand handmade item for handmade items or something you’d actually like. But the moment she handed me her card and I saw the oyster drawing on it and the pearl chart on the back of it In my head I was like “ THIS IS THAT MLM ” I really want to know what they do with the handmade items that they may get through these trades. Do they resell them at shows as there own stock?
Wowwww that is SO bold and absolutely absurd!! Did she actually think that was gonna work?? Why would you want to trade your handmade goods, one for one, for oysters?! Like maybe it’d be a better deal if she offered like at least 10 or like 100 of them for one of your items haha then maybe it’d be a slightly more appealing trade 😂 ridiculous I’m so sorry, I am certain your handmade items are lovely and worth WAY more than one singular oyster w/ pearl!!
Or maybe she wanted to get rid of all her stock because she wanted to quit the MLM and thought that being a retainer of handmade goods would be a good idea 😉🤷😉😉 Some people are that crazy 🤷😉😉
When my daughter got super into the pearl opening parties about 10 years ago, I bought a dozen off Amazon for her to open for her birthday. Stunk so bad she quit after 2. I ended up opening the rest, and they may still be in a ziplock somewhere stinking
hate that animals are being killed for this bs. oysters can absolutely give up pearls in a sustainable way where they don’t have to die. this is so gross.
I went to one of their websites and the prices were WILD. One oyster for like $20?! They’ll throw in random values and I’m willing to bet they pull it out of their butts cause there’s no way.
From what i know, the oysters not always injected with substances to produce a specific color/shape. Often if pearls are needed in big batches, companies will feed the oysters with small rocks/sand that have desired shape
Cheap pearl farming is created with a "seed" that is a presized core of cheap material that is inserted to accrue patina over a few months or years. They are pulled from the animals, dyed, reinserted into preserved dead oysters, and glued shut. It's why you can get them for around $3 each directly.
Tbf if u go foraging in certain areas u will often find edible things oysters and clams are really common on the local beaches near me as a kid we’d spend days at the beach collecting them during the summer and always found a good few my uncles loved them none of the kids would eat them but my dad and his brothers would sit in the evening and eat a bucketful
My dad eats a lot of oysters and he's found a couple pearls over the years and It's like our own pearl parties right at home except we don't waste the oyster and I get a cool little trinket to put in my jewlery box.
@@patriciaw636 Oh he can eat an ungodly amount in one sitting. He lives in a place where you can get a lot of oysters for fairly cheap and he just destroys them at every family gathering.
@@patriciaw636I didn’t know oysters had to be raised a certain way for eating ? I live near a beach and we use to collect them in summer for my uncles cause they use to eat them
So, as someone who buys high-quality freshwater pearls to make jewelry: a string big enough to make a necklace costs me between 7 to 29 US dollars, depending on the shape, color and size. These prices are insane.
It reminds me of a form of gambling for the people purchasing. Claw machine is a great analogy too… expensive claw machine. I think it gets ppl the same way gambling does in the brain. The crystal lives are a similar thing & they’re so sketchy too but I’ll admit I got sucked into watching one of those lives cuz I love crystals but I just knew it was too good to be true.
I am obsessed with watching the lives. Id never buy from them but they can be so entertaining. Ive seen some scrunch up their nose due to the smell while trying to smile its the most hilarious thing ever
Yeah, whenever I hear them say they’re these rare pearls, I keep thinking of the Etsy listings for antique pearl necklaces (with real, natural pearls) that go up to $15,000 (don’t even mention those that are from designer brands; I know it’s a lot, but frankly- so is gambling on pearls). I’ve gotten some beautiful pearl pieces that are incredibly unique (and are real; two shops I recommend are Solar Silver and Gold that does a fun inlaying technique with silver and other pearls and Common Era that also sells mythology inspired pieces). I do love pearls, but yeah, this is scammy. Edit- I think I remember seeing a comment on another video where a marine biologist shucked one of the mollusks from the pearl parties and said that the mollusk that came in the mail doesn’t even produce a pearl. So there’s that.
Ok, small confession. I used to be OBSESSED with watching a lady open oysters live on Facebook literally back in 2016. I would watch her lives for HOURS! I never bought one but oh my god I was in DEEP!
They were all over Facebook. I fell for them hook line and sinker (pun intended). I spent far too much money on this scam and the ring scam as well. This was years ago before I knew better and started following anti-MLM content.
i hope you go over even if briefly how pearls are made in oysters cuz people dont understand how unlikely it is for a perfectly round, colored pearl to come out of an oyster naturally. like there has to be some kind of human scam-nengigans going on. This is all so dumb, but hey, love your content ;)
One of my sisters was in the top three at Pampered Chef. She finally quit because the strain of constantly having to push people to push their people to push their people and sell that crap. Another sister couldn’t make it and ended up with thousands of dollars in required purchases when she quit.
Hilarious you are not proud of your old pearl party video. That was the first video I found from you and got me to subscribe and I have gone back and put it on in the background multiple times 😂😂😂😂 perfect or not
oh!!! i literally just watched your first video from like 11 months ago and enjoyed your content, so colour me pleasantly surprised to see a follow-up! i was always so confused when I scrolled to those lives so thanks for the deep dives :)
My favorite videos before bed are the red hot (insert metal here) ball that go through ice specifically 😂 the sounds it makes and the spinning are just 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
The first time I happened upon one of these parties online, I had been drinking a bit of wine. Thought to myself, wow I think I need to stop for the night. I'm seeing weird shit. How will I ever explain what I saw to others?
I remember doing dissections in 6th grade. The smell of the formaldehyde made a bunch of kids get sick all over the hallway leading up to the science rooms. I can’t imagine what these peoples houses smell like 🤢 go outside!!!
The first video I watched of yours was about these pearl tik tok lives. I thought they were so bizarre that I kept watching videos about them. To me, this is one of the least appealing scam MLMs: from either side of the business. I would not want to handle any oysters, and I would not want to pay for overpriced (likely fake) pearls. And when it comes to your channel, I've been watching it ever since that video and I'm hoping your channel has even more success in the future, girlie. You're my favorite person for Pink Sauce drama, and I listen to you while I'm crafting or just having a bit of downtime.
The pearl MLMs used to do Facebook lives, about 10ish years ago. I remember classmates that were a few years out of graduation doing them & being really confused as to why. It sounded super dumb as a “business” back then, but now I know they were just roped into an MLM 😮
Omg ring bomb parties! I'm here for it 😅 I got a few of those stupid jewelry candles many years ago and they were so bad. Candles were fine but that was it. No MLM but these days it seems like everything is. Overpriced junk indeed.
So of course it’s an MLM product so it’s marked up to the gods, but even coming at this from another angle… I recently went to a fine jewelry store to sell some old things. I actually had several pearl necklaces and was told they were essentially worthless as pearls were so common LOL. I can’t even imagine how worthless these ~blue~ and ~purple~ ones are
Can you do a video on Tupperware? I've been seeing their products in target and am unsure about it. Because I want to support them not being an mlm but not if they still have the non mlm side? I'm very confused on this.
My issue with these videos is that they are essentially a form of gambling, which makes them addictive and encourages you to spend more and more money on them when you really don’t need this stuff in the quantities they are trying to get you to buy. The flashy openings and the asmr water trickling in the background is the modern version of slot machines.
The pearls in the sealed bags are just dead dehydrated oysters that they shove a fake pearl in then glue shut. The oysters with the meat are inseminated with irritants then grown on oyster farms. Either way, it’s such a waste.
Oof, it's worse than I thought! Double waste: a pearl is "harvested" from a mussel, then dyed & put in an oyster that gets sold. Pearls *can* be harvested w/o killing, but that takes time & skill - so nope. Then the oyster is inedible because it's been dead too long, and it's usually soaked in formaldehyde or worse. All for cheap pearls not even worth $1. I really hate this MLM/trend! (Not a vegan but I hate waste & especially killing animals for no reason.)
As a jewellery student, one of the most important things for me is getting stones in person from trustworthy companies. (In England, I usually go to Hatton Garden for that). It's honestly common sense to buy it in person from trustworthy professionals. But overconsumption and people seeing anything online and being like, I want it is the reason things like this exist and the reason why things which were once considered precious are reducing in value. Its so easy to get scammed through things like this. Especially when it comes to jewellery. And don't get me started on the unethical practices of these types of people.
Scam aside, it's so gross ☹️ like they have a dead oyster that someone showed a "pearl" into, then they dig it back out of the guts. Imagine the stink, plus now you have a bunch of dead oysters laying around
Hey angels today we're finally recapping the pearl parties on tiktok and we've got more info!! Stay tuned for a deep dive on the pearl MLM as that company has only grown in the past year and its badddd
Hello Love!! As a “survivor” of a MLM filled childhood I ADORE your channel!! My mom was a single mom of 2 in the 80’s and 90’s… from NuSkin, Melaleuca, Aspen, Amway, Cutco. Avon, Mary Kay… I know I’m forgetting some. You do great work by exposing these predatory “companies”~ keep it up girlie!! Stay safe! Happy New Year!!
P.S. I AM OBSESSED WITH YOUR FRAMES.
Always appreciate your pearls of wisdom 🤣💜
Yay finally!! I wish more people covered this mlm !
Does anyone else remember miche bag, that definitely was a mlm heard its starting to branch out again
One thing that is stuck in my head is that they put a pearl in a dead oyster or shuck a dead oyster, and dead mollusks have a TERRIBLE smell, worst that any rotten fish, so i just keep imagining the houses of those people, with a foul stench and full of dead oysters. Im glad we can't smell it 😅
Worse. They're preserved with formaldehyde. I went to mortuary school and the smell gets into clothes/hair/belongings etc. It was pretty common to change and shower on campus. They're bringing that to their homes...around pets/family and handling them with maybe only gloves on.
If you left just tiny piece behind, the smell wouldn't go away and i can't imagine the flies ( maybe there's no flies in cold area, idk)
This made me laugh 😭😂
@@tibicenlinnei4014yup! This was my thought here. Formaldehyde BONDS to everything! 😬
They are stored in stuff that makes it smell better or preserves the dead flesh without rotting.
It's truly bizarre to me that people are buying dead animals to pick trinkets out of their carcasses. It's like the world's most macabre blind bag.
I also think it is bizarre since most pearl farms re-nucleate pearls. You don't just once the mollusks once and then kill them
@@xeracalm2023the way they ripped open these oysters was crazy
That's how I felt about it when I first learned about these kinds of lives. It's just gross.
@@xeracalm2023thats the weirdest part to me. they could be doing this ethically, planting the material into the oysters, keeping them alive and healthy, and using them many times. it seems much more cruel to let them die and play hide the pearl with the corpse.
@@AzathothTheGreat yes im aware..thats the entire issue with this practice
I think what gets me most about these is that real pearl factories don’t always need to kill their oysters to obtain their pearls. And after the oysters are dead, their bodies aren’t *always* just thrown in the garbage, unlike these pearl party oysters. Idk, it just feels like a huge waste for such a farce.
You are absolutely right. This is just speculation but I am assuming these are thrown away because the solutions they are kept in are toxic to humans?
@@jaymondallie probably. Someone said in another comment that they use formaldehyde to preserve the oysters so after that they're pretty much useless
Yes these are preserved in formaldehyde and tossed in the trash after shucking. It's a weird gimic industry unfortunately
It's like k'ing a chicken after it lays it's first egg.
Someone mentioned they have to send back the shells an a new pedal is added, they reseal it an send it back out. (Don’t know how true it is)
It’s so weird to me that people can be so disconnected from the animal cruelty that they’re contributing to. These animals have their place in the world and yet… they’ve been reduced down to a scammy commodity
I'm glad you mentioned this, it's as if they don't see them as living beings at all
I never thought id feel bad about oysters/clams but these are so bad. Real oyster farming wont kill the oysters because, well it takes time for new ones to grow and then even make pearls. Like you cant even eat these oysters cuz its all preserved.
I can't even kill a spider or wasp when they come into MY HOME (with the exception particularly sus ones maybe near or in my bed 😅), to the point that I'll scoop them up in a cup or something & carry them outside! I honestly couldn't count on my fingers & toes the #'s of them that I've 'saved'! So you're not going to catch me or my loved ones participating in this depressing stinking (pun intended) pastime 😅 I couldn't imagine smelling the stench of them wafting 😷 and not thinking this must be God's way of telling me, this was a terrible idea & the horrible smell is lingering his reminder of the poor innocent sea creatures that were sacrificed. 😮😅
@@danysanerd2383 Thank you for catching and releasing spiders. They’re my favorite animals and the ones I have bring me so much joy. They really are vital to our survival and just trying to live life and survive like the rest of us 🫶
@@witchy90210 Not only that, most of those oyster wouldn’t have even had pearls in them in the first place. It is extremely rare to find an oyster pearl, hence why they are so expensive.
Whats even more devastating about all of this is these creators have no respect for life. People that do this professionally take a lot of time and skill to retrieve the pearl without harming or killing the oyster. These people on tik tok are butchering them and then on top of that I guarentee they completely waste and throw them away. Most creators and influencers these days have no morals and will do ANYTHING to make a quick buck. Love your channel!
I'm shocked that people are glossing over the animal cruelty aspect of this. Nothing about this is ethical.
The oysters are dead and preserved
I get what you mean, but the oysters are already dead when they get sent to these people, and someone said they're preserved in formaldehyde so what the hell else are you going to do with them? Eating them would kill you. I'm not saying it's not wasteful in general, but it's not like people are cruelly killing live oysters and then dumping them in the trash, they're opening already-dead oysters that are preserved in a smelly poison.
Ugh yeah I watched a video of someone delicately removing a pearl without harming the oyster at all. Then there is THIS.
Thank you for exposing this! People don’t realize that natural pearls without human intervention is very rare and those pearls are worth tons of money.
It's also really important to note that perfectly sphere pearls are RARE, coloured pearls are equally as rare (as they depend on the Nacre, the colourful hardened spit of the oyster that you can see lining the inside of the shell) and would never be that vibrant AND pearls that big simply cannot come from oysters that small. They (the oyster) would spit out the offending pearlized debris long before they pearl could get that big. These pearls are likely completely fake, dyed, and placed inside the oyster then sold as a novelty gimmick. There used to be a big trend on youtube with Chinese channels "hunting" for river oysters and they did the same thing.
Those colors really make them look like plastic beads.
I really thought they were.
Those "pearls" look like Mardi Gras beads 😂😅
My son's a pantry chef at a seafood restaurant and opens dozens of oysters a night. He's never found a pearl.
I’ve known of the pear MLM for a few years because of Isabella. AND I ACTUALLY GOT APPROACHED IN PUBLIC at a craft show event (I am a young small business owner and do craft shows, events, Street celebrations) by a women who wants to TRADE her oysters for MY HANDMADE STOCK of product. And how many pieces of product you gave was how many oysters you got to shuck for pearls.
I’ve never seen or heard of stock trading before in my time of shows, but the fact that of being approached to trade handmade items that take man hours to make…for a couple oysters genuinely shocked me 😭🤣
Like I’d understand handmade item for handmade items or something you’d actually like.
But the moment she handed me her card and I saw the oyster drawing on it and the pearl chart on the back of it In my head I was like “ THIS IS THAT MLM ”
I really want to know what they do with the handmade items that they may get through these trades. Do they resell them at shows as there own stock?
Probably
Wowwww that is SO bold and absolutely absurd!! Did she actually think that was gonna work?? Why would you want to trade your handmade goods, one for one, for oysters?! Like maybe it’d be a better deal if she offered like at least 10 or like 100 of them for one of your items haha then maybe it’d be a slightly more appealing trade 😂 ridiculous I’m so sorry, I am certain your handmade items are lovely and worth WAY more than one singular oyster w/ pearl!!
Or maybe she wanted to get rid of all her stock because she wanted to quit the MLM and thought that being a retainer of handmade goods would be a good idea 😉🤷😉😉 Some people are that crazy 🤷😉😉
When my daughter got super into the pearl opening parties about 10 years ago, I bought a dozen off Amazon for her to open for her birthday. Stunk so bad she quit after 2. I ended up opening the rest, and they may still be in a ziplock somewhere stinking
Bury them in the backyard 😂
Stinking 😂
hate that animals are being killed for this bs. oysters can absolutely give up pearls in a sustainable way where they don’t have to die. this is so gross.
No legit business would want to continuously source new product when they can just keep them alive to make more.
I went to one of their websites and the prices were WILD. One oyster for like $20?! They’ll throw in random values and I’m willing to bet they pull it out of their butts cause there’s no way.
From what i know, the oysters not always injected with substances to produce a specific color/shape. Often if pearls are needed in big batches, companies will feed the oysters with small rocks/sand that have desired shape
Cheap pearl farming is created with a "seed" that is a presized core of cheap material that is inserted to accrue patina over a few months or years. They are pulled from the animals, dyed, reinserted into preserved dead oysters, and glued shut. It's why you can get them for around $3 each directly.
Now I want to do a deep dive on colors or natural and cultivated pearls vs colors of fake pearls.
Yes! So glad you're covering this! I've been seeing these ALL over TikTok AGAIN!
they popped up on my fyp a ton recently too!! I was like "damn we need an update on these lives"
This is in the same vein as the people who "find" pre tumbled gemstones or go foraging and always find fish/crabs/whatever.
Tbf if u go foraging in certain areas u will often find edible things oysters and clams are really common on the local beaches near me as a kid we’d spend days at the beach collecting them during the summer and always found a good few my uncles loved them none of the kids would eat them but my dad and his brothers would sit in the evening and eat a bucketful
My dad eats a lot of oysters and he's found a couple pearls over the years and It's like our own pearl parties right at home except we don't waste the oyster and I get a cool little trinket to put in my jewlery box.
He must eat a lot of oysters!! A pearl in one of them made for eating is pretty rare
@@patriciaw636 Oh he can eat an ungodly amount in one sitting. He lives in a place where you can get a lot of oysters for fairly cheap and he just destroys them at every family gathering.
@@patriciaw636I didn’t know oysters had to be raised a certain way for eating ? I live near a beach and we use to collect them in summer for my uncles cause they use to eat them
We used to troll them and call them #ClamScams lol
Your pearl party video was the first one I watched on your channel and I'm so glad it's come full circle and you're talking about it again! ❤
Yeah i couldve sworn i saw the injection mold line on some of the 'pearls'
So, as someone who buys high-quality freshwater pearls to make jewelry: a string big enough to make a necklace costs me between 7 to 29 US dollars, depending on the shape, color and size. These prices are insane.
Why do they just not do that if they want the stone? This is insane. It is also disgusting, literally and ethically.
It reminds me of a form of gambling for the people purchasing. Claw machine is a great analogy too… expensive claw machine. I think it gets ppl the same way gambling does in the brain. The crystal lives are a similar thing & they’re so sketchy too but I’ll admit I got sucked into watching one of those lives cuz I love crystals but I just knew it was too good to be true.
I think the term shes looking for is Gacha Games
I am obsessed with watching the lives. Id never buy from them but they can be so entertaining.
Ive seen some scrunch up their nose due to the smell while trying to smile its the most hilarious thing ever
Yeah, whenever I hear them say they’re these rare pearls, I keep thinking of the Etsy listings for antique pearl necklaces (with real, natural pearls) that go up to $15,000 (don’t even mention those that are from designer brands; I know it’s a lot, but frankly- so is gambling on pearls). I’ve gotten some beautiful pearl pieces that are incredibly unique (and are real; two shops I recommend are Solar Silver and Gold that does a fun inlaying technique with silver and other pearls and Common Era that also sells mythology inspired pieces). I do love pearls, but yeah, this is scammy.
Edit- I think I remember seeing a comment on another video where a marine biologist shucked one of the mollusks from the pearl parties and said that the mollusk that came in the mail doesn’t even produce a pearl. So there’s that.
The poor oysters :(
Ok, small confession. I used to be OBSESSED with watching a lady open oysters live on Facebook literally back in 2016. I would watch her lives for HOURS! I never bought one but oh my god I was in DEEP!
Me too!!
I think it's the fascination with lootboxes. I used to enjoy watching people opening lootboxes for Overwatch or Pokemon card packs.
It was def a BIG fb thing for awhile!
Several years ago, my mom bought oysters for us to open. They were natural colors and shapes. Very sad that this market has turned into this.
I’VE MISSED THE PEARLS! Idk why but that one is just so intriguing to me
They were all over Facebook. I fell for them hook line and sinker (pun intended). I spent far too much money on this scam and the ring scam as well. This was years ago before I knew better and started following anti-MLM content.
I remember seeing them on Facebook too, I can’t believe they’re still going!
I mean, people can’t believe those are real pearls in those plastics bags right? lol
Omg girl I found your channel from that first Pearl MLM video you made...this feels so full circle! ❤
i hope you go over even if briefly how pearls are made in oysters cuz people dont understand how unlikely it is for a perfectly round, colored pearl to come out of an oyster naturally. like there has to be some kind of human scam-nengigans going on. This is all so dumb, but hey, love your content ;)
CLAM SCAM!
SHUCKERS FOR SUCKERS!
Damn!
I love it when you talk about topics like this
Me too!
One of my sisters was in the top three at Pampered Chef. She finally quit because the strain of constantly having to push people to push their people to push their people and sell that crap. Another sister couldn’t make it and ended up with thousands of dollars in required purchases when she quit.
Hilarious you are not proud of your old pearl party video. That was the first video I found from you and got me to subscribe and I have gone back and put it on in the background multiple times 😂😂😂😂 perfect or not
Those poor oysters 😢
oh!!! i literally just watched your first video from like 11 months ago and enjoyed your content, so colour me pleasantly surprised to see a follow-up! i was always so confused when I scrolled to those lives so thanks for the deep dives :)
All these scams and actual small businesses get ignored or a bad name from the backlash of it all
We were JUST rewatching the pearl party mlm videos❤❤❤
My favorite videos before bed are the red hot (insert metal here) ball that go through ice specifically 😂 the sounds it makes and the spinning are just 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
Anyone else grossed out by watching those hands dig out the pearls? Just me?
No it squicked me out big time
The first time I happened upon one of these parties online, I had been drinking a bit of wine. Thought to myself, wow I think I need to stop for the night. I'm seeing weird shit. How will I ever explain what I saw to others?
I remember doing dissections in 6th grade. The smell of the formaldehyde made a bunch of kids get sick all over the hallway leading up to the science rooms.
I can’t imagine what these peoples houses smell like 🤢 go outside!!!
Your last pearl mlm video was the first ever video I saw of you! I've been here ever since
omg i just found your channel yesterday through those pearl videos, what amazing luck to see this now
These poor animals. How revolting.
The fake pearl colors just scream plastic jewelry "Pretty Pretty Princess Party" vibes
i randomly watched your other pearl video last night before bed and get to enjoy this one now!! loove your content!
The first video I watched of yours was about these pearl tik tok lives. I thought they were so bizarre that I kept watching videos about them. To me, this is one of the least appealing scam MLMs: from either side of the business. I would not want to handle any oysters, and I would not want to pay for overpriced (likely fake) pearls.
And when it comes to your channel, I've been watching it ever since that video and I'm hoping your channel has even more success in the future, girlie. You're my favorite person for Pink Sauce drama, and I listen to you while I'm crafting or just having a bit of downtime.
The pearl MLMs used to do Facebook lives, about 10ish years ago. I remember classmates that were a few years out of graduation doing them & being really confused as to why. It sounded super dumb as a “business” back then, but now I know they were just roped into an MLM 😮
I found you from your original pearl video! So happy to see you covering this again!
Their houses must smell RIPE.
These were all the rage 8-10 years ago on Facebook. My sister in law was in some pearl party MLM.
Can we talk about the innocent oysters that give their lives to this scam??
Ok I had never heard of these before! I must’ve missed it last year when you did it! At first glance pearl party sounds like something adults only 🤣
These videos are awesome! Love listening to them during work.
aww thank you so much!!!
Omg ring bomb parties! I'm here for it 😅 I got a few of those stupid jewelry candles many years ago and they were so bad. Candles were fine but that was it. No MLM but these days it seems like everything is. Overpriced junk indeed.
i literally JUST found you because of your videos covering this, i feel like this is fate that i subscribe now
Ok, I’m obsessed with your glasses, Isabella!! Where can I get them?
Hahahahaha the idea of clam live streaming is such a weird concept wtf
So of course it’s an MLM product so it’s marked up to the gods, but even coming at this from another angle… I recently went to a fine jewelry store to sell some old things. I actually had several pearl necklaces and was told they were essentially worthless as pearls were so common LOL. I can’t even imagine how worthless these ~blue~ and ~purple~ ones are
Love your glasses! Where are they from?
Congrats on 70k, Isabella!
Saw this on fb live years ago I was just shocked how many ppl were talking on live
The WOODEN cutting board. My god the bacteria in there.
Can you do a video on Tupperware? I've been seeing their products in target and am unsure about it. Because I want to support them not being an mlm but not if they still have the non mlm side? I'm very confused on this.
It must smell so bad. Also pearls so colorful in nature? Smell like fake
These are basically loot boxes. Microtransactions IRL.
I’ve never come across the word “shuck” before. Didnt realize there was a dedicated verb for shellfish opening lol
You can also shuck corn!
The lady with bathbombs is from my hometown. That's hitting way too close to home. They showing up in the scams/mlm RUclips 😂
I’ve noticed some of the pearl and bomb party tiktokers have transitioned into drop ship “boutiques”
Freshwater pearls can be pretty inexpensive blows my mind people will opt to do this instead of just buying what they want
I love the glasses! They really suit you! :)
These have been super popular on Facebook since covid
My issue with these videos is that they are essentially a form of gambling, which makes them addictive and encourages you to spend more and more money on them when you really don’t need this stuff in the quantities they are trying to get you to buy. The flashy openings and the asmr water trickling in the background is the modern version of slot machines.
That looks so gross
From all the comments I just read about the pearls in oysters , never heard of it . I’m watching from Australia
did the facebook group ever notice your videos and kick you out? i love these mlm/scam videos!
The fact that u can even open pearls in Disney is crazy. I refuse to ever buy them from anyone. Those poor clams
This took over Facebook for a minute a few years back, too. Maybe it’s mentioned in the video but I’m commenting way at the beginning.
Are these parties still going on WOW!
oh they are! so much so that i've got another deep dive planned on a specific company!
I keep seeing one that’s wax melts? I want to say that the brand is Pink Zebra I’d like to know the juicy details about that brand.
I have always found these so interesting.
Now the big pearl lady jumped to the bomb jewelry party.
I clicked on the video because you posted 😂 I barely even read the title, but make thats just me lol
The pearls in the sealed bags are just dead dehydrated oysters that they shove a fake pearl in then glue shut.
The oysters with the meat are inseminated with irritants then grown on oyster farms.
Either way, it’s such a waste.
I used to watch them for a little while a while back when they were on Facebook. I never bought any.
The demand for these fake pearls is perpetuating the overfishing of our oceans 😢
What happens to the oysters ?, or do they just reuse them….
Oof, it's worse than I thought! Double waste: a pearl is "harvested" from a mussel, then dyed & put in an oyster that gets sold.
Pearls *can* be harvested w/o killing, but that takes time & skill - so nope. Then the oyster is inedible because it's been dead too long, and it's usually soaked in formaldehyde or worse. All for cheap pearls not even worth $1.
I really hate this MLM/trend! (Not a vegan but I hate waste & especially killing animals for no reason.)
As a jewellery student, one of the most important things for me is getting stones in person from trustworthy companies. (In England, I usually go to Hatton Garden for that). It's honestly common sense to buy it in person from trustworthy professionals. But overconsumption and people seeing anything online and being like, I want it is the reason things like this exist and the reason why things which were once considered precious are reducing in value. Its so easy to get scammed through things like this. Especially when it comes to jewellery.
And don't get me started on the unethical practices of these types of people.
These tiktok lives are my guilty pleasure. I’ll never buy, but I’ll watch for hours hahah
Scam aside, it's so gross ☹️ like they have a dead oyster that someone showed a "pearl" into, then they dig it back out of the guts. Imagine the stink, plus now you have a bunch of dead oysters laying around
Thank you for showing example videos.
Yesss petal tiktok drama is my favourite
This makes bird going extinct or almost instinct for their feathers for hats make a lot of sense now.
Isabella can I please know where you got your glasses I love them!!
MLMs are really crap, it sucks to see companies preying on desperate people trying to improve their life.