A few hours later, UK vlogger Elle Darby revealed she was the influencer who reached out to the hotel. "The sooner the blogging industry is realised as a proper industry the better." "Following the backlash received after asking an unidentified blogger to pay for a hotel room, I have taken the decision to ban all bloggers from our hotel and cafe. He said Darby’s video response was in keeping with bloggers’ "general modus operandi". "This kind of victimization is very prevalent in the blogging industry, and is in keeping with their general modus operandi of wanting everything for nothing," he said.

Source: Evening echo January 18, 2018 15:45 UTC