6 Assumptions I’m Sick Of Hearing About As A Blogger

I swear as a blogger, as soon as you say oh you’re a blogger there are lots of assumptions that are made about you. I’ve had that lately with someone that I am friends with. I’ve said so many times that blogging is one of the greatest things I’ve ever started, for various different reasons, but it has been a journey and a half for me. I’ve learned so much, but also I’ve realised that it makes you realise what true friends you have around you – mainly because people make some seriously ridiculous assumptions about what being a blogger means.

So what assumptions am I sick of hearing?

Every item we feature is automatically gifted

The new guidelines in my opinion from the ASA are great to an extent, I love the fact that it is reminding people the importance of declaring gifted items. I do it all of the time, you will see * next to a title to show gifted items and on Instagram there will be gifted at the beginning of the caption. The problem is though, people are reporting people for items that haven’t been gifted, automatically assuming that it has been and it’s awful. Not everything has been gifted, we do buy products to support the brands that we love and if it has been gifted we will tell you.

We get paid lots of money to talk about products

Some influencers get paid a lot of money to talk about products and I am like, get that coin people, I’m proud of them. But not all of us do, so don’t automatically assume that we all get paid lots of money to blog. We do this because we enjoy it, we enjoy talking to people with similar interests, share things we love and just have an outlet just for us. Blogging is a joy. That is it.

That content creation is easy

Creating content can be so hard, especially when it comes to Instagram. Instagram is pretty much like a yo-yo. You can have all the content creation ideas in the world and then you post to Instagram and basically 2% of your following sees the post. Oh hello feeling like you’re doing all this hard work for no reason. I mean it’s pretty much soul destroying on another level.

Gifted items pay the bills

It’s pretty straight forward that gifted items don’t pay the bills. I don’t sell my samples on, I normally share with my family, my friends or if I haven’t opened them I give them to charity. People seem to think that gifted items can go towards our bills, someone close to me actually suggested that to me before and I’m like seriously? I’m pretty sure that O2 won’t accept a highlighter as part of my phone bill.

Being a blogger is easy

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, blogging is really hard, we manage multiple social media accounts, write blog posts, try to have a regular life, get a few hours sleep and just be a normal functioning human being. It can be hard. Yes we choose to do it, but that is because we genuinely enjoy it and we love having an outlet. That is what is important to us.

That we are all trying to be the next Zoella

I mean fair enough we would all love to create our own products the way that Zoella does (maybe not the advent calendar – sorry Zoe) and earn money from that. That would be a dream if I could create my own vegan range of beauty products – maybe one day, but the reason I wanted to start my blog was to have an outlet. My blog is important to me because I can share what I’m thinking and feeling without being judged. I’ll be forever grateful for what the bigger bloggers have done for us and paved the way for us small timers to work with amazing brands and create such fantastic content but not all of us want the same thing from blogging. Sometimes we just want an outlet.

What assumptions are you sick of hearing? Let me know in the comments!

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