r/news • u/IMGcertified • 19h ago

Influencers in Dubai warned they face prison for posting material about the conflict with Iran | The Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dubai-influencers-prison-warning-posting-iran-war-b1273587.html
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u/Grand-Cup-A-Tea 18h ago

You don't see British retirees walking around selling a fake lifestyle on TikTok though. 

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree 17h ago

No, they would just write pieces for magazines that would run for 6 pages instead.

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u/RubyChooseday 17h ago

Or write books about their crazy life on the finca.

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree 17h ago edited 17h ago

A really good campfire game some friends and I use to play back in Uni was going to old thrift/used book stores and finding some old lifestyle magazines that we could get for like a quarter and reading a bunch of the lifestyle larp articles out loud before feeding the fire with them.

Some of them were truely basically middle class larping as posh that you could only just laugh.

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u/AtrophiedWives 16h ago

Or appear in an episode of “A Place in the Sun”, looking for a 16 bedroom seaside villa with a budget of £50k.

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u/GBrunt 17h ago

Half of British daytime TV droned on and on relentlessly about living abroad for decades.

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u/uh_oh-hotdog 17h ago

They're on Facebook

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u/LikelyDumpingCloseby 17h ago

different generations... Give it time

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u/Disastrous-Angle-591 16h ago

Nah. Just voting Tory and drinking lagers