What Inked Magazine Doesn't Want You To Know... Cover Girl Contest
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- The president of Inked magazine reached out to me - seemingly - to get me to stop talking about the inked magazine cover girl contest. And I'm not the only one they're contacting ! Today we're talking about the inked magazine cover girl contest and how allegedly it's a scam. Enjoy!
0:00 Introduction
1:19 Inked Cover Girl Contest
4:00 Official Dani V
5:26 Cover Girl Competitors
7:22 6K Payment
8:50 Contest Winners
11:56 Inked Originals
12:31 Inked Contacting Creators
13:25 Tattooed Models
17:10 Final Thoughts
See you next week! 💛
Inked Cover Girl Contest
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i participated in the very first cover girl contest. it was absolutely a popularity contest & scam to get those paid votes. i now share you video as a warning to others.
There are also contests like this that scam people all over the Internet including art and music competitions were you still pay to play
Yeah it was totally going to talk about this as an artist who draws and i photography, i know a lot of these magazines for models or artists are just paid to try to participate and get shit that you have to pay to get votes on these magazines or even get in them when you have to pay to like submit to like an art show and you still wont git in the magazine or show because whoever didn't choose you
yeah like that forbes 30 under 30 one
33@@BelindaShort
All contests about preference are nothing but popularity contests, meaning they're all a scam.
OH BUT IT GETS DEEPER
I have a unique perspective with this, I believe it was 2023 I was in BOTH the inked cover girl competition and a NAIL magazine!
I got the ad for inked first and was already in it, I believe, when I got the ad for the nail magazine. I hand paint nail art for my career so of course I thought I have more of a shot at that!
What’s crazier… they had the same phone number. Both contests are connected to the same phone number for updates and probably is run by the same company. It went all exactly the same, there was even people who only had a selfie for their pictures and no nails 😂 so some how this does go deeper and there is an entire company just spitting these out scamming so many people. I’m so sad because lots of my clients were voting for me and my dad even paid for votes because at a certain point that’s was you HAD to do!
Trying to help get this more attention
Bumping!
WOWWWWW 😢
Thx for sharing. This should become common knowledge
Whoa....
It's a little wild that no winners are... Identifiable as having won at all.
Props for not letting them sway you into taking down the video. I always have respect for ppl whose voice can't be bought
Absolutely!
Omg the fact that they're contacting people with talking about how it's a scam with the bait of being an "influencer" is insane LMAO!! Thank you for continuing to talk about this, luckily I think most people are aware of it now but I still see promo for it
ALSO--not shaming anyone with few tattoos--but the past few years have been random women with veryyy few tattoos & coverage, which is odd for a brand who's whole image is heavily covered tattoo enthusiasts
I'm afraid their gonna come out with a cease and desist to her channel.
As she said in the video all of their merchandise is so ugly or cheesy, like I’d be embarrassed to wear it.
I had no idea abt this. Ig the attempt to stop ppl talking abt this failed then...
i entered the contest as a joke. at the time i had absolutely no tattoos (or i might have gotten my tiny heart tattoo behind my ear, but that’s literally my only tattoo and it’s mostly hidden). in my bio i put that “this would be an opportunity for me to become a canvas for some of the greatest artists in the world”. don’t know if they actually read it, but they accepted me regardless.
I (personally) can't get over the "we are the global authority on tattoo lifestyle..." From their email to you. Maybe influence, but authority? Reminds me of Cartman from South Park
I think that’s their tagline kind of thing, I’ve seen it in the magazine, on their website and on merch before
RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAHH
I used to work for tattoo magazines when there were a lot more out there than just Inked. When Inked popped up and they started covering artists and events, it was always pay to feature stuff. They've always been this weird shady part of tattoo media and somehow outlasted all the others. I guess it's because they appeal to celebrities and celebrity tattooers.
Would actually be interested in a video diving into this. Wonder if maybe Inked just got bought by a bigger publisher and was able to throw more resources into the magazine or if it was branding or editorial direction or design or some other reason.
All other magazines that have models on the cover PAY those models for their work. Inked is having their models pay THEM for being featured. That's so sus!!!
Pay to play is more profitable than honest journalism
It's blatantly obvious when magazines are pay to feature. I can look around my town and see better work than Inked features. Not to mention I despise the sleazy stuff they often post on instagram. One of my huge pet peeves in the tattoo community is artists and websites using women's bodies to promote their work. If you're tattoos can't get you views and you've got to use photos and videos where there's more focus on your clients T&A than on the quality of the piece you did, just stop tattooing.
Mo’s right. what’s wild is the 2021 winner BARELY has any tattoos. 😂😂
i work with women who have more tattoos than she has. it’s definitely a ‘who paid the most’ contest.
also, a real one - 📚📚📚
For litigation purposes, everyone remember that it's only a scam if it actually is rigged, otherwise it's just shady and gross. Celle did an amazing job making sure her video didn't contain anything she could be sued for. If you're in the comments and you have a decent sized following, you should do the same.
All competition like this are a scam. There is a similar one in the baking community ran by a baking magazine. And hundreds of ppl fall for it a year.
Saw this for the first time this year!!!
It's also new to me
Thank you so much for exposing this scam. Tattooed women need to stick together and maybe start a mag for us, by us!!
that would be lovely! ❤️🩹i rarely see other tatted women where i live
That would be so cool! It’s long overdue imo
Maybe make a Kickstarter?
I participated a few years ago (2020-22 i forget). I'm not social media famous, not skinny, and I have a lot of ink but still have skin showing. I was having a moment where I wanted to try something new and for fun. Anyways, I got 5th place on the last run and there was someone who was in last, but blasted to 1st and won in the final hour. My friend was monitoring it cuz he was excited for me, and he thought it was very odd. But thanks for the video, it definitely verifies the suspicions. Now I'm over it, but hey I got out of my comfort zone for a moment 😁📚
Just to clarify, the "one free vote a day" also requires that you enter your credit card details "just to verify". Seriously 😒
No it doesn't, I do the one free vote a day through Facebook login
A tattoo CZcams named Justinked tried entering the contest as well, and he has some amazing work, but somebody with hardly any tattoos passed him, that’s when he started realizing something fishy was going on. It would be great if the winner of the contest was based on who had the best ink, but that is clearly not the case.
Another thing I've noticed is inked and a few other big tattoo platforms always choose models who are "conventionally attractive". There needs to be older women, disabled women etc. The focus is on how profitable the bodies are rather the quality of art on the bodies.
Some mentally disabled, tatted women would be wild!!!
That’s the name of the game. They have to make people want to buy or subscribe. It’s a business at the end of the day. They’re selling a fantasy just like every other magazine that deals in art, beauty, or fashion. We’ve seen other companies applauded for your approach but sales slumped.
While I want to agree because it’s suppose to be about the tats, their subscriber base is mainly males.
Their focus is on profitable bodies bc they are a business and those bodies sell magazines.
@@jessicahay9305 well yeah no shit. It's just frustrating cause the demographic of people who read those magazines wanna see cool tattoos, not porn.
📚 They tried to buy you off, and you just exposed them more, lol. You're so real for that.
I joined last year's inked magazines competition, and I was so excited. All you said is so true. I saw some ppl with no tattoos saying they wanted their first tattoo from Ryan Ashley. Beautiful, heavily tattooed women were lower ranked than the ppl who had a few small tattoos. My family and I were annoyed at the system and how it worked. It felt like it wasn't a true competition. I felt bad because my family members spent money on me to stay in. I'm glad that people are speaking about this.
Looks like people are asking the wrong question. Instead of asking if it's a scam, ask if it's even a competition.
I participated in 2022 and the moment I realized I had to constantly post about voting I knew I wasn't going to win. I don't care enough to constantly bombard people to vote. That to me is embarrassing as it feels like I'm begging ha. The thing that frustrated me the most was the winner was an onlyfans model with only an arm sleeve. Nothing wrong with her profession but she clearly had the upper hand in popularity. It was also upsetting that she isn't heavily tattooed. I feel like there should be a limit requirement for this like "hey you have to have a minimum of this many tattoos to be accepted." People like myself dedicate a lot of time and money to present ourselves as tattood people and that is what I want to see represented on a tattoo magazine cover.
Thank you for talking about the recession. It's so majorly important and bringing attention to it can bring change!
Maxim also does this. When I was a kid, JC Penny’s was offering shoppers to be models in their magazines, but the stipulation was that you had to buy the clothes you were modeling that were $80-100/dress in the 90s. My mom passed 😂
Yoooo new Celle vid dropped 🔥🔥
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Wanted to enter in 2018 as my boyfriend is my tattoo artist so I figured it would be good exposure for him. Saw that we had to pay for votes and didn’t think it was worth it and that it wouldn’t be fair since at the time I barely had a half sleeve at the time and thought about all the heavily tattooed women that deserved the exposure more. It could be easy for just anyone to win with the small amount of tattoos.
Drawing competitions with adobe are kinda similar except it’s your time they take from you that you spent on your artwork. You could have spent 40 hr on an artwork and not win and they would be able to use it as they please, as in the T and cs they hide that they take ownership of every artwork that is submitted to the competition. I haven’t even heard from the girl since she won the one from Billie’s competition so it kinda is similar, at least to me. They also didn’t give her any money from the tshirts they produced that had her artwork on it, just a big sum of 4000…. Young people are like wow that’s a lot of money, but don’t realise that if they don’t win your time and effort was just so adobe could profit off of you.
Good work! Your hard work and effort are very evident. Brave stance and I fully agree . 📚
wow this actually makes me so upset for the hopeful women that used their own money & their family and friends & followers who spent money when the winner is absolutely pre-selected IMO. inked makes SO MUCH profit. sad and disgusting. thanks celle for continuing to expose them
The fact that they tried to dissuade you from exposing this - says a lot. An admission of guilt lol thanks for making this!
Oh you ate them up, i love this
I’m so gone! I was like, your declining FIRST because they have ugly merch?? Not because they’re grimy?
Then I saw the merch. Duly noted.
This video is deep. You did a grat job breaking down every element.
I’m proud of you, sweetheart. ❤
This form of "competition" in general seems really outdated and really... icky to me 😅
I feel like we haven't made any progress sometimes. We just keep foolishly stepping backwards into the same old exploitative roles.
There’s a few big tattoo magazines still around that do a great job at focusing on tattoos….and inked magazine is definitely not one of them 😗 I think of inked magazine as more of a pop culture magazine that includes mostly famous people or people that have a lot of followers on social media that just so happen to have a few tattoos.
This very much reminds me of the cosplay competition contest that had the exact same set up last year. I initially signed up for it before more and more info came out and i and others had our photos used to advertise them with out paying us because they now legally 'owned' the photos we submitted to the contest.
Haha I love you stood up to it and even called it out. I saw the first 30 seconds and I knew you had integrity
I considered it recently before I knew about it being a scam. I was even weirded out with the lack of details they give and the website looked very fake so I didn't even try. And then this video popped up about a week later how ironic
My older sister was in the competition, and she has quite a few tattoos on her arms and in other places, but at the time she was pregnant so her picture(s) didn't really show all of them very well.
She really needed the money at the time and she had so many people voting for her but it didn't even look like she was moving spots at all so this really sucks to hear
While inked sucks and what they are doing is horrible and manipulative and scammy most of say majority of magazines wouldn't necessarily want a pregnant woman as a model unless it's specifically pregnancy related. No offense or anything to your sister. Such is life.
i joined a very similar competition, literally set up the exact same and it was the supreme sneaker head contest smh, seeing this video now puts it all into perspective, so disappointing these people do this smh.
Inked mag has always seemed skeezy and exploitative.
Also, a lot of artists they featured were wildly arrogant about tattooing.
Love your videos. I feel like I started getting tattoos around when you started postings and you have given me such a good crash course.
Never this early bc of work but I love your content and have always thought smth was up with the inked cover girl contest! Glad someone is covering it. 🖤
On a slightly unrelated note: This reminded me of how I have been watching your content for a couple years now. You have improved a ton! Still love the old videos too of course. It's been awesome to see your youtuber and tattooing journey. :)
don’t have much to add right now but thanks for another great video, yours are always so chill, free of judgement and calming whatever the topic 📚
Thank you so much for doing this! I’m in my second contest and it was feeling so ick, so I found your video, let’s keep talking about it and sharing this so women don’t fall into the trap 📚
YESSSS CELLE!!!! 👏 clap back at ‘em!!! My fav video of yours to date 🥰✨
The Face of Horror does the same exact thing. Almost the same layout as well.
Great post. Love your tattoos!
Love your videos you have such a soothing talking voice
Thanks for the heads up. Keep grinding 💪🏻
Your content is so good, I always look forward to when you post! I swear I click so fast 😅 it's so nice to see young confident women talking about being heavily tattooed and proud. Unfortunately in my life none of my family are supportive and really hate my tattoos and make it blatantly clear which is quite upsetting. You're videos make me feel like I belong ❤
You're awesome for speaking out about this
I would looove a jewelry collection video! Particularly your barbed wire heart hoops and your heart/sword linear earrings are gorgeous
Always enjoy the videos 📚
I do agree on the standpoint of how only female influencers with minimal tattoos are now on the mag covers, and how it's wrong. When they're showing the men that are still heavily tattooed but the women that are minimally tattooed, it sends a message. It sends a message that it's only acceptable for men to be heavily tattooed and women aren't supposed to be, or that only hot women have little to no tattoos, and that there's some sort of line between hot and trashy that's exclusive to women. And that's just so sexist and backwards in all the work we've been doing as a community and society. But then again, we're going backwards in the US on so many things so ig this is just joining all of that.
good for you for making this video!!!
love your channel!! pls post more videos
I can't get over how beautiful your hand tattoo is. I love your videos. 📚
Thank you for sharing researched information that gets the truth out and helps peers make better informed decisions. 📚
The blank photo. 🤦🏽♀️
I am just commenting to hopefully feed the algorithm and get you more views as I love that you are wiling to bring attention to this despite Inked reaching out. Always have to support that integrity from creators. By the way, when are you coming out with your own merch?! I would have bought something just to make sure speaking the truth is always rewarded over bribes from those wishing to silence people.
Well done having the integrity to refuse.enjoy this channel as so relaxing.💙uk
I know someone in the top 20 in this competition. This just makes me sick.
Thanks for keeping it real celle 🔥
Youre so right! I can't think of any of the winner's names or what they look like. 😮 What a wild ride this video was. I was thinking of entering someday but 😬😬... naw.
Thank you for making this video!
I had a friend enter a few years ago. She was 2nd in her calgary, and I lost track after that. I remember voting for her and seeing that you could pay for more votes, and that was unfair to everyone and , t made me think that it was a scam.
I have NO tattoos but wanted to comment that your integrity is exceptional and refreshing to see
me super confused on how I wasn't subscribed to you- I subed now lol
I’ve seen several contests that do that. There’s a contest to meet Kane Hodder take a picture with him have a small role in a movie and win $13,000 the money that you pay for votes goes to some charity
A friend of mine entered a dog contest and it has the same system but The money goes to charity too.
Not sure if it actually goes to charity
First time seeing one of your videos, and this is both interesting and informative, although I would suggest you take up the Inked President on his offer to "talk about the contest," although not on his offers. I think it would be interesting to see if he would be willing to be interviewed by you on this topic as well as what he would be willing to say about it. Yes, more than likely he only wants to get you to stop criticizing them, but who knows, it couldn't hurt to try
📚 great video 👏🏾
New subscriber here - love your content!📚
So real for talking about this, it’s frustrating 📚
Wow. Just Wow. There were several women here locally that asked for votes. On one, I was able to give one vote for free. However, with two others, I was asked for my credit card info and I just clicked out. I was not going to give any money for a vote or give my financial info.
I'm glad you are digging into this.
Another great video.
Great video! I am a musician in a metal band. There are many similar scams in the indie music scene 📚
If you think about how they probably make revenue most likely you're threatening their cash cow, sow be careful! So much respect for this video, these kinds of contests exist all over the internet in so many different flavors, there has to be more awareness. And comeuppance for those companies who have intentionally, happily misled their patrons for years.
Well done video. Liked and commented for AL.
Love your videos ❤
Love your videos 📚
📚📚📚 wow just found u and I’m in love w you and your videos 📚📚📚
Reached out to Ink through email. They were transparent on how many groups but could not be transparent on how many votes per contestant due to "privacy policy". They had way more than 10k contestants from the start. In what they call, "final group" that ends today there are 2016 groups with 5 people in each competing for # 1 in their group. 2016 GROUPS. And this contest has been going on for weeks. There were over 50 people per group at the start. 2016 x 50 people, that 100,800 people. Now take that x $100 average/person probably bought votes=$10,080,00 minus the 25% donated to musicare that leaves them with $7,560,000 just in the first round. And Winner gets $25k plus some perks maybe = to$50k???
I wish I knew this sooner😭 I just paid 375 dollars for a friend and now I'm sad. I don't have a job and spent all my savings. Those dirt bag multi millionaires are scamming poor people. I want my money back😡 They're scamming those poor girls and taking advantage of them
Love ya!!!!
I entered and the first time I posted about voting I had five different friends reach out about how the contest was a scam. I immediately stopped promoting anything for it and still managed to get pretty far in my group??? I’m glad people are getting more aware and it encourages people to not waste their time/money but it’s so sad at the same time.
📚 great video!
If somebody is selling you a shortcut to success, aka being an influencer, they're selling you a scam.
Thanks for sharing ❤ This is the era of authenticity, let's keep talking. I do not have THAT emoji here 😢 I'm not real.
I’ve seen many different contests like this before also. One of my friends collects sneakers and I guess he is part of the community, and somehow he was put into a contest formatted exactly the same way. If he won he would get to help design some sort of sneaker. Another friend of mine is also growing his name as a pianist and participated in another contest… formatted exactly the same way… but for piano artists. I’m starting to see a trend here and I think this is something much larger than just Inked.
📚📚 Another great video!
📚 Thank you for being you, and be ethical person. That's rare on this days. I live in France and it's happening the same with the economy, I think it's happening in many countries. Sorry for my English. Keep your excellent work :)
Have a nice day
I don't have any tattoos, but I enjoy the tattoo culture. I also enjoy the content on your channel. ✌🏾📚
It’s so brave of you to go against them! I respect you ✊🏻
Feels a bit like what happened with SuicideGirls. Just got increasingly mainstream looking and costly to take part.
Yes this is a scam. It's just a contest to see who has the most money and it looks like Inked doesn't deliver on their promise! Inked is crazy to think their emails are going to make them look good.
I participated the past 2 years & got to "2nd place" this year...5th place year before. It was completely a scam & the only reason I did it again in 2023 was because I forgot I actually did it the year before. As a seperated DV survivor & sahm single mother 3 starting over with my 2 youngest & one special needs this would've been my new beginning. However I feel completely lied to, stolen from, embarrassed, & sorry for anyone who supported me in the competition. Smh also in the beginning when you gave the big FU to them & decided to dive deeper into it I was like yassssss 😂🖤
📚 Enjoy your content! Always interesting topics...
I am heavily tattooed and African American and actually did professional photo shoots as well. I did the contest several years ago and had family voting etc. didn’t win of course but then my “friend” who’s Caucasian did the same contest a few years back and I tried to tell her it was rigged especially for women of color and she thought I was jealous , ignored me…then created a group me to spam her other friends and me to vote everyday 🙃🙃🙃 ignoring my suggestions and seeing her friend who’s black being treated differently by the company, I digress. She didn’t win and I could tell she was embarrassed we barely speak now and she stopped talking about the competition after that.
Came for the scam, stayed for the tattoos, subbed for the ASMResque voice!
Clicked so fast📚
One of my friends entered this comp a couple years or so ago. I started getting suspicious when we all got a winner’s high off her moving up the ranks for a while and then her movement plateaued and she didn’t make it despite the community she had voting for her. I remember there being a payment option and it thoroughly annoyed me because I’ve signed up to vote for plenty of friends in competitions before and inked was the ONLY one that had a payment option. The only other one that had a booster was one where if you made an account with the website you could vote an X numbers of times per day more than the once a day.
You should do a video about Celebrity Ink in Australia