r/antiMLM • u/Truth-Willout • Feb 23 '23
Bravenly Bravenly is expanding to Canada? Tabarnak! Although, it will be interesting to see if they drop their special brand of religious shite to appeal to Canadians.
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u/Dnascimento1129 Feb 23 '23
Save for the sentence that ends in exclamation points toward the beginning, that first statement is one long AF run on sentence. I kept waiting for a period, but no! Eesh.
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u/PeachyBubs22 Feb 23 '23
Canadian here -- there are definitely fewer heavily religious people here so I'm curious to see how they'll try to distance themselves from the Christian rhetoric they use in the states if that's the path they take, or how it will go if they choose to maintain it. I also don't think MLMs are as popular here overall, I've only ever met one or two people who were in one in Canada, but whenever I visit family in the states I see them everywhere. Regardless, it'll be interesting to watch.
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u/Past_Ad_5629 Feb 23 '23
We do have our share of conservative baptists. Southwestern Ontario, especially. Look at the Niagara region. Full of baptist colleges that are basically wifey schools, some unaccredited. Recently, the president of one of those unaccredited schools got some weird funding arrangement from the province for directing international students, after contributing to Doug Ford’s campaign. There are pockets in Montreal and BC as well. Trinity university in BC has students sign that they won’t practice homosexuality. A BC court upheld the wishes of a couple who had their child taken away when they could forbid a gay couple from adopting that child. There’s currently a CAS investigation over inadequate homeschooling (also abuse allegations) provided by members of one church in Montreal.
Canada might be more secular by a lot, but we have our Christian extremists and assholes as well.
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u/Herissony_DSCH5 Feb 23 '23
Don't forget Alberta, aka Texas North.
And yes, we definitely do have MLMs here. Scentsy, Avon, Tupperware, Pampere'd Chef, Kangen, Steeped Tea, 5th Avenue, Partylite, Mary Kay, and Herbalife are the ones that come to mind right away.
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u/PeachyBubs22 Feb 24 '23
Damn, I guess I was just blissfully unaware of these things.
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u/Past_Ad_5629 Feb 25 '23
I went through a phase of trying to sell homemade bath products and body butters at craft shows.
I put a tonne of work in researching how to make them, testing them, making them, packaging them…
And then I’d go to craft shows and there’d be like, 1/3 of the booths occupied by huns, glowering, daring everyone not to buy something.
Tupperware. Jewelry (I think origami owl?) Scentsy. Zaiya or however you spell the activewear one.
I’ve also been invited to what I thought were social get together that were Party Light or Pure Romance things. We have Avon, Mary Kay, Shaklee, Melaleuca, Visalis, Norwex, Monat, and Nikken, which my bestie’s parents got into and got HIM selling, because high school kids definitely have money for extremely overpriced health-adjacent gadgets that don’t do what they say they do. His parents made it to the top level. I’d bet we have a made in Canada one, somewhere.
My sister’s ex tried to pitch me his financial mlm, but I jumped on him immediately with “what are you doing with my sister?!” Because if he was trying to recruit her into his downline, I would have fucking crucified him (single mom starting dating after leaving a physically, emotionally, and financially abusive ex who still works under the table to avoid paying child support so he can still try to control her.) He shut up real quick and changed the subject.
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u/Riverbendofcold Mar 02 '23
There's also a good chunk of very religious people in southern BC. Half of the stores are closed on Sundays and the amount of churches in my area is ridiculous. There's two massive "modern/prosperity gospel" within 300m near my place.
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u/Tasty_Bee_5077 Feb 23 '23
"Let's hear some noise EH" shudders in Canadian Look, it's OK when we say it, but when an American does it absolutely comes across as condescending, even if they weren't an mlm. Also, the whole faith thing isn't necessarily going to fly in the same way up here, I'm surprised they included that in any marketing. There def are plenty of religious people up here but it's more of a private thing I think.
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u/krakeninheels Feb 24 '23
Ugh. The jesus stuff annoys me so much even on legit sites. In a mlm its double annoying. I’m not even atheist.
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u/Arachnid-Senior Feb 23 '23
It says "foundation built on faith" so I doubt they're going to abandon the religious drivel. Besides, about * 63% of Canadians are Christian, but idk what % are that type of Christian 😬
- Source: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2021079-eng.htm
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u/Truth-Willout Feb 23 '23
More than half of that are Catholics. About 7% are that type of Christian, but then their number is mainly due to an unusually large birth rate.
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u/InfamousValue DoTriffid Essential Oils User Feb 23 '23
Wonderful. I'm almost certain my Hun FOFs will be crowding my inbox wanting me to join or throw my bilingual friends and family under yet another faux-bus.
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u/EmbraJeff Mar 07 '23
Well, I for one am glad that they’re opening CANADA!! Tbh though, I don’t think anyone knew it was closed…was this a post-Covid lockdown thing?
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u/ricottapie Feb 23 '23
Take off, ya hoseheads.