Community backlash ended a once-daily influencer’s public career

Evidence

Davis continued to update her various social media feeds—both her Instagram and blog—for some time after the March 28 post, showing her family celebrating birthdays in their new Arizona home, promoting her upcoming book, A Coat of Yellow Paint: Moving Through the Noise to Love the Life You Live. Yet her blog, once populated with new content nearly every day, slowed and finally went quiet after a post on June 7, 2021, describing a birthday celebration in Wyoming for her son. Davis’s final Instagram post, from October 1, 2021, was a banal image of one of her small children being kissed by her and her husband. “Beatrice sandwich! And some of the very best pizza we have ever eaten behind us,” it read. Comments wondered where she had disappeared, with one commenter stating, “Trolls got on her for moving during the pandemic. They were waiting to pounce after all these years.” — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 365