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Red rose and candle on the table created on--wait for it--YOUTUBE! |
Speaking of which...
You will now find a section on this main landing page (of sorts) called Parlor Society Pages. It's near the bottom. YouTube, X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram are all linked there. Threads can be found linked in the About section of the Parlor's Facebook page. I include these links here and on Facebook instead of on the main website for security reasons. For that reason, I have them in these locations regardless of whether or not there is much, if any, content on them.
And speaking of THAT...
If you take a moment to take a peek, you will notice that the Parlor's Facebook page is just that a page. In order to connect the Parlor's Instagram in any meaningful way to the Facebook page, I did have to convert it to a professional account. There is a reason for this, and had it not been for this reason, the Parlor's presence on both of those platforms would be different.
It seems someone decided around 2020, a time when I didn't use Facebook as much as before, that they were going to need for me to have a Business account in the Meta Business Suite thingy. It's an account that claimed to be some sort of medical clinic in Russia, which is obviously not me. Aaaaaand they ran some ads until sometime in September, if I recall. Just in time to see all of us surrounded by one of the single worst wildfires in Oregon history. And during the pandemic!
While that fire complex was headed right this way, I was being sternly told by my cat (she is too a people) to get back in that bed, ya got symptoms. And she sat right on the keyboard of my laptop, undercarriage on the keys (if you get my drift). There was a lot going on in this country around that time, so I have not been able to help but wonder if this was one of those situations where greedy parasites decided to exploit others when they were preoccupied with...well, you know.
This is something I had a feeling I'd wish I hadn't done, but I did take a look--or TRY to take a look--at the ads this outfit ran before they were stopped. Auctions?! Say what, now? How does that even work on a social media platform?
Anyway. I tried trashing the info in the ads. But hey, they're the ones who made the mistake of thinking I'd never know about the ads in the first place. This is why I keep saying the Parlor does not run ads and never has. Because these are facts.
The good news is that they cannot do anything more on the Parlor's turf, since it does appear Facebook caught on relatively quickly and practically harpooned their ability to do a single thing more. Unfortunately, it also means I can't get that thing off of the account. It's one of those things where someone gets into the account somehow, and then immediately starts changing things like admins so the real account owner ends up either stuck with a problematic "business" or is unable to recover the account at all. Any dings to that particular "business" affects the real owner in several ways, none of them good.
Yes, it's frustrating. And at some point, not long ago, I finally just gave up trying to get that thing off of this business account they set up for me without my consent or even my knowledge. I've not even been able to assign the thing to the fifth ring of Hell at very least (I've tried).
To wrap this up, yes, it is a Facebook page and an Instagram professional account due to the existence and seeming permanence of the aftermath of the train wreck that it is. I've only tolerated this lunacy because it's stuck and pretending it doesn't exist is never a good option. Otherwise, the Parlor's Facebook and Instagram would be the type meant for creators, which is far more accurate.
Either way, the Parlor is making sure every precaution is taken to protect users' privacy and safety. This is true regardless of whether or not that--thang--has me inextricably entwined with a specific platform. That includes some pretty strict controls on vendors on the original website.
If a vendor is making a user's experience on my website anything but enjoyable and safe, then the vendor will then experience the Parlor's response header and other fabulous codes. That is why you see a Parlor-themed cookie consent banner on the main website, and this new landing page comes with one built into it.
If there was any entity that was...unscrupulous, I wish I could be a fly on the wall as they try to get their mutts on user data from the Parlor. The reaction I would love to see and hear is best heard in one of the Parlor's YouTube shorts, Tante Oscar's Phone. Hit play, and the Short will speak for itself. Hint: it involves quite possibly the only utterance of a notty werd I've ever allowed in the Parlor's content.
Aw, come on. It's funny.
To close, you'll notice there is a countdown on this landing page. Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches premieres on AMC on January 5, 2025.
I haven't even had the chance to finish going over Season 1's finer details, this technical stuff has taken up such an obscene amount of my time. I hope I'll be able to get back to it very soon!
*Scan my text on the original Parlor website with perplexity.ai all you like, but do at least stop and say hello before you go...
