Shoppers rushed to their local supermarkets after the national lockdown announcement on March 23, 2020. Video / Supplied
Instagram ifluencer and former reality star Skye Wheatley has been roasted by her followers after posting photos of herself posing among empty supermarket shelves to promote sponsored content.
The former Big Brother star turned influencer shared a series of photos on Instagram yesterday featuring her and son Forest posing onshelves that previously held toilet paper.
Supermarket shelves have been stripped bare across Australia as shoppers panic-buy amid fears a coronavirus pandemic could disrupt supplies.
In the caption, Wheatley told her followers how they could enter a giveaway to win a range of prizes.
The influencer sat on empty shelves with her son. Photo / Instagram
"People can't afford food, employees have been violently assaulted, people have died, families forced apart because of isolation. (I could keep going but clearly probably don't care) yet you think it's appropriate to have a giveaway purely to promote the profiles involved???" one person wrote. "I really hope your son has at-least one peer with morals in his life."
"Spreading positivity would look like volunteering, supporting small businesses or sharing an uplifting quote … not using a sensitive setting from a current world pandemic to attract attention for a giveaway," another commented.
"If you want to gain some more likes how about take your $10000 and put it to good use at the Red Cross instead of plugging a business," one furious person wrote.
"And seriously who the f**k just goes to the supermarket dressed like that to take pictures of empty shelves. Pull ya head out of your ass."
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After the backlash, Wheatley edited her post, telling her followers to "scroll on" if they didn't like what she had shared and that "anger isn't helping the world right now".
"Please be kind to one another, please send love not hate, please focus on the positives and be aware of the negatives but shift your energy to the light not the darkness," she wrote.
"I honestly recommend googling the law of attraction guys it's really helped me through some pretty dark times. Obviously there is a lot of sadness in the world but PLEASE keep your minds and bodies strong with love not hate."
News.com.au has also contacted Wheatley for comment.
