Marieke Elsinga walks through the Dutch media landscape with a rake: a few tons here, a few tons there. But apparently she doesn’t think it’s enough yet. “Stop this nonsense!”
There has been criticism for years about celebrities who participate in lottery advertisements. Critics believe they have a moral responsibility not to encourage their fans to gamble. And especially their vulnerable fans; Lotteries are particularly attractive to people with lower incomes or financial problems. Do you want to make money as wealthy celebrities on their backs?
Grabbing Marieke
Özcan Akyol thinks that someone like Chantal Janzen is throwing away her credibility with those lottery advertisements and Tina Nijkamp thinks it is inimitable that Robert ten Brink, someone who has already more than earned his spurs, is still participating in this. And now Marieke Elsinga is also being severely criticized.
Thanks to her lucrative jobs at Qmusic and RTL 4, Marieke belongs to the group of people with a very high income. And yet it doesn’t seem enough; yesterday she posted another one story on Instagram in which she pretends to be completely enthusiastic about some Christmas advertisement from the Staatsloterij.
‘I’ll share it’
Marieke ‘spontaneously’ posts from the couch that she is so ‘enthusiastic’ about that advertisement. “Sure! Staatsloterij has once again succeeded in making a great New Year’s Eve commercial,” she writes. To there casual adding: “I’ll just share it.”
But Marieke, if you have to add ‘Play consciously 18+’, ‘#beliefinhappiness’ and ‘#advertisement’ to that story, do you think there is anyone who still thinks this seems authentic? It’s just raking in money, so just put that commercial in your stories and leave out that ‘spontaneous’ talk about how great you think it is.
‘It’s so bad’
Renske Holwerda, photographer and director at RTL Nieuws, doesn’t like the sight of it. “I hate all those celebrities and their lotteries. You earn tons (good for you). But then make up for it by promoting this kind of rubbish. (Same goes for Friends Lottery, Staatsloterij, Toto 🤢),” she writes X.
A certain Lianne then writes: “Marieke is quite the queen. She also shamelessly arranges a free car for herself every year.”
Really bad
With nibbling in itself Renske doesn’t have such a problem. “That doesn’t ‘harm’ anyone,” she writes, but: “I think lotteries and thus promoting gambling are really bad (and if you don’t have a cent to make yourself, it’s not nice, but it’s better to understand).”
Lianne agrees: “That is also true. This is just a real shame.”
Apparently the chimney must be smoking, someone else notes. Renske: “Tata is nothing.”
Pimple on monster
A certain Hans thinks we shouldn’t zoom in on Marieke so much. “How many TV shows, museums, musicals, etc. are sponsored by this shit. Even aid to asylum seekers partly depends on this. I would be more concerned about how society depends on this gambling addiction. Marieke is a pimple on a monster, imo.”
Renske: “It’s not specifically about her either. But this post triggered my annoyance again.”
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