Tuesday, September 30, 2014

It's apparent that a lot of you need to do your research before you start spewing bs about "Why is there a whole blog dedicated...? to this scammer

I see many of you are so blinded by those dry crispy curls that you covet so much, that you are willing to overlook her fraudulent ways.

You are basically saying to her "Please take my money! As long as I can drool over those curls I will never have unless I sew them in, you can scam me out of my money!" Pathetic I tell ya. And most of you are 4a-b-c-ers. The same ones who will overlook fellow 4a-b-c-ers and turn your nose up at them in favor of this scamming thot.


It's a shame, really.


If you are here reading this, do your research and get your education. You might not like the source of the information, but it is there for you perusal. Stop being so blinded by curls you will never in your life have. Stop being covetous of a scamming thot who only sees you as a money source for her.



The information below has been compiled for you. It is up to you to read it and decide for yourself to actually get out of the Matrix (teehee) instead of just blindly following someone who wants to scams you out of your money.


Source of post: emeraldine of LSA (Hey girl!)


For yall just tuning in:

There are no shortcuts in this multithread game. Start from the beginning and sip yo azz some tea. Don't be a stumblebum because skipping around means missing out. 


Courtesy of @ashnspace

Part 1: http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=655405
Part 2: http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=714271

But here's a synopsis since I know people will ask---


Taren Guy is a waning Youtube hair 'guru' with about 225k subbies who actually gives more advice about lifestyle than hair. She is apparently popular mostly because she is fair complexioned and has the type of 3c curls that some impressionable black women think should be the standard for all hair--4a and 4c included.





Whether she's attractive or not is a matter of opinion, though around here you might hear her referred to as troutmouth or goatmouth or crispy curls, in honor of her perpetually parched hair. NOT a matter of opinion is that she is apparently without any sort of full time employment, despite being mother to now 4 kids. All of her children apparently have different dads (4x4), though she claims only 3 daddies (4x3). Her two sons are the oldest and they both have autism. Her daughter is younger and seems neurotypical. The sons are apparently in some foster care situation, having been taken away by NYC ACS when they were found unsupervised while she was out dating various men, allegedly often drug dealers and other lowlifes known to frequent places like Brooklyn's Voodoo Lounge. The daughter, Jada, lives with her father and her father's mother. That father has his own set of baggage, including a charge for stealing copper wire.



So Taren has NONE of her eldest 3 kids with her. At some point she "started" a "charitable" "organization" regarding autism but then shut it down after having collected $12,000 completely unaccounted for dollars, while claiming to some followers that the amount raised was less than $1K. There are receipts including emails and audio files in the part ii thread.

[PHOTO OF HER TWO ADORABLE BOYS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS POST, BUT YOU CAN FIND THEM ELSEWHERE ONLINE]

Despite this mess, she wants to be taken as a natural, sexy, earthy Iyanloprah of the Internetz and has constantly preached positivity. Unfortunately, the positivity doesn't seem to extend to leaving other women's husbands and boyfriends alone because all of her documented baby fathers appear to have been married or involved when she took up with them.

That includes the father of her latest child, Maxwell Ace, who we sometimes refer to as Ace Bandage or Ace Ventura, Thot Detective.

[PHOTO OF ADORABLE MAXWELL IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS POST, BUT YOU CAN FIND THEM ELSEWHERE ONLINE]

Little Ace is a few days old and his apparent father is Michael Mancini McConnell, whom we call BAM, Broke Ass Mike. I prefer Broke Ass Married Michael Manicotti McConnell, or BAMMMM. BAM a community college-educated poser who has claimed to have taught himself microbiology, worked with Diddy and run a successful events company. There are many embarrassing profiles of him on the internet, including an interview in Essence where he claimed to be an eligible bachelor even though he was married. And another where he went on for an embarrassing length of time about wanting to kit out Snuggies for entrepreneurs. Bloop. 




Mike was married to an apparently nice woman when he met Taren. (Sidenote: He also had a child from a previous relationship and these LSA streets want to know about that situation so if you know something, say something!) Taren and Mike started an affair, which was exposed when the wife, Karyn, found a series of sexual emails between the two of them, including one referencing Taren using a glass buttplug. To that end, there is now a blog called Taren's Butt Plug. Go find it and godspeed. There is an uncensored photo of what is allegedly Taren engaged in anal play in the XES Alley. It is also available on IMGUR if you Google creatively. Clutch yo pearls before you look, girls.

Fancying themselves a legitimate power couple, and explaining to Mike's wife that they were "soulmates", Taren introduced Mike as her boyfriend on social media but it was quickly revealed that he was married to someone else and that he had impregnated Taren. 

The backlash you see here began in earnest around that time. Karyn threw SoulmateMike out and Karyn's outraged godmother, Nana, came to LSA to read Mike for filth in Part I. It was epic and completely warranted: as per Nana, there had been no estrangement or separation in the marriage. Mike simply was having a vigorous extramarital sex life while Karyn was holding down a real, paying job and trying to support his entrepreneurial dreams by pumping money into his failed company, Team Mancini. The affair blindsided her completely.

Meanwhile, Mike was, additionally, badmouthing Karyn, his OWN wife, to people in the world of PR whom she (Karyn) had had longstanding relationships. Karyn does have a social media presence but I will leave other people to link to it if they so choose. I won't be doing so here. This alleged attack on Michael's wife blew up in their faces as certain key figures though out fashion, travel and beauty sided with Karyn and pulled support from Taren and Mike. Taren did a seemingly successful meet and greet tour but this was apparently just because they were desperate for cash and their connections were slowwwwwwwwwwwly drying up, much like her 'fro.




Now Taren is not a powerplayer in the Youtube space but did have a relationship with Dickey of Hair Rules in NYC. She hosted an event there back in 2012 but it was poorly planned and was blasted by Melshary Arias in this video.






She also more recently had an endorsement or promotion deal with Motions hair care. Outrage over her general irrepsonsbility led to this Change.org campaign as well as this defense written by Te Ericka Patterson on her blog.[refuse to give this hoe any links for clicks to her blog]. In a supreme act of karma, when Te Ericka tried to delete the ethering comments on the Taren post, she somehow deleted every single comment on her blog.

Additionally, and with supreme irony, she did this Mothers' Day video for BET http://www.bet.com/video/b-real/2014...taren-guy.html

Taren doesn't have a job and Mike apparently doesn't either. With the pregnancy progressing and money low, they launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise money for what they said was a television network called AreyaTV. They sought $80K from subscribers but raised only $440 in a few weeks. Yes, you read that correctly. Meanwhile, behind the scenes they apparently were not paying the people who were working with them and bilked a partner in AreyaTV who invested a 5-figure sum. That person claims to have then started the TarensButtPlug blog in retaliation.


[Refuse to give this hoe any links for clicks to her "You Spoke, We Listened!" video, but if you choose to watch it, that's on you.]


At some point, this danming document was released by an allegedly spurned party to all of the AreyaTV dysfunction, which revealed that apparently Mike wanted Taren to ask for over $100K.


[The INITIAL budget for the Areya campaign]




Other attempts to generate resources failed as well. They had a baby registry at Babies R Us but nothing apparently was purchased by their online acolytes. They did receive an empty Tiffany piggy bank from the team at Carol's Daughter.

According to friends she has attributed these failures to the jealousy of darker skinned and kinky haired black women who she feels are envious of her curly lightness. Indeed, back in June, she made a very condescending video telling 4c and other kinky haired types of women that all they needed to do was accept themselves and stop hating on curlies like her. At about the 8:00 mark she starts to imitate a stereotypical 4c commenter by changing her voice, suddenly twisting her neck, waving her finger in the camera and generally acting like a belligerent, ignorant black woman.

[Refuse to give this hoe any links for clicks to her "RV#18: Natural Hair "Separation" Equals Bullshit " video, but if you choose to watch it, that's on you.]

Building bridges to the darker community, however , Taren has made "friends" with one blogger, the incomprehensibly named HIMAY10NENCE. You pronounce it "high maintenace" but she's not and we don't; we call her Himalayas around here. Anywhooo, Himalayas (aka Nakesha) is always taking up for Taren, despite her own generally ratchet, no fvcks given approach to life...and hair.


She has 10x less subscribers than Taren so I'll leave it to you to figure out what that 'friendship' is really about. In 2009, she made a video called 'Don't be a Side Chick' but now she's the sidekick of a sidechick.....

[Refuse to give LowMay10nence any clicks for her hypocritical video "Don't EVER be cool with being the side line chic ! Throwback from 3-27-09 - YouTube video, but if you choose to watch it, that's on you.]


Well back in Taren World, apparently lack of income made maintaining a Brooklyn apartment untenable --some say she was facing eviction-- so Taren recently moved from Bed Stuy to East Orange, NJ, a relatively high crime, low income city in North Jersey. It's not clear if she's living with Mike because he has disappeared from social media, at least for now and all of her recent photos seem to be selfies.

Anonymous sources who claim to know Taren, Mike, Karyn or others connected to this situation are coming out of the woodwork with all sorts of scandalous accusations, which range from Taren having been the mistress of the owner of The Voodoo Lounge to her having stolen money while working as a store clerk to her having been a paid prostitute. I can't confirm ANYTHING that's not a public record. I just sip. 

Taren to date has NOT addressed her custody situation. She has NOT addressed Michael's marital status, though she claims at times to be his fiancee, while flashing something resembling a mood ring. For her part, Michael's wife may address what has happened at some point in time but not before the divorce is final. For my part, if you come for the wife or the kids, I will come for you. They are innocent in this mess. 

We all like to kee-kee but keep in mind:
1. Read, understand and obey all of the rules of LSA. If you get infracted, waived or banned we can't get you out of jail, boo.
2. Don't say anything libelous, defamatory or untrue and expect anyone on this thread to shield you or take up for you. We are not here for fan fiction parading as truth. And no one is here for straight up harassment either.
3. Keep in mind that these are real people we are talking about and let YOUR conscience be your guide.

I will likely update this synopsis but PLEASE KINDLY do not quote me with a ton of questions. Anyone who is reading will help you if you are not being hella lazy. I am just a humble reader like yourself and you really have to read allllllllllll 3 parts to get all of the dirt.


Everything I have written is ALLEGED and I believe it to be true but in no way guarantee the correctness or authenticity of anything I am writing. 


TAREN
Taren on MySpace, which includes some INCREDIBLY thotty photos including livingroom toplessness 
Taren on IG 
Taren on Twitter 
Taren on Facebook 
Taren on Indiegogo 

MIKE
Team Mancini, Michael "Mancini" McConnell's company http://teammancini.sqsp.com/blog/ and their services reel 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br2-0qM11K4

COMMENTARY / SHADE TREES
Piggy Lipton, anonymous friend of LSA who is ethering Taren
Taren's Buttplug on Tumblr 
Taren's Buttplug on Twitter 
Taren Guy Is A Charlatan Blog  (this blog)
The BAM and BAT Show
Sip The Tea - Taren Thread


REFERENCE GUIDE
Baby Maxwell Ace McConnell aka Ace Ventura Thot Detective, Ace Bandage
BAM Broke Azz Mike, Broke Azz Married Mike, Broke Azz Manicotti Mike
BAT Broke Azz Taren, Bish Azz Taren
BAM & BAT Mike and Taren, of course
ChrisClassic Legit music producer and social media fixture. Taren's friend and possibly more . . . . Per some leaked emails, Chris certainly has Mike worried about 3 AM text messages . . . AKA WrinkleHead
Dickey Friend in Taren's head, owner of Hair Rules Salon where she hosted an event but maybe not a 'real' friend
GhanaSands Taren's vloggr ex boyfriend but shockingly not the father of any of her children. He has not been accused of anything untoward and he's foine so look him up if you go that way.
HIMAY10NENCE pronounced "high maintenance"  aka HIMALAYANS aka Nakesha. Taren's alleged friend and baby Ace's play Auntie. One of the dustiest vloggers to ever hit the Tube. AKA Lomaintenance or Nomaintenance
Maurice Father to Taren's only daughter, Jada. Con Ed Copper thief.
Plug, Slug, Ugg Taren, Mike, Himalayas
TAT Thott azz Taren, currently only in rare use

10 comments :

  1. I feel particularly appalled by the motivation leading to the germination and actual creation of this blog. I cannot understand why black women need to be so full of hatred and actually seek ways to undermine one of their peers. Not only Taren, but also collateral damages such as those who view her videos and do not have the same textures, those who publicly chose to support her, and what's even worse a newborn child!!! What has this little being who certainly did not ask to be brought into existence, be the target of your name calling and abusive speech, whomever his parents and whatever the circumstances that lead to his being brought into this world?
    I can only guess that such undiscriminating spewing of hatred stems from personal feelings being hurt. I will not pretend that I know this young woman but I have and will continue to watch some of her content because she just so happens to talk about kinkier textures and how to care for them.
    I believe that I, as well as others, am clever enough to distinguish a persons work from their personal lives unless they are proven criminals. If you were to start doing this then who would you watch, listen to, vote for? Look at all the scandals that come up from all sides of stardom, be it from the music industry, sports, politics...you name it! And this is only the visible part of the iceberg.
    The Great Billie Holiday used to be a prostitute, she struggled with alcohol and drugs to the point that they claimed her life. It doesn't take anything away from her voice, her music. And she's acclaimed today. The truth is, you don't know and can't understand anyone's struggled less you've been in their shoes and lived their lives.
    Why not try to upbuild instead of destroying. Why not try being positive and understanding instead of being judgmental ?
    When we (black women) finally learn how to turn our hurt, rage and/or jealousy into a positive force making us move forward and together, ignoring those who do not live up to our standards (cuz ain't no body got time for that), allowing them to chose for themselves who they want to be and deal with the consequences of their own choices or mistakes, we'd have achieved something special.
    Good day to you.

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    1. I'm particularly appalled that you promote uplifting of such a disgusting individual and then to bring up the late, great Billie Holiday and make a comparison between the two. How pathetic of you.

      It's one thing to be ratchet and live a dysfunctional life, but to start scamming people out of their money, with no expectation of accountability, is a whole other ball game. If you choose to continue to support her, by all means do so. Just don't read my blog because apparently is is not your cup of tea. Good day.

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    2. Taren should not be speaking on hair textures she does not have. She is not a licensed cosmetologist, right? So presumably, the only hair experience she should have is her own.

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  2. So I saw a video where Taren mentioned that this wasn't her first child (Maxwell). I thought he was because I've never see her mention a child. But I lightly watch her vids every now and then so it would be easy for me to miss personal info as she mostly speaks about hair? So my curiosity got the best of me and after I googled "Taren Guy kids," your blogged popped up. I was astonished by what I read. I read a little of the thread but it was so hateful and negative, particularly the posts by a lady who grew up with Ms. Guy. I'm just so confused. What did she ever do? She was called all types of b's, hoes, thots... So then I went to her channel to see if she mentioned her kids. And she does. There's a few videos of them and her talking about them. This woman was 17 when she had her first child. I'm sorry but she was a child. And she didn't have guidance. She made mistakes. She said herself, she didn't have anyone pouring into her. So we create a whole blog to further down her? For not being raised right and not knowing what it takes to be a woman and raise a family? Maybe she's trying to get it right. She's freaking 31 if I calculate correctly. You just begin to know who you truly are in your 30's. This blog really saddens me. I pray right now that God changes your heart and you take this down. I pray that the same gusto and passion you use to tear down that you turn around and use it to uplift and build and that you can forgive whoever hurt you.

    Amen.

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    1. So what she was a kid when she had her first 2 kids? There are plenty of women who have kids as teens but you don't see them on Youtube trying to scam their followers out of money, now do you?

      Further, she turned around and had 2 more kids as a full fledged adult. So what's your excuse for those two kids?

      I will not take this blog down simply to appease you or other Taren followers who choose to follow her simply because you covet curls you will never have.

      As long as she continues to scam people and not take responsibility for her actions, this blog will remain.

      My suggestion to you is to continue to be dumb and blind and continue to support her, since that is your choice. Just don't come back on my blog a year or two from now talking about how she took your money and used it as a springboard to showcase non-black people on her platforms while excluding black women of darker hues and kinkier hair.

      Good day.

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    2. I'm not for bashing people per say... but let's be honest. If Mso Guy...(who I don't normally watch) has made a habit of sleeping with married men and having babies by them, then alluding to her "mistake" at age 17 does not make sense if she continued in that vein and had 3 more kids.

      As my mother used to say: the first time is a mistake, but after that, repeated bad behavior is a DECISION.

      Just what kind of upbringing did Taren have?

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  3. I don't follow her and will never give her my money. I just want you to understand that this blog or should I say the energy it takes could be used for more positive things. So what if she did all that. She will get her due. YOU don't have to be the one doing it. And I'm nowhere near dumb and wasn't rude or disrespectful to you in any way. Not trying to be mean or condescending.

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    1. Well, I'm glad this info is out here now. People can get a clearer picture of who or what they idolize.

      I read all this, and ...wow. It was ugly, but if true.. Taren behavior was ugly also and this Blogger is just calling her out.

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  4. I love how you make the ASSumption that I'm not doing anything positive or should be doing more positive things because I choose to write this blog. LOL

    Perhaps this blog IS a positive thing and someone who may have thought about donating to her "non-profit" or her "network", read this blog and thought twice.

    Perhaps this blog has initiated dialogue about who and what we should support in our community. "All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk"

    If you don't follow her and will never give her your money and find this blog in bad taste, perhaps stop reading it as it is obviously not your cup of tea.

    This will be my last response to you.

    Good day.

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  5. I will never read this blog ever again lol. Just wanted to leave my opinion and it's just that. How could this blog be positive though if you're spilling her personal information and referring to her newborn son in a derogatory way? This blog is spewing nothing but hate! You could leave those parts out. Calling her thot and hoe. That ruins your message and just makes you sound bitter. If you were just helping you could deliver the information without all the extras. I knew about Taren when Melshary posted that vid a year or so ago. I trusted Mel and therefore would never give Taren a dime because I respected her experience. But do I wish her ill no. And did Mel wish her ill? No. God has a way of handling people. But you won't be rewarded for going HAM and spewing hate and gossip. Any time you spend on this blog could be used for something else. Whatever positive you're doing can't be completely rewarded or fulfilling to you because this blog is so mean and hateful. I BET if you removed the negativity from this blog (the name calling, bashing and meanness) doors in your life that you didn't even know were closed would open. But I won't get a response back from you as you stated above so God bless ya! Have a great holiday season and I hope you enjoy your family and have an awesome time bringing in the new year!

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