SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

[ Instagram | Youtube | Facebook | Twitter | Weibo | Line | website | Zipper (inactive/ ghost)| CChannel (inactive/ ghost) ]

INTERVIEWS/ FEATURES

[ HK Magazine | Apple Daily (Cantonese) | Business model magazine | Model Monday (wordpress) | clickme.net (Cantonese) ]

COMPILATIONS

[ Jimmi Jams (Wordpress) (old Taylor, pre-surgery) ]

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BACKGROUND & SHORT SUMMARY

Taylor Richard is a Canadian born and raised model. She first came to attention as a model during her time in Hong Kong, where she appeared in a substantial amount of ads for companies such as Sasa, Antares, Cosmo magazine etc. During her time in Hong Kong, she was doing further education in nutritional studies and learning Cantonese (neither went very far).

During her time in Japan, she began by copying Dakota, in terms of both appearance and style. She has moved on from this, but PULL has saved quite a few of her earlier Japan videos. She is still mistaken for Dakota occasionally.

The reason she is designated as a snowflake is because she lies about her appearance/ editing, is very unclear about how she maintains her current money-spending-heavy lifestyle, and has most likely had plastic surgery in her transition period between leaving Hong Kong and arriving in Japan, during late 2014/ early 2015. The main problem with Taylor is that she's very good at marketing herself, and she has learnt from any previous mistakes she's made regarding her online persona/ image (detailed below). This means that she's getting better and better at evading questions, diverting her followers'/ fans' attention away from something, and is smart enough now to know what she can and can't get away with.

She owns a teacup poodle called Rosie, who frequently features in her social media. Rosie is one indicator that she has financial support, as she takes her to a pet salon regularly to have her groomed.

HONG KONG

During her time in Hong Kong, she was largely just a model. It wasn't until she went to Japan that she became an internet personality, vlogger and blogger.

JAPAN

Her early days in Japan are pretty cringe worthy, and she began her time there as a Dakota clone. The gist of it is that she made a lot of embarrassing videos of herself, some of which were her dancing & signing poorly, accompanied with a high-pitched "cutesy" voice. She seems to have moved from that now. Nearly all of those videos have been deleted from her YT channel, though some have been saved by PULL members.

Rosie Moves to Tokyo (transition period between HK and Japan, early 2015)

^ Taylor had a notable Dakota look-a-like period.

Asiatown.net: pictures comparing Taylor and Dakota.

SNOWFLAKE TRAITS

>> plastic surgery (99.999% confirmed) & editing/ shopping her photos (100% confirmed)

REFERENCE:
First Instagram gap: 5-6 weeks, during late 2014/early 2015 (when she moved to Japan)
Second Instagram gap: 5-6 weeks, during late 2015/ early 2016

Her plastic surgery and editing go together in this large section, because these 2 things are the main issues that make Taylor a snowflake.

Her first plastic surgery most likely occurred during late 2014 - early 2015, when she had a 5-6 week gap of posting selfies on Instagram. While unconfirmed, it's most likely what she had were cheek fillers and jaw modification (V-line face) surgery. She also recently had another ~5 week selfie gap, during late 2015 - early 2016; PULL believes that it could be follow up surgeries.

Aug 2016: Taylor's cheeks vary in terms of puffiness and she seems to be easing up on her editing (likely in conjunction with her meetup in Hong Kong).

In her videos during early 2015 (now deleted; see above for the video where she goes to collect Rosie), her face was puffy and swollen, as well as quite different from her original square jaw line. In her videos during late 2015, she was also shown to be rather stiff, and wore clothing that conveniently hid her neck/ jaw line. Regarding her Instagram gap, it is very rare for Taylor to stop posting selfies, when that's her main marketability. PULL takes this to mean something fishy was going on with her appearance.

The difference can be seen largely in the Taylor R - comparison pictures thread, where the pics there show her Hong Kong (pre-surgery) face and Japan (post-surgery) face, in addition to comparisons between her edited selfies and pictures taken by others.

^ This shows that one of her surgeries was likely cheek fillers, which PULL is trying to make sense of, as she presumably got them to make her cheeks "cuter", but shops them away in most of her photos (probably because they look bad without PS). Her cheeks have been puffy for a long time since she went to Japan, and she has made excuses about them, for example:

^her PS (left is a picture with her sister, right is her own selfie).

^ before and after cheek fillers.

^ there is no way she can go from one to the other without something drastic happening to her face

For reference: the boy with her is her brother, Blake Richards. He posted that picture of them in December 2015 on his Instagram, but the Taylor in that picture is pre-plastic surgery, seeing as you can still make out a square jaw even with editing/ angles/ lighting.

^ this shows that she edited her selfies a lot, even during her HK days. Even in a model picture where features are likely to be edited, her jaw is square & pronounced, her eyes are big but not the size they are on the right. The picture on the right is just ridiculous in terms of eye size, and she also shops her chin to be pointier, as well as reducing her jaw line.

She also made a recent video talking about her "behind the scenes" process when vlogging, and said that camera angles and lighting can affect the appearance of the end result. However, regardless of that (which is true), she still does a substantial amount of editing on top, making her eyes bigger, shopping her chin/ jaw/ cheeks, making her lips smaller, adding filters, lengthening her forehead, and frequently covering her jaw line with hair so that she doesn't have to shop it.

In her iPhone unboxing video (where she opened an iPhone 6S Rose Gold), she showed how she "edited" her pictures, which was no more than smoothing skin & touch ups. She never explicitly said that this is how she edits all pictures, but the implication is that she does nothing more than what she showed.

CREDIT *horizon*

First: Taylor's vlog (her father's wedding in Canada; shows a reduced jaw line compared to pic 2)
Second: Taylor in Apple Daily (during her Hong Kong modelling days; shows her square jaw)
Third: an unedited photo (showing her puffy cheeks and reduced jaw line)

(CREDIT *horizon* on Taylor-R videos thread.)

Shortly after her 2015-2016 ~5 week selfie gap, her cheeks appear to be fairly bloated and puffed up in any media that she didn't post herself, for example a screen cap from a "Friendship Project" video, her 2nd drama. Compare (left) with her own selfie (right) which she uploaded to Instagram around a day or 2 earlier:

(Friendship Project screencap CREDIT *horizon* in Actress Taylor thread.)

>> "love yourself" image

This is a contentious issue, and is probably what makes Taylor so debatable as a snowflake. For a while now, she's promoted this "love yourself" image/ vibe, that no matter who you are, you're beautiful. This would be fine, had she not had plastic surgery and refuses to admit it, or that she photoshops her selfies but never admits that either. By simultaneously promoting a self-love image and never admitting any alterations she has made to herself/ her photos, she is creating an unrealistic standard for her followers. She is subliminally making them believe that she really looks like her pictures naturally, or that someone can change their appearance so drastically with makeup/ lights/ angles. Other than that, she's likely lied about how she's financially self-sufficient (since 14 no less). Someone in her position, even if she has managed to afford her apartment, her furniture, her decorations, her accessories, her iPhones, her pet, her clothes, her filming equipment, her taxi trips and her business class flights cannot afford to blow €4000 on a handbag. Unless she is getting some serious sponsorship from Instagram, the numbers do not add up. The effect of all of this is creating a highly unrealistic goal for her fans, who aspire to be like her and find her inspiring, yet do not realise the things she actually did to get to where she is.

On top of this, she's very clever at using what tools she has to exploit her fans'/ followers' emotions; the bullying video she made where she cried and talked about her past difficulties and her road to becoming a model made her more human and relatable. This is by no means saying that she lied or made up her story, but she (or whoever is marketing her) is very clever in creating the right image for her, one that will appeal to her fan base.

Taylor is most definitely lurking PULL, and from what we say here she will take our criticisms to make herself better, or at least, appear better. She has had more interaction with her fans, addresses them directly in her videos and social media, and even does a hashtag where a fan can post a picture of themselves inspired by her, which she will boost on her social media.

>> lurking PULL (& likely other forums)

She is most likely a frequenter of PULL and other forums that talk about her. When we mentioned that she likely had hair extensions, and that she is essentially wiping her Hong Kong career because her plastic surgery is so obvious, she mentioned both of those things (in passing) in her newest video at that time. She does this to see what negative comments/ views there are about her, and corrects these things slowly down the line. It's also likely that she learnt from Dakota's horrid personality/ reputation, and as a result interacts with her fans more to create a more likable persona.

>> daily make up video

One can argue that, Taylor can make whatever videos she wants to, but she has constantly avoided making a daily makeup routine video, despite nearly every single one of her videos having comments from fans asking for one. The obvious reason for this is that she'll find it harder to edit her face in a close-up video, and she learned from one of her previous Halloween make-up video & her cupid lips tutorial, both of which had people commenting on why she was so far away from the camera if she was filming a makeup video and how hard that made it for viewers to actually follow the tutorial. As someone who's a lifestyle/ beauty blogger, her reasons for avoiding a daily makeup video are pretty transparent.

>> lying to get what she wants

This technically wasn't wrong, but it was still a scummy thing to do in her position. She essentially asked for her followers to promote her pictures and tag her, and in return, she will follow them. After she gained a substantial amount of followers, she then wiped her follower count to 0 (which it's still at).

>> paying her way through her career

This is unconfirmed, but many PULL members believe that her father or some benefactor is financially supporting her lifestyle. The biggest reason is that we don't see her in that many ads/ campaigns in Japan, yet she lives in an apartment in central Tokyo, takes Rosie to frequent salon trips, flies business class and has €4000 hand bags. Another indicator is her iPhone 6S unboxing video, where she bought & opened a 6S Rose Gold, despite having a perfectly fine iPhone 6, which was only a few months old. There is no way that either her limited modelling (no more than 4-5 noteworthy jobs a month) or Youtube pays for all of that, and it's unclear how much she can make from Instagram sponsorship.

^ Taylor's bag


^bag on the Fendi website, listed at 3,700 euros.

She also claimed that she was financially independent from the age of 14 (except for education).

*love how Taylor's comment is edited.

*btw there is no Chad Thundercock's comment anymore.

As far as I know, Taylor's dad is really owning car dealing business, and they are all the time changing cars, so they will not drive Ferrari that is one year old, they will drive new cars.

Taylor saying her dad didn't pay anything for her except her education since she was 14 is a super lie. She stopped being a teenager and was still living at home, no chance she was paying for her food, clothes, renting, expenses like heat and electricity etc. when she was 14 or a bit older lmao

And she is fully supporting herself? Like somebody said on one other forum (where I saw this hilarious comment), she probably even has a trust fund. And with her amount of working, she can not affort Viviane Westwood, Chanel, trips to Paris, Barcelona, England, Canada etc. always in business class, same with her tripod-san. She can not pay for maintaining her look and keeping apartment in center of Tokyo and regularly bringing dog to the hair salon (we saw how Rosie looks when Taylor does her hair... so Rosie is indeed always at hair salon).

I'm glad other people could also see that.

CREDIT: lisa on Taylor R - social media thread.

Aug 2016: More recently, her modelling jobs have been few and far apart, yet she continues to make vlogs and showing her lavish spending habits (buying clothes, furniture, a new USD 800 camera immediately when her camera broke). She cannot possibly be making that sort of money from Youtube with 300k subscribers, and it's once again given relevance to the question "where is she getting her money from?"

NB: to those who say that this is irrelevant, I take your point, but I wish you will consider that she is setting a really terrible example to her predominantly young audience, who believe that with a dying modelling career and 300k subs on YT they can also live the life she leads. She is not being transparent with her lifestyle when she vlogs on a daily basis, going on about "if you work hard you'll get where you want to be" yet giving absolutely no indication about how she got her money and showing no indication of actually working beyond filming and editing vlogs. Everything else is irrelevant - she takes Rosie for walks, goes to lunch with her boyfriend, and then does some shopping.

>> white knights

While this isn't something Taylor has done specifically, it's still important to note her fan base is rather protective of her, and will talk back to anyone who says anything bad about her. This is a very convenient way for her to stay out of drama while still protecting herself, so she allows this behaviour to continue.

Example, the comments under this Instagram picture:

Note: _meryem_2001's comment was deleted (presumably by themselves).

>> tripod-san (previously known as manager-san, also known as boyfriend-san and elbow-san)

Aug 2016: tripod-san has been upgraded to boyfriend-san, as Taylor confirmed that she has a boyfriend.

Boyfriend-san does not feature in-person in her vlogs, although he is mentioned and is frequently behind the camera. Currently, it is known that he works in Japan (she joins him regularly for lunch dates), has a driver's licence (therefore he must have been living in Japan for a substantial time, if not originally Japanese himself), and presumably lives with her.

The above shows her trying to dispel rumours that there's someone filming her (manager, PA, boyfriend, whatever). It's definitely a man (there's a deep voice heard in one of her videos), and some PULL members came up with the theory that he's her benefactor/ sugar daddy/ boyfriend; none of these theories are confirmed.

After PULL began to ask about who the mystery man was, Taylor said that she uses a tripod to film, but there's some shots where the camera follows her, so unless she's filmed by a ghost/ paranormal being, a human is behind that camera. As a result, PULL dubbed him tripod-san.

You can see in these videos [ one | two | three ] that the camera moves with her, meaning it must be manned. In the third video (HK vlog), the first 2 seconds sees her in a taxi filming with her phone, but since the phone is in shot that must mean someone is filming her.

CREDIT to Siwon for mentioning the following.
There are also some images on PULL that show Taylor being filmed by someone in the reflection.

^ there's someone clearly reflected in the door window.

^ at 10:15 minutes, you can hear a male voice and Talyor turns towards the camera. (Credit to Kori Hikaru for pointing it out on the Taylor R - social media updates thread).

She also doesn't make it clear that her subtitles aren't made by her; she most definitely has to pay a translator to subtitle her videos for her, when you consider that someone like Sharla is doing Youtube full time (with free lance on the side) and substitles her videos in Japanese herself. Taylor is a blogger/ model/ actress (now) as well, and her videos manage to come out with both Japanese and Chines subtitles. Using Sharla as a comparison, Sharla's Japanese level is pretty advanced, whereas Taylor has shown no indication of learning Japanese except in the past 2 years, pronounces Asakusa wrong, and had to be dubbed in that drama she did. Her spoken Cantonese is elementary/ pre-intermediate at best from what she said in her Apple Daily video interview. Even though her accent/ pronunciation is bad, she still could've spoke in Cantonese for the video, but instead she only said 1 or 2 lines ("Hello everyone, my name is Taylor"), which shows that her Cantonese is around beginner level. Even if her written language skills are up to a standard where she can translate (very unlikely), it's still not viable for her time-wise to churn out videos fully and accurately subtitled in 2 foreign languages.

Apple Daily interview (in Cantonese).

CREDIT *horizon* on Taylor-R General discussion thread.

>> manager-san(s)

A relatively new edition, but it transpired that she has 2 managers in this video: behind the scenes & her drama. It's really illogical for a small-time model (let's be real) to have 2 managers assigned to her, one of which accompanied her on a ~4 day trip to film for the drama. More on this as we find the info.

>> yellow fever

Taylor hasn't shown much of this, although the main indication, however, is pretty solid. In her HK magazine interview, she says:

I suit Asian men more than Western men because of my image. Western men may find me a bit weird.

Most of the time, I’m attracted to Asian guys. My ex is Asian too.

Interpret this however you wish.

>> hiding her age

She is most definitely 27, and she was born on 14 December, 1988; she was said to be 22 in 2012 in an interview with Apple Daily. Her fans/ followers sometimes ask her for her age, but she never replies to those questions.

>> clickbaits

F*cking clickbaits, I tell'ya. It's not a consistent problem as far as I can see, but when her two latest vlogs in a row used clickbaits, this should be added.

e.g. Catching Rare Pokemon in Tokyo - thumbnail shows her phone and Pokemon Go, but doesn't actually use Pokemon Go (because it doesn't work) nor catches any Pokemon.
e.g. Saying Goodbye - implies she's saying goodbye to something/ someone very central to her life, but ends up saying bye to someone who was studying in Japan for a year.

>> "vapid consumerism"

As of late Oct/ early Nov 2016, Taylor has been displaying a certain amount of cattiness/ 'sass' about comments aimed at her mysterious source(s) of income, and has made passive aggressive comments directed towards people questioning her shopping habits, her stay-at-home status, her lack of jobs, and where she gets any money to fund her shopping if she doesn't have any jobs.

This was her reply to someone raising the above points on one of her videos. She directs her viewers to look at socialblade for her income:

The income brackets are so wide that they make absolutely no point. She could be making anywhere from 800 bucks to 13k, and that's too wide a gap to accurately say anything. If one takes the average of about 6.5k a month, that's not even enough to cover rent in central Tokyo, let alone bills, food, clothes, furniture, dog food, and other necessary expenditure. Then consider that she always travels business class when she flies, constantly travels by taxi, buys 8000 euro handbags, has to take Rosie to the vet, does her hair and nails semi-regularly, eats out regularly, buys lush bath bombs on a weekly basis (or at least used to in October), and buys random nick nacks nearly every day, there is no way that 6.5k is paying for all of that.

She then claims she has sponsorships, yet has never explicitly told her audience that she has been sponsored. As per YT guidelines, YTers must be transparent with their product endorsements, and she hasn't been, so she is either lying about promoting a sponsored item or lying about being sponsored altogether.

Also note her general disregard for the general public/ businesses she films around/ in. She used a full shopping trolley in Ikea to skate, fell down on a set of plushies in Ikea, and films in Shibuya 109 despite not being allowed to film there.

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CREDIT: all pictures and screenshots have been taken from the Taylor threads on PULL. Thanks to everyone for your dedicated work in documenting her snowflake adventures!

Please only discuss Taylor's videos and the content within them in this thread. Anything else can go in the other threads, and if you're not sure where it should go, use the general thread.

For anyone needing a summary.

Link to the old video thread.

Link to Taylor's YouTube.

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Most recent video as of this post:

I personally think their relationship started off as sugar and companionship. Eventually Taylor got lonely and learned to "love" elbow-san (the $$$ helped, I'm sure). To me, it would seem Taylor is not the independent type. I cannot see her venturing into a foreign country (HK/JP/etc) without a crutch or needing to rely on someone else.

When elbow-sans not around she barely leaves the house! Call me cynical, but I think if Taylor ends up back in Canada she may break up with elbow-san on the basis that she doesnt need to rely on him anymore...which would be unfortunate.

Menclub (https://menclub.hk/) is a digital magazine and platform aimed at men. There is a main website, as well as social media presence on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pg/menclub.hk and https://www.facebook.com/pg/menclub.auto), Instagram (https://www.facebook.com/menclub.hk/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/menclubhk). It encompasses many topics, including food, alcohol, technology, lifestyle, and popular culture. There is also a heavy focus on girls/women, who are featured in at least one special section of the website (menclubgirl). Scantily clad women can also be found scattered throughout the site in other sections, such as The Zone. The website includes a “Private Room.” In order to view this area of the website, a Menclub specialist must approve a man’s membership. The following is written in formal Chinese on the registration form:

Private Room is limited to specially selected members of MenClub. We will have a specialist personally inspect the personal information of each registrant. Upon successfully becoming a member of the Private Room, we will have a specialist contact you either by telephone or e-mail.

Inside of the MenClub Private Room, you will will be in contact with a whole new, never before seen world that is exclusively for gentlemen.
If you sincerely would like to join the Private Room, please fill in the form below and kindly wait patiently:

Username:
Password:
First and last name:
Cell phone number:
E-mail address:
Why we need your membership:
Yearly income:

There have been many theories about what the “Private Room” offers. Taylor claims it is solely for cigar evenings, wine tastings, latte classes, and meet-ups with other Menclub members. Pictures of these gatherings can be found on the Menclub Facebook page. However, this seems like an intense investigation of one’s personal life (an individual specialist has to have your personal information, cell phone, and salary?). It is possible the Private Room of Menclub is not just for the above activities, but at this point, there is no proof of any escort services, or illegal activitiy.

Underage girls featured on Menclub

Menclub has come under fire for regularly featuring underage girls (perhaps without their consent) on their pages. These articles are generally written by one particular guy who also likes to write articles smacking of sexism and misogyny.

Receipts of underage girls being featured in the same section that has porn stars, cam-girls, and models who pose nude/risque:
(disclaimer, nothing is wrong with grown, 18+ women doing sex work/showing skin but don't put underage models in the same category)

• Jemima Robinson, 13 years old - https://archive.fo/XQlBy (taken from cached) + screencap via their facebook
• Kristina Pimenova,13 years old - https://archive.fo/7U3fN
• Anastasia Bezrukova, 15 years old - https://archive.fo/uf9ml
• Thabata Hissnauer, 12 years old: https://archive.is/w77xh
• 虞佳瑞, 16 years old (just some girl on weibo): http://archive.is/OsMaQ
• Yana Poplavskaya, 14 years old: http://archive.is/b6Hwk (gross discussion of her age, appearance, & when it is legal to have sex with her in Russia and HK)
• Here, Menclub calls a 13yo princess ugly and "not marriage material": https://archive.is/NIQev
• The comments about Jhulia Pimentel (17yo) are also truly disgusting: http://archive.is/gt9FW
• This article features a model over 18, but sexualizes schoolgirls: http://archive.is/1b8Ye

Someone cow-tipped and confronted Tom on Instagram. He has posted a pretty stunningly obtuse defense of his company's behavior, and accused the poster ofmaking slanderous allegations against his company. All of the posts by this cowtipper have been deleted, and only Tom's defense now remains.

Here's the screenshot of his post alleging that the cowtipper is saying false things that will have "serious consequences": https://prettyuglylittleliar.net/uploads/monthly_2018_12/Screenshot_20181211-144526_(1)_-_Copy.jpg.dc1e3561a5bf5cd3aac7a1c6b4728ade.jpg

Taylor has since made two videos defending her husband and Menclub since ONTD printed an article about the controversy.
ONTD article: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/113520999.html
Taylor video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpcZSjOdPY [opens the video by saying how "silly" the topic is. denies involvement with the website.]
Taylor video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHnvGtnvqk [says the website "isn't for her" and basically explains it as a cultural phenomenon. basically condones sexualizing children and teens.]

Taylor pretends that only one or two articles focus on underage girls, and repeatedly tells us how popular the magazine is in HK. The links above prove that Menclub featured numerous underage girls on their site, and that it encourages men to sexualize girls.

Taylor's involvement with Menclub

Tom claims Menclub is only 5 years old, but it's actually 6 years old. Archive.org crawled the site in 2012. Most of the early hits say "coming soon," but between Oct and Nov 2012, the site went live. Girls were a section of the site from the very beginning.

In late 2012, Taylor was probably already working for Beauty Exchange, one of Tom's other sites. There's a post on his FB site dated Dec 16, 2012, where he says "BE girls rock" – there's a thumbnail of a now-deleted Taylor video (the Cinderella one) included in the screenshot.

Tom introduces Taylor officially to Menclub on December 4, 2012. The Menclub site is only 2 months old (tops) at this point. She was part of the original promotion for the site, which in turn promoted her social media and website.

https://www.facebook.com/menclub.hk/photos/a.153530161435047/294557090665686/?type=3&permPage=1

On February 14, 2013, Taylor announces to Apple Daily that she is single, and their online magazine prints an article about it. This is promoted on the same day by Menclub.hk (on their website and on their FB page). Menclub asks their audience if they have the balls to date Taylor.

Menclub continued to promote Taylor with weird posts.

2013:

May 10, 2013: Taylor and Tais on the same bed https://www.facebook.com/menclub.hk/posts/376195939168467

May 29, 2013: Taylor looks sad [on Taylor’s own FB the caption was “Think before you speak. Every time you call a person a name, talk down to them, or judge them you become an uglier person yourself.”] https://www.facebook.com/menclub.hk/posts/384646561656738
June 26, 2013: Taylor looks like a doll https://www.facebook.com/menclub.hk/posts/400131493441578

Dec 17, 2013: Interview with Taylor, the “Christmas goddess”

https://www.facebook.com/menclub.hk/photos/a.153530161435047/483051325149594

2014: https://www.facebook.com/menclub.hk/photos/a.153530161435047/497297700391623/?type=3&theater (linking Taylor’s upskirt photos to the Menclub audience. Note that Taylor and Tom were dating at this point)

Taylor's dancing videos and several other videos were promoted on Menclub's FB page, including the video of her and Sharla playing the "newly friend game." Both were wearing shirts with fake cleavage printed on the front, so that's probably why Menclub promoted the video

Taylor did at least three videos for Menclub. One can still be found (the robotic Happy Chinese New Year one): LINK

The other two are:

a Christmas greeting (she was called their “Christmas goddess” - I still can’t find this, but it may be out there)

an interview https://prettyuglylittleliar.net/uploads/monthly_2018_11/Screen_Shot_2018-11-24_at_2.38.51_PM.png.45191aee95e559b224e6d57834cb9a41.png

https://www.facebook.com/menclub.hk/photos/a.153530161435047/483051325149594
Translation of the written part from a user (https://lolcow.farm/snow/res/331466.html):

http://menclub.hk/node/2599 (video missing)

The Christmas goddess special issue of MenClub is here! First up is the sweet Canadian gal, Taylor R!

Taylor R, who comes from Canada, looks exactly like a real princess. She's different from many Western chicks in that she has a Japanese flair. As such, she's become a big-name model in Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong is where Taylor found fame and success, she still makes sure to go back to Canada to celebrate the Christmas holiday every year.

"I am studying in Hong Kong, but Canada is full of interesting stuff. It snows over there, and I also really like catching up with my family and friends."

This year is no exception for Taylor: "I am going to go home and have Christmas dinner with my family. My grandma makes the best turkey in the world! I really miss my family, I can't wait to see them."

Unlike in Hong Kong, Christmas is not commercialized in Canada. Taylor said Christmas was an unforgettable part of her childhood.

"I used to believe in Santa Claus back then. When I saw all the trees that 'Santa' left under the tree, I felt so happy. If I become a mother one day, I'd like to let my children enjoy that experience too."

Taylor seems to receive a lot of gifts from her fans, so she stated frankly: "To be honest, I don't want to receive Christmas gifts anymore. I already have too much stuff!"

The interview was watched by a number of PULL members before it was taken down.

Taylor promoted her Menclub interview on Facebook and sent a greeting to Menclub members on Twitter (tweet has since been deleted)

Other Menclub content with Taylor in it seems to be deleted now. Many things were removed after she announced that she had a boyfriend.

I'll need to come back to this after I do some other work, but please provide links to any content you'd like added, or suggest more textual edits.

And I actually enjoy Taylor's cooking! Guess we have similar taste? (But I do wish she would tie her hair when cooking)

She put the written recipes on her website for a while, but it's super annoying when she uses recipes without crediting the recipe or writing it online.

I'll try to edit this first post with pictures and links!

One of the cooking videos with Sharla: looks good and healthy!

And one with recipes in the comment section!

Oatmeal

mushroom lentil salad

Pumpkin soup and veggies grilled with garlic

Tofu stir-fry

Ifsomeone's around who is willing to download the video, then I'll post the link. Then this thread could be used to try to track down and save deleted or rare videos.

anyone have anymore unedited or candid photos, please post them here.

The meme generator link is above - feel free to repost memes you made in the Taylor videos thread so we have them all in one place, and feel free to make another Taylor meme (using different pictures etc.).

Hope this will help people looking for specific info and save them time, and avoid the same questions and discussions being discussed over and over in the above mentioned threads.

I really don't know much about makeup, so whatever you want me to edit & add to this first post, just comment below with the precise info and link!!

Nail video, which got some very good comments on PULL!

Pictures under spoiler

As Rosie is a recurring subject, thought starting a new thread would make it easier! From aww-ing, questions on her breed, to concerns and angry comments, feel free to post here!

This is Rosie!

source: http://www.beautyexchange.com.hk/lifestyle/158843

So I thought it would be interesting to have a thread dedicated to Taylor's relationships with other YouTubers/jvloggers. It has been sprinkled around various other threads how some YouTubers/jvolggers have thrown shade at Taylor or may dislike her -- well this thread could be a great place to consolidate that type of gossip, speculation, and discussion.

Some things that have been mentioned in other threads:

1) Rachel giggled and dedicated a few seconds to compliment Taylor in her latest vid. Seems suspect and a user suggested Sharla may have mentioned Taylor being down these past few weeks....

2) Miranda has been spotted commenting on Taylor's videos with heartfelt responses.

3) What the deal with Sharla and Taylor? Is she a mooch of Hotel TayTay?

4) Mimei has been rather cold towards Taylor. She even neglected to pose on camera in one of the recent vids.

Other observations:

5) Any tea on how Simon and Martina reacted to Taylor? It seemed as if Taylor barely interacted with people at their Halloween party.

Feel free to add

-BB

Has anyone actually clicked Taylor's hashtag #taytortot on Instagram?

It seems the hashtag was actually started by a much larger Instagram celebrity called tayloralesia who has 1.6m followers. If you look through the #taytortot feed, the vast majority are for tayloralesia.

It wouldn't surprise me if this was yet another attempt of Taylor to latch onto another's fame for followers/views.

While she was in HK in 2012 she did this interview: http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/financeestate/art/20120903/18006644 At about 0:55, Taylor says, "I think money sitting in the bank doesn't do much." The voiceover/interviewer in Cantonese follows up by saying that she does investments and buys stocks in American companies. In this more recent vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkuv4bTB-P0 Taylor talks about her investment banking at the 2:05 mark. She explains that she invested a lot of her modelling income at the time and those investments have now reached maturity. Based on these clips, Taylor is far more financially savvy than most people think she is (despite her frivolous spending).

So to summarize: she buys stocks, has investment funds, made money from modelling and makes money from YouTube. I think we can all confidently say that she has her own money. Sure, her boyfriend might be loaded, but Taylor isn't just living off of him either.

At 4:31

"For some reason- everything affects me of course, when I heard about it, but the UK one was uhm, maybe because I follow a lot of UK youtubers on Twitter or a lot of you guys are from there, so when I open my Twitter that day, it was just a constant, like, hitting of what was going on there, and, yeah, it just made me really stop and think a lot. And to be honest, I'm the type of person that doesn't watch the news, I hear most of it just from my boyfriend, because a lot of it is bad and negative and fake and terrifying and I feel like: What you don't know, can't hurt you, right?"

I felt a bad taste of white privilege in my mouth. Being in Japan without being able to speak Japanese barely and only thinking about the deaths of her fellow white people. Does she even know about the situation in Africa? Or the Middle East? They have been dealing with terrorist attacks daily, but who cares, as long as she doesn't see it on her timeline "What you don't know, can't hurt you, right?" Oh, the ignorance.

The reason why I posted this is because I saw a Syrian girl who is a fan of Taylor R commenting that she lives in Syria and is dealing with those attacks daily and she felt really disappointed about what Taylor said, yet Taylor doesn't care as much about it because it simply isn't affecting her own environment.

Have you heard about the Garissa University College attack? Probably not.

Goal of this topic is to provide easier access and an organized place to reference her BF.

Feel free to contribute any previous pictures of him.

He appears on the glass door in the back.

Taken at around 17:20 of her I Have a Boyfriend vlog.

Sorry for my bad English! ^-^

But those lenses that Taylor R normally wears look like they have a neat fading gradient from green to transparent color in the center.

She posted a video about her taking these ones, but they don't look at all like the ones she normally wears in videos. She mentioned in a video she uses to order them online and the lenses diameter is 15.5-16 mm.

I've already checked Pink Paradise and Uniqso (where she bought some huge black lens for a Halloween cosplay) but I couldn't find any lenses that look like in her videos/photos.

In one of her videos she grabs for her friend Sharla these ones http://www.donkimall.com/shop/products/detail.php?product_id=14917, but the effect has NOTHING to do at all with the one you can see in her videos, because those lenses pattern is that crappy dotted pattern texture I dislike: