On Sunday, influencer Amanda Hirsch — the creator behind the popular “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, who also hosts Hulu’s “Get Real” podcast — addressed the uproar about having posted partner content with the betting platform Polymarket over the Lindsay Clancy verdict. In a since-deleted post from Friday, after the judge in the case had declared a mistrial, Hirsch posted the news of what happened, and wrote: “On Polymarket it was predicted the verdict would be Not Guilty. Are you surprised? #Polymarketpartner.” The reaction to the post was swift and brutal, and Hirsch deleted the reel — but screenshots are forever. Hirsch attempted to post as usual to her Instagram stories on Saturday, but the criticism escalated. On Friday, Hirsch’s rep didn’t respond to Variety’s request for comment.
\n\nIn the apology posted to her grid — with the comments turned off — Hirsch said, “Posting about the Lindsay Clancy trial in the same breath as a brand partnership was completely insensitive, wrong, and out of character for me — I should have known better, and I feel sick that I didn’t see that in the moment.” She wrote that, as a mother, the case had affected her, and she…
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