Our feeds are filled with people flashing their wealth, while telling us how little they had to do to get there. We see fancy cars, idyllic destinations and double-storey homes, all allegedly acquired after someone ditched their 9-5 in exchange for a life of financial freedom.
These Boss Babes and Bros brag about their passive incomes, inviting us to join them on the journey. “Work from anywhere. Get paid daily. No experience required,” they say. But often, a closer look reveals that things aren’t always as they seem. Many of these ‘entrepreneurs’ aren’t coining it. They’re caught up in multi-level marketing (MLM) or pyramid schemes akin to a cult. Some are selling the most bizarre things, like ‘magic water’ that can be used as a disinfectant. Yes, really.
There’s an entire online community in the business of roasting MLMs. Anti-MLM was founded to stop MLMs from “draining your friends dry.” The page warns that MLM participants either build the pyramid taller or get squashed by it. We’ve put together a list of posts that you should probably scroll through before considering that tempting and easy way to make a living.
#1 This Was Not A Joke Post
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#2 Sick In Bed! Lucky To Still Be Working!
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#3 The Huns Are Perturbed
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Be your own boss, work from anywhere in the world, choose your own hours and watch the money come rolling in. I mean, why wouldn’t you?
On the surface, it might seem like a dream but you probably aren’t being sold the full and true picture. Call them multi-level marketing (MLM), network marketing, or direct marketing businesses, at their core they involve selling products to family and friends, and recruiting other people to do the same.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns that some MLMs are actually illegal pyramid schemes.
#4 Thank God For The Shampoo Bizz!
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#5 Monat Rep’s Rant On Insta
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#6 Oh My Goodness. Someone Is Actually Recruiting Mlms For A Party With Their Friends. Yikes!
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The FTC’s site explains that MLM companies sell their products or services through person-to-person sales. So if or when you join one, you’ll be selling something directly to other people, either from your home, at customer’s home, or online. Hence the “work from anywhere.”
Your new title, apart from Boss Babe, would typically be independent “distributor,” “participant,” or “contractor.” According the the FTC, most MLMs say you can make money two ways: By selling the MLM’s products yourself to “retail” customers who are not involved in the MLM; or by recruiting new distributors and earning commissions based on what they buy and their sales to retail customers.
#7 This Is A New Low
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#8 Rectal Prolapse But Make It Argonne
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#9 They’re Already Self Diagnosing, And Medicating, So Its Only ‘Natural’ That They’ve Moved Onto Their “Littles.” “Treating The Body By God’s Design.”
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“If the MLM is not a pyramid scheme, it will pay you based on your sales to retail customers, without having to recruit new distributors,” notes the FTC.
However, the commission warns that it’s often not as lucrative as many people have been led to believe. “Most people who join legitimate MLMs make little or no money. Some of them lose money,” it warns. “In some cases, people believe they’ve joined a legitimate MLM, but it turns out to be an illegal pyramid scheme that steals everything they invest and leaves them deeply in debt.”
#10 Did You Guys Know Hair Grows After Haircuts? Mind Blown
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#11 Your End Of The Month Reminder That When You Fail At Mlm, It’s All Your Fault
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#12 Always Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud…. Also She’s The One Who Was Recorded Telling Down Lines To Change One Number In The Social Security Number To Create New Accounts And To Give Downlines Money To Buy Product To Keep Rank…
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The FTC bluntly calls pyramid schemes flat-out scams, and warns that they can look remarkably like legitimate MLM business opportunities, selling actual products. Perhaps ones you’ve heard of, or something more strange, like “magic water.”
However, that catch is that if you become a boss babe distributor for a pyramid scheme, it can cost you and your recruits (these are often your family and friends) a lot of time and money that you will never get back.
#13 One More Thing!
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#14 I Can’t
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#15 For $60k It Can Be Yours!
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We’ve seen the posts and pitches online. “Change your life. Quit your job. Get rich quick.” It’s a blatant lie, and that’s because your income is based on how many people you recruit, not how much product you sell.
“Pyramid schemes are set up to encourage everyone to keep recruiting people to keep a constant stream of new distributors — and their money — flowing into the business,” say the FTC’s experts.
It’s also not unusual for you to have to spend money to make money. In other words, some pyramid schemes will encourage or require you to buy stock at regular intervals, even if you already have inventory than you can use or sell.
#16 When It’s Career Day
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#17 Pyramids Everywhere??
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#18 Cancelled A Primerica Zoom With The Reason “Pyramid Scheme”
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But wait, there’s more…
“You may even have to buy products before you’re eligible to be paid or get certain bonuses. You also may have to pay repeated fees for other items, like training sessions or expensive marketing materials,” warns the FTC. “In addition, the company may say you can earn lavish rewards, like prizes, bonuses, exotic vacations, and luxury cars.”
If you read the fine print, you’ll probably first have to meet certain product purchase, recruitment, training, or other goals to qualify for the rewards. And they don’t make it easy to achieve.
#19 The Mythical Pink Mary Kay Escalade
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#20 Enagic Hun Advising Mums To Use Magic Water To Disinfect Items
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#21 Bravenly Uplines: “You’ve Just Got To Power Through The Vomiting!”
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Before you fall for the hype, end up running out of money, are forced to quit, or worst, lose everything you invested, you need to be aware of the following red flags:
- Promoters who make extravagant promises, telling you that you’ll earn A LOT of money.
- Promoters who insist that recruiting new distributors for your sales network is the fastest way up the food chain. You should be able to make money just by selling a product.
- Promoters who pressure you and want you to sign up immediately, without properly researching the company.
#22 Good Businesswoman, But She Didn’t Even Recruit Her Team
This American woman recruited someone in Germany. That German then recruited ANOTHER German, who was then able to recruit 10,900 people during the initial launch into the country.
This delusional hun thinks she somehow did something to cause this chain of events to happen.
And that she EARNED it.
She can’t even speak German. She can’t train or coach any of them.
She just got lucky.
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#23 It’s Not A Business Trip
The hun is at the airport, spending money from her real part-time job on a fake business trip.
If sunk-cost fallacy was a picture
ETA
Eqology European Convention 2026 (Copenhagen, Denmark, October 24–25, 2026): € 229,00
Flight estimate €300-500
Hotel 1-2 nights probably € 150/night
Maybe transport/taxi
The whole trip is €1’000 without (m)any extras
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#24 Rolled My Eyes So Hard I Caught A Glimpse Of My Brain
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If you still decide to join an MLM after scrolling through this list, know that success is not guaranteed. In fact, research shows that a whopping 95% of network marketers or multi-level marketing recruits fail. But this isn’t something the company is going to broadcast.
“The people that do succeed are in the minority. When you attend MLM meetings, the success of the top 2% sales people are generally highlighted,” explains the Moneyweb site. “The significant failure rate of their salespeople is generally overlooked because it is built into the business model. Designing a business plan with a 95% failure rate and where successful people are the proven exception is counter-intuitive.”
#25 This Just Showed Up On My Feed
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#26 Because It’s Always The Same Conversation
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#27 No Thanks. Don’t Need More Herbalife “Nutrition Clubs”
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#28 Hun, You Seem Upset
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#29 The Huns Turning A Hurricane Into A Biz Pitch
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#30 Most Jobs Don’t Require You To Constantly Defend Them Against Pyramid Scheme Allegations
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#31 Hopelessly Serial Hun Looking For Businesses “Not Like The Pyramid Stuff”
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#32 Ringana Hits The USA
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#33 Not Even Safe At The Gym
I just want to go do a quiet workout in my sweats and not have a hun trying to push Monat samples on me. Thank you very much.
Yes, that first pic is her bag of samples. But I’d probably take the goodie bag since there is essentially no Monat in that one and the chocolate does look good. Who doesn’t want to undo all the hard work they just did?
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#34 Mlm Obsessed Father
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#35 We Know Where This Is Going
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#36 Using Disabled People
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#37 Yes, We Are Not The Same Wfg (World Financial Group ) / Rfm Hun. I Have A Stable Job That Matches My 401k And Pays For My Business Travel And Health Insurance. I Also Haven’t Alienated All Of My Friends And Family Outside Of My Pyramid Scheme
Honestly, it’s not even the scamming that gets me. I understand how people are fooled out of ignorance and desperation into these pyramid schemes. What grinds my gears is how they flex so much and passive aggressively (or just aggressively) constantly try to make it seem like they’re better than everyone.
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#38 Chinese Peptide Seller Scammed Op And Tried Getting Him In Pyramid Scheme
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#39 Enagic – Disinfectant, Destroys Everything, Including Bacteria
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#40 Hun Maths
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#41 Hun Recently Made A Video, For Her Downline, Explaining How To Use Chatgpt For Content, Including Taking Content From Other Huns In Other MLMs And Make It Their ‘Own’
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#42 I’m In Japan, Found A Box Nearby To Mail Some Stuff With, And Noticed This
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#43 It’s Never Been About The Product, Just Admit That Your Pyramid Is Crumbling, And That People Are Leaving Faster Than You Can Replace Them
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#44 Beneve In The Wild
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#45 Bun Claims That Mlms Are Not Cults Because They Don’t Wear Matching Robes. However, They Do Have Matching Posts
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#46 They’ve Just Got To Ruin The Fun For Everyone Else, Haven’t They?
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#47 They Have To Mask The Horrible Taste Of Their Products With Enormous Amounts Of Artificial Sweeteners
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#48 Sounds Like Medical Claims
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#49 Myrtle Beach Beware! Greenway Acquisitions
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#50 AI Copied Nonsense?
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