If you've ever talked to an influencer at length about working with brands you inevitably hear horror stories of being asked to work several hours to create great content only to be offered free product samples as payment. That, coupled with the more insidious problem of unfair pay among races and genders and the influencer marketing industry is just screaming for some equilibrium.
Enter Lindsey Lee, a former model and workwear fashion influencer who was fed up up with brands undervaluing the contribution of influencers and content creators. She started a new site in late December called F*** You Pay Me. She calls it like a Glassdoor for influencers.
FYPM, as she refers to it for polite conversation, is an effort in transparency. Influencers review the brands they've collaborated with, including how much they were paid, what they were asked to do and how the brand was to work with. They also give their demographic information. Brand report cards then show up that reveal how they pay and behave.
Lee has safeguards built in so no influencer is outed—all reviews posted are anonymous—and no brand is unfairly railroaded. A brand's report card doesn't get unlocked until it has at least 10 reviews on the site.
The app is brand new … its minimum viable product launched in late December … it eclipsed 500 brand reviews in late February. 
Lee joined me on Winfluence to talk about the reasons behind it, who it benefits beyond just influencers and, of course, the controversial name. I even asked her if the abrasiveness of it concerned her as she thought about ways to monetize the site and potentially partner with brands.
We also talked about her insistence on having site users share their demographic data so FYPM could be a tool to help close the influencer pay gap.
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