“F*** You Pay Me is a company birthed out of rage.” . . —Me, FYPM Mission Statement (2020) . . What’s up y’all. I started a company. It’s called “F*** You Pay Me” (FYPM for short) and I just posted the world’s most scathing founder mission statement to my website. You should read it, but here are the highlights: . fypm.vip is essentially a “Glassdoor for influencers”, a platform where influencers can anonymously review brands they’ve worked with, search crowdsourced compensation data and make it easier to figure out how much to charge for sponsored posts — something I’ve learned through running msyoungprofessional is basically f****** impossible to do. Furthermore, through my experience working brand-side social media marketing I learned exactly why this process is so f****** impossible: the industry is rampant with sexism, racism, laziness and an exploitative profitability model that fattens business owners’ pockets by keeping influencers in the dark, stupidly undervalued and grossly ...