Molly-Mae Hague has denied accusations that she “fixed” her viral Instagram competition.
Earlier this month, the Love Island star launched a massive giveaway on her Instagram page – to celebrate hitting one million subscribers on YouTube.
The giveaway prize includes multiple Louis Vuitton bags, numerous products from Apple, a years supply of her own tanning brand, and a full hair transformation from BeautyWorks.
The 22-year-old announced the competition winner on Monday, after deciding that the fairest way to pick was to select 25 people from the millions of entries – and to put those names into a random generator.
After taking to her Instagram Stories to reveal the competition winner, many followers accused the Love Island star of being “unfair” with her selection process – with some labelling it a “fix”.
One user took to Twitter writing: “Okay but how can Molly Mae get almost 3 million entries on her giveaway AND ONLY PICK OUT OF 25 PEOPLE??? How does she think that’s fair??”
Another tweeted: “i stan molly mae always but her only picking 25 people to be in with a chance of winning her giveaway out of over 2 million comments? it just ain’t on x”
Okay but how can Molly Mae get almost 3 million entries on her giveaway AND ONLY PICK OUT OF 25 PEOPLE??? How does she think that’s fair??
— CJW (@HoneymoonVinyl_) September 21, 2020
what a scam Molly Mae's giveaway was. nearly 3 million entries and she only picks 25 people to put in the random name generator lmfao
— maz 🦋 (@mazzzhenz) September 21, 2020
i stan molly mae always but her only picking 25 people to be in with a chance of winning her giveaway out of over 2 million comments? it just ain’t on x 😔
— aj (@aimeejanestrang) September 21, 2020
It was 1 in over a million chance of me personally winning Molly Mae’s giveaway but just generally I’m trying to understand how picking out 25 people out of over a million to THEN put in a generator is fair? 🤨😂 surely you’d just let a generator have the pick of everyone
— Sophie Turner (@SophieGT) September 21, 2020
putting 25 random comments in a generator was a bit of a shit way to do the giveaway molly mae, not really fair at all
— sash (@bashperkinsx) September 21, 2020
So you lot were really scrambling around 2 weeks ago to submit to Molly Mae’s giveaway just for her to get her management to select 25 people from 2.9 million comments obvs benefiting the winner who submitted hours before the deadline🤣🤣🤒🤒
— Curtis Django West (@CDWPD) September 21, 2020
molly mae should’ve just allowed 25 comment on the giveaway if she’s gna do it like that idiot
— emma gold (@emmagoldd) September 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/ckb__x/status/1308037145299386368
Molly mae comp was a fix 😫
— CHERISSE JONES✨ (@cherisseox) September 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/namjintae1/status/1308004700529332228
Taking to her Instagram Stories, Molly-Mae responded to the backlash – explaining why she decided to pick 25 out of all the entries for the generator.
“For people saying that 25 names in a generator isn’t fair… We literally spent all week brainstorming the best way to pick,” she said.
“There was no software that would allow me to put in two million (I repeat 2 million) IG comments without logging in with my Insta password which I would never ever do.
“Let’s just all be happy for the winner please. It’s only a light-hearted giveaway. The 25 names had all entered more than once… including the winner. Let’s be happy for her! She deserves it!”
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