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Reddit takes on Nicolas Fairford

I know more about getting down n dirty on the net than my wife so I decided to take a stab at this guy's background. Was he who he claims he is? I've got nothin but time...

After about 3 hours scouring his Instagram, discovering his Old Instagram, discovering his abandoned blogs, Twitter, his old internet name and possibly his Real name, UK business accounts and set up LLCs from possibly placeholder locations, suspect home locations not matching up Google Earth in the slightest... I concluded he's not Real. He's that person, but he's trying to be something he is not, and it makes me really sad.

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by Anonymousreply 43September 29, 2024 7:17 PM

So it was a rainy boring Sunday when my wife came and told me this dude Nicolas Fairford seems kind of fake. He calls himself a "Designer and Advisor on Fine Living" and on his Youtube he has videos about pretty much living like an old English woman in a manor and how to prepare your flowers, your tea... how to STIR your tea "properly"... All ridiculous but nothing fake. I mean, maybe you do stir tea using a spoon moving vertically "from 12 to 6" and not in sloshy circles like a mental patient flailing in a bathtub.

He has a weird English accent that sound like it is trying to Sound proper. He dresses like he's in his 50s. His home (Some mansion on the moors it seems) is decorated like he's got great grand kids. He says and looks 30. Is he? That's also up for debate.

He has interviews with people on his Youtube, designers and magazine people. He says he's "international" and an interior designer. I know lots of people do this, so why not him? Well. It just felt off. I don't know what to say other than see for yourself by googling this guy.

I know more about getting down n dirty on the net than my wife so I decided to take a stab at this guy's background. Was he who he claims he is? I've got nothin but time...

After about 3 hours scouring his Instagram, discovering his Old Instagram, discovering his abandoned blogs, Twitter, his old internet name and possibly his Real name, UK business accounts and set up LLCs from possibly placeholder locations, suspect home locations not matching up Google Earth in the slightest... I concluded he's not Real. He's that person, but he's trying to be something he is not, and it makes me really sad.

He wants to look like he's got money and a mansion and is an international home designer but it appears he is actually just the son of a pretty well off family (like parents are maybe a doctor or lawyer) and it affords him the ability to travel internationally to Dubai... He says he designs home but posts not even a vague portfolio online though he claims he's been doing this for nearly a decade. But no proof, nothing to show he actually designs. Just photos of him abroad.

I think he's got money but no direction and someone recommended he get into design (as it does appear he's like design and fashion the past decade).

But what's sad is why not just go to college, learn the art and design, build clientele, gain experience and present it?

Instead we are left with what feels definitively fake and sus and sad. It made me sad after having a good laugh. I don't like that he feels he has to be fake to be relevant and succeed.

If he was really a designer the past few years he wouldn't have changed his name and left no trace of his past work.

I wish I could tell him all this but, hey, the internet, right?

by Anonymousreply 1September 28, 2024 6:37 PM

Four years ago. Pretty sure we discussed that post years and years ago already.

by Anonymousreply 2September 28, 2024 6:38 PM

Copypasta worthy

by Anonymousreply 3September 28, 2024 6:41 PM

[quote]it appears he is actually just the son of a pretty well off family

Nah, Nicky Farrow from working class Yorkshire, on the grift.

by Anonymousreply 4September 28, 2024 7:01 PM

I thought his last name was Burden.

by Anonymousreply 5September 28, 2024 7:15 PM

From the top comment:

[Quote] My guess is that he is gay, and that is perfectly fine with me.

Gee, ya think?!?

by Anonymousreply 6September 28, 2024 7:16 PM

"My wife showed me this guy on Reddit and I obsessively tracked down every detail I can about him" yeah, okay Reddit guy, that's not creepy and weird at all. Though it's funny just how much stuff he gets wrong.

by Anonymousreply 7September 28, 2024 7:29 PM

His wife did nothing of the sort. He’s closeted and is e-stalking Fairford.

by Anonymousreply 8September 28, 2024 8:03 PM

He’s probably in Edinburgh right now pawing through Ms Fairford’s trash bin.

by Anonymousreply 9September 28, 2024 8:11 PM

This guy is astonishingly invested in a minor lifestyle vlogger.

by Anonymousreply 10September 28, 2024 8:29 PM

It's beyond me why this Fairford fellow "bothers" anyone.

by Anonymousreply 11September 28, 2024 8:40 PM

Nicolas Fairford is exactly as he seems...Sweet, pretentious, gay, and perhaps not very self-aware.

by Anonymousreply 12September 28, 2024 8:59 PM

The last invert standing

by Anonymousreply 13September 28, 2024 9:01 PM

Beige on beige triggers.

by Anonymousreply 14September 28, 2024 9:02 PM

Straight-douche is basically just looking for a way to bring a non straight-douche down.

by Anonymousreply 15September 28, 2024 9:17 PM

He’s good at being a straight douche, but Lady Nicholas has obviously cast a spell on him.

by Anonymousreply 16September 28, 2024 10:51 PM

[quote] He’s probably in Edinburgh right now pawing through Ms Fairford’s trash bin.

I was going to comment that this Reddit closet case would love to get his tongue a taste of Fairford’s dainty rosebud as well as plow that tight, fertile ground for himself, but you already beat me to it.

by Anonymousreply 17September 28, 2024 10:54 PM

You may call me Nicholas Burden.

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by Anonymousreply 18September 29, 2024 12:29 AM

He should leave that basement apartment and move south.

by Anonymousreply 19September 29, 2024 12:34 AM

r18 So he was smart enough not to use his real name on social media. And? Really not understanding why so many weirdos are obsessed with this guy.

by Anonymousreply 20September 29, 2024 12:45 AM

[quote] My guess is that he is gay

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by Anonymousreply 21September 29, 2024 1:24 AM

My guess is that he is the gayest man in Scotland.

by Anonymousreply 22September 29, 2024 1:31 AM

That comment caught my eye too R21!

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by Anonymousreply 23September 29, 2024 1:35 AM

'Nicholas' gives me the creeps big time, but this Reddit guy's analysis is as bad as Nicholas's plummy, post-lobotomy accent. Fancy as Nicholas would like to be, he doesn't purport to be from any background but a humble one. And he doesn't purport to live in 'some mansion on the moors it seems.' He lives (when I last paid attention) in a small basement flat in a New Town, Edinburgh, or an adjacent neighborhood on that northwest sector of the historic city.

[quote]He wants to look like he's got money and a mansion and is an international home designer but it appears he is actually just the son of a pretty well off family (like parents are maybe a doctor or lawyer) and it affords him the ability to travel internationally to Dubai...He says he designs home but posts not even a vague portfolio online though he claims he's been doing this for nearly a decade. But no proof, nothing to show he actually designs. Just photos of him abroad...I think he's got money but no direction and someone recommended he get into design

Obviously the guy is a complete fabrication. He's only an expert because he calls himself one. Nobody else could do so without breaking up in laughter. Of course he has no portfolio, he just wildly extrapolates an exchange of Instagram likes follower from Wales and another from an American who has a house in France as 'international clients..'

The Reddit investigator/exposer of truths doesn't have a clue about how it is that young-ish men fund their travels to exotic Dubai. Even pudgy dumplings like this one who does dress like a 55-year-old Sebastian Flyte might have done for tennis can find their way there now and again ('a lid for every pot'), but it usually involves a rimchair, and very fucking rarely family money.

If there were family money, would he have such a dodgy little flat, and would he move around the same lamp to appear and bits of furniture in three or four different locations within the same 'photo shoot' with his own mobile? He's thrifty to a fault because he's poor as piss. His travels, fancy and otherwise, are at the invitation of others. He can barely spring for a scone and a tea in the carriage house of some National Trust house. Once he merely described the Trust property's tearoom in passing, saying that the patrons on the other side of the French doors seemed to be having a lovely time with their lovely sandwiches and lovey tea. And he can be pulling in much dosh from those sad and tedious testimonials to the wonders of some beauty product, not when his face always looks like he'ß licked the inside of a Vaseline jar or a bag of greasy crisps.

Nicholas, if that's indeed his name, wouldn't be the first to fake it to make it as an 'expert' on manners. Unfortunately for him, he's not intelligent enough, nor clever enough to be even the least bit inclined to anything about design and design history, about art and art history, about antiques, about the complicated factors that shaped tea rituals. He's just learned a very few, very rudimentary things and seems happy enough at that. Why bother to actually be an expert, or be able to fake it with some aplomb, but it's as if he read a New York Times article 'Here Are 5 Takeaways on Faking a Posh Act.'

It doesn't take an ace internet sleuth to see that Nicholas is out of his depth, that he doesn't have a design background nor a good self-taught designer, nor does he have a portfolio of international or even county clients, nor is he a design historian, nor a tastemaker, nor an 'influencer,' nor the son of well-off doctors and lawyers. He's told us some of these things himself, and the rest is obvious.

The Reddit sleuth is no more a good sleuth than Nicholas is a good designer.

by Anonymousreply 24September 29, 2024 1:52 AM

I enjoy him, the next Colin Cowie & wish him the best. He's trying & seems to be doing well-ish??

by Anonymousreply 25September 29, 2024 2:09 AM

[quote]Nicholas's plummy, post-lobotomy accent.

It's always embarrassing when Americans say stupid stuff like this. His accent is in no way plummy. He attempts to speak with a neutral accent, that is in no way the same as trying to sound posh. He doesn't even use long-a sounds in place of short, which is the very first thing he'd do if that was his aim.

by Anonymousreply 26September 29, 2024 2:28 AM

He’s not Real, y’all.

by Anonymousreply 27September 29, 2024 3:29 AM

Am I doing it wrong?

There is a certain way to stir Tea, and you have to use a spoon not a dirty knife in the sink.

by Anonymousreply 28September 29, 2024 4:37 AM

He's living the gracious life he values and supporting himself. That he doesn't have huge expertise doesn't matter to his audience. I see no reason to be mean to him. It's very easy to ignore him.

by Anonymousreply 29September 29, 2024 5:43 AM

He thinks the Dubai trip was Nicholas cosplaying as rich because he never travels and has no idea much plane tickets and hotels cost.

by Anonymousreply 30September 29, 2024 6:52 AM

I’ve never heard of him but he obviously has something to have this many people obsessed with him.

I think people in general are upset that they can’t be as shameless to make something happen in their own lives.

by Anonymousreply 31September 29, 2024 7:40 AM

I don’t mind Nicholas at all. Yes, his last name is Burden and yes, Fairford is a brand. So what? It’s not as if he called himself Mountbatten or Spencer. I also recall a video (only watched two or three over the years) in which he spoke candidly about his humble upbringing.

With all the vulgar videos of gays twerking, creating onlyfans to basically become glorified whores if not downright whores, I am all for a fellow gay trying to make it with his over-the-top styling and etiquette tips.

Leave him alone, he hasn’t done anything wrong and he seems like a good egg.

by Anonymousreply 32September 29, 2024 8:19 AM

Couldn't agree more, R32.

by Anonymousreply 33September 29, 2024 8:22 AM

Can someone please get to the bottom of this Uber Twink bottom (with a girlfriend). He keeps popping up on my feed and has 3M followers from just doing this shit…

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by Anonymousreply 34September 29, 2024 8:27 AM

Maybe he's AI.

by Anonymousreply 35September 29, 2024 2:27 PM

Does he have “an” Onlyfans?

by Anonymousreply 36September 29, 2024 2:49 PM

He is human Rohypnol®, but that's part of what I like about him. I find absolutely nothing offensive about his presentation style or personality: not the sometimes doughy body, not the head-scratching enthusiasm about scones, not the doll tea parties, nor the recommendations for the perfect butter... Even the dull commercial promotions. It's all strangely comforting.

by Anonymousreply 37September 29, 2024 4:03 PM

But datalounge.... All that Beige!! It's soooo "beigey".

by Anonymousreply 38September 29, 2024 4:10 PM

He ought to start doing relationship advice or something. Skincare. Maybe gardening?

by Anonymousreply 39September 29, 2024 4:14 PM

There's something charming about a younger guy who wants nothing but to be a fop from the 20s.

by Anonymousreply 40September 29, 2024 4:14 PM

I’d like to see him plant a cottage garden, in some lederhosen or something.

by Anonymousreply 41September 29, 2024 4:15 PM

Trainwreck. Stupid low information people trying and failing to suss out the real story behind Nicolas Fairford, master of ASMR beigeitude.

by Anonymousreply 42September 29, 2024 4:23 PM

I wish people would leave him alone. He's not harming anyone and is just sharing his graceful way of life. Like Joan Crawford did with her book.

That said, I'd love it if it turned out to be an act and he started an Only Fans as Nick Wildbush and adopted a Cockney accent while shouting, "Ay! Com see me pop me cock off! Nah! That's cum in ya eye, Guv'nah! Cum in yah eye! Only for-hee pounds a wee'! For-her pounds a wee'!"

by Anonymousreply 43September 29, 2024 7:17 PM
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