Wannabe influencer takes drastic step after copping backlash for whinging about restaurant that refused to collaborate with her

An aspiring influencer has gone 'offline' after she was inundated with backlash following a video she shared about a restaurant that rejected her collaboration offer.

Melbourne-based Jamieson May, who styles herself as a 'travel, lifestyle, fashion and food creator', said she would be taking a break from social media in a post shared to her Instagram story on Tuesday night. 

'Heading offline for a few days,' Ms May wrote along with a purple heart emoji. 

It comes after a video shared by Ms May last month about vegetarian restaurant Patsy's located in Melbourne's CBD caused a stir among Australians.

Melbourne-based Jamieson May (pictured), who styles herself as a 'travel, lifestyle, fashion and food creator', received backlash after sharing a rant about a Melbourne restaurant that rejected her offer for marketing

The aspiring influencer has told her 15,600 Instagram followers she was taking a break from social media following the deluge of criticism she received 

Ms May explained in the almost three-minute rant that she was left stunned by the restaurant's blunt reply to her marketing offer. 

'I received the most horrible message yesterday from a restaurant [after] wanting to work with them and I need to make you aware so you guys never work with them and know your standards,' Ms May said in a TikTok video.

Ms May sent a message to Patsy's restaurant on Instagram asking if the owner would work with her to create marketing content. 

The restaurant's account wrote back: 'You don't seem to have any followers, maybe you should approach us when you have over 100k.'

Ms May has 15,600 followers in Instagram and just over 9,000 followers on TikTok. 

The influencer said she was 'gobsmacked' by the reply and replied claiming the message was 'extremely rude'. 

'I'm absolutely gobsmacked. I had no words,' she said. 

'I was actually disgusted that someone could say that to another person.

'This is clearly someone not in marketing - they don't understand literally anything.'

However, her online rant about Patsy's backfired when she was inundated with a deluge of criticism from social media users. 

Ms May was 'absolutely gobsmacked' by the response she received from vegetarian restaurant Patsy's, located in Melbourne's CBD  

Ms May offered to collaborate with Patsy's but the restaurant claimed the wannabe influencer did not have enough followers for marketing to be effective 

The comments have since been switched off underneath the video. 

'When I first outed the restaurant on TikTok, it reached the wrong audience of non-creators and influencers who didn't understand what was happening,' Ms May said.

'People sent extremely rude comments that I am just an entitled influencer who just wants 'free' stuff and I am complaining about it all.'

Ms May told Daily Mail Australia that she 'never asked for a free service' and that she just objected to Patsy's 'customer service'.

'I am standing up for small creators who might have amazing content but don't get the recognition they deserve,' she said.

'Most people have just been called me entitled when they don't fully understand how content creation works in the marketing world.

'All of my content creator audience and friends have agreed with me on the matter.'

Meanwhile, Patsy's, which is owned by restaurateurs Mathew Guthrie and Clinton Trevisi, defended its response and said it was 'obvious' that they did not want to work with Ms May given her follower profile.

'Her followers are not really people that we have in the venue often and probably not the market that we are looking to engage with,' Mr Guthrie told news.com.au.

'I think she was just hoping to increase her visibility with these outrage posts.

'It, sort of, has worked already but I am not sure how it will be able to be monetised as marketing.'