Gisela Amponsah felt ‘out of place’ as producers turned podcast into a chaos machine

Gisela Amponsah didn’t just walk away from the Rants, Bants and Confessions podcast — she walked away from what she describes as an emotionally manipulative environment where hosts were sacrificed for clicks.

“I just felt very out of place. I felt these people didn’t care about me,” she said in a candid interview on The Creative Inc with Ama Burland, opening up about the turmoil behind the podcast once produced by Glitch Africa.

“What began as a space for fun, banter and storytelling quickly devolved, Gisela claimed, into a platform that thrived on internal conflict.

What triggered the most discomfort, she explained, was discovering that bloggers were allegedly paid by producers to smear co-hosts online, stirring up targeted insults simply to boost engagement.

“How do you lie to your people and say you’re not paying anyone, especially when I draw your attention to it?” she said. “This person keeps attacking one particular co-host, keeps insulting her, calling her all sorts of names.”

Even more puzzling to her was how this same blogger was somehow always first to leak behind-the-scenes developments—including the podcast’s trailer and, eventually, the news of their departure.

“It doesn’t make sense. Who else will tell the person? And how does this person even get the trailers before we even have it?”

For Gisela, the issue wasn’t just the betrayal—it was the silence that followed. She felt the producers’ inaction signaled complicity.

“I get it, you have to promote your show and all of that,” she admitted, “but to pay bloggers who intentionally insult [hosts] for them to trend is another thing.”