Peak Irony
Today I was randomly scrolling the reel and I found this finance girl on my feed making an instructional video on how to ace the CFA exam. She literally starts the video out loud with: "Today I will tell you how I scored full marks in ethics." It was splashed all over the caption, too.
The peak irony absolutely blew my mind. Step 1 of teaching Ethics: immediately violate Standard VII(B) (Reference to CFA Institute, the CFA Designation, and the CFA Program) in the first five seconds of the video. As we all know, the Institute never releases exact numerical scores or "full marks" per topic; you are only permitted to make factual statements, like indicating that your performance was above the 70% threshold block.
I dropped a polite, professional comment pointing out the Standard VII(B) violation just to give her a friendly heads-up before the compliance flags started flying. Guess what? She immediately deleted my comment but left the video completely intact.
Since the line is hardcoded right into her audio, she clearly chose to sweep the warning under the rug rather than take the video down and lose her engagement. Talk about playing with absolute fire under the nose of the Professional Conduct Program! 💀