A banker turned influencer has been criticized online for crowdsourcing a failed bid to become Miss New York, despite bragging about her wealth to her followers.
Jordan McDaniel was selected as a participant in the now established competition in May and subsequently raised $2,660 via GoFundMe to fund the effort.
McDaniel – who was previously an analyst at Morgan Stanley and now talks openly about her privileged upbringing and a banker’s cushy salary – lost the beauty pageant to Manhattan’s Abigail Quammen.
But the model has since been criticized for asking fans, family and friends to help her fund “pageant costs, dress, formal outfits, hair and makeup, coaches and travel.”
She wrote at the time: “This fundraiser will also allow me to take some time off to properly prepare and work with the right team for Miss New York. Companies are welcome to help sponsor me, or just friends/family and others who want to support me!’
After her job at Morgan Stanley, McDaniel worked as an associate at Lord, Abbett & Co until 2023. LLC, before embarking on a career as a content creator and model for Manhattan-based Elite.
She has released a steady stream of videos giving insight into her wealthy background, with one video boasting about how her father made “six figures” early in his career.
“And it grew and grew from there,” she says in the video posted Sunday, titled “Being Five Percent Isn’t for Everyone.”
Jordan McDaniel was selected as a participant in the now established competition in May and subsequently raised $2,660 via GoFundMe to fund the effort.
McDaniel was selected as a participant in the now-closed competition in May, raising $2,660 via GoFundMe
“So it definitely comes from watching him — and also growing up in an area where a lot of people struggled — like, there’s so many things that I can talk about that have made me the person I am today. ‘
Just an hour earlier, the TikToker waxed poetic about “making six figures right out of college” — something she attributed to her “curiosity.” At almost the same time, the influencer whose bio insists she is “just a model” was met a steady stream of hate.
“For someone who made six figures working on Wall Street, and was supposedly so smart…what happened to her money?” wrote one viewer, sharing again the since-dissolved GoFundMe page.
“The money was for her to join Miss New York, so you told me someone who made that much and is so smart with numbers… Did you ask the public to donate?
“Can’t the rich men: 6’4, billionaires she dated/date donate? Or the so-called rich people she is connected to are doing it,” the online sleuth asked.
“Something about her isn’t quite right.”
Another person wrote: ‘The mentality of why pay when I can convince someone else?’
Others poked fun at the diction the former analyst used in her description, engaging in malapropism while attempting to use the word “philanthropic.”
Others poked fun at the diction the former analyst used in her description, engaging in malapropism while attempting to use the word “philanthropic.”
‘She is delusional and seems to be going into a spiral. [T]Take everything she says with a huge grain of salt,” someone else said.
Others pointed to the TikTok creator’s past content that they considered questionable, including posts about ex-boyfriends and days-long affairs.
‘Shouldn’t Miss USA also have a clean image? One Google search on Jordan, you will see discussions about her (she lies constantly) or worse, her tiktok (content about billionaires/rich men she dated, how beautiful people like her are elite, etc.), ‘ someone asked.
Hours earlier, McDaniel, a St. Louis University graduate, posted not one but two videos detailing her seemingly successful quest for, as she puts it, “financial freedom.”
“So I made six figures straight away as a first-year analyst at a bank in New York City,” she begins in one.
‘If you work in the investment banking division, you definitely earn more straight away, especially in terms of bonuses. I worked in private wealth management, specifically in the ultra-high net worth division, specifically in marketing and business development.
“So I guess my title was: ultra-high net worth marketing analyst.
McDaniel then lost to Abigail Quammen (photo)
She further claimed that her position, unlike one that focused more on the analytical sector of investment banking, required “incredible people skills.”
“For example, when I was working as an analyst, I wasn’t just meeting these clients at these high-net-worth events that we were hosting – both ‘next generation of wealth’ [programs] – we focus a lot on minorities and women
“So it was really interesting, and you had to have very specific skills.”
She said in another clip, “One of the biggest things that helped me be successful — making six figures right out of school, being a model at the top modeling agency, working on Wall Street right out of school — is that I don’t like tonight .
“I know social media can show a very short version of your life, but if you look at the sample emails of things I used to send in, like 2018, 2017 – like, when I was a crazy teenager, I did I this stuff.
“When I was 18, and I went to college — 17, when I was volunteering and receiving mentorship from judges and lawyers,” she continued, before turning the focus of the video on herself, gesturing while still on screen.
According to her LinkedIn, McDaniel has been modeling and posting on TikTok for the past four years.
Her time at Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, amounts to about a quarter of that, the page indicates.