Grifters in the salsa world

Has anyone seen grifters in the salsa world? I’m talking about the people who take salsa classes for one year and then decide they’re going to start teaching.

There’s an “influencer” based in a seaside town in the UK who I cannot stand who does this. She’s admitted that she started teaching after just one year of taking classes. She’s not terrible but I wouldn’t say she’s good either. She posted a video of herself and received many comments saying that she was too inexperienced to start teaching - nothing malicious! - and of course, she responded by calling these commenters “haters.”

I DM’d her privately, urging her to learn about the history of salsa dancing, how Black and Indigenous people created it, how it was a form of protest, and how it’s being whitewashed (for the record, she is white.)

She was very short with me and started backpedaling: she said that she didn’t actually teach salsa dancing, and that she worked with Colombian artists who did. (However, these artists are just about absent from her page and she gives them no credit even though it seems they’re the ones doing the actual work.)
She said she teaches “soul connection” and “confidence” and uses salsa as a vehicle for teaching that.

I sent her a few videos about the history of salsa and its Black and Indigenous roots, and suggested she give credit to the Latino instructors she works with.
Then she posted a reel about her being a salsa teacher (after privately telling me she was *not* a salsa teacher), and I commented, “I thought you didn’t teach salsa?” and she blocked me. 😂

What’s more is that she charges $75+ for private 1:1 classes. This to me runs antithetical to what the dance community is. She’s charging people for the “connection” without having much education in technique.

This seems like complete grift to me.