Influencer = self employed advertiser. Being a fan of an influencer is like being a fan of the insurance gecko.
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I mean... he's pretty cool?
Keep your gecko and Flo fanfic to yourself!
No, let the man cook. I wanna see where this goes.
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I wouldn't be surprised if a Rule 34 erotica exists starring the Geico Gecko and Flo.
Without checking or ever seeing it before, I am confident saying that it must exist.
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Not “Influencer” - “Huckster”
You leave Martin out of this.
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So the kids need a more realistic representation of adulthood?
My time as a homeowner who barely scrapes by is here.
We'll go full circle back to the days of yore when home improvement HGTV wasn't also bundled with an irl soap opera.
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Realistic
Homeowner
Choose one.
Well us old people were already tired of them when they first showed up. shakes cane
I distinctly remember a show called Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous, though I couldn't tell you what celebs were featured. Then MTV had Cribs in the '90s. Influencers are basically just the modern version of those shows, aren't they?
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Some unsolicited advice
- Don't trust anyone trying to make a living off of selling you anything, even something less tangible like a lifestyle.
- If you have extra income after living expenses, set a little aside for personal enjoyment and save/invest the rest. The future is uncertain.
- If you want to travel to far flung destinations and have the means to do so, consider skipping the resort experience. You'll spend much less especially in developing countries and have a more authentic (relatively speaking), and rewarding experience.
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In the 70s and 80s, if a fast talking guy with sunglasses and slicked back hair and in a checkered suit wanted to talk to you about the latest greatest thing .... you knew they were selling something shitty.
Today we call those people influencers.
They were a trend back then, they're a trend now and will die out when the next trend starts ..... probably brain implanted advertising inside your dreams or something like that.
It's something that every generations grown up with ....
Some babe's talking real loud
Talking all about the new crowd
Try and tell me of an old dream
A new version of the old scene
- Ragdoll ... by Aerosmith ... in 1987
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That's because the algorithm has grown recursive and shoves the same mainstream shit down everybody's throat on repeat. Cake is cool but imagine never being allowed to eat anything other than cake.
Yeah but imagine admiring someone that needs a team of people to make it look like they made a cake.
Probably an old man yelling at cloud sentiment, but I hated them from the very beginning.
I'm definitely an old man. And i remember when YouTube influencers started being a thing.
To this day, I have no idea what the hell a Mr Beast is or any of these famous YouTubers are. And most of them either fade away or get propped up by some bad news.
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If someone is talented or beautiful, we assume they are highly qualified in other ways as well
With apologies for sounding like a cranky old man 30 years too early: in my day, we didn't call thinking that "the halo effect". We called it being a gullible dumbass.
The "Halo Effect" has been a known psychological phenomenon since 1907 researched by uh...Wells and someone else who I can't remember.
I don't want to rain on your cranky old man parade, but unless you're 100+ years old I don't think it was ever just "being a gullible dumbass", it's very much a known societal bias that has been leveraged by the advertising industry. Don't think you're immune to it just because you think you're "above it".
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We called it being a gullible dumbass.
The reality is that you're almost certainly guilty of it. It's human nature and to be so confident that everyone else is dumb and falls for it, and that it doesn't bias your thoughts, is nothing but straight up arrogance.
I can almost guarantee that every person who upvoted your post, and you included, are probably more prone to it than average precisely because you think you are immune, so you don't bother to consider checking your own bias.
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Branding is important, but brands need to be relatable to resonate with Gen Z.
Peak Capital Brain Rot.
I remember when these kind of people use to be called attention whores on the internet but I guess you can't use that term when you're shilling products
#BringBackAttentionWhores so we can go back to attention whores fatique
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This just means the next wave of influencers are going to appear to be "regular people." There's no such thing as neutrality or authenticity on communications platforms that exist to sell advertising space.
im expecting ai generated mass customized ads made exactly for what triggers you, with the kinds of people you want to see/be in the places you want to be in/with the background audio as you like/using the lingo that works on you.. it will be horribly wonderful and nobody can share the experiences. and when that fails to work anymore?
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I never trusted what any influencer was selling. An ad disguised as a reddit post was way more effective on me.
Sorry if I'm unable to muster up any sympathy.
Also the phrase 'getting tired of fatigue' tickles me.
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Why would anyone buy something because someone who openly admits to being paid to promote the thing told you to buy it?
Are you implying advertising doesn’t work? Because, regardless of whether you like it or not, advertising does work.
A person on a TV is doing the same thing as a person on YouTube or TikTok, and I bet you’ve bought something because it was advertised to you on TV. Does that make mean you’re just as susceptible to it as younger people? Yes.
Older people love to look down on younger people, but you were the model that showed this works and got us to this point.
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I don't understand the idea of subjecting yourself to them long enough to get tired of them
what the fuck is an "influencer" anyway?
maybe it's because I have always thought for myself, but when I hear influencer I think in my head "online attention w. hor. e. whose 15 minutes ended 15 hours ago".
if kids are not paying attention to narcissistic craving it and thinking for themselves as a side benefit it can only be a good thing.
Say it. Say whore. You are allowed to.
Stop censoring yourself so other people can more easily appeal to advertisers. I fucking hate that so many people censor themselves so someone else can make more money.
Theyre on lemmy.ml and they likely can't say it on their instance without it being autocensored. I also don't agree with a lot of .ml stances but I don't think they're selling advertising space over there, has that changed recently?
Edit: I'm bad at spelling
Lmao...sounds like they should create an account on a different instance.
i was tired of it the first time i heard of it
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