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Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money

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Post by foolfoolz »

m-masa wrote: post #110

Snapchat to me is sharing your shaky drunken escapades at 3AM with your friends to let them know you made it home and survived the night. Instagram seems more like an endless observation of copy-and-paste, superficial things and people and places. It's evolved more into a (usually inaccurate) portrayal of status than anything else.

insta has always been the status platform. the pictures are permanent. you only post your best pics and need a history of just the best. "this is who I am"

snapchat is fleeting. the quality can be lower. no one is gonna care. and the fact you have to take the picture then is more exciting than posting any old pic you found online. "this is what I'm doing"

I can snap you my beer, I'll insta the edited GoPro footage of me cliff jumping

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Post by mezuzi »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #105
eksemplar wrote: post #6

I wonder what will happen to a generation obsessed with idols who don't contribute anything to society aside from memes, hot bodies and various rants. But I guess I'm just old and grumpy.

>> I wonder what will happen to a generation obsessed with idols who don't contribute anything to society Unlike the previous couple of generations who contributed a global financial crisis, multiple unnecessary wars, massive environmental destruction, and a rising wave of racism and populism. See, I can pick and choose things too.

The previous too generations didn't have a "milo" preaching family values!!

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Post by TeMPOraL »

jedberg wrote: post #40
eksemplar wrote: post #6

I wonder what will happen to a generation obsessed with idols who don't contribute anything to society aside from memes, hot bodies and various rants. But I guess I'm just old and grumpy.

You mean like movie stars? We've had at least four generations now obsessed with movie stars. It's also been the century of greatest achievement for humankind. Correlation isn't causation though. :)

If you're looking at people not contributing anything meaningful to society, don't look at movie stars - look at those who write about movie stars, spinning the celebrity gossip industry.

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Post by zardo »

mezuzi wrote: post #122
k-mcgrady wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> I wonder what will happen to a generation obsessed with idols who don't contribute anything to society Unlike the previous couple of generations who contributed a global financial crisis, multiple unnecessary wars, massive environmental destruction, and a rising wave of racism and populism. See, I can pick and choose things too.

The previous too generations didn't have a "milo" preaching family values!!

That's right! They had entirely different right wing celebrities preaching family values.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

specialist wrote: post #115
justboxing wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So you don't see a difference between Nope. There is no difference. @jonknee is right. I once met this camera grip boy at a boxing fight watch here in San Francisco. He worked at various sets in L.A., very close to the filming. He would say how he was on Kim Kardashian's "Reality Show" and how the whole thing was completely scripted for shock effect, drama etc. He said "They'd sometime do retakes and tell Kim - "Th…

The last election cycle gave me the idea: A reality TV show about making a reality TV show. With The Garry Shandling Show, Entourage, political campaigns (and their documentaries), social influencers, paid placement, Spinal Tap... Everything's so meta now, I can barely discern fact from fiction. "All the world's a stage." -- Shakespeare

"Fifteen Million Merits", an episode of Black Mirror, went pretty much half-way there.

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Post by irahul »

ikeyany wrote: post #118
irahul wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> wondering why internet fame isn't fulfilling. I feel internet fame is more fulfilling than being a nobody slaving in a 9-5 job. And there is also easy endorsement money which comes with the fame.

I would agree that in itself, working 9-5 is unfulfilling. But most people see work as a means to a more fulfilling end.

I don't have a particular affinity towards or against insta influencers or youtube stars. I just find the comments amusing.

"I am so much better than insta influencers because, uh, I have a job? I don't seek validation from strangers? I am not sure but I sure know that they are the downfall of the humanity"

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Post by TeMPOraL »

fooker wrote: post #86
inimino wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They apparently provide value to someone, because they make millions of dollars. I would be careful with that kind of reasoning.

That is more or less the definition of providing value.

That is the definition of providing monetary value to someone, not actual value to society. The two are correlated, but weakly.

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Post by creaghpatr »

thinbeige wrote: post #123

> Wes “Wuz Good” Armstrong has almost 700,000 followers on Instagram, enough to get paid six figures a year to promote Can anyone with insights into Instagram marketing confirm? Do 700k followers make you min. 100k a year?

$7 per follower seems insane- and a certain percent of those accounts are brands or other non-human?

Edit: had the numbers flipped

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Post by tgb »

creaghpatr wrote: post #129
thinbeige wrote: post #123

> Wes “Wuz Good” Armstrong has almost 700,000 followers on Instagram, enough to get paid six figures a year to promote Can anyone with insights into Instagram marketing confirm? Do 700k followers make you min. 100k a year?

$7 per follower seems insane- and a certain percent of those accounts are brands or other non-human? Edit: had the numbers flipped

Sorry, wouldn't it be $1/7 = 14cents per follower?
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