Dont people know that most of these "followers" are fake accounts created from some third world digital slave labor company?
I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
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#42Wow, great write up. Thanks a lot for taking the course and talking about it, perhaps it was because you went into it willing to burn $500 but many would stay silent. I can't believe at the missed business opportunity here. It sounds like she could have easily pulled 7 figures from running those classes. Even if she hired a "business manager" of sorts for a cut to grow her lessons, it would have been a really financi…
>Yet for me, IG feels so fake Its pay to play for sure. You don't get shown unless you are providing Facebook with money. This is why the content feels fake. Only highly profitable instagrammers can afford to pay to promote.
What do you mean? My content constantly hits discover and I certainly haven't paid FB a penny.
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#43As I've read more about this topic, what if the lady was going through a divorce + busy? I know that doesnt absolve from responsibilities, but I cannot imagine that experience.
Is this sarcasm?
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#44Wow, great write up. Thanks a lot for taking the course and talking about it, perhaps it was because you went into it willing to burn $500 but many would stay silent. I can't believe at the missed business opportunity here. It sounds like she could have easily pulled 7 figures from running those classes. Even if she hired a "business manager" of sorts for a cut to grow her lessons, it would have been a really financi…
I _completely_ agree. Put in the work and release a decent course. Rinse and repeat. Easily could start clearing 7 figures a year.
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#45Dont people know that most of these "followers" are fake accounts created from some third world digital slave labor company?
You’re grossly over-estimating the average intelligence (and willingness to actually stop and think for a minute) of those accounts’ target markets.
I have friends who spend pretty much their entire lives on FB and Insta and they would swallow anything from there... last time one was surprised when I told her a watch she saw advertised on FB with a huge discount (300£ to like around 39£) was never at 300£ in the first place.
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#46Why would someone pay for this with a debit card? Pay with a credit card, then you are at least protected if anything goes wrong.
Why can’t you chargeback with a debit card? I’ve done it multiple times successfully.
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#47To be fair, the main lesson here is that you shouldn’t be paying 500$ to an illusionist. That “Angie” whoever she is, is just a fraud. She’s not actually delivering any value. Whatever she’s pretending to earn could be all fake (it’s honestly not that difficult to fake these “perfect” photos and definitely doesn’t require to be a millionaire), and even if it’s real now, she’s gonna be the first one to get the door th…
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#48These "influencers" and their instagram accounts are so cringeworthy. How can anyone live their life like this, constantly posing and putting on an image? This can't be healthy. I get the money making aspect and getting paid to do something like travel.. but at what point does posing for glamour shots take away the fun of enjoying the places you go? Why do people follow these people? I don't get it...
> but at what point does posing for glamour shots take away the fun of enjoying the places you go? Why do people follow these people? I don't get it... That is exactly it, it becomes a job. Its not really different than watching cable TV and hearing someone review a travel destination. >This can't be healthy. I think this is 'grass is greener on the other side' effect. What makes traveling and growing your influence…
> Its not really different than watching cable TV and hearing someone review a travel destination.
Hmm. First video I looked at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TOltq6OgR4
After the "intro" -- which isn't exactly like someone (who isn't Paris Hilton or Stefan Raab etc.) reviewing anything in earnest -- it's just the usual half-coherent babbling most youtubers do. You don't fly a TV team to a destination and then just scratch your ass and drop sentences any random person interviewed on the street would say. That's not a "review", even for TV standards which are hardly anything to aspire to.
Youtube is much dumber than TV, just enter "game name review", and depending on the game most of it will be people playing a game, badly, sometimes without even talking, and when they talk, it's not a "review" at all, but "hi guys, my dog is cute, I'm bringing you the best reviews please subscribe, I'm about to review this game, okay I'm now reviewing this game, it's a game, it sucks and has many flaws but I enjoyed it, please leave a like, thanks for watching".
The best are the people who cut out every breath they take, every moment they think (or maybe they just go blank, who knows), and then they still manage to say not a single thing in 15 minutes.
> What makes traveling and growing your influence unhealthy?
That was referring to "constantly posing and putting on an image". If that's so great, why do you have to rephrase it first?
And what is "growing your influence"? I see a lot of people with NO grip on themselves, what influence do they have? Isn't Alex Jones also having a healthy career by that same token? A bunch of "followers", "just growing influence". They must be providing value, because they "make 6 figures".
> Its that we want this ideal lifestyle, and are jealous(?).
Turning oneself into the equivalent of a Teletubbie? No, thanks.
When someone makes it clear they find it cringey and would not enjoy "being that", maybe first accept that that is actually so. When someone says "I hate this, why would anyone do this?", don't say "Don't you actually love it though? whatever the case may be.."
Seeing a lot of these personalities that are anything but a personality, I think that's the main reason really, that they have no personality, no thoughts, but a long life to fill with that nothing. That makes people hyper, and people who are likewise lost cling to that bubbling nothing to distract them from the fear that sits squarely upon their neck as well. It's not driven by idiocy, fear drives the idiocy. Watching 99% of youtube to me is like watching a blob of water in an overheated pan gliding around on air. The question isn't where is it going, but what is it running from.
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#49Wow, great write up. Thanks a lot for taking the course and talking about it, perhaps it was because you went into it willing to burn $500 but many would stay silent. I can't believe at the missed business opportunity here. It sounds like she could have easily pulled 7 figures from running those classes. Even if she hired a "business manager" of sorts for a cut to grow her lessons, it would have been a really financi…
First submission so I might have goofed up, but I’m not the one this happened to. I did think that the social aspect was interesting though.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not really an Instagram person, but I don't think you're right here. I think the value provided by Instagram today is basically that of glossy fashion and style magazines in the decades of yore. Some people like to look at pretty photos of pretty people wearing pretty things.
Except there were maybe 20 of those magazines where as now the barrier to entry is so easy that there's 20 million kids making these sorts of photos.
So? The same happened with text on the internet. Now everybody's a publisher. That seems like a good thing to me.