So what?
Don’t watch/listen.
Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content
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#32So finally we've come full cycle. The wannabe "influencer" with his fake "followers" bought 1$ a pound on fiverr, is posting fake "sponsored content", so social media "marketers" would perceive him as valuable enough to (fakely) promote their (probably faked) product. I ran out of double-quotes, you could legitly double-quote any other word up there.
The question is what should be the next logical step?
Brands crate their own AI-rendered influencers, so they have complete control.
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#33So finally we've come full cycle. The wannabe "influencer" with his fake "followers" bought 1$ a pound on fiverr, is posting fake "sponsored content", so social media "marketers" would perceive him as valuable enough to (fakely) promote their (probably faked) product. I ran out of double-quotes, you could legitly double-quote any other word up there.
The question is what should be the next logical step?
Honestly, I wasn't expecting this when I clicked on this story, but for me the next logical step ended up being to promise myself I will not read a single article about or sourced from instagram ever again.
I realized I removed the app to get away from it, and that I'm only reading about it because other people haven't. They're just looking for interesting ways to write about where they spend their time. I don't actually have to read this stuff just because it shows up here. I get that now.
Thank you!
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
The question is what should be the next logical step?
People realizing that marketing is all smokes and mirrors BS and starting to not give a crap, and instead buying things from local producers and manufacturers based on how it contributes to and benefits their own community. It’s the holiday season, please let me dream :-)
I really thought nobody could be influenced by this stuff for a moment. But damn, it works well. I think it'll take a few years until we all wake up.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
People realizing that marketing is all smokes and mirrors BS and starting to not give a crap, and instead buying things from local producers and manufacturers based on how it contributes to and benefits their own community. It’s the holiday season, please let me dream :-)
For a dream that is depressingly minor! How about people stop buying things they don't need. Lost crafts of fixing things are thriving again. As result, elderly are re-introduced into society as they have the lost knowledge. Deurbanization starts when people discover they can't grow their own food on concrete. The 9-5 day slowly shifts back to a dynamic sunrise-to-sunset schedule. Cars are banned from small communiti…
A sunrise sunset schedule would mean working more hours than I currently do.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The question is what should be the next logical step?
Brands crate their own AI-rendered influencers, so they have complete control.
So Miquela? https://instagram.com/lilmiquela
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#37I've always been fascinated with the paths and lives of hustlers and con men, people who (try to) make a living misleading others about their success and credentials. Obviously this is as old as humanity itself, and it always makes for a good story. Social engineering is fascinating. Anybody remember good old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r... from the dark ages of the Internet?
The role of "confidence man" used to be relegated to a small few with enough brains to pull it off and not enough morality to stop them.
Now, those select few con men have been using the internet to teach masses of wannabes that are too dumb to come up with the con, and too deluded to realize the immorality of what they are doing.
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#38Haha, this is great. It’s a race to the bottom because most influencers aren’t providing anything unique: One is as good as another for the number of people they reach.
It's all a sham. It amazes me that some people simply need to be attractive, wealthy, live an impossible lifestyle or all three and make hundreds of thousands of dollars from brands on a social media platform.
Many of these people hang on every update to Instagram, to the point that, eventually, the platform will be too big to fail.
I'd love to see the day when Instagram vanishes and all the influencers who put all their eggs in the filtered baskets are knocked back to reality.
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#39From the article: "If someone who is 20 years old watching YouTube or Instagram sees these people traveling with brands, promoting brands, I don’t see why they wouldn’t do everything they could to get in on that.” -- It's interesting to see quotes like this, especially in the context of the "everything bubble". 2019 is going to be economically horrendous, these people won't survive.
> these people won't survive.
I already said it in another comment, but I'd love to see what would happen if Instagram just shuts downs or if they are impacted heavily by the incoming recession.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
People realizing that marketing is all smokes and mirrors BS and starting to not give a crap, and instead buying things from local producers and manufacturers based on how it contributes to and benefits their own community. It’s the holiday season, please let me dream :-)
For a dream that is depressingly minor! How about people stop buying things they don't need. Lost crafts of fixing things are thriving again. As result, elderly are re-introduced into society as they have the lost knowledge. Deurbanization starts when people discover they can't grow their own food on concrete. The 9-5 day slowly shifts back to a dynamic sunrise-to-sunset schedule. Cars are banned from small communiti…
That lifestyle is sustainable for preindustrial population levels.