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The Anxiety of Influencers

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Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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Post by defaultname »

yawaworht1978 wrote: post #149
defaultname wrote: post #124

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What TikTok ads are you referring to? Users often get completely different targeting, but the ads I've seen have been mainstream fast food and then dumb consumer crap like moon lights. Also Old Navy and some car company. TikTok is really the anti-"influencer" platform. It is a very wide, long tail and doesn't seem to concentrate like many other platforms. People seem to be completely ordinary , versus the delusion th…

It is very odd, as I have never installed the app or even googled the term. I have seen some as linked Instagram feeds, but involuntary. Tiktok would be the last thing in the world I care about, I am also quite a bit beyond that age bracket. Usually it's a woman doing a poorly choreographed dance move or two while displaying a duck face. I am not sure if that is possible but maybe somehow there is an IG/tiktok data e…

Ah, okay I misunderstood. I thought you were referring to the ads on the service itself.

As to the "age bracket", there is no age bracket for TikTok.

Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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Post by seibelj »

Applejinx wrote: post #133
seibelj wrote: post #107

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I’m sorry you experienced this. My home life wasn’t perfect but it was much better than yours. I love my wife and children most of all - they are what I mean by a created family as the family we created was the result of my wife and I choosing to do so. Immense contentment and fulfillment come from my immediate family. I have found it much better to come to amends with past family I have had issue with than it is to…

Yeah, I'm finding it impossible to pull that one off, even after inheriting money: I simply do not have the socialization to get into or maintain a romantic relationship. That's improving but it may never get there and there's nothing I can do about it but be patient and try to improve as a person, in the absence of feedback or reward. Nobody is going to get down into the hole with me and dig me out, I've got to dig…

> I simply do not have the socialization to get into or maintain a romantic relationship.

IMO dating is a numbers game. I met my wife on Tinder ~9 years ago. No idea the online dating scene now but even back then Tinder was known as a hookup app. I was very upfront that I was looking for a long-term relationship, on Tinder and another app I was on. I believe you can learn more about a person in 5 minutes in person than you can in any amount of digital communication pre-meet. Another good thing about online dating is both of you know exactly why you are speaking - when you try to convert acquaintances into romantic partners there is a bit of confusion there.

Numbers game because most will not be a good fit, and also you will get rejected a lot. If you are emotionally prepared for commitment then you can be emotionally prepared for disappointment. But once you find a good fit you will find a partner for life! I think you can do it.

Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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Post by rictic »

dash2 wrote: post #150
meowzero wrote: post #148

I used to know a few influencers. I still do. I was part of that culture since I was a photographer and cared about my social media clout. This was 3-4 years ago, when IG used to rule, instead of Tiktok. I don't know if things changed since then. Most of these influencers looked miserable. It seemed like they were having the best times in various exotic locations. In reality, they were all broke. They barely scratche…

What's a comment pod?

> An engagement pod is a group (or ‘pod’) of Instagram users who band together to help increase engagement on each other’s content. This can be done through likes, comments, or follows.

Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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Post by subpixel »

InvertedRhodium wrote: post #127
bloqs wrote: post #125

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36 is an old man? Are you being facetious?

I think 34/35 is when I began to notice actual age related differences - relatively small things like not being able to take it for granted that your sore back will be good tomorrow and I'd accrued enough general injuries over time that they were noticeable and compounding - sore/weak knee from a car accident, stiff shoulder from a motorcycle crash, etc. When you're 35, 35 feels pretty old compared to the personal st…

When you're 35 you can pass for 27 if you do what you gotta do.

10 years later is when things grow on your cheeks and forehead (especially if you're pale-skinned) that you can't do anything about short of plastic surgery you totally cannot afford.

Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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Post by SamBam »

dash2 wrote: post #150
meowzero wrote: post #148

I used to know a few influencers. I still do. I was part of that culture since I was a photographer and cared about my social media clout. This was 3-4 years ago, when IG used to rule, instead of Tiktok. I don't know if things changed since then. Most of these influencers looked miserable. It seemed like they were having the best times in various exotic locations. In reality, they were all broke. They barely scratche…

What's a comment pod?

A group of people who all agree to like and engage with each other's posts, to try and drive up everyone's clout.

Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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Post by [deleted] »

dash2 wrote: post #150
meowzero wrote: post #148

I used to know a few influencers. I still do. I was part of that culture since I was a photographer and cared about my social media clout. This was 3-4 years ago, when IG used to rule, instead of Tiktok. I don't know if things changed since then. Most of these influencers looked miserable. It seemed like they were having the best times in various exotic locations. In reality, they were all broke. They barely scratche…

What's a comment pod?

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Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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Post by MandieD »

ZephyrBlu wrote: post #30
dylan604 wrote: post #24

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Every large corporation has an annual advertising/promotional budget. They hire ad agencies and PR firms to handle that work. These agencies would be the people I'd expect hiring/paying the influencers. I'm sure they have a group of young fresh out of college employees that do nothing but scour the web for influencers keep tabs on their followers, the type of content they produce, etc. When a campaign comes along, th…

I meant from the customer side who is spending the money, because kids generally don't have that much discretionary income.

Non-poor American and European kids certainly have influence over how their parents spend money on them - almost all of them have discretion over which clothes and accessories are bought for them, if not how much money will be spent.

Saturday morning cartoons were invented to sell things to American kids (by way of them begging their parents).

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Post by theshrike79 »

clarge1120 wrote: post #134
theshrike79 wrote: post #120

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That's how it started yes, preteens and teens doing dances and lip-syncing to songs. But the kids have already fled to other platforms. The amount of content produced by people in their 30s and (a lot) over is staggering. You can easily spend hours just scrolling the front page and get stuff you like. And you'll never see any one under 20 unless you specifically go look for that stuff and engage with it. I do see sca…

TikTok is an onboarding platform as well. It is being used as a place for people to advertise other wares and services they offer. And that algorithm is very effective. It's like Google in the 2000's: nobody really knows how it works, and so they can't duplicate it.

It seems that advertisers have figured out the "look" of TikTok ads more so than any other platform.

Many times I've accidentally watched 5-10 seconds of an ad before I figure out it's an actual ad and not user generated content.

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Post by Invictus0 »

rictic wrote: post #153
dash2 wrote: post #150

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What's a comment pod?

> An engagement pod is a group (or ‘pod’) of Instagram users who band together to help increase engagement on each other’s content. This can be done through likes, comments, or follows.

You would think it would be trivial for an enterprising network scientist at these social media companies to identify these pods.

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Post by [deleted] »

dash2 wrote: post #150
meowzero wrote: post #148

I used to know a few influencers. I still do. I was part of that culture since I was a photographer and cared about my social media clout. This was 3-4 years ago, when IG used to rule, instead of Tiktok. I don't know if things changed since then. Most of these influencers looked miserable. It seemed like they were having the best times in various exotic locations. In reality, they were all broke. They barely scratche…

What's a comment pod?

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