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The Anxiety of Influencers

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Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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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…

I don’t know your specific ailments or their causes but a lot of chronic pain and injuries can be resolved by working out lactic acid and knots with foam rolling, muscle scrapers and tennis balls. Look up on YT how to do these properly from physical therapists. I cured a knee injury that bothered me for over a year in about a week of exercises. Like magic. Same with an elbow injury.

Re: The Anxiety of Influencers

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I think TikTok is fundamentally changing marketing. If you go on YouTube, you see 1-2 traditional ads. On TikTok all the ads blend in and just appear as another video in your for you page. What I thought was really interesting was that 50% of the user base is over the age of 30.

This is because it's early and the ads are well designed for the platform, i.e. a lot of ads for flip flops and those 'butt lifting' pants for girls. Once it opens up you'll see more annoying ads because most products don't fit well. That said, even car companies are making things a little less 'advertisy'.

Ads are already opened up for everyone. I tried to promote a simple post talking for a few seconds. The system seems to auto review and it rejected the ad saying there were exaggerated claims in it.
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