It's a older problem than Instagram. One reason why people don't trust experts is that they see fake experts like Cokie Roberts and Jim Cramer on TV all day.
What's Roberts' schtick?
An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
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#52The shear number of typos and punctuation issues should cause anyone to question why they are taking advice from this person, exactly.
Non-native speaker, generally plausible info.
And as someone constantly betrayed by my Android soft-keyboard, I've considerable sympathy.
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#53Marketing and payola was the norm and is still the norm. Don't have a clue what this dude is talking about.
Dude looks like a lady:
Re: An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
#54I think you could look at the value of an influencer as providing an aesthetic, much like an artist, but the kicker is that the influencer is driving ads and is part of a consumerist architecture. While true art is nourishing, influencing is about depriving someone of contentment by making them want something they don't have.
I also think when we see people who are paid a lot, we want to like them, and feel as though they are contributing proportional to their pay. We want to know that they're working hard, and making a difference on society, not just for themselves, in a positive way.
The influencer culture is weird, and I would feel weird making so much money essentially being an ad-person.
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#55Man, reading this makes me so happy I don't care about social media, and I have other aspirations than trying to be a social media influencer. What a miserable feeling, chasing numbers, producing and contributing nothing real to humanity. I bet it is better for happiness and mental health to stay away from all that.
>What a miserable feeling, chasing numbers, producing and contributing nothing real to humanity.
Yeah. This isn't exclusive to social media influencers, though.
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#56As a nine-year old, I watched commercials on our black and white TV showing famous baseball players claiming they "smoked Camels." I knew then that smoking was dangerous, and that it was unlikely that the players "smoked Camels," either. So I don't get this influencer crap. I mean I really do not get it.
How about a less fraught and more relevant example: when a famous model with clout wears an outfit then that makes the outfit desirable.
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#57The use of the term "merit" in this context feels fraught with issue. One could say that, almost by definition, the individual with the most ability to game the system has the highest merit. If a poker player is able to read the opponents' faces where no-one else can - they win based on merit. The losers may well disclaim this as being some sort of 'hack'. We are speaking here about some pictures on a small, rectangu…
So who is paying the scam Instagram influencers?
My impression is that who’s interested in this sort of service is something like small start up fashion brands that can’t afford an actual celebrity.
My brother makes independent video games, at one point he was approached by someone who offered to broker deal with Twitch streamers to promote one of his games.
How real the popularity of these streamers really was, effects whether this might have been a good idea or not.
Whether that evokes your sympathy or not, I guess the moral of the story, of you’re in the market for purchasing influencer services, buyer beware
Re: An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
#58The use of the term "merit" in this context feels fraught with issue. One could say that, almost by definition, the individual with the most ability to game the system has the highest merit. If a poker player is able to read the opponents' faces where no-one else can - they win based on merit. The losers may well disclaim this as being some sort of 'hack'. We are speaking here about some pictures on a small, rectangu…
So who is paying the scam Instagram influencers? My impression is that who’s interested in this sort of service is something like small start up fashion brands that can’t afford an actual celebrity. My brother makes independent video games, at one point he was approached by someone who offered to broker deal with Twitch streamers to promote one of his games. How real the popularity of these streamers really was, effe…
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#59Why do we call them influencers? Why not rat catchers or pied pipers or something. Because it feels like this story is going to end, the same way the one in Hamelin did.
How about lemming herder?
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#60As a nine-year old, I watched commercials on our black and white TV showing famous baseball players claiming they "smoked Camels." I knew then that smoking was dangerous, and that it was unlikely that the players "smoked Camels," either. So I don't get this influencer crap. I mean I really do not get it.
How about a less fraught and more relevant example: when a famous model with clout wears an outfit then that makes the outfit desirable.
along with female ig influencers shilling brands/creating their own (i can count a couple girls i know making bikini brands), so many ig influencers push juuls/vape pens