Finally, Influencer fatigue is setting in

I never gave a flying fuck about influencers and their fake lives. Most are uneducated with very limited vocabularies. And they truth is, they never get to enjoy the places they visit, because they are constantly "on", taking pics and filming reels. The reality of it all is exhausting.

Several years ago, I was sitting in my car, looking out at the Pacific Ocean, when a young woman came by. She looked sad, kind of morose. She stopped in front of my car, turned her back to the ocean, raised her right arm and hand in what looked like nothing so much as a seig heil salute, and a wide and beaming smile enveloped her face. And then, in an instant, the smile was gone, her slumped posture returned, and she walked off, never having noticed me.

I sat there wondering what the hell, and then realized I had just seen the phenomenon I’d begun to hear about: the “selfie.” She had carefully created a photographic record of a moment that was false in every single detail.

Who knew it could become a fad?

My influencer fatigue set in ages ago. Always ahead of the curve.

If it was “several years ago,” selfies were not about to “become a fad,” Rip Van Winkle.

Following these nobodies never had any appeal to me. I follow some people who are experts in a narrow field and who offer interesting images and insight and who don't have any need to make themselves the subject. I follow a few people for their travel insights or photos, but again, they make their content about where they are travelling not about how cute they look in a new top standing in front of something you can't see because they are fucking blocking it and smiling like a fucking idiot. Most travel bloggers are insufferable twats, and itś the very rare few who have some balance of knowledge and perspective above ego.

There is nothing more irritating than the cunts who think they have the right to block some scenic view or public space taking a million selfies in different poses. I never want to see another bitch in sunglasses clutching her wide-brimmed hat again.

I think a lot of the mystique and envy faded away once the articles came out revealing that many influencers let rich Arabs defecate on them for airfare and hotel stays.

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Finally! The thing for me is that THEY ARE ALL THE SAME. Young women and men traveling to exotic places and flashing off expensive trips, clothing and jewelry.

Many of them either come from money or go into massive debt to 'look the part' before their channel takes off.

My main issue with brands using 'influencers' is how do they suss out fake account followers? And do they actually see a lot of sales from the influencer videos? Website traffic is one thing, but unless it is directly correlated to their videos, then why bother?

My hot take on this 'Tarte' cosmetic company - blech, what a name - is that the owner gets to write off these expensive vacations with many of her staff coming along.

OH - and the CEO of this company, Maureen Kelly, was married to a Wall Street bond guy who died in 9/11, and she received MILLIONS in life insurance and federal payments to start up this company. The whole "I was living in a 1 BR and earning a degree at Columbia when I decided to strike out as a business woman" - TOTAL BULLSHIT.

Images are cheap and stories are cheap. A story that doesn’t rely heavily on stereotypes and assumptions is a lot harder to tell. The eyes are the cheapest way into the brain.

'Influencer' is like 'family values' or 'pro-life,' it's calling something the complete opposite of what it really is, to me.

Influencer fatigue is setting in if they don't present hole.

Fixed for OP

Wait until TikTok is banned.

TikTok is going to be sold, not banned.

When someone refers to himself or herself as an influencer, you know that they are not.

Mostly influencers are just people with no knowledge and less expertise trying on hats: international travel expert, food critic, lifestyle something or another... Pushy bitches angling for comps and discounts to share the insight they utterly lack.

Remember this cow?

What will they do after they age out and other younger replacements more attuned with trends are on scene? The shelf life must be quite short and they don't appear to be educated or learning career/job skills. At least Only Fans, can be a side venture...

We’ll see R14….

But what will people love on when the AI takes our jobs?

[Quote]What will they do after they age out and other younger replacements more attuned with trends are on scene?

Won't they just continue to age up with their audience? These "influencers" will eventually start visiting the best medical tourism hospitals, hawking knee braces, walkers, and the latest in sexy compression socks and orthopedic shoes.

R16 They don't age out if they're clever. Logan Paul went from the biggest thing with babies and kids to the biggest thing with 20 something and older teenage dudebros. Maybe even some younger 30s in his audience with all the crypto and boxing shit. The audience just stays with them as their content shifts slightly up in target demo every few years.

Hey influencers: This is for yoou.

Yahoo.com - my trusted, insider source about the youth zeitgeist!

I used to follow amateur interior design blogs and many became very successful influencers. Some have become insanely wealthy like the couple from ChrislovesJulia.com. A Mormon couple whose blog just blew up like crazy. After awhile they were making so much money you could tell they had a very cavalier attitude towards expensive design mistakes because who cares? They get everything for free anyway and the money keeps rolling in. It started to become pretty gross in a way so I stopped checking in with their blog. They remain very popular.

When I visited the Louvre there were lines of people waiting for boxes to stand on in order to hold a a finger out to get one of those selfies where it looks like they touch the point of the pyramid. Everyone doing the same thing instead of being present. It’s probably the same at the great pyramids. It was surreal.

Not surprised. Influencers flaunting perfectly curated wealth and privilege looks totally tone deaf with inflation being so high. And there's market oversaturation: too many people are shilling crap products.

More people are also becoming aware that influencers are assholes when their drama takes over their platforms.

Social media has made society worse.

R26 - I'm just surprised with the staying power of it all. After 15 years, haven't you seen the same SHIT over and over? Same pranks, same lux items, same staged beautiful pics.

How much of this same shit can you consume? Apparently, for some, the hole will never fill.

There IS some interesting stuff online -but the influencer crap is just weird. Jake Paul had an intro into social media after being on that Disney show - he didn't just start it on his own without help.

R27 The small group who still post on DL repeat the same topics over and over and over and over and over.

R28 started the novel thread “Shall we discuss Madonna’s face?”