Is it just me, or does anyone else think "influencers"

[ResistantAmerican17]

are the nadir of an intelligent, contemplative society? Just walk across the damn street ya needy goob. You don’t have to tie up the intersection for four takes.

[Ron Obvious]

1. I'm on your side

But then I've often felt myself to be a sort of Cassandra when it comes to social media and smart phones for that matter.

"Influencer", indeed. Fuck off. They seem sad to me.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I hate the term, and the phenomenon. Sign of a society drowning in narcissm.

Then again, I am an old dude - so it is hard to relate to what social networking has done to our society.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Amen!

[ResistantAmerican17]

7. Screams "look at me everybody". Narcissistic to the bone.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Hear, hear!

[leighbythesea2]

3. Have to look

@ them for my job.
But a friend, whose also a former colleague was telling me about her trip to Morocco last year.
She and her family hiked up to a historic spot. People who need help can go up by donkey.
@ some spots there were girls in ankle length sun dresses & giant hats having pics taken. (Influencers) she was so disgusted bc theres no way one could hike up with all that, she figured they rode up. Besides its out of place.

I hope there's a shelf life to this, and the pandemic has really shut it down a fair amount. No one wants to see "im traveling and standing in front of things" right now. Its wrong.

[ResistantAmerican17]

6. I so agree about your shelf life hope. It's just so needy. I'm old, but I'm not needy!

[leighbythesea2]

8. Genuinely, it feeds narcissism

I have read gen z, the very youngest amongst us are not that impressed with the traditional influencer image (girls standing in front of things, being color coordinated w background).
We shall see. I like to think that generation is really just HAD it with so much of our collective posturing (climate, guns, politics, pop culture) they wil become counter-culture.

A funny quote i saw "imagine instagram goes away, poof you're no longer a model". Brillant.

[paleotn]

4. Agreed. Don't tell me what's trendy or cool. I'll decide that for myself.

Older folks like us are like that. Really just another name for a phenomena that predates social media for like...forever. There was always those in school who were called trendy.

[hay rick]

10. W-w-w-wait a second.

I had Influencer down as my next career move.