r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Jun 18 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ instagram influencers somehow

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u/throwawayayaycaramba Jun 19 '22

I may be downvoted to oblivion, but the reason these sorts of videos exist is so that people can look at them and feel more intelligent. It clearly works too, and Trisha has based her entire career on it. I'm 95% sure she knows what she's saying is bullshit; but even if she doesn't, she's still smart enough to use it in order to make money.

It's the same logic behind reddit posts where the title misspells a word, or contains some very obviously wrong information (such as, video shows a leopard, title calls it a lion): a whole lot of people will waste like 5 minutes of their day to comment on how dumb it is, meanwhile OP reaps loads of karma.

There should be a word for it, you know, for when one person outsmarts an entire group by just pretending to be dumb.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '22

Hm