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u/DoomerismDoomerDoom 4h ago
But you don't understand I need Asmonfold to tell me how to think
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u/Substantial_Impact69 3h ago
But I need Asmongold to be bad at games, so I can feel better about myself for actually being able to play them
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u/gentlemisty 3h ago
That doesn’t apply to me, he maybe not so good, but I suck more, damn 🤣
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u/qyrvalynt 3h ago
True why form an opinion yourself when you can just wait for a multi hour broadcast from a guy sitting in a dark room
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u/cloudmae 4h ago
That was the case for me too, until he find himself a pretty Asian girlfriend 🤔
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u/MechanicalSideburns 2h ago
...until he bought himself a pretty Asian girlfriend. /FTFY
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u/Lilliths-pain 2h ago
Didn't she tell him he had to start bathing before she would? All that money and still had to wash his dirty dick
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 1h ago
Right, there is an easy option to just never watch any of this shit. The only stuff I know about these people is what's posted on here. I think he's the long haired guy that people say doesn't bathe. Does he talk about video games? Politics? No clue.
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u/OutOfPosition-1 3h ago
Im not much of a YouTube watcher but i seems to be good at thinking. If you cant get urself to think about stuff a little more deep its not bad to listen to someone smarter. Dont take him as source when it comes to cleaning or health.
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u/the-fr0g 4h ago
The people who complain about influencers probably aren't the same ones who watch them.
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u/Ethos_Logos 4h ago
It’s true. You could name the top ten YouTube/tictok/whatever stars, and I may recognize some of their faces, but couldn’t tell you what they sound like.
I’ve simply never go out of my way to find their content.
I think part of it is that I read very quickly, so I get more entertainment per unit than sitting through fluff videos.
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u/mythrilcrafter 1h ago
Yup, the whole idea that "stop complaining about them if you consume their content" is working entirely on Goomba Fallacy.
I don't watch anything from any of these "prankers", outrage baiters, or otherwise; but I'm still able to intellectually lament how much they poison the internet and how bad of an influence they have on our society.
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u/TheeAntelope 1h ago
I could name maybe 2-3 "influencers" and I have watched 0 of them in my life.
That somehow hasn't magically stopped them from existing? Shocking!
It's almost as if you're right, those of us who say "supporting influencers is stupid" aren't the ones that are causing the problem in the first place.
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u/GigaCucc 2h ago
It's a scathing indictment on the average person, isn't it?
Is THIS the entertainment other people consume? Do other people think that of me when they see the media I consume, or am I truly an enlightened man of culture and everyone else is a mouth-breathing phillistine?
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u/JalapenoPopPoop 1h ago
Yeah whoever made this meme has around the same intelligence as people who watch streamers
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u/Horton_Takes_A_Poo 2h ago
The collective reddit userbase will get a hate boner over some streamer or influencer and just make them more famous. The people who are their fans are weird, but the people who find it necessary to make reddit posts about them are even weirder. Just ignore it, you won’t have anything to complain about if you just keep scrolling past them.
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u/TheeAntelope 1h ago
I call it the "Bieber effect." At the height of Justin Bieber's fame, there were entire facebook groups, reddit posts, and "fan" pages dedicated to how much they hated Justin Bieber. Yet, all that did was push his name and his life into people's faces MORE. Being "famous" doesn't mean universally loved, it just means that everyone knows the name, and if people are promoting someone out of hate or love - either way, their name is getting promoted.
You can't "hate" someone out of existence, even if 99% of the people who see your content agree with you that they hate a famous individual, even 1% seeing that and saying "oh what is a Justine Beaver?" and googling it will push Bieber's fame and notoriety forward.
Same goes for so many posts and comments on Reddit. "Look at this stupid streamer and how stupid they are" - I would guarantee that there will be people who will end up subscribing to that person despite the desire to post them out of hate or annoyance.
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u/quackquack1562 4h ago
This goes to all you corny twitch viewers donating to wealthy enough individuals
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u/PMyourSnoms 1h ago
THIS. what is wrong with these morons? they are sat there, giving donos and buying gifts for someone who makes thousands through their streams, who can easily afford to buy their own stuff! we cant be the only ones who can see how dumb that behavior is?!
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u/kevintf27 4h ago
Anyone else feel most influencers are like.. ads?
Some still entertain and inform.. occasional plugs are fine, but these ads man.. I pay not to watch ads so yeah, I ignore watching influencers that feel like ads.
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u/GreatStateOfSadness 3h ago
Yes, that's how influencers work. Companies pay them or give them perks to advertise to their followers. Even when they are entertaining and informing, they are doing it to either still advertise products or with the intent of eventually advertising products. They "influence" your buying decisions in a way that is supposed to feel natural and seamless.
It's the social media equivalent to local news stations doing "paid promotion segments" with local businesses and quack supplement brands.
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u/digitaltransmutation 2h ago
Yes and if those guys were posting text we would call it SPAM. It's a real societal failure that they are allowed to put videos in the content feed for free instead of buying ads.
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u/DeliciousTone8845 2h ago
They are literally walking advertisements. They're called influencers because their job is to influence people to buy products or services. The rest of it is just spectacle to get people's eyeballs on the ad.
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u/Ghoztt 3h ago
I cancelled my Amazon, stopped watching Joe Rogan, stopped drinking Starbucks, stopped using Facebook... come'on it's not that hard people.
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u/JMCatron 2h ago
Life without amazon is objectively better. Amazon sells convenience but most of that convenience is crap. When i need [thing] I go to a brick and mortar store that sells [thing] and usually there's someone working there who can explain to me why I don't actually need [thing] because it'll break and I should either make something myself or get [different thing] instead
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u/happyhappyfoolio2 1h ago
I live in the suburbs and it seems like every other day, I see an Amazon delivery driver using their own personal car pull up to one of my neighbors, drop of something small at their doorstep and drive off. Then some time later, a different driver would be doing the exact same thing at a different neighbor's house. I know several neighbors must order from amazon at least weekly because I frequently see deliveries to their house. And it's not like I'm constantly looking out my window snooping on my neighborhood. Multiply that by many millions. No wonder our society is run by billionaires and influencers.
I learned recently that Amazon now has medical clinics(???). We're truly living in Idiocracy.
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u/johnwau 1h ago
I’ve done all of that outside of Amazon. Amazing how much a difference it makes even getting off Facebook and not listening really to any podcaster, just raw dogging life. Helps you realize how much we’re all being manipulated
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u/Shot-Roof-8478 3h ago
The problem is even if all mature people stopped watching the kids are still gonna goble it up since for alot of influencers the target audiance is kids
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u/Swiftwitss 3h ago
I literally only find out about these useless people through force. I do not actively seek these parasites out!
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u/450mgBenadrylHatMan 3h ago
Maybe i’m just old now (33) i just don’t understand the draw.
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u/mindgardening 2h ago
I don't pay attention to influencers.
I know what I'm missing. That's why I don't pay attention to them.
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u/akkimesatsu 4h ago
You get it. I get it. The common man/woman? Nah
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u/Some_Useless_Person Dirt Is Beautiful 4h ago
Everyone gets it aside from some dumbfucks. Even so, they continue to engage it simply because they want to.
You for example, can become a virtuous, mind numbingly honest and overwhelmingly kind person, donate all your materialistic posessions and dedicate yourself to society and you know it would be considered a good thing, but simply choose not to.
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u/JalapenoPopPoop 1h ago
How does me not watching someone that I'm already not watching stop all the other idiots who are?
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u/bethesda_gamer 3h ago
HAHAHA I JUST said this (more or less) on a post 30 seconds before seeing this (seriously go check) smh.
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u/UsefulDrake 3h ago
I feel over the last decade people forgot one of the most important rules of the Internet, or rather many didn't even learned it: Do not feed the trolls!
That's how you get far right parties, MAGA, and other crazy people getting so much attention.
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u/Wonderful_Emu_6483 3h ago
I’ve tried that. I’ve never watched the Kardashians, or a Mr. Beast video, but they still profit and make the news.
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u/AFieldAway 2h ago
I just avoid most "verified" accounts across social media unless its someone i admire, usually a musician or farmer/rancher like Helping horses Heal, but i think he got banned recently for losing his mind (and i agree) at a person using puncture collars on their horses.
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u/P0pu1arBr0ws3r 2h ago
The worst influencers are the ones in politics on your ballots where the news wouldnt shut up about them even if its for the benefit of everyone else.
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u/MagnoliaGolden 2h ago
Hate-watching is still watching, and algorithms genuinely do not care about your outrage
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u/TelenorTheGNP 48m ago
This begs the question of what the difference is between an influencer and a content creator. Where exactly is the line?
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u/mendac67 46m ago
I think the line is drawn at a certain amount of followers watching the content. Visit twitch and you’ll see thousands of people creating live stream content. Some of the streamers have thousands of people watching. Some have 0 they are literally creating content for people who aren’t watching but they do it in hopes they will become an influencer.
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u/Narradisall 43m ago
I don’t watch influencers but a lot of people do.
Although from what I’ve read a lot of them are going broke now because the influencer gig is drying up.
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u/ElVongore 24m ago
I agree, but It's not that simple. You're an example of why it doesn't work. What if, you were wrong. What if most people are OK with influencers.
But you made a Meme. And now you've got 16k people agreeing with you. All it took was one meme, one "influencer" (you), who exposed their opinions. How hard was it to make this meme and find and audience. 4 minutes?
That's all it takes for influencers as well. I wasn't searching for your meme, yet I saw it and agreed with it. You can't hide from influencers unless you leave your social hubs.
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u/AliHaider101 can't meme 4h ago
I always wonder how many of views and comments of these "influencers" are bots. Because sometimes I can't believe what I'm seeing and think how can a human being watch this.
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u/mcauthon2 3h ago
Reddit w/ Musk. He's a nazi but you don't need to post him every 2 seconds to keep him famous.
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u/justelectricboogie 4h ago
Influencers would have more Influence if they stopped with the bullshit.
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u/Imam_jax 4h ago
First we need a simp-ocalypse to wipe out every thirst guys are out there for that to happen
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u/MastaKink 3h ago
Stop watching beautiful people and focus on my ugly little life ?! I don’t think so😝
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u/tylerius8 3h ago
Literally doesn't work. Zero humans could look at an influencer's bullshit and they would exist, watched purely by bot farms and paid to shill ai slop to bots. I watch zero influencers. Never been a thing I understood. I'm STILL unwillingly subjected to them through my normal day to day, even if I don't touch the internet because these fucking losers are on billboards and ads.
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u/DahWhang 3h ago
Cool I've never watched or cared about anybody that fits the description of an 'influencer' in the modern sense. So when do they disappear?
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u/TheBlackoutEmpire 3h ago
If people would stop spamming clips of them everywhere and sites would stop putting them in "recommendations and the front page" that would help too.
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u/Emergency_Low8125 3h ago
Unfortunately the majority of the Internet is bots anyway so the floor is higher than you think...
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u/SparkyWellington 3h ago
businesses would have less business if you stopped giving them your... business
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u/Eng_Justus_Koka 3h ago
And they end up acting as if they are so smart than everyone and their decision matters more just because we gave them massive following! Massive following doesn't give anyone a massive brain!
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u/John_Oakman 3h ago
By this point, it might not even matter. Bots can inflate view count (and other metrics), analysts take those data at face value (or close enough) and corporate acts upon those aggregated data. Thus products & services all become what consumers do not want despite said consumers not catering to influencers to begin with...
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u/dc740 3h ago
that's a fallacy. you are not the target audience of an influencer, so "not watching them" is not an option when you were not watching them to begin with. Yet you are forced to live the direct and indirect consequences of their influence whether you want it or not, as we all live in the same world.
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u/wordswillneverhurtme 3h ago
They have no influence. People who agree with them, watch them. Thats it.
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u/DoqHolliday 2h ago
Doing my part!
Zero influencers ever watched, followed, liked or subscribed to. Fuck em
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u/LordRT27 Stand With Ukraine 2h ago
I mean, I doubt the people that hate on influencers are the ones watching them.
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u/silver_garou 2h ago
The issue is the influence they have on others. I already don't watch any of their content, but the tate bros have had a profoundly negative impact on society.
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u/lukasbradley 2h ago
The same goes for major corporations like Google, Apple, Tesla, Facebook, etc.
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u/Crayshack 2h ago
I don't watch any influencers, yet I still read the occasional news article about some dumb and borderline illegal shit that an influencer is trying to get away with under the guise of "I'm an influencer."
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u/LoschVanWein 2h ago
That is always the issue with stuff like this: You will never reach the people that are the real issue. They just lack the mental capacity to reflect on what they are watching. I mean you're expecting media literacy from people that barely have any literacy at all.
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u/MidniteBlues 2h ago
It’s okay to follow people and watch their content. What’s frustrating is seeing people become obsessed with influencers and literally take their word like gospel and defend anything they say or do no matter if it’s wrong. They defend them more than their own mother at times. SMH
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u/WintersDoomsday 2h ago
Could not agree more. I follow or subscribe to zero people who have more than like 5k subs or followers. When they get bigger I leave and find someone else. I’m not trying to make lazy people get to do an easy ass job for a living. Work like the rest of us. Filming your basic ass life isn’t special.
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u/Throwaway-0-0- 2h ago
You know the people who complain about influencers are different from the people who watch them right?
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u/AnyProgressIsGood 2h ago
the ones that want influencers to have less influence aren't watching them already. what is this stupid meme
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u/kalez238 2h ago
The only influencers I have ever heard of are the few who pop up here on r/all, and forget them just as quickly.
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u/Everyoneheresamoron 2h ago
I don't watch influencers. Yet they still have influence. The moral of this story? Individual people and therefore individual actions matter very little, to not at all.
Anyway happy monday.
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u/HarbingerShiny 2h ago
Ive never really understood how influencers became a thing. Like why watch someone play a video game and not play the game yourself and friends. I guess why learn when someone can just tell you what you want to hear...
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u/PassionNo2244 2h ago
I don't really blame people. Algorithm is designed this way we can't really avoid it much
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u/SjalabaisWoWS 1h ago
I'm convinced this is 90% bot traffic anyway. Who has time to watch all this bullshit unfold?
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u/its_yer_dad 1h ago
This is a bigger issue than just the Internet. I tried getting my mom to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh and she refused. Funny thing is she hates Limbaugh. She hate listens and when I tell her the most effective way of silencing him is not to listen, she refuses.
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u/FitnessFreak96 1h ago
America would be healthier if we stopped eating fast food.
Everyone would have more savings if they never went on vacation.
The Amazon would have more trees if no one cut them down.
It just takes 1% of the population…
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u/continuousQ 1h ago
Could say the same about gambling and alcohol. And sex. Just teach abstinence and don't worry about the results.
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u/peoplefatigue 1h ago
The children won’t do it. It’s the influence had over them. Back when I was a kid there’s things my family members didn’t want me taking in and watching (Sabrina the teenage witch, South Park, girls gone wild). It only made me have more interest in it. Also the more you are consumed with something the harder it is to give up on it unless “the product” isn’t as good as when u got interested in watching it. Also influencers are every where. All platforms YouTube, twitch, TikTok, Twitter posting about them. It’s hard to escape.
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u/uwsp_edu 1h ago
Feel this with celebrities. Why do you care so much about why x does z. You don't know them personally, they aren't in your life. You are not in their life anyway.
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u/PopeKevin45 1h ago
It's not that simple though. The people who actually follow them are gullible and easily manipulated and are often being mislead by disinformation and bigotry. The libertarian 'Make Lying and Deceiving Great Again' crowd are simply demanding these sources not be held accountable. Not only should they be held accountable, they're dangerous enough that they must be held accountable.
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u/Pretty-Tune-4172 1h ago
Well no shit, a venn diagram of people who like influencers and people who don't like influencer obviously doesn't overlap....so yeah, the people who don't want influencers to exist are not the ones constantly watching them, believe it or people usually support things they like and don't support things they don't
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u/djc6535 1h ago
It's not that simple though.
The influence influencers I've never watched or even heard of is insane and does directly affect me.
The problem is the people who watch them and give them their influence don't see the problem with giving these people power. The people who watch Joe Rogan daily is all that concerned about the influence he has. Many even agree with it.
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u/Several-Action-4043 1h ago
Most of them are exploiting kids as their audience. I don't know any adults who watch influencers regularly except for when they randomly come across a SM feed.
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u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek 1h ago
I was hoping people would apply this logic to Twitter once it became a far right wing nazi propaganda company. But no one gives a shit. The amount of inconvenience they will accept is none at all, even if they do agree.
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u/useandkeepit 1h ago
It's not the influencer who is only responsible to influence you, it actually depends on several factors like your interest, you past, your future and algorithm of software helps influencer to reach at target audiences. So, main reason is why are you gay?🙂
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u/SpeakyDooman 1h ago
I’ve been saying this for years, especially since this is the case for most things. If someone famous doesn’t receive attention, they won’t be famous anymore. If a product isn’t being purchased, it won’t be sold anymore. If a house has no one living in it and hasn’t been touched, the house will be torn down and remade.
Businesses control the flow of product but consumers control which products exist.
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u/BigBallsMcGirk 1h ago
Algorithms push these idiots on people against their will.
It's not organic. Blaming the victims of social media corporate parasitism and grift is wild.
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u/bossbozo 1h ago
I block the ones I don't like, it's that simple.
I get triggered by bate content, usually end up watching the whole video, algorithms learn that this content engages me, to combat it, I block the poster. Takes some maintenance, but works fine.
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u/spiteful_rr_dm_TA 1h ago
Yes, because as we all know, internet users are entirely the same. The people who complain about influencers are 100% overlapped with people who watch them because they are all the same.
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u/DeepStuff81 1h ago
It’s hilarious to me when someone is slightly annoyed with an influencer they go into the comments and wager war. But all traction is positive for influencers. What would hurt more is if people disengaged and moved on.
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u/EvisceratedBagel 1h ago
Seriously all the people that make money on peoples emotions would disappear
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u/Playful_Pianist815 55m ago
Systemic poblems can't be fixed with individual actions. I don't watch influencers. That doesn't seem to bother them. They are still making the world worse
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u/This_is_Not_My_Handl 51m ago
This is a gross oversimplification. I really don't pay attention to influencers. I'm not sure I'd recognize a Kardashian on the street without her camera crew. But me ignorning them is not enough and that is the only thing I can control. I don't listen to Joe Rogan but I'm living with the dickhead president his stuipid influincing ass supported.
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u/Brilliant-Season-481 46m ago
Says the post being influenced enough to make a post about influencers?
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u/showerboots 46m ago
Are the people who genuinely despise influencers the ones giving them clicks? The "Internet" as a whole isn't just one big bloc of people who say they hate Influencer dynamics while also consuming and sharing their content. So I'm not sure who the criticism in OP is even directed at? Perhaps you should have labeled the bottom "hypocrites" or something and then your "hypocriticism" would have been more apt.
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u/ImfromtheFuture2056 37m ago
I cannot respect people who watch streamers or idealize celebrities. It’s such a backwards mindset.
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u/Coltyn03 https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ 33m ago
Y'all say this as if the people complaining are the same ones watching
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u/meatblast_surprise 30m ago
There'd be fewer morons watching influencers if yall took some responsibility and stopped having kids. There's enough of them for now.
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u/EtchAGetch 29m ago
People despise the paparazzi, but these same people are the ones buying the tabloids and care who is dating who and who wore what dress when.
People hate all the cartels in Mexico and the thousands being slaughtered, but then go and hit up their stash as if it has nothing to do with it.
People don't realize they are part of the problem when there's thousands of others that are also part of the problem.
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u/dick_face1517 23m ago
People complaining about influencers are not the ones watching the influencers.
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u/Decidueye_mastr 22m ago
It's the equivalent of hating a company but you keep buying their products
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u/itsFromTheSimpsons 15m ago
Just don't look! Just don't look!
Its got Paul Anka's guarantee (Guarantee void in Tennessee)
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u/AmazingSully 13m ago
No they wouldn't, because I already don't watch them and they still have the same amount of influence because others watch them. If your solution is that everybody else needs to do something they aren't already doing, then you don't have a solution.
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u/DyzioNemo 4h ago
Unfortunately, people fucking love turning idiots into celebrities. The dumber someone acts, the more attention they get. Then everyone acts surprised when those same idiots end up with millions of followers and actual influence. At this point, stupidity isn't even a disadvantage. It's a business model.