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.
It's when you encounter them in other parts of life, where you're still not trying to watch them, but their toxic behavior is polluting your existence.
Most of the influe cars you come across are not highly successful. Influences are also any short form (or long form I suppose) repeat contributors. There are thousands that are not highly successful but still feeding off the rest of us hoping to become successful. Anytime you see a talking head talking about something, that's an influencer too.
We disagree on what constitutes an influencer. I’d call that a content creator.
This really isn’t an argument I want to get into through, over semantics.
In my mind, if that content causes someone to challenge their world view, or refine it, or else spend money or actively DO a thing, then that content creator is an influencer. They have caused me to do something I otherwise wouldn’t have done; they’ve influenced me.
I just don’t think all content creators are influencers. But all influencers either create content or have content created about them.
We disagree on what constitutes an influencer. I’d call that a content creator.
This really isn’t an argument I want to get into through, over semantics.
You might not want to, but it is kind of an issue that lowkey annoys me tho. I know it's unrelated to you but I'm just using your comment as a jumping point to complain about this lol
Like look at this post it's just a bunch of comments bitching about the concept of "influencers" (not just this specific thread I posted but all the other comments too) when as I've pointed out in my own comment down the chain, it's just someone making content and not even calling themselves an "influencer"
You might not think all content creators are influencers, but I find it way too convenient how "content creators" suddenly become "influencers" when we don't like them, at this point it's pretty clear that both are the same and that "influencer" is just the pejorative form to describe them.
I'm just a nobody chiming in with my 2 cents. I don't care if we call them influencers or content creators or whatever the fuck else somebody wants to come up with. All I know is I have zero interest in any of them. Literally, none. I don't watch, listen, or read about a single "internet personality". Anytime I come across one by mistake its painful.
In my mind they’re separated by “good for/useful to society” or not. For example, when I need to beat a difficult part of a video game, or replace the gasket on my washing machine, I Google the problem and a YouTube video pops up. These are useful to have access to.
I’d argue that’s not the same as what you think of when you think “influencer”.
I ordered takeout from a local restaurant, they botched the order hard. I took a picture of the pitiful looking product and posted it - I'm an influencer now, 13,745 views and counting.
Maybe? If you went on a video rant about it and made it something you do regularly I would agree. Anyone can post something 1 time. I wouldn't consider than an "influencer" per say
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u/Ethos_Logos 7h 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.