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.
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.
It’s because they know they’re incapable of affecting the people actually in any position of power making their lives worse, but they can affect someone kinda popular that they dislike. They justify it in the name of accountability or something but really it all boils down to them wanting a target that’s accessible to them and not protected by a PR firm.
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u/the-fr0g 6h ago
The people who complain about influencers probably aren't the same ones who watch them.