The term Social Influencer is starting to get truly annoying!

[Ugley_Matt]

Kinda related, but I hate multi-level marketing. Stuff like Forever Living, Juice Plus, Younique etc. The social influencers turn into bots and swarm social media. "Fake it until you make it!", and "eeeek, so excited!" and other stock phrases. These bots who were once your friends turn into a completely different person. You offer your help to try and break the bots out of their bubble but it falls on deaf ears. It's more degenerate than problem gambling in my mind. Even though I'm the one who wears hearing aids! Only the top 0.02% of the pyramid will make a lavish lifestyle of MLMs.

I had a very smart friend, who got suckered in to Isagenix and started trying to flog it on their social platforms. Luckily shes drifted away from it all now but she kept going on how good it was and the potential and showing these people that made thousands.

 

[dowie]

LOL - not really news but the BBC has finally picked up on the insta-ho thing that's been around for years (if you're unfamiliar then hint... "tag the sponsor"... in fact this sort of thing basically dates back to some dodgy Arab Princes paying for naive cruise ship dancers and cabaret singers to spend a few months in the Middle East back in the 80s etc.. in return for $$$$

She says she was only 19 when she was first propositioned, with an offer of £20,000 for dinner and drinks.

But after starring in series two of Love Island, an agency emailed, offering her £50,000 for five nights in Dubai. It contained a non-disclosure agreement, stating that the details of what she would be required to do would remain confidential.

Tyne-Lexy says she refused the offer, but fears that struggling influencers who do not receive luxury items for free would feel pressure to "keep up appearances" and become vulnerable to these kinds of transactions.

"It's a lot of money for some people, it's life-changing amounts of money."

Well no ****, I mean how do they think all these various 20 somethings with no real income are posting pictures in Rolls Royces, super cars etc.. in Dubai. Bit of an open secret that a significant minority are for sale.

 

[Mr Badger]

LOL - not really news but the BBC has finally picked up on the insta-ho thing that's been around for years (if you're unfamiliar then hint... "tag the sponsor"... in fact this sort of thing basically dates back to some dodgy Arab Princes paying for naive cruise ship dancers and cabaret singers to spend a few months in the Middle East back in the 80s etc.. in return for $$$$

Well no ****, I mean how do they think all these various 20 somethings with no real income are posting pictures in Rolls Royces, super cars etc.. in Dubai. Bit of an open secret that a significant minority are for sale.

Is that just makeup or is she wearing a mask?

 

[Mr Badger]

It shows how stupid these celebrities are. I remember the Brass eye episode. I think it was Gary Lineker that was appealing for donations because he said an elephant had its trunk stuck up its bottom?

I wonder how many people look up to these 'social influencers', or is it just just people behind the scenes jumping on anything to promote their own wares?

It's satirical but that doesn't invalidate the findings, that the celebrities involved are a bunch of thick greedy idiots that would promote anything.

The Lineker elephant appeal wasn't real? Dammit, how the hell do I get my money back?

 

[dowie]

Is that just makeup or is she wearing a mask?

It looks like influencer makeup... doesn't look too good in the flesh or in some papped photo.

 

[arknor]

It doesn't seem possible to get through the day without hearing or reading it.

"content creator" is another one that annoys me. its found its way in to games which I like even less.
people be like "lets go find some content" instead of "lets go kill some people" or run some dungeon or whatever.

 

[Ice Tea]

Yeah , that one too keeps being thrown about.

 

[Clearcut]

'be like' annoys me.

 

[Ice Tea]

The lockdown will make their fake glamorous lifestyle more difficult.

 

[mrk]

Anything is only as annoying as you decide it should be.

 

[mmj_uk]

I think it speaks more about how people today are so easily influenced, in the past people lived by moral teachings from religion or what was passed down by their parents etc now they just copy whatever their favourite social media personality is doing or saying or whatever is seen to be the most popular on the internet which will make them appear cool.

 

[dowie]

The lockdown will make their fake glamorous lifestyle more difficult.

I presume some at the lower end some are resorting to things like sites where *ahem* only fans ... of theirs can see stuff... other wannabes might find there is a "hub" of sorts that is like a social network but a bit more adult in nature....

At the higher end - the ones that are more "models" than "hoes" seem to be looking at other income streams too.

For example this instagram person (who sees herself as an "entrepreneur" rather than a "model" - even though she seems to mostly be paid for marketing stuff as a result of being attractive and having a following) has seemingly got some patreon account where people can get some more photos and videos... some tutorials relating to taking good photos/videos (probs helps to be hot) and if you're enough of a chump to pay $250 a month you can even get personal messages... with 1.6 million followers there probably are some subscribers at that level.

https://www.patreon.com/xeniatchoumi

This one (to be fair seems to be more of a general celeb these days making prime time US TV appearances etc... but started out on social media) has turned to creating fitness videos (which you'll need to sign up and pay for of course too... $44 a month apparently given she has nearly 14 million followers then she’s probably done ok from it...):

https://www.alexisren.co/

 

[Surveyor]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52362462

It's tough going when no one is interested in your influencing any more.

Still, better to ask for gifts and donations than get a job in a supermarket.

 

[dowie]

Oops:

https://www.ladbible.com/news/viral...ound-coworkers-watching-her-onlyfans-20200425

 

[Derek W]

Influencer here, influencer there. Everyone is an influencer now. I would also want to make money from nothing, but to me, filming everything you do daily, doesn't seem so entertaining, but who am I to judge.

Le spam for the third day running. Maybe lock this topic to stop this particular brand of spammer.

 

[Jokester]

Le spam for the third day running. Maybe lock this topic to stop this particular brand of spammer.

It’s a bit weird getting.

 

[G J]

I'm surprised some of the posters on here dont have the same title but its must sting abit when one shills so hard and they dont even get paid like an influencer does.

On the posts in this thread where some of these influencers where propositioned for money there was a thread on here before that linked a site exposing some women and the whole real estate/influencer/instagram model is just a front for it.