Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one’s posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

  • dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Entertainers are supposed to be entertaining though.

    These people have all the “entertainment” value of a late-night infomercial at best. “Oooh, watch me get excited about unboxing this item. Whatever could have Disney sent me this week?”

    The worst problem is that these influencers do gain huge amounts of followers, but rarely fact-check or do hard sciences needed to ya know, give information to viewers? See Linus Tech Tips and the whole crap they’re into right now.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      You are watching the wrong persons on youtube.
      Aaaand: The thing you think is unfunny might be the funbiest thing since forver for another.

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        2 years ago

        Exactly. And the fact that people have large amounts of followers mean that plenty of people find them entertaining.

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      2 years ago

      I mean, they’re mostly indie and could probably easily be compared to stand-up comedians.

      Which if we look at it’s history is a very crash-and-burn career itself. I think a lot of them are entertaining. But it’s certainly a saturated market where it can feel like a needle in a haystack at times.

      And really, the issue with LTT, is an issue. But keep in mind on the internet we largely mock news sites in general for being uninformative and many being glorified blogs. It’s not as uncommon as we unfortunately may think.

      But basically a lot of what is souring you on influencers, either has already happened in other careers or is currently happening to others as well, just we don’t think about it as much.