My 9 year old daughter pretends to be one of these You Tube influencers. Her constant babbling is made even worse by often adopting an American accent
Generally a job reality TV people do for easy cash. If you've over a million followers on Instagram they get big companies offering them good money and free gifts to do a post on there with the gifts to make it look like they love what they have been given. Then the company makes back more than it cost them when a percentage of the followers order it for themselves to be more like the 'celebrity' they are fond of.
probably not much different from endorsement, just has a trendy name. if Ronaldo says 'these boots are brilliant', shed loadsa kids go out and buy em. same thing really. I think people become influencers as a result of having followers (for whatever reason). they don't start as one
I can understand somebody famous (for actually doing something like being a good sportsman etc) can make money out of endorsements, but these influencers are literally nobodies they only became known by being an influencer or gaining some spurious popularity on youtube. It's a proper chicken and egg situation but without the salmonella.
Isn’t that just down to your definition of ‘famous’ though? As an example, there are 10s of millions of kids who sit watching people play computer games on YouTube. My boy hasn’t got a clue who John Lennon is. He knows who LogDotZip is though. Horses for courses innit.
They like you really. I only call people names like that if I like them. If I don't like them I use idiot or wazzock.
"We'd lots of things in them days we haven't got today: rickets, diphtheria, Hitler" Every single line is quotable and perfect. It is the best thing I've ever known. It's just so good.
Love that. I haven't heard it in donkeys years, but I could hear the words in my head before Tony spoke them. I don't even remember hearing it that often, to be honest, so it must have left a lasting impression.
Popularity on YouTube isn't generally spurious. It's often on merit as opposed to being at the mercy of who production companies, record labels, media companies and so on decide will be famous. There are ways to cheat the algorithms of course. That said, influencers make me wretch. Almost always they have no responsibility to their fans if something goes wrong. Quick money with few ethics. Little enforceable regulation.
It amazes me about these young kids who live in multi-million dollar houses over here, whose job is an Influencer. I, on the other hand, make nothing by being an Under the Influencer.
