Oddbean

I’m hearing more from my friend about the world of influencers. 13 of the 15 girls on the hen do this weekend were fitness influencers or similar. Here’s my takeaways. 🎙️ No one cares about deplatforming or censorship. No one spoke of Twitter / Brazil over the weekend. 💀 Gyms in london have influence hours where you can film without bothering other normal gym goers. 🏃‍♂️ running is cool again but you have to have a big bum too. It’s kind of unobtainable. Classic. 💉 everyone has had some “tweakment” done. Baby Botox or botox, lip filler, minor boob job, profilo (smooths your skin), lazer treatments, veneers etc. it’s SO normalised among young women, apparently. 💇‍♀️ hair extensions are less cool. No one has them anymore. 🥘 all but one of them has suffered from an eating disorder. The anorexia or bulimia or any other number of things I hadn’t heard of before had of course affected their periods. One of them had been told by a doctor when she was 16 that she wouldn’t be able to conceive. So sad. So she never used protection with her partner of 7 years and this summer she fell pregnant… awesome right? Well maybe. don’t forget she and her partner had always prepared for a childless life. 🥾 they went on a hike on Saturday morning. The hike took 2 hours. Taking photos as part of the hike? ALSO TWO HOURS 💀 💰 it’s not enough to have 200k instagram followers + affiliates and sponsors. You need to have a business like a “sustainable” swimwear brand or vegan cookbook / online coaching. Basically you have to treat your audience as a customer base. Funny story. One girl had created a load of Tupperware brand. But oops. She messed up because people stopped buying from her coz the products actually lasted. So they bought one for life and she couldn’t keep monetising her audience. Fucking hilarious. 🍷 it was a Hen Do and the usual thing to do as a Brit is to get shitfaced. lol sorry it’s just British things. The Saturday night they had a few drinks courtesy of the investment banker in the note below, but these girls had smoothies and yoga and breath work and were worried about bad photos or giving off the wrong impression to their followers. What are they, the QUEEN OF ENGLAND?? 🏠 the villa they stayed in had 800 followers on IG at the start of the weekend. Today it has 2,500 because of their tags and content. Wild. 👰‍♂️ the bride spent the Sunday morning alone in her room drafting posts about the hen do weekend because she had a new deal starting on the Monday and she couldn’t overlap the hen do content with the sponsored content. ⛓️‍💥 To sum up. Would’ve been super interesting to be a fly on the wall over this weekend but influencing SUCKS. The model is retardio and to succeed in the world of influencing, your mental health takes a big hit and you effectively HAVE to become an unbearable diva. And yes bitcoin fixes a lot of this. But Nostr fixes A LOT more. nostr:note1z8ax736wuxv45p7ek7tvfwux9n3zcm0jhuucc8gaar55kyl2j0vqjpx25y

Thanks for sharing these thoughts. Most of these things are (I guess) obvious, what isn't so obvious are the consequences resulting from that. Travelling around and away is something exciting, but if it's that much connected to a "I have to post"mentality it's a bit sad. In the end you are just a marionette of an algorithm

> 🎙️ No one cares about deplatforming or censorship. No one spoke of Twitter / Brazil over the weekend. Honestly that's what I expected. In the west we're only concerned about ourselves, truly they wouldn't even care if this happened to their neighbors, in fact I'd say that they would find some way to justify it > Funny story. One girl had created a load of Tupperware brand. > But oops. She messed up because people stopped buying from her coz the products actually lasted. So they bought one for life and she couldn’t keep monetising her audience. Enshittification > To sum up. Would’ve been super interesting to be a fly on the wall over this weekend but influencing SUCKS. > The model is retardio and to succeed in the world of influencing, your mental health takes a big hit and you effectively HAVE to become an unbearable diva. Truth!

Have you seen the HBO show "Fake Famous"? https://www.hbo.com/movies/fake-famous It took several wannabe influencers and helped them succeed. They paid for followers, they used the toilet seat against a TV screen for an aeroplane window view 😂 The life they were forced to live was so toxic, only one carried on with it: https://www.instagram.com/dominiquedruckman/ My thought is if everybody becomes an influencer, who's left to be influenced and just how much skin care product to they have to buy to pay the salaries of everybody influencing them? 😂 In terms of people caring about centralised platforms, censoring etc... Most people don't care until it affects them directly. When I started discussing my life with close F&F, I expected them to deny the possibility of WW3 and thus consider me stupid for planning options. They didn't, they fully shared the opinion that WW3 is a strong possibility, the just assumed it wouldn't affect them or that there is nothing they can do about it. Most people want somebody else to take responsibility for them, which is why corrupt regimes work. We are the few that understand this. We are not all the same.

Appreciate the share Joe. I had anxiety just reading this post. WTF have people become. What's scary is that is effectively 1st gen influencers. Can you imagine what kind of humans are second gen? Were they 'fragile' people emotionally/ego?? Disnyour friend feel that there were any heart felt moments or moments of connection at the wedding? Super interesting. You think you would ever do a doco on that world? 😂😂

I am invited to the wedding but told my friend I’d only go on the condition that I can channel my inner Louis Theroux! I don’t know how to do it without getting too lost in how dark it is… and how they don’t realise how dark it is. Interesting re the second gen influences. They’re omni fucked!!

Everyone is fake, it’s pathetic. It’s gotten so bad you don’t even want to be around people anymore. lol. Jesus said a time will come when people will worship themselves. That time is now, narcissism is rampant in people.