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Here's another thing I don't get: Influencers that are just like a regular person. I can understand following rich people or people that were famous for something once. But I saw one woman who just lives in a 100 year old house and is renovating it kind of. I can understand if someone has an online presence about something, but there are people who are just there and don't seem to have any particular niche or angle.
Jenna something? My ex used to watch her because he wanted to renovate a house one day and kind of got me onto it. But the regular people, I think people want to relate to others and feel "connected". Rich people are far removed from them.
That sounds mildly interesting (to me)
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The rest of the influencers are pretty pointless though
I don't have TikTok, but I follow an old blog that does a weekly TikTok round up and the "influencer" shit that gets talked about and blows up just baffles me so fuckin' much.
I almost don't mind listening to influencer drama because it's all so decoupled from reality and anything significant it just feels like short stories about the stupidest people you've ever heard of
That's true, probably why I read the post every week. It's crazy what people get themselves in a tizzy over. And what people are freakin' willing to film themselves doing. Like GET A BRAIN.
I think there's a big difference between people who set out to be "influencers" and people who just do what they want that's maybe a little different and film it or just want to share.
Meaningless observations/waffling on because I'm bored at work
Yesterday I came across a lady who's turning her Boston apartment into a 1980's Malibu style place. I have friends who watch mount bikers. Boyo used to keep up with a couple who were restoring a yacht to live on. I think the people who do these things on hope of getting famous piss me off, but the people who are just doing something a little out there and filming it are fine by me. I follow an instagram of a guy who's adopted a whole bunch of senior dogs and really appreciate that whenever people ask to send him donations he's always "no thanks, I've got this". Made respect to him vs people who buy dogs and dress them up in order to beg for views.