>The difference between an honest "influencer" and you posting a comment here talking about a product/service you like is that the influencer is getting paid fo

>The difference between an honest "influencer" and you posting a comment here talking about a product/service you like is that the influencer is getting paid for their honest opinion while you're doing it for free. You're describing a reviewer, brainiac. >you posting a comment here talking about a product/service you like The only difference between unsolicited, antisocially consumerist behavior and what you do is that you're pay to play. Sure, this is factual. >As for dishonest influencers who shill for products they don't like... well, probably half the people on this forum work for an advertising company. Imagine the frailty of a life propped up by shit like transparent tu quoques and $38 in revenue plus like sephora samples and mushroom brand watches with busted dials. Imagine the intense shame and suicidal ideation over the worthlessness of such a life >Me telling my Instagram followers to buy a product isn't any different from Google showing you an AdWords ad for the same thing. Google's game is to be large enough that this process can almost be tolerable, while remaining bureaucratically impersonal yet targeted to the ad recipient's consumer profile. It's also eminently avoidable. Your game is to get access to "exclusive social events" in Area City at the expense of anyone who might've followed you thinking you were an actual person, while failing to get compensated more meaningfully because you just ain't that pretty. >Being a sellout is only a pejorative to hippies and artists. To anyone else, it's called having a job. Sellouts are people without professional integrity. That's what the term means.