But the analogy is still tempting. How much of the attention heaped upon influencers is coming from people who hope to get some back for their own rise to influ

But the analogy is still tempting. How much of the attention heaped upon influencers is coming from people who hope to get some back for their own rise to influencerdom? Still closer to plain old high-school popularity, but now with a dangling carrot of a career possibility.