> we seem to have arrived at a stage […] I don't think today's "influencers" are any different from yesterday's movie and TV celebs - we just now have better w

> we seem to have arrived at a stage […] I don't think today's "influencers" are any different from yesterday's movie and TV celebs - we just now have better way to enable our vapidity. Before we'd only have our direct entourage to compare ourselves to - now we have the whole world. I think this phenomenon has always existed indigenously, similar to trends, it is now at a global scale.