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> Personally I don't like the idea of idolizing celebrities and the wealthy just because. That's fair, me neither. > The whole point of an "influencer" is to

> Personally I don't like the idea of idolizing celebrities and the wealthy just because. That's fair, me neither. > The whole point of an "influencer" is to become as popular as possible on the internet to make themselves feel self important and to make money. I think that might be the goal of crappy influencers, but most of them are just trying to monetize the content they create so they can continue to create that content. Yes, there are some whose success does not seem correlated with the quality of their content or the effort they put into it. That might be part of the reason they draw so much ire. >I can't fathom how this is enviable or why people desire to give them money. Technology democratizes the ability to publish content and measure traffic. Now everyone can quantify how many eyeballs they are commanding, and they can sell access to those eyeballs.

cr0sh 7y ago
Maybe I'm just old, but this: > most of them are just trying to monetize the content they create so they can continue to create that content ...is something I don't really understand. Why must they believe they need to get money to make such content (whatever "content" is?) I mean, at one time I had a personal blog at my personal domain, hosted on a shared server (right now it is dormant - I really need to get something back online). I coded the CMS myself in PHP, made code updates as needed, then created content using that CMS, and published it for public viewing. I did all of this for free. Now, one could argue: "You spent time, and time is money, so you paid something to do that. You deserve that money back." I can't fault that argument, other than to say that I put my site up to give out information to others on the internet, because I had consumed so much of others free information that they had put out on the internet. In effect, I didn't see my content as product to be compensated for, but rather as my own form of compensation for consuming others content. But it seems today that a lot of people don't see it that way. They want their cake to eat it, too. They want and almost demand that they get paid for their content. Sometimes they go to extreme stupid lengths to achieve this. Most of time they just nag and complain. For certain content, I can perhaps understand - but at the same time I would feel kinda "used" paying for it - however that payment occurred. For instance, those IG peddlers who take great photos of beautiful places in the world. I'm not sure what they sell - some are obviously selling clothing, or at least the clothing brand. Others are shilling for other products. The only ones I can really get behind are those photographers selling the photography itself in the form of books or other media. Even so, it still feels like I am paying someone to have a great vacation while they take photos from around the world. Or am I the fool? Have I been "leaving money on the table" by not monetizing my content? I'm not sure how I would monetize my content (my site was mainly about hobby robotics and similar) - but having seen other sites with similar content which was monetized in some fashion, I could see how I could do it. I'm not sure I would make much money at it, but it could be done, I suppose... Again, maybe I'm just old.

cr0sh 7y ago

Maybe I'm just old, but this: > most of them are just trying to monetize the content they create so they can continue to create that content ...is something I don't really understand. Why must they believe they need to get money to make such content (whatever "content" is?) I mean, at one time I had a personal blog at my personal domain, hosted on a shared server (right now it is dormant - I really need to get something back online). I coded the CMS myself in PHP, made code updates as needed, then created content using that CMS, and published it for public viewing. I did all of this for free. Now, one could argue: "You spent time, and time is money, so you paid something to do that. You deserve that money back." I can't fault that argument, other than to say that I put my site up to give out information to others on the internet, because I had consumed so much of others free information that they had put out on the internet. In effect, I didn't see my content as product to be compensated for, but rather as my own form of compensation for consuming others content. But it seems today that a lot of people don't see it that way. They want their cake to eat it, too. They want and almost demand that they get paid for their content. Sometimes they go to extreme stupid lengths to achieve this. Most of time they just nag and complain. For certain content, I can perhaps understand - but at the same time I would feel kinda "used" paying for it - however that payment occurred. For instance, those IG peddlers who take great photos of beautiful places in the world. I'm not sure what they sell - some are obviously selling clothing, or at least the clothing brand. Others are shilling for other products. The only ones I can really get behind are those photographers selling the photography itself in the form of books or other media. Even so, it still feels like I am paying someone to have a great vacation while they take photos from around the world. Or am I the fool? Have I been "leaving money on the table" by not monetizing my content? I'm not sure how I would monetize my content (my site was mainly about hobby robotics and similar) - but having seen other sites with similar content which was monetized in some fashion, I could see how I could do it. I'm not sure I would make much money at it, but it could be done, I suppose... Again, maybe I'm just old.