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Wow, the subject influencers in the article were insufferable just to read about. I can't think of any group I have less empathy for than them. The world would
by seattle_spring 5y ago
Wow, the subject influencers in the article were insufferable just to read about. I can't think of any group I have less empathy for than them. The world would be such a better place if the concept of an "influencer" completely ceased to exist.
- ______- 5y agoThey train you to be an influencer[0] in China. I have empathy for them. They're embracing modernity, not being a boring archaic Luddite for a living. [0] https://www.dailydot.com/irl/china-influencer-school-video/ https://www.dailydot.com/irl/china-influencer-school-video/
- noisy_boy 5y agoThey also have click farms in China. Way to embrace modernity. Everything modern is not beneficial to us individually or as a society.
- 10000truths 5y agoThere’s nothing modern about “influencing”. The only difference between influencers and sponsorships/advertisements of olde is that the medium has changed from newspaper/radio/TV to social media websites.
- viraptor 5y agoWhat do you mean by modernity? This is basically an "as seen on tv" marketing channel diluted in forced #relatable / #inspiration content. It's really not new technologically. Just a new way of making you look at sponsored content. > not being a boring archaic Luddite for a living. ... proceeds to advertise new Nike shoes / holiday destination in a video for a living.
- Swizec 5y agoIn tech we call them thought leaders. DevRels if they’re not self-employed. Are they so bad?
- seattle_spring 5y agoOh God, those are even worse. My LinkedIn feed is garbage largely because of people like this.
- mc32 5y agoJust get eliminate user seeable statistics (likes, shares, etc.) as well as artificial trending. Once people are freed from that yoke, they'll find better things to do.
- Applejinx 5y agoThey're children. Or possibly animals, like show ponies or show poodles. Theirs is not to ask why, or to have a free thought in their head. If they were being raised to be slaughtered, you might have an easier time finding empathy, even when this raising is not doing great at giving them human qualities. Well, they ARE being raised to be slaughtered, in a slightly more abstract sense. I think empathy is completely reasonable. The thing is you have to have empathy for what they MIGHT have been if they weren't yanked out of normal life, kept from growing up or seeing any reality, and trained to be incredibly vacant and damaged. You're seeing human beings getting ruined. Maybe they could have been a lot better if they didn't get sucked into this madness.
- dillondoyle 5y agoI kind of had a similar reaction but about the author! It read like he used an auto-thesaurus, or purposefully chooses more esoteric words simply to up the contrast between how he sees himself - the professor writing smart think pieces whilst going for tenure - versus those dumb vapid teenagers.
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- default-kramer 5y agoThe contrast was intentional, but I don't think the author did it to sound superior. The contrast is more that the author is jaded and depressed, but the kids are still innocent and hopeful (for now).
- jaimex2 5y agoI don't know who calls them influencers other than the media. I just know them as social media narcissists.