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People increasingly trust people over faceless corps. Here's why
- raxxorrax 5y ago> This is good news. People are increasingly preferring to interact with (and buy from) real people on social media over large, faceless corporations. I expect to see numerous fake personalities and influencer spawning and people will probably lose their trust in them too after a while.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoWhat's the difference between a fake influencer and a real influencer paid to advocate for a product?
- feet 5y agoAbsolutely none But its possible that there are some people who aren't paid buy make content and occasionally plug products that they like and use
- jondwillis 5y agoBut then those beloved YouTubers and TikTokers and Twitchers decide they need to pay the bills and deserve more than the pennies that the extractive platforms are willing to pay them for playing on their playgrounds. And then the personalities do sponsored content and guerrila marketing in sometimes blatant, or worse, in subtle ways.