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There's so much silly about this, I'm struggling with where to start. >I really want everyone who travels to realize: no, it's not content producers who are ru

by zucked 4y ago

There's so much silly about this, I'm struggling with where to start. >I really want everyone who travels to realize: no, it's not content producers who are ruining it. It's YOU. YOU are ruining these places. How do you suppose so many of these places are "discovered" in the first place? My beef with these "content producers" is that they've all got the "I'M THE MAIN CHARACTER" vibe. They hog all the views, the private spaces so they can make their locale look a specific way. I don't really care if you're being paid for it - that doesn't mean you get to hog the space so you can preen and primp it into a specific A E S T H E T I C.

mlsu 4y ago
I'm not actually taking this tone here, this is kind of a play argument: --- You're hogging the space! Why do you get to be there? Content producers are allowed to have whatever vibe they want. If you want to have a private space, why don't you pay the owner to close it off? Then you can have what you want, and the owner won't need to reach out to a content producer to market their space! YOU'RE the reason the content producer is going there. Because you spend your money at the gift shop. You're not working there, you're just consuming. Consuming the view; consuming the silence; consuming the clean air. At least the content producer is working! Who is selfish? --- You cannot visit a place without changing that place. The unspoiled place is spoiled by the very fact of you being there. You and the content producer are equals. The only person with the high ground here is someone who lives there (who, themselves have a range of positions on this argument; many want more visitors!), or someone who never visits. The point I'm trying to make is entirely separate from how you feel personally about "content producers." I get that some people personally don't like the content. I, personally, hate it -- I don't even have instagram or TikTok. But then again, I don't like fan fiction, or MMA, or Burning Man. It doesn't really matter what I like, does it?
hef19898 4y ago
I do have to agree with the parent that a paid influencer is basically a professional marketer. And that, paid or not, an influencer without followers is neither an influencer nor a problem. As with everything consumerism, us consumers cannot ignore that, collectively, we are driving a lot of that development. With the more than generous and friendly help of Social Media companies of course.

by zucked 4y ago

mlsu 4y ago

I'm not actually taking this tone here, this is kind of a play argument: --- You're hogging the space! Why do you get to be there? Content producers are allowed to have whatever vibe they want. If you want to have a private space, why don't you pay the owner to close it off? Then you can have what you want, and the owner won't need to reach out to a content producer to market their space! YOU'RE the reason the content producer is going there. Because you spend your money at the gift shop. You're not working there, you're just consuming. Consuming the view; consuming the silence; consuming the clean air. At least the content producer is working! Who is selfish? --- You cannot visit a place without changing that place. The unspoiled place is spoiled by the very fact of you being there. You and the content producer are equals. The only person with the high ground here is someone who lives there (who, themselves have a range of positions on this argument; many want more visitors!), or someone who never visits. The point I'm trying to make is entirely separate from how you feel personally about "content producers." I get that some people personally don't like the content. I, personally, hate it -- I don't even have instagram or TikTok. But then again, I don't like fan fiction, or MMA, or Burning Man. It doesn't really matter what I like, does it?

hef19898 4y ago

I do have to agree with the parent that a paid influencer is basically a professional marketer. And that, paid or not, an influencer without followers is neither an influencer nor a problem. As with everything consumerism, us consumers cannot ignore that, collectively, we are driving a lot of that development. With the more than generous and friendly help of Social Media companies of course.