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Simple: never listen to influencers about anything. They are not your friends. They are paid to sell you things, and in almost all cases, with zero disclosure o
by exogeny 4y ago
Simple: never listen to influencers about anything. They are not your friends. They are paid to sell you things, and in almost all cases, with zero disclosure of that.
- meghan_rain 4y agoSimple as.
- AraceliHarker 4y agoEven so, algorithms such as YouTube will try to force us to see influencers' videos as popular. No matter how many times you press the Disinterest button for a particular video, or the Hide Channel button, similar videos are constantly shown to you.
- wink 4y agoSometimes I'm wondering where you draw the line between influencer, "youtube personality", and "person with quite a few followers" though. I mean, on a basic level the third category seems to not even live (or just supplement their income) from YT money, the middle category is not obviously selling something, just producing stuff people seem to like to watch...