Advertising and marketing infiltrates everything, which is why so much of insta, youtube and tiktok is insufferable (and why I avoid those platforms). Influence

Advertising and marketing infiltrates everything, which is why so much of insta, youtube and tiktok is insufferable (and why I avoid those platforms). Influencers made everything contrived and inauthentic, while pretending to the opposite. Nothing about this is new to the digital age, though as it's all basically a form of astroturfing, which has interesting historical uses by pharma companies, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing