• forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Influencer is a fancy word for salesman. Instead of going door to door like grandpa did in the old days, they stream directly to your device.

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      influencers used to be called attention whores but you can’t really use that term if you want to shill products

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        Yeah that’s kinda my whole disconnect from this stuff from the get go. These guys were begging for attention! Huge turn off