I mean... he's pretty cool?

Not “Influencer” - “Huckster”

You leave Martin out of this.

We'll go full circle back to the days of yore when home improvement HGTV wasn't also bundled with an irl soap opera.

You already lost them by saying home owner. That's not realistic

Realistic

Homeowner

Choose one.

I distinctly remember a show called Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous, though I couldn't tell you what celebs were featured. Then MTV had Cribs in the '90s. Influencers are basically just the modern version of those shows, aren't they?

In the 70s and 80s, if a fast talking guy with sunglasses and slicked back hair and in a checkered suit wanted to talk to you about the latest greatest thing .... you knew they were selling something shitty.

Today we call those people influencers.

They were a trend back then, they're a trend now and will die out when the next trend starts ..... probably brain implanted advertising inside your dreams or something like that.

It's something that every generations grown up with ....

Some babe's talking real loud
Talking all about the new crowd
Try and tell me of an old dream
A new version of the old scene

• Ragdoll ... by Aerosmith ... in 1987

Yeah but imagine admiring someone that needs a team of people to make it look like they made a cake.

Death it is then I guess.

I'm definitely an old man. And i remember when YouTube influencers started being a thing.

To this day, I have no idea what the hell a Mr Beast is or any of these famous YouTubers are. And most of them either fade away or get propped up by some bad news.

The "Halo Effect" has been a known psychological phenomenon since 1907 researched by uh...Wells and someone else who I can't remember.

I don't want to rain on your cranky old man parade, but unless you're 100+ years old I don't think it was ever just "being a gullible dumbass", it's very much a known societal bias that has been leveraged by the advertising industry. Don't think you're immune to it just because you think you're "above it".

We called it being a gullible dumbass.

The reality is that you're almost certainly guilty of it. It's human nature and to be so confident that everyone else is dumb and falls for it, and that it doesn't bias your thoughts, is nothing but straight up arrogance.

I can almost guarantee that every person who upvoted your post, and you included, are probably more prone to it than average precisely because you think you are immune, so you don't bother to consider checking your own bias.

im expecting ai generated mass customized ads made exactly for what triggers you, with the kinds of people you want to see/be in the places you want to be in/with the background audio as you like/using the lingo that works on you.. it will be horribly wonderful and nobody can share the experiences. and when that fails to work anymore?

Are you implying advertising doesn’t work? Because, regardless of whether you like it or not, advertising does work.

A person on a TV is doing the same thing as a person on YouTube or TikTok, and I bet you’ve bought something because it was advertised to you on TV. Does that make mean you’re just as susceptible to it as younger people? Yes.

Older people love to look down on younger people, but you were the model that showed this works and got us to this point.

Say it. Say whore. You are allowed to.

Stop censoring yourself so other people can more easily appeal to advertisers. I fucking hate that so many people censor themselves so someone else can make more money.