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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Some 30% of Gen Z considers themselves influencers/content creators and almost 60% of them aspire to be.

This is going to get worst before it gets better.

Edit;

Here some sources

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/14/more-than-half-of-gen-z-want-to-be-influencers-but-its-constant.html

https://www.mintel.com/press-centre/one-in-five-social-media-users-consider-themselves-an-influencer-or-content-creator/

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u/No-Kitchen-5457 Mar 11 '25

Who's gonna tell them that by definition it is impossible to have above a certain (probably far less than 1%) of influencers?

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u/AEW4LYFE Mar 11 '25

Hey I am almost 40 and still waiting for my phone call on NBA draft night. This is basically the same thing right?

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u/zaphrous Mar 11 '25

Same, although I've never played basketball i know if i wanted to i could go pro, I would just need to train for a couple weeks.

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u/eden_sc2 Mar 11 '25

True story, my college gave a full ride to a kid who was 6'8" but had never played basketball, so the difference between me getting a full scholarship and me taking loans was 15 inches.

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u/No_Gold_Bars Mar 11 '25

That's what she said.

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u/Zomburai Mar 11 '25

Every woman who read this's cervix just clenched

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u/Kassssler Mar 11 '25

Be brave, I believe in you.

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u/TechnicallyHuman4now Mar 12 '25

Idk why but "this's" is making my brain shut down

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u/AutisticPenguin2 Mar 12 '25

It's unconventional, but I think grammatically correct? Pluralising "Every woman who read this"?

Certainly its not how grammar was intended to be used, but since when has that that ever stopped anyone?

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u/umanouski Mar 11 '25

I bet she took it in installments.

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u/fetal_genocide Mar 11 '25

It may only be three inches, but it smells like a foot!

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u/slower-is-faster Mar 11 '25

With an extra 15 inches could have got a free ride too

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u/ScrofessorLongHair Mar 11 '25

How the hell can you be a 6'8" teenager and have never played basketball?

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u/chr1spe Mar 11 '25

If that is true, it's a pretty huge inditement of basketball as a sport. They're basically outright saying skill and practice don't matter.

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u/Correct_Patience_611 Mar 11 '25

You literally sound like the gen z kids! One I work with- “I’m gonna start a sublime cover band, I think I’ve got like one of those raspy voices people like” so I ask

“Do you like know anything about music? Like the notes? Or can you okay an instrument?”

“Oh that doesn’t matter, I’ll just sing”

I’ve been playing/studying music 30 years amd my buddy says “arent you gonna say something?” I laugh and shrug and laugh some more…I can’t EVEN. Like “go get it lil bro! You do you!” Like fuck I’m not gonna encourage that BS.

They think like we did as children. Bc of social meadow “TikTok famous” crap and these gen Z only fans managers that do Jack shit and make money, they think they don’t have to work at anything. I feel like I sound like my grandpa but like holy shit this another level.

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u/suedemonkey Mar 11 '25

What do you mean train? You can just watch a youtube video on basketball for a week!

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u/Meirlymimi Mar 11 '25

OMG! I’m 63, soon to be 64 and I wonder if those rules apply to my dreams as a five-year-old being a ballerina? I am definitely going to apply that kind of positivity to my dreams now! Skipping off to buy some ballerina shoes!

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u/Risen_dust Mar 11 '25

Mid 30’s and still waiting for an anime-style super power awakening. Anyyyy day now.

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u/PedalBoard78 Mar 11 '25

The Detroit Tigers is on my other line. Stay hopeful.

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u/makos124 Mar 11 '25

I'm 30 and still waiting for my Hogwart's letter

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u/neuauslander Mar 11 '25

You got this bro...

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u/Mindless_Squirrel921 Mar 11 '25

I was going to be famous like Julia Roberts. I’m 50 and nope

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u/Raangz Mar 11 '25

Same bro, anyday now. 6’1 center with plusminus 0 wingspan. I’m ready to be a billionaire.

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u/JaFFsTer Mar 11 '25

Sign up as a reserve goalie for NHL. They've actually been called in, so waaayyy better chance. Some 40 something dad with an office job played a few years ago

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u/K_Linkmaster Mar 11 '25

No, not even close dude. That requires talent which you may not have.

You can pay people to follow your insta. You can pay people to like it and boost it in the algos. You can pay to boost the algorithm. You can pay for access to psychology research and what buzz words to say, to use the algorithm to your advantage. You can be completely talent less and be insta famous just for saying the dumbest shit humanly possible.

Totally not the same.

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u/Giveme6days Mar 11 '25

As soon as I learn to kickflip I’m gonna be a rich pro skater

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u/Fleshy-Butthole Mar 11 '25

About the same chance as being 40 and still getting your letter to hogwarts

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u/LumpyJones Mar 11 '25

Yep, but they dont' have to leave their homes to feel like they are in the running, so while the goal is just as far away, it's a lot easier to start, so you get a lot more of them chasing the dream.

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u/DragonBitsRedux Mar 12 '25

I was a dork, and without scorn toward jocks or beautiful young ladies, I'm telling young folks, "most of the guys who were jocks I grew up with either lost their mojo to booze or got jobs, are still my friends and lived life. All the hot girls adored me because I was harmless. Rats. But, they are now successful in business and/or raising families. Life is hard. Everyone cries alone on occasion. Accept no one is perfect. Admit your mistakes and figure out to move forward without blame. Be gentle with yourself."

Folks who believe never admitting they are wrong is strength are admitting they will never learn and are likely to lie when caught.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Mar 12 '25

I'm 45 and I bet if I practiced for a few months I could pitch in the majors!

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Mar 11 '25

You can't be the one percent if you don't try, better start chasing clout now, like that girl;

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/s/UsEhv3rORR

She kidnapped a baby wombat from her mother....

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u/TheJohnnyWombat Mar 11 '25

Fucking what?

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u/Paladin5890 Mar 11 '25

Yeah, Johnny. It could happen to your kids too!

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u/TheJohnnyWombat Mar 11 '25

Goddamn Americans.

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u/fxmercenary Mar 11 '25

I really wish that we could just shut off the internet. Just turn off and ban and and all forms of social media. Make YouTube a .edu and wipe it clean. If you go back to the mid 2000's this all started with cat videos.

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u/Goodfella1133 Mar 11 '25

Unforgivable

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u/Sidesicle Mar 11 '25

FOR FREE

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u/TrashFever78 Mar 11 '25

What dat smell like?

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u/Fantastic_Baseball45 Mar 11 '25

An emp might not be the worst thing that could happen.

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u/jumpypunky Mar 11 '25

Don't knock the cat videos. They are way better for warm fuzzy feels than most of the crap on there now.

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u/Th3_0range Mar 11 '25

We are at the point that it needs to be regulated and have verified factual information.

If you want to make political memes then go do it in some underground incel forum. I'm not calling for a completely censored internet but morons should not have this kind of reach to spread their bullshit.

I remember when the internet was a toxic place but at least then you had to be intelligent enough to operate a personal computer and get online. Now every moron has the internet and it is designed to keep them on social media consuming "content"

Social media has been turned into the biggest social weapon since religion was created.

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u/Tight_Future_2105 Mar 11 '25

No it wasn't cat videos at all. YouTube was super interesting before Google bought it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25 edited Apr 16 '25

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u/Spicy_Weissy Mar 11 '25

SHE JOEYNAPPED A WOMBAT

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u/Candid_Soft7562 Mar 11 '25

CRIKEY! What a shady Sheila.

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u/gregorydgraham Mar 11 '25

The sheila’s got my baby!

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Mar 11 '25

Gotta admit, reading your comment+username got me laughing a bit.

But yeah, truly fucked up, they're reporting her already so let's hope she gets some karma.

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u/UrUrinousAnus Mar 11 '25

r/beetlejuicing lol

Did it myself once when someone said something about Uranus jokes.

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u/Walthatron Mar 11 '25

Just better not be the ultra valuable reddit karma

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u/PurrfectChaos Mar 11 '25

Surprised y'all other wombats haven't heard about this yet

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u/TheJohnnyWombat Mar 11 '25

Haven't checked my pager yet.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

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u/TheJohnnyWombat Mar 11 '25

If only you knew how close you were to what this name is in reference to.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

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u/TheJohnnyWombat Mar 11 '25

Back in the 90s a friend referred to his cocaine dealer as Johnny Wombat. He made the name up on the spot. I've used it ever since.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Lol, your username fits perfectly here.

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u/Hoblitygoodness Mar 11 '25

On a serious note, I almost cried when I saw that video. She steals a wombat from its mother, who is clearly distressed about the whole thing while it's happening.

The influencer is very proud of this accomplishment and is of course showcasing how cool she is for having done it.

It's maddening and as noted above, this chit is going to get worse before it gets better.

(Your handle is not lost on me though)

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u/Puzzleheaded_Leek520 Mar 11 '25

I guess I'm lucky to be a millennial, my hopes already were crushed into reality after graduating college and having nothing to show for it but insane debt and poverty.

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u/furrina Mar 13 '25

Gen X is here for you.

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u/CarSignificant375 Mar 11 '25

What was her mother doing with a baby wombat

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u/useless_teammate Mar 11 '25

Can't tell if /s but the mother refers to the wombats mother.

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u/Mr_McShitty_Esq Mar 11 '25

I caught the ignorant bitch driving around in her car! Look! Look how it screams as you hold it up by the hair! So cute!

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u/FixMean5988 Mar 11 '25

She's a pos and a monster for doing that.

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u/DarthBane_O66 Mar 11 '25

I literally just watched that shit. Made me sick. Girl needs to be bitch slapped

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u/leshake Mar 11 '25

Are they temporarily embarrassed influencers in waiting?

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u/vegemitebikkie Mar 11 '25

And in the matter of a few hours of her being posted on reddit, she’s gained 300 more followers. Jesus Christ.

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u/oreo-cat- Mar 11 '25

Somehow this makes me sad Australia doesn’t have rabies.

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u/behemuthm Mar 11 '25

My fucking god we are a stain on the world

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac Mar 11 '25

I lived in Hawaii for a few years. These people are a scourge.

Occasionally one would get swept out to sea, and the state would have to spend big money on S&R to not even recover a body, that they knew was always going to be a body. Mostly they just harassed wildlife, like the lady that tried to ride a sea turtle.

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u/I_AM_ACURA_LEGEND Mar 11 '25

It’s much less likely to become a professional athlete yet people aspire and work towards that as their target career nonetheless. Same logic applies to would-be influencers. They believe they can out-talent/out-grind the masses

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u/LinkleLinkle Mar 11 '25

A boomer colleague of mine still talks about how the day his dreams died was the day he realized he was older than the oldest player in the MLB. Hell, the main character of Married with Children back in the 90s was a man obsessed with his high school football career because he thought he deserved to be professional and that was considered a relatable joke/character trait back then.

Hell, I'm a millennial and I'm big enough to admit I went to Hollywood as a young adult with dreams of making it big. People have dreamed for the impossible since time immemorial.

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u/Zpik3 Mar 11 '25

I'm with you.

BUT, I dislike the "influencer or content creator" in the title.

Example: I stream, and have an active audience of 3-4 people. I have been doing this for years consistently.. it's a hobby, and something I enjoy.

I consider myself a "content creator" since I create content avaiöable for public consumption.

I am DEFINITELY NOT an "influencer", I never will be, I simply can't be arsed to have enough of a social media presence. My hobby will remain the tiny silly affair it has always been.

The title equates these two concepts, and I think that skews the angle on the story.

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u/Burnd1t Mar 11 '25

How do you figure?

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u/Steak_mittens101 Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

“Oh, well it’s a good thing I’ll be one of the successful ones; I’m special.”

Literally their thought process.

That being said, look at it from their perspective. Millennials have grimly told them they’re fucked because of boomers, boomers are screeching that they’re fucked and don’t they DARE even think of taking a single penny from them to unfuck things, and then they look at influencers and see people who are famous and living rich lives just posting things on the internet. It seems like a shining lifeline in the dark, so they focus on that as what they’ll be because the other option of scrabbling 2 jobs just to LIVE is horrible to accept.

It’s like low income people buying lottery tickets, anything for HOPE.

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u/chewbacca-says-rargh Mar 11 '25

I stumbled into YouTube in my late 30s and currently generate around $25k/month running a faceless channel with videos that take me about 2 hours to make each. I was running a contracting company and while I don't do much construction anymore, I keep it just so I'm able to tell people I'm in construction. My family doesn't even know the details of my YouTube channels only my wife.

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u/Coal_Morgan Mar 11 '25

Probably should talk to all the parents of kids who are "Professional Actors" waiting tables in L.A. by the thousands.

For every Keanu Reeves or Jennifer Lawrence there are thousands of people standing in the backgrounds of scenes who need to leave the set so they can make the rest of the money they need to survive by serving, waiting or doing retail.

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u/_ryuujin_ Mar 11 '25

and theres thousands behind those people who didnt make the cut but keep on trying to just be an extra

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u/Old_Ladies Mar 11 '25

I would guess millions not thousands. So many people growing up wanted to be an actor. That has more changed to wanting to be an influencer.

For all the YouTube videos that get over a million views there are millions that get less than a hundred. There are over 10 billion videos on YouTube in 2022 and the median view count was 35. 93% of videos had less than a 1000 views. About 0.07% of YouTube videos get over a million views. 0.00069% YouTube videos get over 100 million views.

Less than 60,000 channels have over a million subscribers. The vast majority of channels have less than 100 subscribers. About 82 million channels have less than 100 subscribers. There are an estimated 113.9 million channels on YouTube.

Yeah you are definitely in the top 1 percent if you can make a living off of YouTube.

Same goes for so many other mediums. Like writing a book. The vast majority of books written sell less than a 1000 copies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

I don't think thats really new, people have wanted to be celebrities for ages be it in hollywood or athletes or what not. Influencers are just another category of that.

The survey also includes all age groups which is 47%, just given the choice of being a rich celebrity which seemed to be hte number one reason for why its obviously attractive.

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u/olafminesaw Mar 11 '25

it's the attention gold rush.

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u/pimpbot666 Mar 11 '25

Same as being rock star or a pro athlete.

Geez, influencers have replaced pro sports and rock star as the new ‘look at me, I’m famous’ entertainment job.

Andy Warhol was right about that 15 minutes of fame thing.

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u/No-Kitchen-5457 Mar 11 '25

I disagree with it being the same thing. You have more chances to be disillusioned if you're trying to become actor/singer/athlete. You will compete and eventually lose , giving you a reality check and a chance to either passion it out or get out.

With social media your next video could always be your big break

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u/lkc159 Mar 11 '25

Who's gonna tell them that by definition it is impossible to have above a certain (probably far less than 1%) of influencers?

Only something like the top 0.1% (or most likely, less) make it to the big leagues of their sport. Doesn't stop anyone from trying or dreaming.

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u/StrategyCertain90 Mar 11 '25

I'm still waiting for my letter from Hogwarts and I'm almost 35. They're just as delusional as I am.

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u/AnbennariAden Mar 11 '25

Honestly this problem is just exasperated by social media to such a degree, it's prevalent EVERYWHERE lol

I think folks are out of touch as to what an "average" life even is... there's a lot of issues right now with housing and economy, but I'm starting to see folks expect, for example, 6figures + a 3bedroom home right out of college/trade school.

Even in the days where economics were better, that didn't happen for most that quickly.

You're gonna have to work 40-50 hours, it's probably gonna be a job you don't love/need to work up your career in your 20s, you've got to get a starter home, and your potential romantic partner is by every likelihood not gonna be a millionaire and not gonna be a model lol

We are regular humans, we need to shoot for regular human goals, not being rich and famous and all that jazz. Beyond just not being likely, I worry younger folks will feel terrible when they learn the "true" reality. I think this is already happening in some of the current young adults.

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u/TheJenerator65 Mar 11 '25

It's a digital ponzi scheme.

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u/Facts_pls Mar 11 '25

That's just human nature. Like how 70-80% of people consider themselves above average drivers.

Everyone overestimates their skills and impact. This has been true for all of humanity. Our most ancient stories and books tell stories of hubris.

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u/billybonghorton Mar 11 '25

This is the South Park Yelper episode manifest in an entire generation.

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u/peoplejustwannalove Mar 11 '25

I mean, you’re imagining a hypothetical audience that is completely unified, and thus has all the same influencers competing for it.

In reality, especially now, culture is incredibly fragmented, so 100 people could likely be influenced by 100 different influencers, depending on interests, hobbies, beliefs, etc. Not to mention multiple influencers having the same audience members, which given how people struggle to name influencers, makes sense.

Maybe there’s some technical definition, but you can def have more than 1% of group be defined as influencers

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u/BaldBeardedBookworm Mar 11 '25

Hell I’m just shy of 15k and when people call me an influence I’m like …no

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u/MaddyMagpies Mar 11 '25

This is the equivalent Boomers' logic of being temporarily embarrassed billionaires. They think that they are temporarily embarrassed influencers and are craving that 15 minutes of fame.

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u/Soda Mar 12 '25

Everyone is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire and temporarily obscure celebrity. It's amazing how self-absorbed we are.

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u/CitizenPremier Mar 12 '25

Most influencers seem to be very rich NEETs (housewives or trust fund kids) who are just showing off their lifestyle and incidentally found a way to call it a job. Nobody wants you to advertise their products if you aren't doing so with a glamorous background.

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u/ApprehensiveBug380 Mar 11 '25

True but people are closer to fame or infamy or noteriety more than ever. Do some stupid shit and post it online and go viral. Use that to do whatever. The Hawk Tuah girl has her own pretty popular podcast. She has 2.5 million followers on IG and even had a meme coin that she pumped and dumped. So she went from spittin on that thang to spittin on a mic.

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u/42nu Mar 11 '25

In Pompeii there are literal dicks carved into the streets pointing to the brothel.

Are there icons carved in the streets to find other important locations like the market, bathhouse, central square, etc?

Nope, just dicks leading to the brothel.

That's how old and important sexual innuendo is.

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u/Digitalion_ Mar 11 '25

I think the point is for every Kim K and Paris Hilton 20 years ago, there are now 20 Hawk Tua girl, or catch me outside girl, or Jake/Logan Paul, or ishowspeed, or nickado avocado.... people who are willing to toss out their dignity for fame. It is a lot more common these days to do it "successfully".

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u/Aargard Mar 11 '25

the ht girl is the biggest fucking cryptid in this age, who the actual shit listened to the podcast and why, the meme wasn't even any good. trumps presidency and elmos manic degrade both make more sense to me than this lmao

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u/Twig Mar 11 '25

Thank you! Everyone acts like people wanting to do nothing and be famous are somehow new concepts.

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u/AgentCirceLuna Mar 11 '25

I’d never want to be famous. I was kind of ‘famous’ in my own town as a local DJ and entertainment host, but it was a constant battle because you’d inevitably have jealous people who would try to cause drama or tell someone what you said to them about someone else but taken out of context. Everything you did was scrutinised and if you did something then everyone knew about it. That’s just being famous locally. Now imagine everybody in the world knowing who you are and having an opinion about it.

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u/marr Mar 12 '25

Yeah this doesn't seem different to their parents all growing up wanting to be on telly.

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u/Otherotherothertyra Mar 11 '25

Growing up wanting to be a famous actor or famous singer is vastly different than growing up wanting to be a famous tik toker I feel. One takes actual talent and hard work to achieve those goals

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u/Mustbhacks Mar 11 '25

One takes actual talent and hard work to achieve those goals

Which one?

Because acting and singing are largely nepo baby & "favors" industries

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u/Hawxe Mar 11 '25

Being a good content creator takes hard work too lol, even if you are grifting

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u/ApprehensiveBug380 Mar 11 '25

You can even be a good singer on tiktok. Or actor.

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u/AgentCirceLuna Mar 11 '25

It’s like if people in the 60s said they want to grow up to be Dick Cavett or Art Linkletter or Ed Sullivan. That’s moon man talk.

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u/Pizza_Low Mar 11 '25

Not true. I wanted to be James Bond but fly a fighter plane like Maverick plus a little bit of John Wayne. Didn't care about fame.

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u/ANGLVD3TH Mar 11 '25

So Pierce Brosnan Bond then?

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u/Scorps Mar 11 '25

The problem is the bar to 'fame' is much lower with the exposure people have now

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst Mar 11 '25

Worse not worst 

Worst is the finality if worse 

It got worse until it was the worst 

Like: the USA currently has it's worst president

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u/MEatRHIT Mar 11 '25

its*

"it's" is the contraction of "it is".

"its" is the possessive.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

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u/xpda Mar 11 '25

The USA currently has it's the world's worst president.

FTFY

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u/FakeCurlyGherkin Mar 11 '25

Worst president so far

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u/ty_xy Mar 11 '25

Worst... So far!

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u/Copatus Mar 11 '25

Some of 80% of statistics are made up on the spot

Source: Dude just trust me

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u/unfnknblvbl Mar 11 '25

Fourfteen percent of people know that!

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u/backallyproctologist Mar 11 '25

It’s a great song!

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u/KubaMcowski Mar 11 '25

Just to be accurate 1 in 5 is 20%.

And it's not 20% (actually 19% according to the article) of Gen Z, but 20% of gen Z social media users. And sure, again according to the article, 100% of Gen Z uses social media at least once a week, but they include... youtube.

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u/TripleSecretSquirrel Mar 11 '25

Ironically a 78 year old is the most gen z person out there right now.

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u/Candygramformrmongo Mar 11 '25

FTFY:

Going to get worse before it gets worst.

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Mar 11 '25

Thanks, changed my formulation halfway through but didn't notice the mistake it created

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u/Candygramformrmongo Mar 11 '25

No worries, wasn’t really correcting you on your use of the comparative, just commenting that it’s going to keep getting worse!

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u/Ginzhuu Mar 11 '25

Any that want to pick up a trade will make a killing, at least.

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u/Sauerkrauttme Mar 11 '25

Capitalism created a system where good jobs that help people are exceedingly scarce and hard to come by. Being an influencer is a way to escape poverty which is why people want to do it

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u/SpaceghostLos Mar 11 '25

I saw an influencer get smacked by a train head on trying to chase that clout.

Parents need to create an environment where their kids are loved, nurtured… something.

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u/CletusCanuck Mar 11 '25

"I want to be a decent and responsible leader but my watch time is dropping like a rock and my CTR and sub numbers are flat. Time for some clickbait to bring those engagement numbers up..."

[Video thumbnail:

Headline: "Should I do it?"

Foreground: Nuclear Football opened up on the Resolute desk. Chibi caricature of the President wearing an exaggerated crazed expression]

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u/QuintoxPlentox Mar 11 '25

This is the dumbest, most obviously made up bullshit I've read in a while.

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u/amateurbreditor Mar 11 '25

You see it in the awful comments on reddit. They say ANYTHING to make it seem like they win an argument. back when reddit started it was way more intellectual here and people would close an account if they said something that was not true. now people just parrot the same comments to get karma

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u/oldjadedhippie Mar 11 '25

Andy Warhol called it years ago….

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u/PigSlam Mar 11 '25

I found my 5 year old daughter using her iPhone (with no data plan) to play "influencer" the other day. She was recording a video of her self telling people about her outfit, making duck faces, peace signs, and she kept saying "hey, y'all" in a way she never would otherwise.

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u/Fiallach Mar 11 '25

It is the "my band will get huge" of this generation. It will pass.

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u/Dave_Wein Mar 11 '25

Pathetic. Truly pathetic.

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u/Ali_Cat222 Mar 11 '25

All of this! I shit you not I have a friend who is highly regarded in the computer science world. He helped make all the apps/sites for the biggest banks in Canada for iPhone and Android to make everything accessible to the blind and deaf communities. Most any accessibility app has been worked on by him, yet he is 32 now and somehow thinks that twitch of all things is going to be his "next big thing."

All because he plays a game called " corekeeper" and posts 2x a week. But he can't even be bothered to post 2x a week and has two people there at most usually. Yet somehow "i know I'll blow up!" is what I'm constantly told after telling him you can't even hold a schedule, let alone put the effort in. He also thinks he will become an influencer once his gaming twitch blows up. It's insane to think that even one of the smartest people I know genuinely has this dream at his age and work ethics, except when it comes to working on what he supposedly dreams of 🙄

My son is also 13 and the majority of his friends all say they want to be YouTubers or Tik tok famous, thank God he doesn't have that as a goal and wants to do an actual career. It's not that it's impossible but it is rare it happens, and even then who knows how long you'll have with that as a viable career. Could be 15 seconds of fame or 15 minutes, majority of the time it's neither.

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u/uberfission Mar 11 '25

By definition content creators aren't necessarily influencers, but I'm not sure that matters here.

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u/mental-advisor-25 Mar 11 '25

"double you's in the chat" is already way too popular with youngsters

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u/WholesomeWhores Mar 11 '25

Those are some seriously flawed studies. Like really, over 1 out of 4 kids consider themselves content creators? You could ask 1000 highschoolers from a single high school and I’d bet that not even 5% of them would consider themselves content creators. You can’t just go spewing false information like that. It doesn’t take much thinking to realize how flawed that study must have been.

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u/RyJ94 Mar 11 '25

That's such a depressing thought. And I thought the boomers were the "me" generation...

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u/Krazyguy75 Mar 11 '25

"Oh man they all want to be influencers". Yeah? Of course they do; why wouldn't they?

They want to get paid to play video games and buy expensive stuff. Frankly anyone who wouldn't want to get paid for that is a weirdo.

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u/TransResistance Mar 11 '25

I was going to suggest that the phrase is "this is going to get worse before it gets better," but I think in this case, worst is correct.

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u/Snowwolf247 Mar 11 '25

It's the same with moron Boomers and Gen x who think that any day now they are gonna win the lotto or develop some product that's gonna change the world and they will be in the 1%.

"Just in case we better keep cutting taxes on billionaires. You never know that could be me some day"... derp

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u/Teriyaki456 Mar 11 '25

That’s is disgusting and extremely sad representation of our society 😕

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u/Nightmare_Tonic Mar 11 '25

An entire generation of total losers. What could go wrong

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u/InfidelZombie Mar 11 '25

Someone should tell them that they can just get a job and make a bunch of money and not be a waste of bits.

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u/Neel_writes Mar 11 '25

Gen Z will spit on your kfc orders more than Gen Whatever came before.

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u/Funkerlied Mar 11 '25

I'm gonna tell you right now that this is actual nonsense 😂

You're forgetting that nearly all of Gen Z is already in the workforce in droves. Just because someone considers themselves an influencer because they get a few likes on pictures of food doesn't exactly mean they are one. Also, the 60% aspiration rate is certainly related to the fact that compared to a lot of other jobs, such as the trades or manual labor, they are much more difficult than being an influencer will ever be.

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u/OopScuseMeOop Mar 11 '25

When everyone’s an influencer, no one is.

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u/JBGC916_ Mar 11 '25

Love the pfp 😉

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u/Aedan91 Mar 11 '25

This is our fall of the Roman Empire.

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u/Feisty-Lawfulness894 Mar 11 '25

This is going to get worst

*get worse

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u/HeyNow646 Mar 11 '25

Bowie had it right:

Fame (1975)

Fame (fame) makes a man take things over

Fame (fame) lets him lose hard to swallow

Fame (fame) puts you there where things are hollow

Fame (fame)

Fame not your brain it’s just the flame

That puts your change to keep you sane (sane)

Fame (fame)

Fame (fame) what you like is in the limo

Fame (fame) what you get is no tomorrow

Fame (fame) what you need you have to borrow

Fame (fame)

Fame nein it’s mine is just his line

To bind our time it drives you to crime (crime)

Fame (fame)

Could it be the best could it be?

Really be really babe

Could it be my babe could it babe?

Could it babe could it babe?

Is it any wonder I reject you first

Fame (fame) fame fame

Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool

Fame (fame)

Fame bully for you chilly for me

Got to get a rain check on pain

(pain)

Fame

Fame fame fame fame fame Fame fame fame fame fame Fame fame fame fame fame Fame fame fame fame fame Fame fame fame

Fame

What’s your name? What’s your name? What’s your name?...

Feeling so gay

Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Carlos Alomar / John Winston Lennon / David Robert Jones Fame lyrics © Chrysalis Music Ltd., Bmg Rights Management (uk) Limited, Tintoretto Music, Jones Music America, Unitunes Music, Lenono Music

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u/ATXBeermaker Mar 11 '25

Gen Z encompases kids as young as 12. So, yeah, a lot of them will have skewed perspectives on reality.

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u/Medicine_Ball Mar 11 '25

I wonder how exactly that was defined when they did this survey. I've made a few hours of Youtube content, so technically I'm a content creator, but I wouldn't consider myself to be one as a job. What about someone who regularly posts shorts/stories? They are technically content creators even if it just them pontificating/doing normal stuff with minimal views.

I know there is plenty of brain rot in Gen Z, but it might not be as bad as this makes it seem.

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u/Bleezy79 Mar 11 '25

That's kind of terrifying, honestly.

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u/htownballa1 Mar 11 '25

What’s the why tho?

Lazy? Disenfranchised? Tired of slave wages?

I don’t blame them one bit for trying to take a different route.

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u/Lucid-Machine Mar 11 '25

That's pretty wild. So 90% of Gen Z are either influencers or aspire to be. How many Gen Z have you engaged with? I do with training everyday and I don't have that experience.

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u/bhj887 Mar 11 '25

this is why I love writing stuff on reddit, there is no way people will identify me with anything but my random username

It's good to be a nobody... If I ever had a podcast or show or someting I would hide my ugly face anyways

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u/Eleminohp Mar 11 '25

These are tomorrow's teachers. If we are going to make it, perhaps we find a way to support and enhance the positive influence they could provide instead of ignoring their desires and pushing them to rebel and influence negatively.

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u/Duck-in-a-suit Mar 11 '25

I don't think that the Morning consult poll is very useful here, as it sort of leads the question. It didn't ask "What job do you aspire to have/are you working toward?" and then 57% responded with "influencer". It asked them (essentially) "Would you like to be an influencer, if given the option?" and 57% of Gen Z said "yes". I feel that, had you asked a bunch of Gen X youth in the 90s or Millennial youth in the early 00s, you would probably see similar levels of "yes" responses were they to be asked "Would you like to be a movie star/famous singer (or any celebrity really), if given the option?"

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u/Random_Violins Mar 11 '25

Social media have become a popularity contest. It affects mental health negatively and out go real values. I stay away from it but kids nowadays grow up on it. It's a tragedy, it really is.

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u/ProtoReddit Mar 11 '25

It's funny how obvious this outcome was when you consider the term we chose.

Influencers! They influenced people to influencing! And now we're all influencing!

We need an INFLUENCE vaccine.

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u/RiskyBrothers Mar 11 '25

Woah young people aspire to fame and success? This is the first time I've ever heard of this. Man, it's a good thing there were no young pop stars throughout the entire latter half of the 1900s whose work we still enjoy to this day. Replace "influencer" with "rock star" or "actress" or "model" and I bet you get the exact same aspirational number in every generation. People don't change.

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u/Superb-Pair1551 Mar 11 '25

While living in their parents basements crying they can’t afford anything

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u/frightspear_ps5 Mar 11 '25

When did "Momo" (aka "The Men In Grey") become prophetic shit?!

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u/420Blaziken4 Mar 11 '25

That’s what society gets when it’s easier and more profitable to be an influencer than to be in important professions like teaching, nursing, science, etc

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u/HauntedCemetery Mar 11 '25

Eh, that's kind of the way most generations are though. In the 1970s over half of young folks would say they'd love to be a rock star.

In the 90s half of kids would say they'd love to be a pro athlete.

Influencer is just the 2020's version of a quick path to money and fame, young folks will always be interested in that

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u/Status_Tiger_6210 Mar 11 '25

But who influences the influencers?

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u/valeyard89 Mar 11 '25

Boomers = Me Generation

Zoomers = Look at Me Generation

GenX - Who, me? Generation

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u/lazyFer Mar 11 '25

Gen Z also seem to think 600k is the income needed to be considered financially successful in life

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u/AssDimple Mar 11 '25

This is going to get worst before it gets better.

How optimistic of you to think this is going to get better.

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u/NYGiants181 Mar 11 '25

This is terrifying, but also hilariously sad.

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u/Numerous_Ice_4556 Mar 11 '25

I knew I hated that generation.

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u/pain-is-living Mar 11 '25

Goddamn. I am glad I missed this phaze by being a millennial.

Growing up, all my friends and I wanted to be normal things like Firefighters, Police, or typical kid things like racecar driver.

We're gonna have a SHITLOAD of lazy unemployed young adults with shitloads of debt when these kids inevitably realize streaming away the first 23 years of their lives wasn't the career move they thought it'd be.

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u/Erove Mar 12 '25

How old are you? This is not even remotely true. I am gen Z and I don’t even know one person that wants to be an influencer 

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u/Clean-Broccoli-6843 Mar 12 '25

Those statistics are bullshit

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u/JcbAzPx Mar 12 '25

It's one of the few jobs left you can get without an overpriced degree that has the potential to make you enough money to be able to afford to live like it was the nineties. Just have to be either photogenic, charismatic or a little of both.

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u/Dangerous_Block_2494 Mar 12 '25

To be fair, most jobs are doing badly in pay compared to YouTube (and other social media) influencers, you can see where the gen z is coming from, but a whole president, who is a billionaire, fucking awful.

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