Influencers

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My thoughts are influencers are suffering a bad case of affluenza and didn't get un-vaccinated. Also that nobody cares what my thoughts are on this topic.
 
Lanolin said:
What exactly is an influencer and have you been influenced?

Is it good or bad?
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People with above a certain number of followers on a social media platform.

The theory is that if they have that many people listening to what they say, they must be an influence.

I don't listen to any of them, so I don't know what they are actually saying. But if you have enough followers to be considered an influencer, you can get some people to pay you money for advertisements on your channel. So it seems to be kind of a big thing.
 
Lynx said:
People with above a certain number of followers on a social media platform.

The theory is that if they have that many people listening to what they say, they must be an influence.

I don't listen to any of them, so I don't know what they are actually saying. But if you have enough followers to be considered an influencer, you can get some people to pay you money for advertisements on your channel. So it seems to be kind of a big thing.
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huh, like is there a threshold of how many followers you can have.

Sometimes I hear about things famous people do, like Jennifer Aniston or somebody like her posted or opened a twitter/X account and crashed the internet. Or JLo was the reason why we have google images, because people wanted to see her in the Versace dress or whatever else she's wearing. But thats already famous people who are always on magazine covers (in this case women's ones) ...

Influencers seem to be just random people that went viral somehow and then became famous, enough so they can just make a living online. But I'm sure a lot of it must be people who buy up space/bandwidth and domain names?

Sometimes I go on you-tube, but I'm never on instagram or tik tok, and totally avoid twitter/X and facebook so I'm not really getting the influenced thing, there's also linkedin, but it is so boring to hear about people bang on about their work issues (and are they doing it during working time?) that I can't say they have much influence on me. I don't fwd things to random people (unless they are part of my garden club and are receiving club correspondence) because there's enough junk email already. And nobody reads my blog except for me, so I can't say I have much influence even though Wordpress might show that people have clicked on my pages.

I also never got the #hashtag thing. I must be so behind the times, I didn't even know you were meant to #hashtageverything. Isn't there a name for it, like when you have a keyword and its embedded in everything, it was an abbreviation but I can't remember what it was now. It's something you do to make your website come to the top of a google page/search engine. Not sponsorship...

But all that is old now AI is here with bots crawling/trawling through everything and picking up data and repackaging it with bullet points and paragraphs. Students are now using it to 'write' essays.

It is a big wide world out there on the web though, it is interesting to sort of contemplate how things take off
 
Oh it was SEO

which stands for Search Engine Optimization.

So what happens is someone tags their website with a lot of keywords and somehow these will make it to the top of the list on a search engine whenever anyone types those words in.
 
Lanolin said:
What exactly is an influencer and have you been influenced?

Is it good or bad?
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It's just anyone who has a lot of followers on instagram, youtube, tik tok or any other social media platform. Anyone can call themselves an influencer, but it started when youtube and instagram blew up and certain people were getting millions of followers.
 
zeroturbulence said:
It's just anyone who has a lot of followers on instagram, youtube, tik tok or any other social media platform. Anyone can call themselves an influencer, but it started when youtube and instagram blew up and certain people were getting millions of followers.
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Who actually has the most...like is there a Top 40 of the internet each week.
I suppose it is accumulative and you can't really measure it now.
 
Lanolin said:
Who actually has the most...like is there a Top 40 of the internet each week.
I suppose it is accumulative and you can't really measure it now.
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I don't know, but it would probably easy to find out. I used to follow this youtube channel with these two Korean girls and their male Korean roommate. It was all comedy and pretty funny. They had something like 100 million followers.
 
zeroturbulence said:
I don't know, but it would probably easy to find out. I used to follow this youtube channel with these two Korean girls and their male Korean roommate. It was all comedy and pretty funny. They had something like 100 million followers.
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Google maps I would say has the most followers and people logging on and using it every day to go somewhere.

I don't know about single individuals online that have a huge following myself. Sometimes I think maybe those numbers are exaggerated. I suppose someone, or a machine counts all these things like the number of people who download something, the number of times someone clicks on something, the number of comments or responses etc.

Even on CC I think some of that is counted. But what exactly is following? Just liking something? Following doesn't imply that I follow them around like they are some kind of guru or something. It just means they are popular, but popular people don't necessarily always have a big influence as lots of things are popular, and some things people do that are like direct marketing or they get other people to 'spread the word' so it seems like its influential but its really just a fad.

I can think of famous people/figures in history that have had an extraordinary influence on the way people live for good, and also bad, but mostly because they invented something new or inspired a revolution or something like that.

It's not just oh I'm influencing people to buy my merch or watch me or hang on to every word I say.
 
the biggest one that I know about that also attracted a lot of hate on you-tube was Rebecca Black for her song 'Friday' that she put on herself when she was 14 or something.

Also the one with the most # of viewers I recall people saying it was Baby Shark.

But maybe someone else has surpassed that.

I don't know about the other platforms.
 
Lanolin said:
Google maps I would say has the most followers and people logging on and using it every day to go somewhere.

I don't know about single individuals online that have a huge following myself. Sometimes I think maybe those numbers are exaggerated. I suppose someone, or a machine counts all these things like the number of people who download something, the number of times someone clicks on something, the number of comments or responses etc.

Even on CC I think some of that is counted. But what exactly is following? Just liking something? Following doesn't imply that I follow them around like they are some kind of guru or something. It just means they are popular, but popular people don't necessarily always have a big influence as lots of things are popular, and some things people do that are like direct marketing or they get other people to 'spread the word' so it seems like its influential but its really just a fad.

I can think of famous people/figures in history that have had an extraordinary influence on the way people live for good, and also bad, but mostly because they invented something new or inspired a revolution or something like that.

It's not just oh I'm influencing people to buy my merch or watch me or hang on to every word I say.
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I should have said subscribers. On youtube it's subscribers. On instagram you click the "follow" button just like on facebook.
 
Lanolin said:
the biggest one that I know about that also attracted a lot of hate on you-tube was Rebecca Black for her song 'Friday' that she put on herself when she was 14 or something.

Also the one with the most # of viewers I recall people saying it was Baby Shark.

But maybe someone else has surpassed that.

I don't know about the other platforms.
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Oh an influencer doesn't just have a lot of views or followers, it's someone who posts regularly on youtube or instagram or wherever. For example I subscribe to Captain Steve on youtube. He's a retired airline pilot who posts videos every few days explaining and analyzing things that have happened recently in aviation like plane crashes, near misses, engine failures, etc.. He has over 1 million followers.
 
Bible_Locket said:
It's a weird category of,job. Influencer.

And yet,some make huge money.
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What about the boy that unboxed toys. Ryans World or something? But his dad made him do it. Then he got sent all these toys and was just encouraging parents and kids to spend all their disposable income on them.
 
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