Where are all these "influencers" going to end up?

SirGerryAdams

Will they still be doing it in 10 years time?

I'd love if the arse fell out of the thing.

YFlyer

SirGerryAdams wrote: »

Will they still be doing it in 10 years time?

I'd love if the arse fell out of the thing.

Selling energy pills.

In the RTÉ canteen.

JustMe,K

with no pension and memories of freebies gone by

Fr_Dougal

SirGerryAdams wrote: »

Will they still be doing it in 10 years time?

I'd love if the arse fell out of the thing.

The arse will fall out of it, you can be sure of that. They’ll end up doing talk shows about how they used to be popular, then they’ll fade into obscurity.

D3V!L

On the house waiting list




ooooh I went there :pac:

ToddyDoody

McDonalds

artanevilla

On top of a bit pile of money, with many beautiful women.

red petal

SirGerryAdams wrote: »

Will they still be doing it in 10 years time?

I'd love if the arse fell out of the thing.

A lot of people would change careers/hobbies in 10 years. They'll probably still be doing the same thing or change it slightly to reflect their life at that point.

Stroke Politics

I wonder how mortgage underwriters assess them. Social Media Influencer is not an occupation I’ve seen recently on the electronic application forms...

facehugger99

A seamless transition into prostitution awaits.

_Brian

There are only “influencers” because shallow people are stupid enough to be looking at what they are doing.

While our society remains shallow and fickle these people will have a following. I can’t imagine they are going away anytime soon.

GooglePlus

Once social media sways away from it's current form and into a more imersive experience, we'll be smelling their keto farts.

PR and marketing the intelligent one anyway.

BeerWolf

They get sent to a plantation, thinking it's a holiday, to be worked to death.

American Dad told me so!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Here’s what I don’t get. It is so easy to avoid ads these days. Hubs and I barely ever see any and often don’t the annoying ads people complain about. We bank time at the start of TV shows to fast forward through them whenever possible. We just use every tool at our disposal to avoid them.

Advertisers know this and that’s probably a big part of why they have turned to influencers. They know that people can avoid ads easily in other areas.

But... but this is what confuses me. Why do people follow influencers? People are actually seeking out ads. As someone who hates ads, I just don’t get that. I understand that influencers don’t just post ads and that their ad-free content might be what got people following them in the first place. But if I was following someone on IG and their content started becoming ads increasingly, I’d be outta there so fast. In fact, there was somebody I stopped following for that very reason. She had a funny, ad-free IG that I enjoyed. But when she got popular, ads started appearing. I was gone.

Ipso

Giving hand job down some alley that stinks of pish.

jimgoose

Don't let on I told you, but there's a cull. A very special cull. RTE rounds up all the Influencers every few years and sends them to Greenland to fend for themselves for six months and fight to the death, something rather like The Hunger Games. The winner becomes a new presenter on Xposé.

pjohnson

jimgoose wrote: »

Don't let on I told you, but there's a cull. A very special cull. RTE rounds up all the Influencers every few years and sends them to Greenland to fend for themselves for six months and fight to the death, something rather like The Hunger Games. The winner becomes a new presenter on Xposé.

If thats the prize then the winners are the ones die tbh.

SirGerryAdams

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Here’s what I don’t get. It is so easy to avoid ads these days. Hubs and I barely ever see any and often don’t the annoying ads people complain about. We bank time at the start of TV shows to fast forward through them whenever possible. We just use every tool at our disposal to avoid them.

Advertisers know this and that’s probably a big part of why they have turned to influencers. They know that people can avoid ads easily in other areas.

But... but this is what confuses me. Why do people follow influencers? People are actually seeking out ads. As someone who hates ads, I just don’t get that. I understand that influencers don’t just post ads and that their ad-free content might be what got people following them in the first place. But if I was following someone on IG and their content started becoming ads increasingly, I’d be outta there so fast. In fact, there was somebody I stopped following for that very reason. She had a funny, ad-free IG that I enjoyed. But when she got popular, ads started appearing. I was gone.

No idea. I can't believe some of the braindead people who have amassed followings.

Like that sosueme....cheap ****e bought from alibaba with her name on it!

I saw her facebook page once and she was on about getting engaged and saps in the comments genuinely happy for her getting married as if she gave a ****e about them.

I went for a look on the blogging forum here once....people gossiping about what influencers are putting on their snapchats "Rose never mentioned Sarah in her speech, they must still not get on because Rose accused Sarah of being fake." etc etc.

Pure braindead nonsense.

KSU

Won't be long now, FB censoring, Youtube are in the middle of a culling, twitter getting crucified for policy

Can be sure advertisers are on notice and big changes on the way in the next 2-3 years.

James Brown

The irish market is too small. They'll get into a few events as VIP and maybe a couple will make a living being a shyte talker on daytime TV.

Yer Da sells Avon

Stroke Politics wrote: »

I wonder how mortgage underwriters assess them. Social Media Influencer is not an occupation I’ve seen recently on the electronic application forms...

High risk, like any self-employed person. One of them was moaning on Twitter recently about not being able to get a mortgage, despite her six-figure salary.

blade1

Wherever they end up, we'll be right there behind them!

ILoveYourVibes

Who cares?

ILoveYourVibes

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

High risk, like any self-employed person. One of them was moaning on Twitter recently about not being able to get a mortgage, despite her six-figure salary.

Probably for the best. getting a mortgage has ruined a lot of people's lives who are in high risk professions like acting or tv etc ...their career goes into a slower gear temporarily and they go bankrupt but their lifestyle before was nuts.

Also a six figure salary 3 yrs in a row? I doubt it.

freshpopcorn

Some will appear on RTE and Virgin Media(Or what ever it's called then).
They'll release books about for it's ruined or made there lives.

ILoveYourVibes

Who knows what will happen. It may fall apart. It might get bigger.


I don't know. It's not my lane.

Yer Da sells Avon

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

High risk, like any self-employed person. One of them was moaning on Twitter recently about not being able to get a mortgage, despite her six-figure salary.

jfc

no sweetheart, a lot of irish milennials dont have made up jobs so they'll likely be ok

ILoveYourVibes

Deleted User wrote: »

jfc

no sweetheart, a lot of irish milennials dont have made up jobs so they'll likely be ok

She's earned six figures three years in a row and can't afford a house or get a mortgage. Yeah right. :rolleyes:

Pawwed Rig

_Brian wrote: »

While our society remains shallow and fickle these people will have a following. I can’t imagine they are going away anytime soon.

As a group I agree with you but individually they are in a very precarious position unless they make serious bundles of cash and invest it wisely.

blinding

Deleted User wrote: »

jfc

no sweetheart, a lot of irish milennials dont have made up jobs so they'll likely be ok

I have a feeling she doesn’t understand decimal points !

lawred2

She's probably assessing all the free stuff given to her to halk out on her gullible followers as income..

SirGerryAdams

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

She's earned six figures three years in a row and can't afford a house or get a mortgage. Yeah right. :rolleyes:

She's all the time boasting about how much money she makes. She was on prime time saying she turns down loads of money from companies. She's a fool.

Richard Hillman

The next stage is "Mental Health Advocate". Then they'll get the aul dopamine from all of the "OMG, So Brave" and turn into activists. Then it will be Full Time Social Justice Warrior. Then Fine Gael Senator or MEP.

davidk1394

It’s be great to see instagram and Facebook to collapse for a week or 2. I wonder what would they do with their lives ?

dudara

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

She's earned six figures three years in a row and can't afford a house or get a mortgage. Yeah right. :rolleyes:

Let’s say she has earned six figures three years in a row. Due to the volatility of her career, a bank will consider her high risk and make it harder for her to qualify for a mortgage. Many self-employed people face similar challenges.

It would be a totally different story if she was earning a six figure salary in a secure job.

ILoveYourVibes

dudara wrote: »

Let’s say she has earned six figures three years in a row. Due to the volatility of her career, a bank will consider her high risk and make it harder for her to qualify for a mortgage. Many self-employed people face similar challenges.

It would be a totally different story if she was earning a six figure salary in a secure job.

Doubtful. I worked for a mortgage broker at one point.

Lots of people who have freelance careers have far less income reliability than that and easily get a mortgage.

She would have to be earning considerably less. Or something else is VERY wrong.

airmax87

good looking people generally land on their feet, you know full well they're just going to breeze by after

ILoveYourVibes

airmax87 wrote: »

good looking people generally land on their feet, you know full well they're just going to breeze by after

Hey it's not easy being beautiful!

evil_seed

SirGerryAdams wrote: »

Will they still be doing it in 10 years time?

I'd love if the arse fell out of the thing.

In big brother, the jungle show, or the equivalent of the same in 10 years

Bigbagofcans

The same brigade who fawn over influencers are the same ones watched brain-dead TV like 'Love Island' - utter drivel.

If reality TV starts becoming unpopular then so will watching influencer 'stars' talking sh1te into their camera.

weemcd

I don't know if there's much of an arse to fall out of this thing, a tiny proportion are making real money, all the so called influencers are really just rich kids indulging in fantasies and availing of free merch, drinks, food etc. Most of them have other jobs, or are living on handouts from their highly wealthy (and gullible parents.)

The entire thing is a fugazi.

blinding

Drug Addicts and Alcoholics ( Sad but true )

And then we are going to have to hear their stories .

My Advice to these Influencers ( my advice / influence ) ; When the first signs thought that you are becoming an Alcoholic / Drug Addict ; Stop change your ways .

Coz

I don’t want to have to say I told you so .

Thelonious Monk

I don't know who any of these people are. If they're making a living from selling sh*t on youtube or whatever it is they do, fair play to them. There are mugs out there who watch them so why not take advantage of the situation?

H3llR4iser

In my experience, this kinde people always fall on their feet, regardless of what happens. Being extremely blunt, most of them essentially play on their looks - and you'll always find plenty of people throwing their cash at that. It's been happening since the dawn of mankind.

Also, what the general public usually doesn't see is that these people often have connections: A friend of mine works as a social media manager for a big(ish) company, a couple of years ago they had one such "influencers" do some promo work for them, filming in their offices and whatnot; Turns out the girl's parents are both fairly well known producers in the cinema/TV industry.

Similarly, a few years ago I met a lady that's currently a relatively well known Irish "Fashion Blogger"; She was friends with one of the girls at the office and joined her at the pub after work. She was starting out her site/Instagram/channel back then, but one thing was clear from the get go: her family was absolutely loaded, no pressure whatsoever on her to get a real job and most of her time was spent between the gym and the beauty salon.

This just to say that, while work and dedication are certainly required, only a small percentage of them actually start from "absoutely nothing" like they all claim to have; People who don't start from the bottom will always have a soft landing, unless they screw up so much that the landing gear was taken by the repossession officer

DublinHun72

SirGerryAdams wrote: »

No idea. I can't believe some of the braindead people who have amassed followings.

Like that sosueme....cheap ****e bought from alibaba with her name on it!

I saw her facebook page once and she was on about getting engaged and saps in the comments genuinely happy for her getting married as if she gave a ****e about them.

I went for a look on the blogging forum here once....people gossiping about what influencers are putting on their snapchats "Rose never mentioned Sarah in her speech, they must still not get on because Rose accused Sarah of being fake." etc etc.

Pure braindead nonsense.

Anyone remember the anti bullying workshops So Sue and a few “influencers” were setting up last year ? Oddly enough that idea fell aside afaik when they themselves stopped being slagged off by Bloggers Unveiled.

Tchaikovsky

Deleted User wrote: »

jfc

no sweetheart, a lot of irish milennials dont have made up jobs so they'll likely be ok

I presume her village is Dalkey?

Birneybau

DublinHun72 wrote: »

Anyone remember the anti bullying workshops So Sue and a few “influencers” were setting up last year ? Oddly enough that idea fell aside afaik when they themselves stopped being slagged off by Bloggers Unveiled.

They're grifters and to coin a phrase, we are living in the Age of Grifters.

Farage, Trump, Alex Jones, Tommy Robinson, Bressie, models turned nutritionists, Gemma O'Doherty, Rowan Croft (Tan Turino) etc etc.

Paddy Cow

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

She's earned six figures three years in a row and can't afford a house or get a mortgage. Yeah right. :rolleyes:

dudara wrote: »

Let’s say she has earned six figures three years in a row. Due to the volatility of her career, a bank will consider her high risk and make it harder for her to qualify for a mortgage. Many self-employed people face similar challenges.

It would be a totally different story if she was earning a six figure salary in a secure job.

If she earned six figures three years in a row, that's at least €300,000. Even if she only had half that, it's more than enough to buy a house in a rural village. Someone's telling porkies.

red petal

Paddy Cow wrote: »

If she earned six figures three years in a row, that's at least €300,000. Even if she only had half that, it's more than enough to buy a house in a rural village. Someone's telling porkies.

Skerries is not a rural village. People on €50k a year manage mortgages of €250k so in theory, she is well able to afford a mortgage but is being refused.