Are you influenced by influences?

freshpopcorn

With Tommy Fury and Molly Mar breaking up. Some are very put out by it.

I scroll through social media a good bit. I'd see lots of women on about make up/clothes which wouldn't really be for me being a 31 year old man.

Guys generally into health and fitness and clothes from Zara more so.

I always feel totally out of my depty with people who follow these people and are influenced and I feel it's a bit boring.

I might buy a bar of chocolate if I saw it mentioned.

Are you influenced by influences?

Flaneur OBrien

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058364661/are-you-influenced-by-influences

Nope. No idea who most of them are. I imagine that's more to do with my age than anything else.

Geuze

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058364661/are-you-influenced-by-influences

No.

I have never heard of the people you mention.

Pauliedragon

No but some of them have nice tits even if they are fake. Good content there if ur looking for a quick tug.

Jim_Hodge

I don't think I know any influencers. Sometimes people are referred to, like in the OP, but I ever know who they are.

ancapailldorcha

I don't know who either of those people are and I struggle to think of a more insipid profession than influencer.

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122510504#Comment_122510504

It's not stupid, it's modern marketing.

Some of us, like myself are not the demographic, but these people are popular with the target demographic.

I follow a thing called "The Padded Seat" it's a guy reviewing sports hospitality, everything from the eight tier of English soccer to the final of Euro 2024.

Am I influenced by him ?

Hell yeah, after watching his reviews I'd love to splash out on a hospitality package to a event.

L1011

Sort of.

I have used content by travel youtubers, who could be considered influencers, to decide on specific things to see/do/transport to take; but I didn't decide to travel somewhere due to them.

That's the full extent of it I think.

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122510685#Comment_122510685

I know what it is. It's just depressing seeing people desperately watching marketing with their mouths wide open whereas the previous generation used to avoid it as much as possible.

Tell me how

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122510685#Comment_122510685

Hell yeah, after watching his reviews I'd love to splash out on a hospitality package to a event.

Some of the lower league clubs look like great value for money for a one off event if you were in the area. That guy has a nice manner about him as well, it's like he's showing it, but he's not showing off in showing it.

Tell me how

Don't think I'm personally influenced by influencers, but again, I'm no longer the demographic.

As I see them (I don't go Instagram/FB and Twitter is people I follow only) sometimes I pay attention to them if I like their manner or style of communicating, but I can't say I've ever consciously seen one of them talk about something and told myself I must go for that.

I will never buy a Tesla because of the head of that company. Does that mean I'm influenced by influencers? Probably, I suppose.

Thespoofer

I would like to think not.

ledwithhedwith

the only thing worse than celebrity worshippers are people who think they are so intelligent and edgy for not caring. Lol

Hippodrome Song Owl

I'm not interested in fashion, beauty, fitness, or parenting so I'm not the right demographic for most of it. That seems to be the majority of the content for women.

But I will admit to being influenced by cleaning videos. I don't know how it happened. I hate housework, but suddenly I'm obsessed with my spin mop and Scrub Daddy damp dusters.

Lewis_Benson

Wouldn't have a clue tbh.

Padre_Pio

Im proud to say I couldn't give a sh*t about anything celebrity.

I lived with a girl who hated Love Island but watched it else she would be left out of the conversations in work. It was tragic.

Donald Trump

I nearly gave Melania the boot this morning when I heard the news about Tommy Fury.

Luckily for her she was barricaded over in the West Wing of Mar-a-Largo for long enough until I got distracted and forgot about it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

InfluencIed to havte the narcissistic brain-dead overvalued kunts.

I follow two cooking things does that count?

freshpopcorn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511655#Comment_122511655

I think deciding to make a recipe or clean your kitchen using a hack is fine.

However I think it's a little different when you wear the same clothes, throw out stuff because somebody else is doing it, decorate your living room like them and basically want to copy somebody else's lifestyle in almost every way.

nachouser

I overheard someone in work mentioning Tommy and Molly broke up. I naturally assumed they were talking about a friend or maybe someone who works in the company. Now this thread makes sense. Thanks op:-)

elperello

I know an influencer who is part of extended family.

I forget the number of followers but it's tens of thousands rather than millions.

They get loads of free stuff and a bit of money on the side.

Mainly food related but a couple of side hustles too.

The only problem I have with it is when I go to dinner at their house there's often a delay while the lighting is sorted to photograph the grub.

It's always delicious though a little cold 😊

L Grey

I dont really follow that type of person.

To be influenced to buy something, it would have to fall within my own interests.

suvigirl

Not influencers as such, but I do follow some travel bloggers on Instagram and YouTube, I also follow some people who post about DIY and sustainable living.

I'm not interested in their lives, just the stuff they post. The more there are the more you can choose who you want to follow, it makes a lot more choice then watching travel programmes or cookery programs on terrestrial TV and such.

There is much more choice out there now, which I think is a good thing. The internet has also given a platform for so many more people now, as opposed to those that know someone in rte etc ( Donal Skehan for example)

Montage of Feck

It kind of wrecks my head that seemingly intelligent people watch love island. It's just utterly cheap and tacky misogynistic miserable porn.

magicbastarder

everyone on our road waits for me to put the bin out first, to see if it's green bin or black bin collection.

i'm a binfluencer.

taxAHcruel

im heavily heavily influenced I have to admit. But it more influences what I research and not what I do. I dont follow anything blindly. I mean if I was stupid enough to believe anything garry brekka says I would believe that salt cures migraines. If I listened to jordan peterson I would probably be impersonating a lobster every morning. The twit. man the tripe that twit says about the double helix :)

But I research everything all those types say. And like panning for gold I occasionally come up trumps. Brekkas recommendation for premethylated B vitamins for example was perfect for me. Even Peterson — for all his nonsense - has dropped things into my life that ive tried out and adopted.

The love hate approach doesnt work. Listen to them all. Try stuff out. And find what works for you. Throw the rest out. Don't hate the messanger. Distill the message.

Strumms

I wouldn’t agree with all of Petersons personal opinions but unlike most influencers, he more than just an influencer ….Peterson is eminently qualified to speak about his work and psychology …two bachelor's degrees in political science and psychology from the University of Alberta and then a PhD in clinical psychology from McGill University and has published award winning books on the subject… So a qualified doctor of psychology… he lectures and beyond just qualifications he also has as a lot of actual frontline practical experience working in that field treating people.

He gets politicised labeled as right wing and is the victim of vile abuse and deranged derision from the more lunatic fringes of the left because he simply is out there, challenging some of these new lunatic views ..verging on ‘norms’ that some people want to influence and inflict on society to embrace now….who want to bully society in to accepting.

In contrast….A lot of influencers have next to no verifiable qualifications or relevant or enough experience in their chosen field of waffle.

Fitness influencers who just like the gym and have been going 15 years, now know it all, don’t have any qualifications in fitness, sport or any of the health sciences…psychology influencers who have read a book or two on the subject and possibly have had treatment themselves and so on, now know it all because they’ve read books and spent time taking with a person who does know it all. !……allll now supposedly qualified to speak and advise. Because technology just now provides an immediacy and accessible platform for their egos and words.

Experts over influencers, every time.

taxAHcruel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122513738#Comment_122513738

Peterson once said that you cant get over alcohol addiction unless you are religious. He talks some serious SHITE sometimes. I disagree with him strongly on so many things.

But he has said very good things too and undeniably has set many young men on the right path.

There is no love/hate with these people. They say a lot of stuff…. the trick is not to take them at their word but TRY everything they say.

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511052#Comment_122511052

That is moronic. I suspect she enjoyed it but didn’t want to admit that to yourself. Nobody wastes the middle of their evening every night in the summer if they hate it.

TinyMuffin

tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate influence me.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514426#Comment_122514426

I recall hearing a middle aged bloke like myself talking about how he wasn't really interested in sport but he watched it to have something to talk about with the lads.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514526#Comment_122514526

Do they influence you to grift a five star lifestyle from poor folks while pretending to stand up for the working man, or to intimidate vulnerable women into sex work?

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514676#Comment_122514676

baffling behaviour

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514774#Comment_122514774

It definitely is a strange phenomenon and I wouldn't do it myself.

But I think it's fairly common with men and football or GAA.

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514916#Comment_122514916

I think it’s more common that they follow a few scores and watch a bit of a game or whatever.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514676#Comment_122514676

that’s just daft! There are so many better hobbies, to name a few, photographing poorly parked cars, Bored of management at a local school, bike maintenance…..the list is endless

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122514964#Comment_122514964

Yes they wouldn't be hardcore sports fans like the lads they work with.

They just do enough to make sure they can fit in to some extent.

Viscount Aggro

I was outbid on a property by a male couple… occupation? INFLUENCERS

Am I angry? YES

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122510504#Comment_122510504

I believe it's called the descent in to idiocracy. There was a not very good movie made about the end game.

thereiver

I look at game reviewers on YouTube the problem with influencers is they are paid to wear clothes use products promote products they are not neutral famous actors have brands they promote I never buy anything because I say an influencer recommend it

I don't look at meta instagram so I don't keep up with influencers I don't watch til tok

I think some people spend hours looking at social media or looking at videos of people they like

I think it's good that in YouTube there are reviews of old classic films or albums not just new music or films

I subscribe to a few YouTube videos

thereiver

I watch some gaming podcasts on YouTube but they just talk about gaming news and what games they are playing at the moment Alot of influencers get products for free in the hope they will use them or wear the clothes in videos or photos

BaywatchHQ

The only social media personality I followed was DBDR a 23 year old incel YouTuber from New York but he recently left YouTube because his photos were leaked.

I also followed Blackpilled Joker who is on Instagram now, he was bullied off YouTube.

https://youtu.be/2h0HUaFdk2s?si=IweTce-ZDi3BS0nI

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122563721#Comment_122563721

that’s the thing, they are not engaging in uttering a syllable that they are not being paid to say. 😅

Greyfox

A review on YouTube and an influencer saying something is brilliant are two very very different things. I don't really see the appeal of following influencers as its essentially looking at a different type of advert in your free time.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122511727#Comment_122511727

That's interesting you mentioned Donal Skehan. I worked with him for a while, he started off online (early, before most Irish cooks) and then was picked up by a publisher for a book and then RTE, BBC and some US TV shows spotted him and had him on.

Who told you he knew someone in RTE?

thomil

Not so much influencers per se, but I do follow a few tech review channels, as well as a couple of more traditional influencers, again, mostly tech or aviation related.

I can’t say that a lot of them have influenced me directly, most of the stuff they show is interesting, but not really up my alley. I will say that a YouTube channel called Mr. Mobile was instrumental in me jumping ship from iOS to Android and taking the leap into foldable devices. Admittedly, there wasn’t much pushing, the nerd in me was already extremely interested…

dxhound2005

"Jesus was the OG of Influencers.

In fact, I would say he still IS. What other influencer do you know whose message has lasted thousands of years and is still transforming lives today? Christianity went from 12 people to 10 million in just under 270 years and that was almost entirely by word of mouth."

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122581124#Comment_122581124

Being a tool to allow the wealthy and powerful to control the lives of poor people was a big factor in their success too, in fairness.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122581124#Comment_122581124

Word of mouth initially, but I'm sure becoming the religion of an empire gave it a bit of a heave.

Hippodrome Song Owl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122580989#Comment_122580989

He started off in a failed manufactured boy band and then entered Eurosong. I don't know if he knew someone in RTE before that, but he certainly would have been "known" in RTE before he got involved in cooking. I remember thinking it was bizarre to see this boy band lad given a cooking show. That said I actually enjoy watching his shows and quite like him