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

SirGerryAdams · 20-06-2019 03:31PM #1

Will they still be doing it in 10 years time?

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

YFlyer · 20-06-2019 03:33PM

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.

20-06-2019 03:34PM

In the RTÉ canteen.

JustMe,K · 20-06-2019 03:35PM

with no pension and memories of freebies gone by

Fr_Dougal · 20-06-2019 03:35PM

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 · 20-06-2019 03:36PM

On the house waiting list

ooooh I went there :pac:

ToddyDoody · 20-06-2019 03:36PM

McDonalds

artanevilla · 20-06-2019 03:36PM

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

red petal · 20-06-2019 03:36PM

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 · 20-06-2019 03:38PM

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

facehugger99 · 20-06-2019 03:38PM

A seamless transition into prostitution awaits.

_Brian · 20-06-2019 03:38PM

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 · 20-06-2019 03:39PM

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

20-06-2019 03:40PM

PR and marketing the intelligent one anyway.

BeerWolf · 20-06-2019 03:50PM

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

American Dad told me so!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 20-06-2019 03:51PM

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 · 20-06-2019 03:56PM

Giving hand job down some alley that stinks of pish.

jimgoose · 20-06-2019 03:59PM

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 · 20-06-2019 04:01PM

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 · 20-06-2019 04:30PM

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 · 20-06-2019 04:33PM

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 · 20-06-2019 04:51PM

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 · 21-06-2019 04:59AM

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 · 21-06-2019 05:18AM

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

ILoveYourVibes · 21-06-2019 05:23AM

Who cares?

ILoveYourVibes · 21-06-2019 05:27AM

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 · 21-06-2019 06:22AM

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 · 21-06-2019 06:40AM

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

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

21-06-2019 08:15AM

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 · 21-06-2019 08:17AM

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 · 21-06-2019 08:19AM

_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.

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

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