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

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 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!

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.

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

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?

Rehab. Definitely Rehab

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.

I'm guessing the first "Influencers" started off as Bloggers so folk followed them for tips and insights e.g. make up artists. They jumped the shark then firstly by promoting products pretending they were giving honest advice. As soon as the #ad was enforced upon them they were effectively sales agents. Most of them now have a use RZRBLUNT10 for 10% online at XYZ and they generate commission that way too.

But you're right I don't understand why, when its gotten to that stage you'd still seek them out.