People don’t like being told that their good time is actually harmful (“I’m a good person!”). See also: Why people don’t tell me about the cruise they went on. Sure, everything humans do is harmful in some way, but there are definitely things that are more harmful (cruise ships) or could just be easily avoided (leave…

Interesting to read a perspective from in it, but on the other side. Thanks for sharing! I will say, as a business owner (a regular ol’ professional, finance-based business), I think what you’re describing isn’t really unique to influencers. I have folks walk in my door that are easy to work with, happy to pay my…

It sounds like influencers are at best helping the sponsor companies by reducing the management/agency/admin overhead. Otherwise it’s just an advertisement stream.

Exactly, hard work alone doesn’t deserve praise. If I work 12 hours a day clubbing baby seals, that’s a lot of hard work. I would also be ignorant to assume that I deserve respect for it simply because it’s hard.

Came here to say something along these lines. What got me was how defensive and nasty these influencers got at even the gentlest suggestion that they...y’know...not do that.

I’m a women’s photographer and I get some good influencer clients and mostly bad ones. The good ones contact me, tell me they will want shoots with x images, digitals only with commercial (social media) copyrights every 6-8 weeks in a certain style with x outfit changes, get a quote, sign a contract, and after 2 or 3…

My friend went on an Instagram crusade against all the influencers who were influencing by stepping all over/lying on/crushing California poppies. Then she expanded it to other people doing harmful things on public lands. (And made friends with @publiclandshateyou!) So no, their harm isn’t just contained to being rich…

Yeah, 45 has kind of changed the definition of that word for his followers and the like. That person was probably defining treason as “any activity I deem inappropriate”.

THIS is the real American tragedy.

Honestly, been wondering that myself lately.

Here you go. Apparently vaccines are made of dead babies, cause brain damage and gender fluidity. 

I live in the US...and still trying to understand some people who live here.  In this case, there is no explanation or connection.  Shock value and stupidity are what they go for, and it was mission accomplished on both fronts.

2019 word of the year: treason. I’m 57 and I’ve never heard that word bandied about with such frequency and misunderstanding.

Well, they claim that vaccinations CAUSE heaps and heaps of dead babies despite all evidence to the contrary.

Ok, maybe its the stupid European in me, or I am trying to understand crazy too much here, but where is the connection between “Dead Babys” and Anti-Vaxx? Wouldnt more vaccinations prevent Dead Babys?

Does no one in America know the meaning of the word “treason”? 

I went to public school in NC and all of black history was covered in February. Cursory at best, the “education” provided a dry overview of Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, “lynching,” Jim Crow laws, Brown vs BOE, Plessy vs Ferguson, and that’s it. Oh wait, they spent A LOT of time covering the…

Note the 2000 recount constitutes a gray coup. A democratic election recount was thwarted by Republican thugs on the ground. The Kangaroo Court only ruled to stop the recount when the Republican thugs made it impossible to complete. So the State’s results were certified by the Republican candidate’s brother and…

This entire current administration should be considered a coup. 

Can confirm, no part of this was taught in North Carolina K-12 schools while I was there. There was some information (with poor context) given on Reconstruction, and then they sort of handwaved a couple decades of state history and suddenly it was the 1920s.