Straight from the Trump playbook; Stiffs client/contractor, gets exposed/sued, claims they’re the innocent party, plays victim, sues client who happens to be at a financial disadvantage. We are living in The Golden Age of Gaslighting.

lol, get the fuck outta here, Mike.  Go straight to jail; do not pass go; do not collect $200.

Dumpster Fire Produces Smoke

He’s flailing at this point. He most likely owes Stormy Daniels. And is kind of mobby and Trumpian in his own way. He had his 15 minutes. And now needs to pay up and go home.

Eh I get everyone’s points here but I just don’t have a whole lot of respect for influencers, and I don’t feel particularly badly about it. Of course, #notallinfluencers, but they’re generally self absorbed to comic proportions, entitled, not particularly interesting, articulate, or creative, and are always shilling…

I agree that a lot of the hate is misogyny, like 90% of it is, which is why my hackles go up whenever someone starts railing against it.

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…

I just want to talk about how much I hate this trend with the all-nude clothes.  I hate the ruched nude bodycon dress, and I doubly hate it with those atrocious nude, ruched fugly boots!  I blame that menace family the Kardashians for making people think all-nude is an acceptable look!  Harrumph!  Get off my lawn!

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.

I figure it’s akin to being involved in an MLM

I figure it’s akin to being involved in an MLM. Yes, it’s a ton of work to “start your own business,” but it doesn’t change the fact that you are spinning your wheels, wasting extraordinary amounts of time and money for nothing.  MAYBE you can get enough followers to make a go of it, but you probably won’t.  It’s all…

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.

Theyre called commercials.

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…

How does one manage to convince themselves that they’re the inflluencer when they’re doing Kim Kardashian cosplay?

If you get money from it and can support yourself it’s a job, doesn’t mean it’s not bullshit

I can confidently say that I have never attempted to be an influencer.  And yet, here I am, saying that I don’t think it’s a real job.  Does it involve work?  Yes.  Does it involve making money?  Yes.  But is it valuable, useful, helpful, or necessary?  No.

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…