I’m unclear on why exactly that’s classist. Maldives isn’t a cheap destination, which means that these “influencers” are potentially requesting thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars worth of services for free.

Well, he does have a type, and that type is more or less the opposite of Tiffany Haddish. So. . .

Their best move is to just ignore the emails.

I agree in principle, but we’re talking about con artists pretending to be influencers. Once a con gets a response, they keep going until you give them something to go away. It’s always worth it for them, anything they get is 100% profit, but you might want to focus on other clients who actually stand a chance of…

You don’t realize how entitled these people feel. Read that previous story about the White Moose Cafe... just in the comments there was pearl-clutching and well-I-nevering about not immediately giving these “influencers” everything they asked for and kissing their assess.

Have you ever been hit by a scooter in Southeast Asia that was driven by an influencer asshole driving while trying to get a selfie? Makes you want to bring a signal jammer to your next vacation.

Influencers/marketing oneself isn’t new: people have been doing it for centuries, from the salons of Paris to carnival hucksters. And of course a charismatic influencer can make tons of gullible people think “hey, me too!”

The nightmare of navigating through a sea of emails begging for free poolside cabanas at a resort in Tulum is a fate I would not wish on my worst enemy.

I have a small day bike tour company in a heavily touristed city.

I have to tell most ‘influencers’ that our unmanned facebook page with 1200 followers gets more likes for our once every 6 month random post than anything they ever put up.

“6 people liked my picture of a hotel in Florida, can you imagine what I can do…

Listen, if I’m going to pay good money for a vacation the last I want is to find out the chick next to me is there for me so she can “influence” people on Instagram.

I love Tiffany very much but her manager is right. That’s not how the business works. You can’t sign a contract for a film and show up on the first day and say ‘ok, now I’m a bigger star so better pay me more’.

“You guys, chill. He’s probably just tired of hearing my name. It’s exhausting. I’m tired of hearing my name. I could see how that could be irritating, like, ‘Hello, I died, people. I’m back from the dead. Tiffany’s cool, but it’s me sitting here now.’ So, I get it, I’m not mad about it, I love me some Tracy.”- THIS!…

While many techbros are indeed awful, I am pretty sure this guy is some other breed of slightly less capable bro. Maybe just the much more commonly observed douchebro.

I mean really, dude was not bothering anyone. Techbro just decided to be an asshole, and go out of his way to be a supreme asshole.

Oooh, drag this shitty person. What kind of human being takes time out of their day to do something like this to a homeless person? He deserves no mercy.

Agree entirely. The story is essentially a good one, with great characters, a great plot, etc. But the author’s angsty preoccupation with Christianity is about as nuanced as a 14 year-old athiest at Thanksgiving dinner.