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I wonder how many people out there are like me and don't follow influencers at all. If anything, I consider influencers a net negative on society.
The concept of an influencer should, ideally, be made illegal. I'm convinced the primary reason they are popular, is people are too lazy to want to have to read news/information of whatever topic and assemble it into something resembling their own opinion. They'd much rather have some other person read, parse, watch the goings-on and then deliver it as the influencer's opinion. That way, people can subscribe to people that have similar opinions as themselves, and not be spooked by information that is "scary" or challenges their worldview.
It is like influencer was the next progression after social media echo chambers came into existence. A role inserted between old/traditional methods of information delivery, that parses it and delivers it in a format appealing to a particular audience. A role that has never had any certification or vetting process. Just some dude with a microphone in his mom's bathroom.
So many people (in America at least) legitimately want to get into this as a "career" too, which is disturbing. Rather than doing real work of any kind to benefit society. If everyone is an influencer, who's maintaining the codebase that makes their streams possible? Designing the hardware the software runs on? The power plants that run the datacenters? etc.
That being said, traditional media definitely hasn't adapted well to the changing methods of information delivery, so maybe this is our 21st century media transition happening organically, and standards will eventually follow, hopefully.
I do not idolize a single person. I find that when folks follow someone endlessly for years, they become incapable of recognizing the flaws and issues with anything they say. They’ve allowed themselves to be compromised and their judgment clouded by obsessing over a figure.
I wonder how many people out there are like me and don't follow influencers at all.
Yo.
I fear for the future
For the future of humanity? Yeah.
For the future of the planet? Time and nature heals everything.
On a cosmic scale, the survival even of this entire star system doesn't matter in the slightest.
But to me, personally, I am rather unnerved by current events.
Context is everything. We do not experience life as the cosmos, we experience it as individuals.
Learning that Life survived Snowball Earth gave me a huge sense of comfort.
This may sound a little harsh, but with what we know now about climate change, and well, it already being known SINCE BEFORE THE 1900S, with what we know about all the pain and suffering that it will cause (and already is causing), I think that denying climate change should become a criminal offense.
You're literally propagandizing a personal agenda of a tiny few for a few bucks and that agenda will likely result in more death and destruction than WWII.
Once food scarcity really starts kicking in, once climate refugees will try to go anywhere but will be rejected everywhere (you know they will), once the wars start over the reduced availability of resources, we may be looking at incredible death tolls.
This is not something hypothetical, this is pretty much where we'll be headed in the next few decades. Yet we somehow allow people to lie about this for a few bucks?
It's no different really than these right wing tools that are parroting Russian talking points for money from Russia (hello Tim pool, paid shills) that are destroying the country from within and when caught, nothing really happened.
As far as I'm concerned, You're aiding in the deaths of countless people for some money. String them up from the highest tree for treason. These are not good people, these are not nice people, these are the effing horsemen of the apocalypse, so to speak, and they do it for money. Good ol greed.
String them up, leave them hanging. I've run through all my patience with these disgusting influencers.
It doesn’t matter. Within our lifetime the fun will be over for humanity and if Im alive then I’ll be cheering for the catastrophes.