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4d ago

Yacht packed with social media influencers nearly sinks off Miami Beach

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Yacht packed with social media influencers nearly sinks off Miami Beach

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Can we stop calling these parasites "influencers"?
- they really sadly do influence a lot of people. I used to think it was a bad name for them because they didnt influence me, but then I realized how many people buy the shit they're advertising
  
  I used to hate on influencers, until Alec from Technology Connections pointed out that he is one as well. Kind of hard to hate, when I listen to him when it comes to his advice on using appliances in the house properly. Was being influenced without even realizing it.
  
  Shouldn't they be called herder instead ?
  I mean considering the people following them
  
  I still don't think influencer is the correct word.
  They do the same job as a billboard. They sell crappy products. If anything we could call them corporate removed.
- I call them 'effluencers' because it's all just a torrent of shit.

Im just gonna say it sank because the occupants were too dense

Dang. Nearly.

I wouldn't be surprised if they did it on purpose

Take your bets on how long until one of the idiots tries to monetize it. You just know that several of them began filming before taking any action to save themselves.
- 5 seconds, I have no faith in these people

Aww, soooo close to it fully sinking.

I never really understood the idea of the popular kids in high school. I wasn’t popular but wasn’t unpopular, just sorta a regular dude.
I remember thinking how odd it was that people liked people simply because a lot of people liked that person. Or that those people felt like they were better than others because a lot of people liked them.
Then I graduated and got into the real world and there were celebrities but beyond that there were no popular kids anymore. And celebrities were generally well known for some actual thing they could do exceptionally well, acting, singing, sports, etc.
Then social media gave us influencers which are just popular kids for adults. People follow them because lots of people follow them and some of them are genuinely talented but a lot of them are just flexing with wealth (or pretending to) or just attractive.
I remember being relieved that the “popular kids” was a thing people grew out of, and kinda appalled that we somehow engineered it back into adulthood.

Only nearly?
- Fans almost?

Damn
- God tried

Nearly? Ok, let's try again. And again. And again until we succeed.

What a missed opportunity.

Truly the bad timeline.

This was nearly good news.

Verily, The Lord has turned his back on America

Waters there might have been too warm for their liking, but I'm wondering if killer whales might have otherwise enjoyed facilitating the process.

No Great Loss. (Stephen King's "The Stand")

So .. hot air doesn't float .. that's a thesis right there.

Insurance scam...

HAHAHAHAHAH!

Lol

I need them to tell me which influencers! Please, Jesus, tell me Jack Dougherty is in Davey Jones locker.

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