Damn i hate that word so much. What are they supposed to influence? They are advertiser, period. Influencer should be reserve for someone who actually contribute to the society, not some clown on tiktok/insta doing memes and jokes.
They are called “influencers” because the ghouls that work in marketing realised that they are an extremely effective tool for their ongoing psychological warfare arms race
Worst of all is that I don’t even know how to find realistic reviews for things, like smartphones, anymore - all the reviewers seem to have become “influencers” and lie to your face like “people say that this happens, but I never saw it”. Bullsh!t you didn’t, when it happens to basically everyone:-(. (even if the phone manufacturer sent them a souped-up item that actually works, the influencer is still collaborating with them, knowing that that will happen)
It is easy to cure ignorance, simply with knowledge, but how do we get around misinformation now, without spending the time to become personal experts on every tiny aspect of life these days?
Late-stage capitalism sucks skibidi toilet :-(.
You’re the third person I’ve heard mention skibidi toilet (my 9-year-old daughter and 12-year-old niece being the other two), and I absolutely refuse to educate myself on whatever the fuck that is.
is gen alpha thing annoying sibling is obsessed with
Here you go: https://piped.video/watch?v=C0fQFFAml5o
Personally I think it’s dumb and absurdist enough that it loops back around to funny. Plus it’s fun to say.
I like to keep up on modern slang so I can use it incorrectly on ourpose.
Nothing makes my niblings cringe harder than adults trying to be hip with the lingo.
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Don’t do it, it’s not worth it, save yourself my dude! :-P
I hadn’t heard it myself prior to like a week ago. However, now I can never go back to the blissful state of being that comes from not knowing that absolutely worthless piece of information.
Fwiw, it is a YouTube series of videos. Beyond that… it means literally nothing, just you either have heard of it or not. I did see that it got billions of views - but how many were bots playing it to run up the subscriber stats I have no idea:-P. Also, I remember a post talking about a bunch of highly strange new young-person-jargon words having been added to the Oxford Dictionary in 2023? Which is likely not this phrase, but somehow I conflated those two thoughts and now I can’t unstick them in my mind:-P.
In this case though, I chose to use it anyway b/c the word toilet already conveys the requisite info, and the urban dictionary article about it is also funny in relation.
Or maybe, just maybe, the success of the phrase “skibidi toilet” is in itself proof that we are all enslaved to end-stage capitalism, where algorithms feed us what we do NOT want to see or hear, and yet what they think will make them moar profitz? :-) :-(
You should, it’s actually good, basically a perfected throwback to decade old gmod animation meme humor. The animation is simple but to the point, cleverly and clearly conveying worldbuilding details and progressing a wordless(“skibidi skibidi skibidi” doesn’t count) but coherent story across many short episodes. People assume skibidi toilet is throwaway garbage content because its target audience is children and it’s about absurdist toilet monsters but they are wrong, it is art and the person making it knows his shit.
They influence a horde of followers to buy shit or click ads. They’re a middle-man for parasites.
It’s so strange to hear people calling themselves an influencer, like they’re bragging about their ability to psychologically manipulate people (whether to sell the shit they’re being paid to pretend to like, or just for good old power tripping)
That’s why i hate that word so much. “I am/want to be an influencer” is such a weird phrase but it’s an acceptable phrase for a lot of them. What do you trying to influence people with? Science? Math? Arts? Creativity? But no, it’s purchasing choice.
I’d say you have that backwards
Influencer is the word companies use for people with a following, and therefore power over peoples buying decisions.
For some reason it’s leaked and been misappropriated.
If you actually make something of value you are whatever that thing is, AND a potential influencer of buying decisions.
Many people who influenced me in my ways would punch the one who’d call them an influencer.
What I really hate is when actual content creators get lumped in with that name.
My impression of the main microblogging sites has been:
Twitter: musk fanboys, celebrities and people who can’t/won’t switch
Threads: conservatives, alt-right, grifters and celebrities
Truth social: conspiracy nuts, maggots, alt-right
Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries
Bluesky: furries, left-wingers and people who liked pre-musk Twitter
You heard it here first, Lemmy is where the normies hang out.
Lemmy: Linux fan boys who will hear no wrong. Also the gays
And furries.
And crabs.
🦀🦀
🦀🦀$$11 a month🦀🦀
And my axe!
& Knuckles
Do you have a minute to talk about Linux? :)
Lemmy is 1000% not for normies. Not yet, anyway.
I’m not 100% sure what a normie even is, and I suspect there’s a decent chance that makes me a normie.
And if yes… we’re heeeeeeeeerrrrre.
I don’t want to gatekeep, but I’m really enjoying Lemmy without normies. It reminds me of the pre-2k internet. Nerds and weirdos just being themselves and celebrating each other’s weirdness.
But how am I supposed to improve faking not being weird (for the outside world), if we all just let out the full weirdness here? ;)
It’s a trap. It’s all a fucking trap. Next thing you know you’ll be working middle management somewhere and sipping Moscato with boring-ass friends and living vicariously through posts by people half your age on niche boards who dedicate their house to model trains or polyamory or have a ridiculous aquarium or listen to bands you’ve never heard of in a genre you love but now you can’t listen to any more because god forbid your boss gets in your car and you autoplay something other than pop country or classic rock. Your kids’ll do something and you’re like “that’s awesome” and you look over and your partner is frowning at you like “aren’t you going to do something to stop this?”
Just fucking be weird. Normalcy is a fucking trap.
dedicate their house to model trains or polyamory
Uh… how are people doing this?
I was just trying to grab a wide cross-section of interests. I don’t have any advice for combining them, but good luck!
Been there, done that. Only thing I learned is that everyone has their kind of issues, and upper + top management has too many psychos. So thanks, I’ll take your advice and will just be weird :)
Lemmy isn’t really microblogging though.
And tankies…
Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries
Being a Mastodon user does not make me a nerd, left-winger furry.
I mean,
I am a left-winger furry nerd,
But not because I’m on Mastodon!
something something correlation/causation
I feel like at least 70% of the tweets I get on Bluesky’s Discover page are from trans people.
I’m not complaining, it’s just interesting.
I wonder if it’s an algorithm thing (I follow some trans users) or if Bluesky is simply where they all fled to after the Muskening.i just wanna tell them, why not fediverse?
Twitter has an annoyingly persistent hold out crew of lefties and furries as well. Which is a shame, because its cutting into the Bluesky/Mastodon content.
where’s parler and tumblr and pillowfort
kbin: centrists
mbin: centrists who like updates
Just got in to bluesky today. Seeing furries is gross, but other than that it seems pretty nice so far?
As a furry, I think you’re gross too.
Lemmy: Tankies and radicalised idiots
Completely agree. Use the nuclear option immediately to defend the fediverse from the sociopathic transnational corporation Meta.
Don’t say that around here. You’ll get a thousand sycophants down your throat bleating “It’S ThE uSeR’s ChOiCe!!!” and that you’re “against free speech” and “just as bad as Meta” if you want us to disconnect from them.
I’m with you, though. Meta is evil and we should not be doing business with them in any way. Any user who wants to make the “choice” to do business with Meta can do it using one of Meta’s many own products instead.
if is user’s choice they can move
But won’t somebody please think of those poor billionaires who want us to buy those things that they pay influencers to sell on Threads!? /s
Ironically one of the top things I cherish in life is not having to watch such ads, which is why I am not on Threads/Facebook/Meta/Twitter/X or even Reddit (except one sub that won’t move here) in the first place.
I think social media was invented to cause revolutions
Idk, man. If you look at countries currently experiencing lots of public uprisings and revolutionary organizing, they seem to be the ones with some of the least prolific digital media. Myanmar, northern India, and rural Bolivia all have terrible wifi.
Folks in “modern” nations like South Korea and Dubai and the UK are increasingly these NEET hermits with no friends or romantic partners or sense of collective good will who just fixate on online phantasm celebrities. Occasionally, one of them pops off and tries to murder a politician. But that’s not revolutionary conduct.
Seems like it’s easier to divide people who arr using social media.
If they don’t have social media, they might go make friends, and those friends might have the same problems, and might seek to solve them…
Won’t it be more fun to downvote anything posted or connected by a user @threads?
Great idea, let’s start a fight against 1 billion monthly users with our 50k.
I don’t think they have downvotes for that matter.
Oh the humanity!
spare the Wayland
What country do they mean?
People say you’re posting to a void on mastodon. I put a hashtag on my post and I get dozens of interactions. On threads? Sure there are more users but they’re all following these “influencers”. No real human interaction. They’re worse than bots.
Honestly, micro blogs shouldn’t really exist, neither instagram or Facebook, or tiktok… Just turn-off the internet please
White country, is it?
I don’t think so. Sounds more like a Persian Gulf country.
Its funny that people here think they’re that much different than a threads user. They probably all use Instagram or Facebook.
You should do a poll on that, the answer may surprise you.
Lemmy users are more akin to reddit\forums\image boards users.
It’s not really better, it’s just significantly different.
Been here as long as you have been and one thing i can be certain is, if one of those influencer is here they will be drown in spit. And downvote. Mostly downvote.
