The deal is that the "influencer" is an actor not an influencer. They are also an employee so you have a ton of control over the messaging. TV has been doing "paid actors" for a long time and hopefully this garbage will require similar disclaimers online too.
One safe approach is to assume everyone is a fake until proven otherwise.
As a Navy veteran, I can suss out a "stolen valor" account almost immediately. Just a vibe. When it comes to social topics, the current day is just too weird to guess.
Edit: The dangers of not refreshing your tab before posting is that someone will have posted an answer before you that then makes your reply superflous. (I didn't need the video clip for the answer though. Just love that movie)
Yeah but it's not as impressive when you post your answer the same number of minutes apart as the video clip's duration, and what's the point if it's not impressive
Whether they're fictional, "real", or "fake" is a meaningless distinction in this age, Baudrillard explained this to us a few decades ago. All the virtual influencer stuff is happening at a solely symbolic level, there's no 'real' underneath. You can have a meme and satire of a thing that never really existed, or maybe it did, or maybe the fake thing existed before the real thing, and so on. It's been the condition of modern communiciation for a while and in that sense it now happening openly and people creating jobs around virtual influencers really just makes sense.
We've had fictional characters in movies for decades, in literature for centuries, and in myths and legends for millennia. And people have made their living (and occasionally made fortunes) telling those stories.
That’s lonelygirl15 all over again! we’ve come full circle!
The successful vlogger started as a scripted actress, then was taken over by real people, who took it from vlogging to influencer, and now we are back to scripted actors!
I have a friend that is an actor, good looking, charismatic. And I've occasionally tossed around the idea of working with him to create a coding or otherwise tech social media channel where he would be the voice and face of the channel. With me creating the content. I sometimes wonder if some of the more niche, expert influencers are doing that as well.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 62.0 ms ] threadAs a Navy veteran, I can suss out a "stolen valor" account almost immediately. Just a vibe. When it comes to social topics, the current day is just too weird to guess.
"What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-g0NGE9W8
Edit: The dangers of not refreshing your tab before posting is that someone will have posted an answer before you that then makes your reply superflous. (I didn't need the video clip for the answer though. Just love that movie)
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=navy+se...
What terrible taste, this copypasta.
And cats don’t actually exist
I don't get it?
Do people think Taylor Swift, Joe Biden, Ōsaka Naomi are real still?
Or are we just projecting other people are that stupid to think 'media personalities' are real to make ourselves look smart?
How is this different?
The successful vlogger started as a scripted actress, then was taken over by real people, who took it from vlogging to influencer, and now we are back to scripted actors!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15