• Zier
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    1476 months ago

    Stop calling them “influencers”, they are Sales People. They influence nothing, they sell you the same crap any ad does. Sales people, advertisers, spam, all the same thing.

    • @Usernameblankface
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      266 months ago

      They influence the buying decisions of their audience.

    • @SupraMario
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      226 months ago

      I never understood how people like this got that title. They don’t influence shit, except maybe consumerism and the dumbing down of society.

      • @Takumidesh
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        216 months ago

        They influence the people watching them.

      • capital
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        106 months ago

        So they have no influence except for the ways that they do?

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        it’s actually already a sales term in ABM - you have the decision maker, blocker, influencer, end user/stakeholder etc

        the term has been around longer than the internet

      • Zier
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        16 months ago

        They pander to the less informed, shove confirmation bias into everything, and pretend to sound like an 'expert" on what they spew. Basically a con artist. And they really want to be famous, but have zero talent. Again, con artist.

    • just another dev
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      116 months ago

      Not even sales people, just marketing people without a fixed affiliation. The only people they influence are the people for whom the name influencer is not a red flag that they’re being lied to.

      Having said that, “influencer” is a lot shorter than that, and at least everyone will know what you mean.