Influencer ethics on Instagram

[MadameGrizzly]

Continuing the discussion on whether influencing on Instagram is an ethical business model, particularly around the disclosure of advertising and the over exposure of children.

AIBU to think it isn't a sustainable career unless the influencer is scrupulously ethical?

She can't be #real.

FlyingBird I'm so sure she's being sincere

< gets popcorn >

I’m absolutely crying at ‘trial blazer’ and the person taking a selfie with her hand. It literally is an mlm but with no life changing aloe Vera added.

OMG the responses on that thread are BRUTAL. I hope it is a parody.

Just scrolling back, but when I see #spon my mind reads #sporn.

That's my useful feedback to all the influencers reading along.

Mothers Meeting Talents really, really needs to hire a proofreader - trial blazers aside, the English is woeful.

Am I missing something?? Is there a character limit, why on earth would you use "spon" and not "sponsored"...??
Is it in the hope less people cotton on to it?

When i see #spon my brain sees spoons.

There was with twitter so that was why the abbreviations started

True. Why isn't it #Advert too. It's all sneaky. The ASA are jokers.

@garfunkelthecat it was never to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes. Just to be able to get more in on Twitter hense spon and Ad

The same reason #ad is used instead of #AD or #Advertisment. And #aff is used instead of the correct #AffiliateLink. They are more easily hidden.

Some influencers seem very petulant about the need to disclose. I think we will see some dropping out of the game, as it wasn't just about the free stuff, it was also about being seen to lead to a glamorous, wealthy lifestyle to a large audience.

@TheMadHouse thank you, will check it out & yours👍🏼

#aff is a joke.

@MadameGrizzly I am pretty sure the abbreviations were never to hide disclosure or make it murkier. But when you only got 140 characters on twitter and that included # and @eveey letter counted

Update: sweary OP has made a small speech. I think she might work for the proof reading dept. at mothers meetings.

But we are talking about instagram not twitter?!

@garfunkelthecat I get that you are talking about Instagram but you asked why they were abbreviated and Twitter was the reason. It set the standard ans many folks auto tweeted their insta posts back on the olden days.

TheMadHouse but it is no longer the olden days and the abbreviations are not clear enough. You did ask what people would prefer to see.

Posts used to appear in chronological order but now the order is dictated by IG and nobody quite knows how it works.