AIBU to laugh at Influencers

[Doseofreality]

Went out for lunch yesterday to celebrate a friend’s birthday, lovely place with an outside deck overlooking the water.
We had a table on the water’s edge and mid way through our meal two young women appear and start taking pictures of each other doing very dramatic poses on the railing inches away from our table.
We were all rather bemused at the spectacle but thought a few pics and they would be done soon. They then, decide that pictures are not enough and starting filming each other doing some sort of slow motion strut around, this was then followed by some filming of each other presenting “We’re at this beautiful venue today, look how beautiful it is blah blah fucking blah” whimsy spinning their phones around capturing everyone else in the restaurant.
it was at this point that one of friends asked what they were doing and got the response “Oh we are filming for our socials”
They then asked if they could hold our bottle of champagne to get some pictures, which was met with a “Er, no”.
The restaurant manager then appeared, asked them wheat they were doing and did they have a reservation? The CFs had just walked in off the street, through the restaurant and on to the deck purely to film content.

So my AIBU is was it wrong that we all oisaed ourselves laughing when they were swiftly ejected for being sad bastard CF influencers?

Yanbu. How empty headed and boring would you have to be to want to take a picture of someone else's wine bottle? 🙄

YANBU, what idiots.
you should've filmed the scene and outed them.

🤣

I understand being irritated at them but laughing at anyone is rather mean.

It's easy to feel what they are doing is vain and immature and a waste of their lives but I think back to my teen years giving myself make overs in my room and reading smash hits and doing 'who is your ideal celebrity date' quizes and I think we are probably all a bit empty headed as teens?

I've just discovered Utah Mom on YouTube. Delicious piss taking of the influencer culture.

Also by virtue of likes/hits and possible sponsorship etc someone who also ends up creating content for money

It's the people who lap it up online that I don't understand. We know it's fake.
I think fair play to the influencers, if they can make enough money to not have a proper job.

They weren’t teens, they were early to mid twenties and their vanity was off the scale, dashing over to check they’d had a good picture taken and their poses were comical.
It was honestly like watching an alternative species 😂

It's not the vacuousness that's the issue - rather, the public parading and bad manners!

BTW unlike many people I don't automatically disrespect content creation/think it isn't a 'real job'. It's just marketing/advertising.

But so many fake it, are full of themselves/entitled. They deserve to be laughed at.

Don't want reactions? Don't do stupid things in public that disrupt others. Simples.

We witnessed similar in Sorrento last summer ... a group of admittedly very beautiful young Italian girls filing each other walk down one of the main pedestrianised streets. If you've been in Sorrento centre of a Saturday evening mid summer you'll know how busy it was and what an utter pain in the arse it was for everybody else

It's incredibly vain and selfish so I don't feel too bad laughing at such vacuousness

Filming rather

I think it all sounds quite amusing.

Including how wound up you are about it 😁

Celeste Barber is amazing at piss taking on Instagram.

They sound annoying. But there are all sorts of annoying people in all sorts of jobs. Most influencers are, I think, really bloody smart for being able to make money out of just using their phone camera. I could never do it! I've also learned a hell of a lot from influencers, about feminism, books, history, the body positivity movement etc etc. It's not all pouting and vanity.

I have a relative who is an influencer. She posts about her everyday life, and a few particular interests. She's making a mint and doesn't pay for anything- She's out in restaurants all the time, all freebies, and she only posts about the ones she really likes. Same with clothes. My life is far too boring to do anything like that but good luck to them.

Depending on how much champagne I'd consumed, I would have been tempted to join in and do some ridiculous poses as well. "Ooh, ooh, film me with this glass on my head!"

I can be quite annoying sometimes.

I see 12 year olds filming bloody tiktok trends at the local park, dancing and filming the same bit over and over until they feel it's good enough to upload. It's all a bit sad tbh. And as for the grown adult influencers, well they mostly make a living from faking life, which seems pretty miserable. But people lap it up so 🙄

Ah my daughter ive discovered quite recently has become an admittedly unexpectedly influencer too,
through her globe trottering through the kind of work she does and leisure times,

she has done more than alright for herself through working hard being ambitious passing her business degree course,

she escaped from quite a bleak very insular town/ small village attitudes place,
in a place that has wonderful coastal sea views...

I am not into that kind of thing or world totally opposite of that,

Boring world if everyone was the same though

She doesn't as far as i am aware do ridiculous 🙄 poses in front of the camera like that as influencer...
L.o.l 😄

Ah my daughter ive discovered quite recently has become an admittedly unexpectedly influencer too,
through her globe trottering through the kind of work she does and leisure times she has,

she has done more than alright for herself through working hard being ambitious passing her business degree course,

she escaped from quite a bleak very insular town/ small village attitudes place,
in a place that has wonderful coastal sea views...

I am not into that kind of thing or world totally opposite of that,

Boring world if everyone was the same though

She doesn't as far as i am aware do ridiculous 🙄 poses in front of the camera like that as influencer...
L.o.l 😄

I live in an affluent area in Central London (in a flat) and often have influencers draping themselves over the sports cars in the street - none mine! 😂 One turned up with the photographer style umbrella recently to get the perfect lighting. ffs
The poses are so cringeworthy. It’s quite depressing really. Them standing there with a designer bag and behaving as if the mansion (whose porch they’re standing in) is theirs. Or the Ferrari.

I used to work next to a very trendy “place to be seen bar” in my local city centre. The number of people I saw take similar photos with the sign outside and then not even go in was truly pathetic. Those that did go in seemed to spend their whole time in the lobby, taking selfies with the view from the window in the background (it was high up and had very good views).

As an ex model myself I often chuckle at all these fake, desperate and delusional girls all thinking they’re ‘models’! I have witnessed so many of them posting fake content it’s unreal.

When they post content saying things like “Hi guys I’ve just arrived at….” You can almost guarantee they have been there quite a while and haven’t just arrived there lol.

My niece is an influencer. It makes her a VERY good living. But I have to admit I cringe at her content. It’s so inane. And fake - she gets asked to mention brands she has zero interest in and would never use. And she does. They all do.

You can laugh all you like but some of them are making real money out of this, I see the comic side of it though 😆

Laughing at them is just fine. It is a ridiculous non job/ way of life culture and I despair of those who either try or succeed at making money in this way.

Most aren’t though. Most are small brands who exploit influencers by sending them freebies in return for content. The problem is, the influencer is doing all the leg work in making the content and editing it all for the sake of a freebie that when the brand receives the content back, will post on their social media and probably sell that ‘freebie’ item many times over while raking in all the money from the sales of the influencers content and where the influencer generally doesn’t see a penny of it. Or if they do it’s a very small percentage. It’s just a cheap way for a brand to exploit people. If they used a proper model then they would have to fork out £££s to that model and for a photographer/ videographer etc

It's a shame tbh, I used to really like seeing real people reviewing products and giving their honest opinions... now I don't believe a word any of them say, as it's pretty much all fake and you know they're getting paid to flog the products.