People who copy influencers are shallow

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your thoughts

Is it possible to be MORE shallow than n influencer? Shallow squared seems irrelevant.

You OK hun?

My thoughts are if you're going to start a thread, you should probably type more words.

People who make threads slating people for copying something that they want or like, are in fact shallow. Your thoughts?

And thick.

People who follow influencers aren't hurting me so I don't think anything.

Your OP is not worthy of a response other than to say it's not worthy of a response.

Plum jam made from six plums should be boiled for 35 minutes and I really don't care for Elon Musk very much.

It probably would have helped if I had read the thread title before posting.

Well it depends what you mean by copying, doesn't it? I don't follow "influencers" as I'm far too old for all of that nonsense. I don't think knitting and genealogy accounts on Insta/FB count as "influencing"...

DD has occasionally wanted a product she has seen someone promoting, or wanted to try the latest viral TikTok meal or restaurant. Does that count as copying? Do you have to copy everything or a certain number of posts/videos for it to count? Is there a sliding scale of shallowness?

So many questions.

It's no more shallow to copy an influencer than it is to buy something you've seen in a magazine or advertised on television, or to see a stranger on the street and be inspired by their style.

People really, really like to snobby about influencers and I really don't know why. They're just people - mostly young women - making a living through creative marketing. I follow influencers whose channels focus on books, art/craft, cooking, interiors and style. I wouldn't say I 'copy' them but I enjoy their content and get inspiration from some of their recommendations. So what?

I want to know more about the jam. How much sugar do you use?

Why is it such a big deal ?

Some people want to set the trend. Others want to follow it.

Some want to publicise what they do. Some don't.

You do you and let everyone else do themselves.

If you aren't interesting in following influencers then click on something else.

I don't think it's any more or less shallow than everyone copying Sienna Miller's style in the 00s, or getting The Rachel in the 90s or wearing white wedding dresses because Queen Victoria did. People have taken style inspiration from others for centuries.

Is 'your thoughts' the new 'discuss'?

Shallow? Why? Say an influencer recommends a mascara - what's the harm in trying it? Or in my case I follow a couple interior designers and they have sparked a few decorating decisions.
Slavishly copying a look head to toe or mindlessly following their advice without thinking first (like that influencer mum in the US who had weird child raising practices) is something else entirely and I think there's something else going on psychologically.

No more than the people who follow fashions because of celebrities or newspapers or TV programs. Very few of us are unique most are influenced by others.

Nope. Similar to how anyone who does something due to marketing isn't shallow. It's just modern adverts / marketing / sales.

Agree with this...but there is something particularly obnoxious about Influencer culture and emulation.

What I find depressing/worrying is young people (often very young) saying that they don’t need to bother with exams or thinking about what career they might like, ‘…because ‘I’m gonna be an influencer.’ While of course assuming that they will easily make loadsamoney from it.

People don’t like influencers because some of them:

• don’t disclose adverts, making it look like they paid for something themselves and therefore it’s a more trustworthy recommendation
• photoshop themselves to look better and at the same time sell skincare etc
• are from a very wealthy background but pretend that they are self made and anyone else could have their life. Some even pretend to be skint when they are in fact backed by wealthy parents.

This makes people suspicious and distrustful of all influencers.

That said, in response to the thread title and OP, influencer marketing obviously works for brands (perhaps in part due to the points above making these women’s lives look amazing) so no, it’s not “shallow” to copy them, because that is the whole point and it works.

My thoughts are that you're stirring, and that advertising of one form or another works on us all, no matter how much we would like to think we're superior beings who are above such things.

Not particularly. People who follow influencers aren't an homogenous group, nor are influencers themselves.

However, I do think grouping people, 'othering' them, labelling them negatively and then posting to get a pile on going might just qualify as shallow, and several other things too.

Don't care.

Great chat OP.

Imitation is the sincerest from of flattery,.