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The end of social media

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Influencer Culture

I'm glad you brought up influencer culture because one of the ways that social media success has been justified is like, look, at least you can make a living at this and you can do it kind of as your own boss. But that whole influencer culture is a really weird kind of sad, grifty spectacle. My God, I don't know if you've experienced wellness Instagram, but who boy? yeah. It's a scene. Yeah. It's the greatest experiment and sublimated narcissism in human history. That idea that you should be able to make a live at your voice only adds more weight to the burden of that social illness.

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