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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The value of being a "hater"

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Influencers and Influencer Brain

I'm shocked how a person can adopt this way of thinking about self. It's all-preservation and it's easier to deal with criticism when you just write off the whole group of people that have anything negative to say as like a hater. But I think in turn, it gives people this kind of brain where there are your enemies and then they're your supporters. That's just what hip hop is. The thing you're describing is this fans versus haters dynamic in a more atomic sense. YouTubers were the first people I remember just constantly kind of talking in this gossip level haters versus fans way or like the phenomenon you'reIdentifying.

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