So picked off the streets for a show, BBC liked what they saw with her on it and gave her her own show? Not trying to knock the girl. She's made a good career for herself and shines a light on things we'd rather stay in the dark, but it still feels like it could have been pretty much anyone hosting the show, or the traditional approach of a news reporter or correspondent getting to spread their wings.
Coronavirus: Influencers' glossy lifestyles lose their shine
Coronavirus: Influencers' glossy lifestyles lose their shine
Advertisers are cancelling contracts with influencers who can’t travel to create content in lockdown.www.bbc.co.uk
"Israel Cassol - better known as Birkin Boy for his collection of designer handbags worth over £100,000 - is paid hundreds of pounds to attend events and feature brands on his Instagram account. Now he says he has to borrow money from his father to make ends meet. "
His "job" is to take a handbag with him to an event. Get fucked pal
Karen Beddow left her job as a lawyer four years ago to run her family travel blog, Mini Travellers.
This month she's made just £350, down 95% from January.
You had a job, that would have paid your income. Instead, you went down a easier, riskier route. Unlucky
"On Twitter, countless bloggers have posted links to donation platforms on social media, asking people to buy them gifts or send money to #spreadkindness. "
Un-f***ing-lucky. Your pretend job doesn't really exist.
Tabby Warley is a part-time Instagrammer who has been furloughed from her day job in retail. She would have expected to earn around £5,000 through brand partnerships in the coming months but has seen a slowdown in business.
"I'm very lucky that my Instagram is a supplementary income that I'm saving for a house deposit one day," she says. "Obviously clothing retailers have shut down; a couple have gone into administration that I usually work with.
"In the pre-corona world, the trend was for businesses to throw money at influencer marketing..."
The world has gone mad. When will we see that all of these brands are just extracting money from people. Clearly, there's a group of people who simply have too much money and can waste it on vast arrays of luxury goods to the point these brands are making a fortune, and literally throwing cash at people - fuck those people, tax them and get that money into our public services rather than into the pockets of billionaires. Then you have normal people who feel obligated into spending what little money they have, taking out loans to buy £5,000 handbags that are made of £20 of leather and 10minutes time from 13 year old in a Chinese sweatshop.
This culture we live in absolutely disgusts me.
One is exposed to millions of awful people that eats away at their self confidence.
So Caroline Flint wasn’t an influencer then? That was my point.
Which one? Surely they both do?
I think it's just maybe our mentality. We know the actor selling us Nescafe may never drink the stuff and is doing it for some money. But it's an advert, or a poster campaign linked to a tv advert of us being told all the aromatic wonders their new blend does to our nose. The social media advertising is like product placement. Tacky. At the core its the same - we want to be like the famous people so buy the things they have or appear to have, but yet a run of the mil advert feels more honest and not underhand.
I'm not that old but I don't understand how or why people get caught up in the influence kind of fame. Whether its someone who started as a true nobody, or someone who had someone else's fame to start off from, such as the Kardashian women. I get YouTube influence more because at times it can be like bitesize tv. But people can usually get involved in their own way if its video game stuff as people will try the stuff they see in the videos or try to emulate and all that. But really don't get the more social side of it in a sense of if x turns up to a party with y product it's gonna boost sales! Or as to why people want x at their party in the first place. I guess I just don't see what the person is putting in to get the fame/fortune out of the other side.I think it’s just old people kicking off about stuff they don’t understand.
Fair point.
The lass with a 95% reduction in income used to earn 7k a month running a travel blog? I’m in the wrong game. This is why I don’t support the government propping up the self employed. Most of them can’t wait to tell you how much they earn and how they don’t pay tax or having some swindle going.Coronavirus: Influencers' glossy lifestyles lose their shine
Coronavirus: Influencers' glossy lifestyles lose their shine
Advertisers are cancelling contracts with influencers who can’t travel to create content in lockdown.www.bbc.co.uk
"Israel Cassol - better known as Birkin Boy for his collection of designer handbags worth over £100,000 - is paid hundreds of pounds to attend events and feature brands on his Instagram account. Now he says he has to borrow money from his father to make ends meet. "
His "job" is to take a handbag with him to an event. Get fucked pal
Karen Beddow left her job as a lawyer four years ago to run her family travel blog, Mini Travellers.
This month she's made just £350, down 95% from January.
You had a job, that would have paid your income. Instead, you went down a easier, riskier route. Unlucky
"On Twitter, countless bloggers have posted links to donation platforms on social media, asking people to buy them gifts or send money to #spreadkindness. "
Un-f***ing-lucky. Your pretend job doesn't really exist.
Tabby Warley is a part-time Instagrammer who has been furloughed from her day job in retail. She would have expected to earn around £5,000 through brand partnerships in the coming months but has seen a slowdown in business.
"I'm very lucky that my Instagram is a supplementary income that I'm saving for a house deposit one day," she says. "Obviously clothing retailers have shut down; a couple have gone into administration that I usually work with.
"In the pre-corona world, the trend was for businesses to throw money at influencer marketing..."
The world has gone mad. When will we see that all of these brands are just extracting money from people. Clearly, there's a group of people who simply have too much money and can waste it on vast arrays of luxury goods to the point these brands are making a fortune, and literally throwing cash at people - fuck those people, tax them and get that money into our public services rather than into the pockets of billionaires. Then you have normal people who feel obligated into spending what little money they have, taking out loans to buy £5,000 handbags that are made of £20 of leather and 10minutes time from 13 year old in a Chinese sweatshop.
This culture we live in absolutely disgusts me.
The amount of times I've seen that line pushed out by people. Its a completely terrible argument.
Kardashians are part of the Hollywood elites iirc. Producers and all that. They didn't just "leap out of nowhere" like they'd have you believe. Its all (literally ALL) fake.
Youbdont see the difference between some Hollywood actor with agents and a lass from byker that relies on likes?
I get your point, but I think that comment is wildly unfair. Having been self-employed myself, navigating the tax systems was a right pain in the arse, but totally necessary as nobody wants to be knacked by the revenue.
And Joe's missus.
