They aren’t “real” people either way, even the human ones are just drones reading a script that someone paid them to read.
This is how I think about social media in general. It’s a spectrum from mostly fake to all fake. Even the least fake profiles still only show the good parts of their life and unedited photos are still hand-picked from a bunch of other ones they don’t want people to see.
Hell even my own Pixelfed feed which is 100% landscape photography is all more or less fake. I take hundreds of photos and only publish one or two of the best ones and even those are heavily edited. It gives a totally false impression of how good of an photographer I really am.
Even with people knowing social media is fake or highly edited, It’s really doing a number on people’s mental health.
What a non-story.
They basically asked: In an ad, do you prefer an actor reading out the marketing script or a computer-rendered face?
It feels like a weird study. I can’t tell if the study, or just the article, was trying to make GenZ look like fools yet again, when the actual results found are “GenZ is like a lot of other people in yet another way”.
I dont get why people would care for influencers
I don’t get how people can watch reality shows but apparently they do.
Plus entertainment is a great control tool. Give people enough entertainment and they will never revolt.
If the only way to a revolution is making lives more miserable, is the revolution even worthy? Something, something, accelerationism…
One is temporary, the other is perpetuated for eternity through atrocities.
Personally I despise everything about the idea of influencers. I have yet to see one who wasn’t an outright attention whore or just trying to get free shit.
I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to be paid for being the center of attention. There’s pathological levels to it for sure, but we’re communal, creative creatures. Maybe it depends on how we define influencer, idk. I was gonna comment that younger generations aren’t fully developed physiologically, so the appreciation for fully human influence could be chalked up to that
But isn’t that the whole point of them?
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Why?
I don’t care if it’s a human or a bot trying to sell me something because my ad blocker will make sure I don’t even see it.
Probably because we didn’t care about them in the first place
They have too many followers for that to be true. But I don’t understand why.
I suspect a lot of the influencer numbers are pretty inflated.
Newsflash: adolescents don’t care who is pushing consumerism to them.
I’m ten years you’ll have people identifying as an AI, and grafting on extra fingers.
Extra fingers just sound very useful.
It allows you to count to 12!
12! is a really high number tho
And just imagine all of the shortcuts I could press at the same time while gaming!
I can just imagine it being a competition amongst speedrunners to find out the optimal amount of fingers to any% a certain game the fastest lol
My Gen Z son says these are Alphas and he doesn’t want to be associated with them.
I know every generation says this, but I actually think Gen Z is doomed. They have like 50% support for Hamas lmao, brain rotted by social media and echo chambers
If you think that’s what’s happening, you’ve been in an echo chamber yourself.
Sorry, “only” 37%: https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-hamas-colleges-gen-z-polls-1895668#:~:text=In March%2C Harvard CAPS-Harris,respondents said they backed Israel.
That’s so fuckin depressing lmaoooo what a bunch of idiots
From a shit survey misquoted by a failed Republican sycophant. Echo chamber.
I didn’t even know that dipshit said 50%, but whatever. The Newsweek article I posted says 37%, my apologies. It’s still alarmingly high support for a literal terrorist organization. Brain rotted
Did you read the whole article? Newsweek misrepresented the results by leaving out other answers that clearly demonstrate the vast majority think Hamas is a terrorist organization and the Oct 7th attacks were terroristic and genocidal in intent. The sample size was far too small. You’ll notice they didn’t even tell you what the actual question asked was. There’s a big difference between “do you support Hamas” and “do you support the Palestinian government” or “do you support Palestinian efforts to defend against Israeli attacks?” Surveys in general, and especially ones on politically decisive ideas, are notoriously easy to skew based on subtle differences in how you word questions. I’d recommend you be very suspicious of any report on a survey that doesn’t tell you what was actually asked.
