AUDIENCE CAPTURE - How "Influencers" Become Brainwashed by Their Audiences
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AUDIENCE CAPTURE - How "Influencers" Become Brainwashed by Their Audiences
My TikTok NPC essay captures the full phenomenon of our Internet crisis: influencers are taking on slavish, robotic personas to feed the dope-addled masses who want endlessly looping catch phrases.
A creator always does something to the masses: entertain, persuade, manipulate, etc. But an overwhelming amount of discourse puts the artist, content creator, or public-facing cultural contributor first. The agent. The one in control.
What’s less discussed is the other direction of this relationship: WHAT CAN AN AUDIENCE DO TO A CREATOR?
Matt Klein • Page Not Found
how the three members of this influencer-algorithm-crowd trinity influence and respond to one another, with platforms offering the capacity for attention and reach—influence-as-a-service—to creators, who produce content carefully tailored to both the algorithm and their niche audiences.
Renee DiResta • Invisible Rulers
This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized world lures us to be who strangers wish us to be. And with personal development so arduous and lonely, there is ease and comfort in crowdsourcing your identity. But amid such temptations, it's worth re... See more