what happens when you try to live like an influencer without being an influencer?
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what happens when you try to live like an influencer without being an influencer?
But influencers have cultivated and refined a mode of existing online that has filtered down into the way so many of us navigate online spaces: in the way you craft your profile on LinkedIn, in your font choice for a pic of your houseplant on IG, in the TikTok your coworker cajoles you into making on a slow day at work. The subtle way that... See more
Is Everyone an Influencer Now?
The idea of being a poser, of being driven to do things because it’ll look good and for the satisfaction of knowing someone thinks it looks good, not for the satisfaction of actually doing the thing. Could it be this is more prevalent today, because more eyes are on us all the time with the internet? Because we watch so much TV, we start thinking
... See more“What I’m trying to protect now is presence. The ability to have an experience without immediately narrativizing it for an audience. To feel what I feel without calculating how it would perform. To say “this isn’t for public consumption” and mean it. To have a self that exists outside of how it’s perceived.”
The cost of turning your life into... See more
The cost of turning your life into... See more