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I don't think today's "influencers" are any different from yesterday's movie and TV celebs - we just now have better way to enable our vapidity.
Before we'd only have our direct entourage to compare ourselves to - now we have the whole world.
I think this phenomenon has always existed indigenously, similar to trends, it is now at a global scale.
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I don't think today's "influencers" are any different from yesterday's movie and TV celebs - we just now have better way to enable our vapidity.
Before we'd only have our direct entourage to compare ourselves to - now we have the whole world.
I think this phenomenon has always existed indigenously, similar to trends, it is now at a global scale.