Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v...
by tehlike on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:43PM
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+1. While supreme court defines the likes of porn as freedom of expression, it's a different thing for a country to want different kinds of professions to be more common through its immigration system.
Re:Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 v...
by throwaway2037 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:27AM
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Lots of extraordinary athletes are not good role models, yet we still grant them O1 visas. Many of them have many children to different women and are terrible fathers. To me, influencers are like the athletes of the attention economy. In the old world (20+ years ago, before iPhones), media was much more tightly controlled. It was harder to get famous. Now with mobile Internet, a new, parallel fame hierarchy that appeared. To me, most influencers seem like popular people from high school, but they use social media to extend their reach and shelf-life.
When someone describes themselves as an "influencer", it is entirely appropriate to ask what sort of influence they're having, and whether we want that.