As IF Times

link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/uoJ14xgAIEPL

The linked story above is noteworthy not only for the circumstances surrounding the death of the young lady, since serious issues related to vaccines are becoming more and more difficult to ignore. But that’s another discussion. The interest lies more with the woman’s ‘profession’.

Imagine that as recently as only 5 years ago, you could have told someone that you’ve decided to be a Tik Tok influencer.  No one would have any idea what that was.  The precursor to this of course is the Facebook phenomenon wherein unremarkable people posted pictures of themselves doing, for the most part, unremarkable things. The really adept posters were able to frame their activities as more fun and much better than YOU could experience and hence they created a ‘following’.

In effect these savvy pioneers harnessed the inner envy and voyeuristic urges of most people (mainly women) and created lives to be oohed and ahhed over.  As we know, this activity evolved into other social media platforms that enabled focused commercialization of this ‘look at me’ zeitgeist. People, but mainly women, with only the advantage of youthful attractiveness, could propel themselves to fame and notoriety if they managed to attract the attention of interested voyeurs…and we know there’s an unlimited supply of those.  It’s well known that the Kardashian clan have monetized this dynamic into enormous wealth and fame.

The arrival of Instagram and now Tik Tok has created a veritable cornucopia of ‘talent’ trying to cash in on the ‘look at me’ business.  And it is a lucrative business. Recently, it was reported that Paige Spiranac, a golfer but now a very successful Tik Tokker and Instagrammer, has over 2 million followers to her adventures.  In her case, it’s likely not mostly teenaged girls but rather bug-eyed men. The size of this  audience is not lost on marketers of products as it’s rumored that for Paige to mention or support a product of any kind, would cost a minimum of $20,000.

So it’s a win-win proposition for ‘influencers’.  They do what they want, in some glamorized way, attain fame and maybe get paid a lot of money to do so. This is so much better than the old fashioned way of attaining fame and fortune by trying to become an actor and having to run the Harvey Weinstein gauntlet.  To be sure, like acting, success is not guaranteed, but it’s better than having to get a regular job.

It’s not the intent to sound cynical, because in fact these roles are necessary for the evolution of commerce.  In effect, these influencers, actors etc. are hawkers of products for various manufacturers.

As some may know, the moniker of ‘soap opera’ was coined to refer to television shows in the early 1950’s created solely to attract the viewership of housebound wives to hawk soap.  To this day, all television shows are created only with commercial interest as the objective. So in effect, the ‘influencers’ of today are the evolved exponents of marketing strategies. Nothing wrong with that of course, since logically, you use the skills that are conferred upon you.

I can only imagine the conversations in households as kids inform their parents that they are forgoing an education to become a Tik Tokker.  The parents plead with their kids to do something respectable such as lawyer, accountant …or actor.

Source: Jailed Instagram model wants to trade secrets for freedom

Hardly a day goes by without some breathless headline about the tribulations of some ‘model’ or ‘rapper’. A detached observer will note that the ‘talent’ which these individuals purport to possess are rather marginal at best and likely delusional at worst. If every youngish woman who has ever posed with duck lips and a bikini are models then the USA must be overgrown with models.  If every black person who has ever managed to rhyme two words in verse is considered a rapper, then also, the US is filled to the brim with music talent.

That the media continues to characterize and glamorize the misadventures of very ordinary people as being somehow interesting is a reflection of the ‘look at me’ culture that has taken hold in the last decade of social  culture.  We can lay the blame partly at the feet of the explosion of media conduits that need to fill their pipelines with sensational stories, but really, the root is the proliferation of social media.  Thanks to certain infamous people with no useful skills other than to point a camera at themselves in various stages of undress, an entire generation of impressionable youth, mainly women, have been emulating that kind of narcissistic exhibitionism.

Young women are seemingly obsessed with posting images of themselves, usually in coy or provocative poses. Some are attempting to emulate the template of the Kardashians by pushing the boundaries of tastefulness in order to gain ‘followers’.  Yes, this is a real thing. As we know, much of this is clearly fake news.  A recent article exposed the resulting sad reality behind the fake world that this kind of delusion can cause.  The majority of people would never be able to emulate the kind of lifestyles portrayed by social media stars…including the social media stars.  In the linked story above, would anyone care if the headline read ‘jailed person wants to trade secrets’?  Probably not, but put the word ‘model’ in there and it captures a prurient audience.  If we want a more truthful headline, it may be, ” reasonably attractive woman wants to get out of jail by telling a story”.

Similarly with the liberal use of the label ‘rapper’. When a story emerges about the most recent criminal activity by someone who happens to be black, they are invariably characterized as rappers.  As if that would make their criminal activity less heinous.  Violence in the Black community is so rampant that reporting on it loses its impact day after day after day.  However, if the headlines somehow include ‘rapper’, it may cause some to actually click on the story.  Sensationalism and hyperbole sells and this truth has never been more evident than in today’s zeitgeist.  These days it seems as if people don’t as much make the headlines as headlines make the people.