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I despise these influencer/content creator types that have made it their career. I remember when making videos and streaming was about fun, not making profit. I don't understand how anyone can watch these fake shitbags for hours and spend ANY amount of money on them or their shitty merch. Every time someone showed me videos of such "content creators" I felt pissed off afterwards. Not because of the people showing them to me, but because of the annoying, loud and capitalist nature of the videos/streams themselves. I just don't get it.
Everything gets commodified in this shithole system. Everything.
Influencers feel more egregious because what they commodify is the sense of human connection and community itself.
But if they weren't doing it, the market would 'innovate' some other person or some other method to do it.
It boils down to loneliness, people want to feel part of a community and streamers provide that very easily. It tells a lot about our current state of society when you think about it.
Exactly right!