Comment on The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 6 months agoI’m curious and confused on the “influencer” part. My understanding was influencers are just people with “popularity” (manufactured users usually) pushing products in a “native ad” sort of way, never attributed it to general youtubers unless there’s something about the creator I’m unaware of.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I used the term loosely to include the average “YouTuber”, a term I hadn’t thought of. I tend not to watch any of them.
Moneo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dismissing youtubers for being youtubers reminds me of people who dismiss all animation because “kids are for cartoons” or whatever. When I think of “influencer” I think of an instagram model who pushes products on their followers. “Youtuber” includes many content creators who devote hours into researching, writing, filming, and editing high quality, entertaining, and educational content.
Jenny is on the low end of the spectrum in terms of basically all of those categories (I love her though), but channels like CaptainD, Contrapoints, Philosophy Tube and Folding Ideas create extremely high quality content that (in my opinion) surpasses education content coming out of any studio.
tl;dr: Dismissing youtube channels as “influencers” is narrow minded and may prevent you from enjoying content you would otherwise find to be of extremely high quality.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fair point
Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To be fair she does actually lightly use the word in this video to describe herself, but only in order to describe how Disney as a company might view her.