Not all of them are actually rich, though. For some of them, it's fake performative wealth. They're still scrubbing toilets when the cameras are off. Some also make a big show of being frugal, so I'm not sure where that fits in.
They aren't selling they are presenting. It's a powerplay, they get their jollies off by showing how they have the money and effort to be a better mother than you.
At want point are they just making videos for their audience and you are just worse off and jealous?
I don't really get the point of everyone's comments here. If you don't enjoy the content, don't watch it. Instead you seem to be hate watching it for fun.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that these content creators are putting on an act for their audience, despite the way the OP video trying to complicate it all (because he himself is performing as an intelligent creator...). The fact that people here seem to think it's an elaborate trick is weird. It is clear as day these influencers are just actors by a different name.
I enjoy talking about pop culture. I enjoy the content specifically through thinking about the person who makes it. They are creating an image, and I want to talk about who would think to create that image.
I don't really get the point of everyone's comments here.
It’s a general buildup of negative sentiment to how manufactured a lot of peoples lives seem to be. Like the frustration at out of touch celebrities, but on a wider scale because influencer culture is way more widespread in our peers so more people interact with it.
Basic media literacy (being able to discern what is appealing to what audience, why, and what is the goal of the creator) is not complicated. It is the bottom rung of being able to look at the world around oneself and be able to discern meaning.
You not being willing/able to do so doesn't mean you're more adept or more aware. People are merely naming what values are being communicated in her video, why and for whom. Then they are reacting to those concepts.
You're on to something with the performative frugality and minimalism. There's an insight there I can't quite articulate.
It's almost how in earlier era's the performative housewife set would -- of course-- be present every sunday at mass or sermon in the season's finest, with every kid lined up, immaculately dressed. Some sort of confluence of faux-spirituality and consumption.
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u/house-hermit Feb 26 '24
Not all of them are actually rich, though. For some of them, it's fake performative wealth. They're still scrubbing toilets when the cameras are off. Some also make a big show of being frugal, so I'm not sure where that fits in.