Thinking of today's White House gathering of Ticktok 'influencers' and some videos I've been watching about cosmetic plastic surgery where the subjects were referred to as "celebrities and influencers."
Is this the dawn of the age of nondescript influencers whose only purpose is to implant the ideas of the ruling class on the illiterate public?
They're not statesmen or movie stars or musicians or actors or authors; they're not preachers or philosophers or inventors or shamans. They don't do anything at all except well, influence?
This seems so empty, what am I missing?
An "influencer" is any hired gun with an audience, regardless of what they did to get that audience. If George Foreman or Gwyneth Paltrow were using their celebrity to sell someone else's product rather than their own, they would be influencers despite also being an Olympic gold medalist and an actress respectively.