influencer culture
2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2024 by Jonathan Haidt · across every show →
Everything said about influencer culture, oldest first
Jul 10, 2024 negative
Haidt: Young people seek success through social media followers over value creation
“Where I speak to young people, they come to ask me for advice on how to be successful, and some of them have not even thought about what they can do that would be of worth to anyone. All they're focused on is how to get more followers.”
Jul 10, 2024 negative
Friedberg: Accessible influencer celebrity creates status anxiety and personal emptiness
“Nowadays with the influencer culture, the celebrity is accessible, meaning I have access to being in that state. So it creates this deep, dark hole for me, at least this is my read on it, that I can't, I'm not in that state, but I should be, I could be, theref…”