A Candid Conversation about Influencers

Jairus
2 min readOct 19, 2020

*By the way, group conversations are where you can see people’s true opinions, not stuff slapped on social media for likes and shares. Enjoy!

(A summary of a conversation me and one of my friends had over influencers getting the wrong answers in Mr. Beast’s recent trivia competition)

One of the other people in our chat said:

“They [influencers/tiktokers] generally have the IQ of a potato and the ass size of a yoga ball”

(Some time later…)

If you really think about it who would you rather be:

An influencer with millions of dollars doing fun shit with small iq

Or a person with above average iq slamming them in a group chat who’s probably going to work hard for the rest of their life

I would probably look at influencers as lucky not people to roast

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yeah they are lucky

but still nothing wrong with roasting their idiocy

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Just try and be nicer is all I’m saying

Treat it as if they were listening in

There really isnt anything wrong with being nice

And i think its better for yourself that you try to be nicer instead of how well you can dunk on them

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part of being an influencer is being able to accept criticism

I mean I get what you’re saying

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Yeah but saying how stupid they are isnt criticism

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fair enough

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*productive criticism

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influencers receive lots of opinions both positive and negative

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Yeah

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I might find someone dumb but others might find them normal

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Yeah

I just find it funny that there are all these people throwing unnecessary shade at these rich and successful people

While they are working away at a stupid job that they hate or they’re stuck in school

We should look up to these people, maybe not in intelligence or looks or anything, but at how successful they are

These people are living the dream and i think anyone would love to live like them or be put in their place regardless of what you think about them personally or their content

So why criticize unless they’re doing something offensive or harmful to others or themselves

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that’s true

but I mean these people are a very very small percentage of the population

getting their success through lack of education and hard effort is practically impossible

a lot of these people started their yt careers pretty early on so they have a significant head start

lazarbeam was quite literally bragging about himself dropping out of school

which I find a bit sad

as you said they should be looked up to, but they are not people to get too inspired from

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true

but I guess it goes to show how the internet can determine your whole life in a night

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sure as hell can

Note: I feel that this is how conversations/debates should go, people talking to each other as friends, trying to improve one another, not talking from a place of arrogance or ignorance. However, when someone is talking from arrogance or ignorance, try and help them understand their own point of view rather than mercilessly criticizing them.

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Jairus

A (really) young writer just trying to make their way through our world