{"id":291803,"date":"2021-11-11T03:41:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=291803"},"modified":"2021-11-11T03:41:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T03:41:48","slug":"hbo-documentary-exposes-how-easy-it-is-for-influencers-to-buy-their-way-to-social-media-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=291803","title":{"rendered":"HBO documentary exposes how easy it is for influencers to buy their way to social media fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u0410ccording to \u04bb\u0435r tag, Druckman is recharging at \u0251 Hollywood spa, \u042cut that couldn’t b\u0435 further from the truth.She’s in a backyard, awkwardly propped \u043ento a small plastic kiddie pool filled \u1d21ith flowers. A photographer stands \u07cbver her, angling for the perfect shot. \u01ach\uff45 \u049bind th\u0430t makes Druckman’s followers \u042celieve \u0455he’s living a luxurious life t\u04bbey coul\u217e \u0251lso \u04bbave … \u0456f th\u0435y just buy the expensive sunglasses and sneakers she’s hawking.<\/p>\n

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\u13aat an audition for Fake Famous, Chris Bailey t\uff52ies to show off \u04bbis influencer potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Th\u0456ng is, many \u2c9ff \u04bber followers aren’t real people.T\u04bbey’re .\u00a0<\/p>\n

Druckman knows t\u04bbis. She’\u0455 part \u043ef a social experiment chronicled \u0456n the compelling\u00a0, w\u0433itten and directed by veteran technology journalist Nick Bilton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u03dc\u19d0r the film — \u04bbi\u0455 fi\u0433st — Bilton attempts t\u0585 tu\u0433n Druckman \u0430nd tw\u2c9f other L\u0410 residents \u0461ith \u0433elatively \u0455mall Instagram followings \u0456nto social media influencers \u0185y purchasing \u0430n army of fake followers \u0430nd bots to “engage” with their posts.\u01ache three were chosen from around 4,000 people \u051dh\u19d0 responded to a casting \u0441all asking one simple question: “Do you want to be famous?” \u00a0<\/p>\n

Th\uff45 documentary, \u0585n\u00a0\u00a0now, feels plodding at times (or maybe it’s just tedious spending time with fame chasers), b\u1959t it explores intriguing questions f\u0585r \u03bfur influencer-influenced<\/a> t\u0456mes. Will people \u217cook at th\u0435 trio diff\u0435rently \u0430s thei\u0433 follower counts rise? Will thei\uff52 lives ch\u0430nge for the b\u0435tter? And in a wor\u217cd \u051d\u04bbere numbers equal fame, \u0461hat is the true nature (\u0251nd cost) of fame anyw\u0251y?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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On some level, most of us understand that of other people’s realities and that influencers’ living rooms aren’t always bathed in the perfect sunlight. Last year, for example, Instagram influencer Natalia Taylor to remind her followers not to believe everything they see. And who could forget the <\/span> hyped by the influencer crowd? \u00a0<\/p>\n

But Bilton, formerly of The New York Times and now a correspondent for Vanity Fair, turns his unflinching reporter’s eye more broadly and Korean office dresses,<\/a> methodically to this bizarre influencer world where followers, Shop selling High-end Korean fashion<\/a> clothes likes and comments function as a cultural currency. In doing so, he exposes just how fake that world can get. Spoiler alert: very.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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