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Are you influenced by influences?

  • 16-08-2024 1:19pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,681 ✭✭✭✭


    With Tommy Fury and Molly Mar breaking up. Some are very put out by it.

    I scroll through social media a good bit. I'd see lots of women on about make up/clothes which wouldn't really be for me being a 31 year old man.

    Guys generally into health and fitness and clothes from Zara more so.

    I always feel totally out of my depty with people who follow these people and are influenced and I feel it's a bit boring.

    I might buy a bar of chocolate if I saw it mentioned.

    Are you influenced by influences?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,847 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    Nope. No idea who most of them are. I imagine that's more to do with my age than anything else.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,578 ✭✭✭✭Geuze




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    No but some of them have nice tits even if they are fake. Good content there if ur looking for a quick tug.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,032 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    I don't think I know any influencers. Sometimes people are referred to, like in the OP, but I ever know who they are.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,197 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I don't know who either of those people are and I struggle to think of a more insipid profession than influencer.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,319 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    It's not stupid, it's modern marketing.

    Some of us, like myself are not the demographic, but these people are popular with the target demographic.

    I follow a thing called "The Padded Seat" it's a guy reviewing sports hospitality, everything from the eight tier of English soccer to the final of Euro 2024.

    Am I influenced by him ?

    Hell yeah, after watching his reviews I'd love to splash out on a hospitality package to a event.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,249 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Sort of.

    I have used content by travel youtubers, who could be considered influencers, to decide on specific things to see/do/transport to take; but I didn't decide to travel somewhere due to them.

    That's the full extent of it I think.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,197 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I know what it is. It's just depressing seeing people desperately watching marketing with their mouths wide open whereas the previous generation used to avoid it as much as possible.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,817 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Hell yeah, after watching his reviews I'd love to splash out on a hospitality package to a event.

    Some of the lower league clubs look like great value for money for a one off event if you were in the area. That guy has a nice manner about him as well, it's like he's showing it, but he's not showing off in showing it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,817 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Don't think I'm personally influenced by influencers, but again, I'm no longer the demographic.

    As I see them (I don't go Instagram/FB and Twitter is people I follow only) sometimes I pay attention to them if I like their manner or style of communicating, but I can't say I've ever consciously seen one of them talk about something and told myself I must go for that.

    I will never buy a Tesla because of the head of that company. Does that mean I'm influenced by influencers? Probably, I suppose.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    I would like to think not.



  • Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭ledwithhedwith


    the only thing worse than celebrity worshippers are people who think they are so intelligent and edgy for not caring. Lol



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    I'm not interested in fashion, beauty, fitness, or parenting so I'm not the right demographic for most of it. That seems to be the majority of the content for women.

    But I will admit to being influenced by cleaning videos. I don't know how it happened. I hate housework, but suddenly I'm obsessed with my spin mop and Scrub Daddy damp dusters.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Wouldn't have a clue tbh.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Im proud to say I couldn't give a sh*t about anything celebrity.

    I lived with a girl who hated Love Island but watched it else she would be left out of the conversations in work. It was tragic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,993 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    I nearly gave Melania the boot this morning when I heard the news about Tommy Fury.

    Luckily for her she was barricaded over in the West Wing of Mar-a-Largo for long enough until I got distracted and forgot about it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,575 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    InfluencIed to havte the narcissistic brain-dead overvalued kunts.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,558 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    I follow two cooking things does that count?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,681 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I think deciding to make a recipe or clean your kitchen using a hack is fine.

    However I think it's a little different when you wear the same clothes, throw out stuff because somebody else is doing it, decorate your living room like them and basically want to copy somebody else's lifestyle in almost every way.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭nachouser


    I overheard someone in work mentioning Tommy and Molly broke up. I naturally assumed they were talking about a friend or maybe someone who works in the company. Now this thread makes sense. Thanks op:-)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,319 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    I know an influencer who is part of extended family.

    I forget the number of followers but it's tens of thousands rather than millions.

    They get loads of free stuff and a bit of money on the side.

    Mainly food related but a couple of side hustles too.

    The only problem I have with it is when I go to dinner at their house there's often a delay while the lighting is sorted to photograph the grub.

    It's always delicious though a little cold 😊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭L Grey


    I dont really follow that type of person.

    To be influenced to buy something, it would have to fall within my own interests.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,090 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    Not influencers as such, but I do follow some travel bloggers on Instagram and YouTube, I also follow some people who post about DIY and sustainable living.

    I'm not interested in their lives, just the stuff they post. The more there are the more you can choose who you want to follow, it makes a lot more choice then watching travel programmes or cookery programs on terrestrial TV and such.

    There is much more choice out there now, which I think is a good thing. The internet has also given a platform for so many more people now, as opposed to those that know someone in rte etc ( Donal Skehan for example)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,679 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    It kind of wrecks my head that seemingly intelligent people watch love island. It's just utterly cheap and tacky misogynistic miserable porn.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,843 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    everyone on our road waits for me to put the bin out first, to see if it's green bin or black bin collection.

    i'm a binfluencer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    im heavily heavily influenced I have to admit. But it more influences what I research and not what I do. I dont follow anything blindly. I mean if I was stupid enough to believe anything garry brekka says I would believe that salt cures migraines. If I listened to jordan peterson I would probably be impersonating a lobster every morning. The twit. man the tripe that twit says about the double helix :)

    But I research everything all those types say. And like panning for gold I occasionally come up trumps. Brekkas recommendation for premethylated B vitamins for example was perfect for me. Even Peterson — for all his nonsense - has dropped things into my life that ive tried out and adopted.

    The love hate approach doesnt work. Listen to them all. Try stuff out. And find what works for you. Throw the rest out. Don't hate the messanger. Distill the message.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,616 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I wouldn’t agree with all of Petersons personal opinions but unlike most influencers, he more than just an influencer ….Peterson is eminently qualified to speak about his work and psychology …two bachelor's degrees in political science and psychology from the University of Alberta and then a PhD in clinical psychology from McGill University and has published award winning books on the subject… So a qualified doctor of psychology… he lectures and beyond just qualifications he also has as a lot of actual frontline practical experience working in that field treating people.

    He gets politicised labeled as right wing and is the victim of vile abuse and deranged derision from the more lunatic fringes of the left because he simply is out there, challenging some of these new lunatic views ..verging on ‘norms’ that some people want to influence and inflict on society to embrace now….who want to bully society in to accepting.

    In contrast….A lot of influencers have next to no verifiable qualifications or relevant or enough experience in their chosen field of waffle.

    Fitness influencers who just like the gym and have been going 15 years, now know it all, don’t have any qualifications in fitness, sport or any of the health sciences…psychology influencers who have read a book or two on the subject and possibly have had treatment themselves and so on, now know it all because they’ve read books and spent time taking with a person who does know it all. !……allll now supposedly qualified to speak and advise. Because technology just now provides an immediacy and accessible platform for their egos and words.

    Experts over influencers, every time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    Peterson once said that you cant get over alcohol addiction unless you are religious. He talks some serious SHITE sometimes. I disagree with him strongly on so many things.

    But he has said very good things too and undeniably has set many young men on the right path.

    There is no love/hate with these people. They say a lot of stuff…. the trick is not to take them at their word but TRY everything they say.



  • Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭ledwithhedwith


    That is moronic. I suspect she enjoyed it but didn’t want to admit that to yourself. Nobody wastes the middle of their evening every night in the summer if they hate it.



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