I am not totally sure how the whole “influencer” thing start or how you achieve “influencer” status. Is it something you aspire to or do you just fall into it by having something go viral? I guess it doesn’t matter as I haven’t much desire to be an influencer, though having money for seemingly doing nothing would be nice.

A couple things that I have noticed about influencers:

• Female influencers tend to
  • Post a lot of clothing “fit check” photos
  • Post videos of their makeup/skincare/hair routines
  • Show more skin to get more clicks/looks/views/likes/shares
  • Share a lot of food videos/pictures
  • Shopping “haul” videos
  • Product reviews…solicited and unsolicited
• Male influencers tend to
  • Post a lot of car videos photos
  • Post a lot of prank videos
  • Post “fit check” photos
  • Share food and alcohol videos/photos
  • Generally are way shallow in content

Did I miss anything? Is this how you get to be an influencer?

Anyway, I don’t know why I wrote about this today. I guess it was just on my mind and was wondering what others thought about the trend of “influencers.” Do you foresee a future with this trend continuing or do you think it will eventually tire itself out?