‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
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I currently scrub toilets for a living while I'm back at school for a mid-life career change. I work ten hours tonight, my feet are still a bit sore from my shift two days ago.
Suck it up, buttercup, get a real job. I'm not sharing all of this to sound like I'm better, I'm sharing this to show what a significant chunk of people do for a living, Joe Jobs.
Being a social media influencer isn't a job for most people, it's a vanity hobby.
You are better.
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Firstly, let's call them what they are, hucksters.
Secondly, I cannot think of anything I give a shit less about than their burnout at making internet videos of themselves.
If you've talked yourself into a world where you must be on social media, you are absolutely fucked. Get out. now.
More like discontent creators amiright?
I've taken to calling them effluencers.
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‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
Their jobs are seen as glamorous but the new reality for many is workplace stress and ‘complete fatigue’
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
I’m so glad I was young before this stupid reality happened. I have a regular job and no desire for internet fame.
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‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
Their jobs are seen as glamorous but the new reality for many is workplace stress and ‘complete fatigue’
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
So they can't keep selling their soul and dignity without consequences.
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You are better.
No I'm not, walking down that path leads to arrogance and unearned pride. I just live in reality, instead of falling prey to the lies of false riches in the social media popularity contest.
Seek for your own answers and Know Thyself. Please, all of you that are always on social media. Withdraw, do not fall prey to the Siren's Tale of the Glory of Achilles. Instead, seek a good life, one that is quiet, and belongs to you.
Do not become a false god, you cannot live up to that burden.
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Boo hoo, losers. Your device has a power switch. Influencers have a warped and inflated sense of the value they create. They can stop at any time and use their skills in other ways.
Making good content is hard, but ‘good’ content doesn’t have an expiration date. Shallow brain-rot content does and that’s what the algorithms reward.
The entitlement that influencers have is nauseating. There are many creators out there laboring in near obscurity and producing useful content all the time for little or no compensation.
They are tools for Zuck and fools for propping his platforms up. It sounds like a hard slog, but they can stop any time.
You're making enemies of your own team. These people are creatives, doing a job they love, and a corporate algorithm forces them to destroy their work life balance to keep doing what they love. And you're belittling them. You need a reality check, these people are not your enemy.
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‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
Their jobs are seen as glamorous but the new reality for many is workplace stress and ‘complete fatigue’
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
The responses in this thread are sick. So much vitriol for members of your own class who are just trying to make a living doing what they love and creating things.
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So they can't keep selling their soul and dignity without consequences.
None of us can. It's just a job, just they get even more shit on because they're more public facing figures.
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I currently scrub toilets for a living while I'm back at school for a mid-life career change. I work ten hours tonight, my feet are still a bit sore from my shift two days ago.
Suck it up, buttercup, get a real job. I'm not sharing all of this to sound like I'm better, I'm sharing this to show what a significant chunk of people do for a living, Joe Jobs.
Being a social media influencer isn't a job for most people, it's a vanity hobby.
This is the most boomer take I've ever seen on this website. And that includes what few conservatives have filtered in.
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‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
Their jobs are seen as glamorous but the new reality for many is workplace stress and ‘complete fatigue’
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
I heard someone talking about a content creator they watch, and how that creator basically can't take a vacation without losing tons of followers and potentially a major chunk of their income.
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More like discontent creators amiright?
I've taken to calling them effluencers.
effluencers
It perfectly describes their contribution to this reality. Thank you.
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You're making enemies of your own team. These people are creatives, doing a job they love, and a corporate algorithm forces them to destroy their work life balance to keep doing what they love. And you're belittling them. You need a reality check, these people are not your enemy.
Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.
It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.
The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.
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‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
Their jobs are seen as glamorous but the new reality for many is workplace stress and ‘complete fatigue’
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
This whole article is nothing but "waaaaaahhhhhh".
They should shut up and just enjoy doing something they're having an easier time doing, than grinding your average 9-5 job. Do they really think they're the only people on the planet?
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Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.
It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.
The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.
Facebook isn't the only site these people use...
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Facebook isn't the only site these people use...
Zuck owns more than Facebook, too. ANY big social media platform is similarly toxic.
These people have co-opted our social discourse for evil causes. And they aren’t the only way to share work online.
Creative people do not have a right to my admiration if they provide fresh bait that the oligarchs use to degrade democracy and civil society
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This whole article is nothing but "waaaaaahhhhhh".
They should shut up and just enjoy doing something they're having an easier time doing, than grinding your average 9-5 job. Do they really think they're the only people on the planet?
Yes, they do. Sitting alone in a room, creating video content creates a self-centered and narcissistic worldview. It doesn’t matter how many followers you have you are not really interacting with a single one of them. Get out of your house and meet people in your neighborhood, share your work with them then I’ll be impressed
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Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.
It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.
The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.
Curious who signs your paychecks?
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effluencers
It perfectly describes their contribution to this reality. Thank you.
I'm hoping it catches on. Spread it around.
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Zuck owns more than Facebook, too. ANY big social media platform is similarly toxic.
These people have co-opted our social discourse for evil causes. And they aren’t the only way to share work online.
Creative people do not have a right to my admiration if they provide fresh bait that the oligarchs use to degrade democracy and civil society
The question isn't about admiration, it's about considering them worthy of being respected as fellow human beings who are also struggling. You're just shitting on them because the way they make their living is more directly linkable to sources you don't like.
Every job is going to be that way, one way or another. Even many charities will have shady ties somewhere, that most of the volunteers and employees don't know shit about. Shitting on these people because you don't respect the things they're linked to, and ultimately have no control over, is petty and meaningless. It devalues them as humans, and as much as I'm sure you don't think so, they're still human. And deserve to be treated as such.
If they're like the Pauls or something, I can see criticizing them for being shitty people... but that's not what you're doing, you're shitting on them for being part of a system that exists whether they make use of it or not. And will continue to exist whether they use it or not.
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I heard someone talking about a content creator they watch, and how that creator basically can't take a vacation without losing tons of followers and potentially a major chunk of their income.
Yep, this exactly. They can never clock out at the end of the day. It isn’t 8 hours of work and you’re done. You’re having to constantly try to innovate. Make tons of content, spend so much time editing, constant filming, constant planning. And if you deviate in your schedule, or upload some content that isn’t interesting, the algorithm punishes you and you may even get people that unsubscribe.
Must be hell when you can’t afford to take a vacation from that content creator life. Can never really “switch off”. Plus the fact that less than 1% actually make it big, and it’s mostly based on luck plus years and years of determination.
