‘Social media influencer’ requests free hotel stay. Drama ensues

[two sheds]

FFS. One of them owns £100k worth of designer bags and in is having to borrow money from his dad.

Mind you that might only be three of them.

 

[flypanam]

But he has said he won’t buy anymore Hermes bags this year!

But he’s being real now. Mixing chic with cheep.

What a cunt.

 

[editor]

Won't someone think of the poor Influencers now that the market for their freebie-fuelled 'reporting' has collapsed?

 

[editor]

"It's a small business that I've built up over the last six years and I've invested a lot of time in it," she says. "I think people don't necessarily see how much effort goes on behind the scenes - you have to be able to take the photos, edit the videos, send invoices, fix your website, answer emails."

Life on the coal face, people.

 

[Saul Goodman]

What would you do if you started chatting to someone and they said, with a straight face and quite a smug feel in general, that they were a social media influencer?

I'd just silently walk off.

"A social influencer, really? I've heard of them but I've never actually met one. I thought they only existed in the internet. What sort of qualifications do you need for that? Did you have to go to university?"

 

[bmd]

"There's no degree or anything. You just need to be good at being popular. People really connect with me and I give them something to live for. My book is out next week. Do you want me to add you?"

 

[Santino]

I'd probably just be polite and say 'oh really?' or something.

 

[Saul Goodman]

"There's no degree or anything. You just need to be good at being popular. People really connect with me and I give them something to live for. My book is out next week. Do you want me to add you?"

"No thanks. If rather stick red hot needles in my eyes, whilst drinking neat sulphuric acid from from the arse of a rabbid dog"

 

[WouldBe]

But he has said he won’t buy anymore Hermes bags this year!

He could always pawn one or more.

Might even be able to make some money by porning one or more of them.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

A 'follower' doesn't even mean much in the grand scheme of things. Loads of them will probably be bot/fake accounts. It's a bit like me saying to a hotel owner, "Give me a free room. I run a website with 15m posts!"

See you gave it go in the end then editor What's Your Current View?

 

[alex_]

and they said, with a straight face and quite a smug feel in general, that they were a social media influencer?

But other than faffing around on social media, what do you actually do ?