{"id":33640,"date":"2021-03-04T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=33640"},"modified":"2021-03-04T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T02:39:14","slug":"briefly-want-a-free-watch-just-become-a-low-rent-influencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=33640","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Want a free watch? Just become a low-rent \u2018influencer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever wondered how the social media world works for so-called \u201cinfluencers\u201d? I find it comical, so I thought I\u2019d share with you. I frequently get offers such as what I\u2019m about to describe. And if I\u2019m getting such offers \u2014 as a relative nobody in the online world \u2014 you can only imagine what people with huge audiences are offered. It starts with an email appealing to my ego: \u201cWe came across your online presence and we LOVE your style. We\u2019d love to have you as one of our Brand Ambassadors. To celebrate our new [Brand Name] collection, we want to give you a FREE Watch so you can post a picture of you wearing it and drive more exposure to our brand.\u201d<\/em> Did you hear that? They love me. They want me to be seen wearing their cheap $59 watch so other people will think, \u201cIf this amazing influencer wears that, surely I should buy one.\u201d<\/em> They even offer me commissions on the watches sold from people clicking from my site. So the next time you see some alleged \u201cinfluencer\u201d touting something online or on social media, remember that this is what it\u2019s probably all about. It\u2019s laughable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered how the social media world works for so-called \u201cinfluencers\u201d? I find it comical, so I thought I\u2019d share with you. I frequently get offers such as what I\u2019m about to describe. And if I\u2019m getting such offers \u2014 as a relative nobody in the online world \u2014 you can only imagine Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8KA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33645,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33640\/revisions\/33645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}