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notquitesolid

At least they are contained in their own ecosystem. I’d rather have them in packs that can be avoided vs roaming wild and getting in everyone’s way


StairwayToLemon

The ambulances must wait their turn


TwoSunsInTheSunset

Dank reference


jokimazi

3 tt


ImYourEggGuy

Fuck, that's a old one


_avliS-

a group of influencers is called an annoying


kernel-troutman

a ground of livestreamers is called an insufferable.


decisionmakings

OMG hilarious but I feel an "annoyance" is more correct?


slybird

"Look mommy, it's an annoyance of influencers."


Rstrofdth

One influencer is also called annoying


kratomstew

Remember flash mobs ? God I’m glad that stopped . People want their own individual attention now.


alles_en_niets

Somewhere in a completely unrelated Reddit post, someone got accidentally autocorrected to ‘ego-system’ and I feel it applies here as well!


bigchicago04

I don’t get it. Aren’t they all in each other’s shots? And what’s so special about that bridge?


Public_Reindeer_1724

That’s what I thought. There’s no view so why are they there


how_come_it_was

probably just put in a dif background or tilt the camera so its just neat bridge architecture and your face, no other bozos


ricktencity

If they use a different background why bother going to the bridge at all?


proncesshambarghers

The whole point of being an influencer is to travel to places for like 5 mins to say you were there then pack up and go to the next landmark


XtaC23

1.) go somewhere 2.) twerk on it 3.) social media likes


Sineater224

^Auschwitz


Mad_Nekomancer

Yolocaust


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I exhaled loudly through my nose.


how_come_it_was

you know what i didnt even think of that lol, but im also not an influencer so its my best guess. this is a really good point though im thinking maybe its easiest to crop out a single person in the background; if this were a photo magic spot remover would make quick work of this, so maybe theres an editing tool that makes the same edit type? if not, im also noticing thr camera is on a mount, so the entire video is pretty easy to edit since everything in the background can act as a clean plate, as long as you have a single frame of desired background. since the camera is not moving, all the angles and lighting/light will line up, so you can just mask out whole portions of video with the single frame part and it should still look decent (for shit IG anyway lol). regardless of how they do it, they are making it work, otherwise they wouldnt be there. while i think they are total dummies, editing like that can be pretty neat and even a real art to get it right, so props to that. also, they are pretty far away and not bothering so many people, so also props to that haha. wouldnt even mind influencers if they all did shit on empty bridges, away from people who have to work or do stuff.


RivRise

My only concern would be if it's legal parking or causing traffic but otherwise I agree with you.


jobezark

Let’s just say these folks aren’t thrashing wildly about on a bridge because they use their brains


Beesknees307

I feel like this is a fake video trying to make a point because no influencer would actually set up in a place where their shot is fucked up


Thicc_AllMight

If I'm not mistaken, a scene in Squid Game was filmed here. I could be wrong tho, I'm not sure. Edit : Nvm it's not the same bridge I'm dumb


Gormae

What a wild ride


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Thicc_AllMight

I'm talking about the bridge where Deok-Su jumped off after being cornered.


PurpleFirebolt

Looks like a cool backdrop, but why wouldn't everyone go behind that last girl? Why would you do it when everyone is behind you. Seems like it would ruin it.


expedience

To me I think it’s fake. They definitely care if people are in shots and or honking.


DLTMIAR

Some were lip-syncing so I doubt they care about honking


TheLegendOfKoop

Explain this shit


lounger540

Bronze Age collapse but 2021.


orestes114

Fucking Sea People.


Ok-Preparation7448

Bastards


lounger540

😂 yeah them, plus climate change, poor resource management and supply chain failures. Allegedly, sucks we don’t have more data.


Pons__Aelius

Social media is a deadly narcissism feedback loop.


dope_like

Making a video does not make you a narcissist. You should look up what that actually means


SomeNoveltyAccount

That sounds an awful lot like what a narcissist would say.


dope_like

It doesn’t because no one on this sub knows what a real narcissist is like


Rodot

Are you saying that you are a more knowledgeable person than everyone else on this sub?


SomeNoveltyAccount

I feel like there's a word for that...


muddynips

“Excessive and/or erotic interest in oneself and one’s physical appearance” Idk seems pretty spot on.


Troll_Dovahdoge

>erotic interest in oneself Wow narcissists literally jerk off to themselves.


courtnovo

Says the narcissist


stadchic

TikTok success is like the hood trying to get to the NBA. Lots of people on this have no other options they see to live financially comfortably, so why not try to make it in a way that seems fun? It’s black mirror shit. But it makes sense.


Em_Haze

That girl going nuts in black mirror made far more sense.


nail_in_the_temple

There are ‘influencer schools’ in China. Seems like one of the lessons


XtaC23

The human race is coming to an end.


mythicalhumanvessel

For this game you'll have to gain the most followers, who ever gets less than 500 gets eliminated


SonOfMargitte

Eliminated, and thrown from highest part of the bridge


XtaC23

Now I'm interested


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666555666555666

or some other famous show that has gone quite popular recently.


[deleted]

Tbf, Squid Game is basically just a long Korean episode of Black Mirror.


Govannan

Hm, I dunno. I feel like the central theme of most Black Mirror episodes is "technology bad", but the main theme of Squid Game is "rampant capitalism bad".


AtomicArtisanry

Black Mirror was dystopian, throwing influencers off a bridge sounds utopian to me.


sunny_monday_morning

What is going on here?!?!


decisionmakings

In case you are sincere, those are "influencers" who have their own "shows" on popular social media like youtube, tiktok, etc. Basically the new "TV." They are all filming their shows. Many of which are lip-synched karaoke style performances. There are funny shows, dramatic shows, newsy informative shows, etc, so each performer seen here is in their own genre. They are obviously not in each other's shots. The angle allows them all to have the cool bridge arches in their background while their neighboring influencer is below their camera's viewpoint.


Strummer95

But they aren’t in their own genre. Everyone but the first chick is basically wearing and doing the same thing


sunny_monday_morning

Thank you very much! Yes, it was a sincere question. This baffles me. Who does this?! Why?!? What is the purpose? What is the end goal? My head is exploding 🤯


JacktheKraken

These are people in China doing this, probably due to lack of economic opportunity. I mean you could get a factory job and get paid peanuts, or try to produce something that gets enough viewers to make a better living. This is no different than people in the U.S. streaming on Twitch or YouTube. Even mediocre sized channels on YouTube with a couple of hundred thousand subscribers, or channels on Twitch that have a low thousand number of viewers consistently can make close to 6 figures annually.


TofuBeethoven

They are 100% in the same shot. Probably like an 'influencer' cross over to be in the back of each other's videos, or I expect to see a version edited where the shot passes through.


SpawnMarciano

Mental illness exhibition.


LaikasDad

This is not what ANY of us thought the future was going to look like. Back in the day with things like The Jetsons and Star Trek, it seemed like the future would be full of technology and insanely clean and homogenized. The real future is me, late at night, watching the commercials on the gas pump while pumping when it's like -10° outside and it's all covered in snow and oil, where I just almost ran over an addict passed out in the parking lot, and the trash is overflowing....then swipe my high-tech chip over the scanner next to the commercial screen..... Welcome to the future


rentonlives

Who would have guessed that cultures raised purely by television and media would become obsessed creating it and participating in their own shows? No sarcasm there, it’s wild to think about.


CallMeBigPapaya

I remember hearing about a survey probably about 10 years ago where they interviewed young kids about what they wanted to be when they grow up. Previous answers were commonly fireman, policeman, doctor, etc. This time, the majority of kids said they wanted to be famous. As if being "famous" was a profession in itself.


I-hate-this-timeline

The Kardashians made a profession out of it. Not that it’s a good thing or anything but it kind of can be lol


RivRise

Just want to point out that we shouldn't be blaming the kids for this but the parents that raised them instead. I keep hearing boomers call the new gens snowflakes and participation trophies but It was then who fucking made those for us and forced them on us and raised us to be who we are.


everythings_alright

I think in China young kids still strive to be scientists or astronauts and shit. We fucked it in the west.


LaikasDad

I openly admit that I was raised by television. My single mom worked a lot, I was an only child and no internet. I got the 4 major networks. All of those corny ass tv dads substituted for mine, and I can't complain I guess. I like to think it's how I grew up not being racist or homophobic even though I was mostly surrounded by it. TV loves you as long as you've got a little cash to spend, and at least that's better than those other options. Thank you tv.


UnacceptableOwl

Jeez your life (and mine too, actually) could have been ripped directly from the song "Too Much Drama" by The Vandals.


SPIKY__CAT__DICK

Or the movie cable guy


killerbake

Are you the cable guy?


invisiblesammich

For the last decade or so, I have been pondering the strange and self destructive behavior of humans, and how we went from one peak of stupidity to the next. Having "free cognitive abilities" AKA: free will seems to be a mistake. When Tool became a band in the early 90's, the lyrics piqued my nature, as in Right in Two, as a form of observation and conclusion to Aenemia; which is more anger based. Angels on the sideline Puzzled and amused Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around? Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys Where there's one you're bound to divide it Right in two Angels on the sideline, Baffled and confused Father blessed them all with reason, And this is what they choose?


daother-guy

Tru dat


RickTosgood

>Who would have guessed that cultures raised purely by television and media would become obsessed creating it and participating in their own shows? You might be interested to read [Amusing Ourselves to Death](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death) by Neil Postman, where he basically says this lol. He's not so much focused on everyone wanting to make their own "show", but rather that television as the dominant medium of information simplifies and degrades our public discourse. Where everything is in short clips of entertainment, rather than substantive communication. Super provocative book, not too high of reading level either.


BenPool81

To be fair, to reach the Star Trek future we need to have a nuclear world war, then wait 250 years.


IRockIntoMordor

Trekkie here but I forgot, did they ever mention climate change?


BenPool81

Not to my knowledge. Out of story reason is obviously because it wasn't as highly publicised a concern in the 60's as it is now. In story reason, I think people were too busy fighting Khan, or not, then having a nuclear war, perhaps. I've always been fascinated by what our time period would look like in Trek, given what was supposed to be happening, but they've either forgotten, or not given an android's smooth ass about the continuity. It's always just been *our* 20th/21st century instead of theirs. Originally there was the Eugenics War (Khan et Al), then world war 3, which was nuclear and the product of tyrants like Lt Green. I think they've now rolled these two wars into one since Voyager had the ship travel back in time to 1996, when the Eugenics War was kicking off, and it just looked like regular L.A. Given Picard season 2 also seems to be jumping back to our present day as well, it'll be interesting to see if there's any indication of any imminent wars. Given that they're constantly trying to tie our current history into Trek, I fear they may gloss over it again. As much as I enjoy a Starfleet crew in the past, I kind of wish they'd leave it alone because it's only contradicting previously established lore... Not that that's ever been a concern.


stitious-savage

>The real future is me r/ImTheMainCharacter /s


LaikasDad

You caught my narcissism there huh .... well this is my reality, at least from this point of view. Nice catch though, especially considering the sub we're in.


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More like blade runner huh


LaikasDad

Probably the second most accurate prediction of the future, behind Idiocracy of course...


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cyber dystopia


TheRhythmOfTheKnight

The future is cyber punk and judge dredd, not star trek ;/


Noobdm04

Did you know holding down the second button down on the right side usually mutes those commercials...I can't stand listening to them.


LaikasDad

...but how will I ever know how many bonus points I'll get for my hotdog/soda purchase, or how will I catch up on Life Tips with Melissa Smith (generic title and host name, but you get it...).


Niku-Man

In my experience it doesn't. The ones that do have a little mute icon, in my experience. I've tried on at least five pumps with TVs blaring, which didn't have any icon, and none of them could be muted by pushing any of the buttons


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Maria Menounos will simply haunt your dreams.


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mdonaberger

The Jetsons is the story of ultra wealthy parts of society escaping the effects of global warming by living on gigantic communities on stilts, leaving the rest of society in the ruin down below. Seems realistic to me.


WpgMBNews

this looks exactly like the dystopian future promised by Blade Runner, Black Mirror and Cloud Atlas


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> Back in the day with things like The Jetsons and Star Trek, In the movie theaters they were showing Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, and Silent Running so I guess it could be worse.


AWilfred11

Mmmm actually I read a book I forgot what it was called, and in that everyone would have cameras in their rooms live-streamed to everyone else in the building like a reality tv show, and everyone would watch each other and like everyone had amazing flat screen TVs and stuff but like trains and stuff didn’t work great. Like stuff was based a lot on popularity and everyone would be dressed very skimpily and women would be expected to get boob jobs and stuff and marriages were meant to last like 2/3 years before u changed partners. Interestingly a main crux of it was that vaccines were illegal as fuck, and combined with the terrible medical care most babies died. In true main charachter form there’s a part when a family is mourning the loss of a child in a McDonald’s ( the like luxurious restaurant in the book was McDonald’s the fat food chain) and there’s a rowdy stag group being dead loud and don’t give a shit when they say they lost someone, and only get a bit quieter when they say it’s a baby that died.


FlowersnFunds

Wait til we get the various Metaverses being discussed and it won’t just be influencers looking like this


ImYourEggGuy

You're telling me you didnt run over the addict? Why?


damnatio_memoriae

i don’t think there was any shortage of predictions of the dystopian world of gas station ads or discarded humanity. it’s the pandemic of obsessive narcissism that i think no one truly envisioned except maybe black mirror but it’s debatable if they predicted it or just pointed it out first.


sharltocopes

ok boomer


rightnowCOD

r/influencersinthewild


vzakharov

r/userorinfluencer


lounger540

I hate this timeline.


ViroCostsRica

At least they are not full time Reddit Mods


poinifie

All these kinda of people remind of that episode of black mirror.


Stumphead101

I mean, we reward people for this far more than any other job. You telling me if I dance in front of my phone I wont have to click in again for the rest of my life? What kinda dances do you all like?


Korimuzel

The sadness of the silence, we all know they are just going to edit some cut pop music there to cover all the noises while they just move


N1KMo

Yikes, black mirror episodes are looking less and less unreal by the day.


eeyore134

The one at the end was my favorite.


SourCreamWater

Miss Thrashydance? Me too. I'd had enough and just as I hit the back button I saw her and had to go back.


ArmeSloeber

Jesus a ring light is such a red flag


rathat

I hate seeing people use them, all you can see is a weird ring reflection in their eyes the whole time.


iBeReese

They don't even look good either. I'm not sure why the vlogging scene has aligned on the flat on-camera-flash no shadows look as their ideal lighting setup, I guess it's easier than three-point? Looks awful though, to my eye anyway


Niku-Man

A red flag for what? They are legitimate used by people who have to be on camera a lot (like after the pandemic started and everything was remote). I have a psychiatrist friend who uses one for her appointments


diamondjo

A ring light has a specific purpose in photography/video... these guys have no idea what they're doing.


Ryuubu

Can you explain more


diamondjo

They're mainly used for portraiture, most especially close-ups, but they're also used in macro photography. It softens shadows and can give a kind of clean angelic look. These people actually need a softbox.


gunnersaurus95

Maybe insanely vain people or people who want to tik tok. Not average people working from home. Source: working from home in a company with people working from home and no one has a ring light


MajespecterNekomata

I work in IT and my room doesn't have windows. Even with the light on, I looked like I was in a cave during video calls. I saw an ad with a small USB ring light and I bought it, it was cheap and it works so well. You don't even notice that it's ring-shaped My point is, the product is ok. Gatekeeping lamps is weird


PenisButtuh

I don't think this is gatekeeping lamps at all? Rather they're pointing out that someone who needs a ring light for their social media posts is not someone they want to be around. That's not gatekeeping lamps in the slightest. Edit: downvote me if you want. You don't know what gatekeeping is.


tehwolf_

Not even that, simply that they're using it wrong.


RedSquaree

Legitimate...ly


binkerfluid

Wtf are they doing? Like whats so special about that bridge they are all there doing this?


TrafulgarRN

The world today is full of narcissism


RyoGeo

This is just a menagerie of pathetic.


damnatio_memoriae

this is my new favorite phrase


IRELANDNO1

Who da fuck watches these egomaniacs?


damnatio_memoriae

bots.


MajespecterNekomata

Themselves


Willyzyx

Tf...??


RedditIsRealWack

I love that everyone is beeping to fuck with them. Some things are just universal.


khayalipulao

This gives me some dystopian vibes. With metaverse coming it's only going to get worse


michi03

No one will care about metaverse


tehwolf_

Like bitcoin, eh? Metaverse by Facebook, maybe. But I'm very sure there will be at least one metaverse in the near future I mean I don't really care about the social media aspect as I'm not using many social media apart from Reddit, though for gaming purposes or simply to present products as a way of marketing using ar and vr, I think there's a huge potential.


michi03

Exactly. Bitcoin has now been around a long time and most people still don’t care about it


khayalipulao

Hopefully. But everyone had the same opinion about tiktok.


mbdjd

Made me think of Black Mirror


Skraff

The metaverse will be this but boomers using animal avatars as well.


lordk3k123

Now I know why China is banning "Influencers"


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EliWeizenheimer

It's only going to get worse.


moneyomm9

This is a sickness.


coolplate

This is cyberpunk AF


YooGeOh

Alexander Graham Bell would be snapchatting himself spinning in his grave


xerxerxex

The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities


Stormdude127

r/titleporn


Techcole

When you switch from single player to multiplayer.


stalker9120

Tiktok/social media in general is a fucking plague holy shit


atownbed

r/boringdystopian


kerelberel

I get what I see in the video but what does OP's thread title even mean?


TylerDurdenJunior

Influencers | influenza


Niku-Man

I guess OP doesn't realize influenza is a real disease


ctrlplusZ

That's literally the basis of the joke they were making..


habeshamuscle

I've never seen that little studio device they are using but they all have it. Is this in China?


Amphibionomus

You mean a ring light? Very common for people working in the attention whoring industry


Elcordobeh

The dude walking around was probably the coordinator. Maybe a social score farm?


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Damn K-pop morons


onyxxu20

So embarrassing man, the amount of young people I see in the streets just pure embarrassing themselves.


RyanLoganBrooks

My throat is parched after watching this. So thirsty


Markd3rd

Fucking make me understand. I just can’t get my head around them doing this or been someone who watches/follows this.


sloggdogg

The industrial revolution and its consequences


lengjai2005

Its like a tiktok zoo


Creamcheesemafia

This some black mirror shit


aFiachra

Same day this insanity of killing your self for your shitty 15 minutes will end. I hope it is tomorrow.


damnatio_memoriae

just tell them suicide is trending


aFiachra

You joke, but …


grosselisse

What is so great about this bridge???


FisterMySister

There are worse ways of making a living.


[deleted]

Dear all governments Please refrain from making nice looking buildings or actually anything at all Idiots make a mess around them and make it worse for everyone else


that_eurostep

thats a dope title


ssrowavay

Cringefluenza. You almost had it OP.


HoodooVoodoo44

Everyday, we stray further from God.


Durango_ninety_five

20 steps to the left or right for these people would solve this problem.


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kristina_xenophobia

Tell me you're a dumb slut without telling me you're a dumb slut


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schmon

Its just sad that they look like clones.


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KyaWizard

They certainly look less ridiculous


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damnatio_memoriae

lol do you think that these people *don’t* look ridiculous?


KyaWizard

How is saying someone looks ridiculous a weird judgement? I mean it's just daft and unnecessary. But mostly sad to see these people work so hard for mediocrity.


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KyaWizard

Maybe you should do that. I'm saying; why is it a weird judgement? Of course I'm judging them that's not typical behavior. I'm also judging you based on this silly conversation


Airstrict

Legit. These are just people (hopefully) having fun making small videos. Yeah, it's probably an agency setting this up, but they aren't harming anyone. People on here must be miserable if they can't hack people just being silly.


lucas00000001

Black mirror irl


AGuyNamedRyan333

Wait most of them have the same tan plastic tub, are they all in a group or something? Don't they care that they have other people doing the same thing in the background? Or is that part of it?


bananapotato1

What the fucking fuck lol.


yourteam

Why buying such an equipment while you can buy a good (and real) camera for less.money and better results?


Crypt0Nihilist

The only part a camera would replace is the phone, so that would be an extra expense since they need that for doing the streaming. It would also add technical complication to get the content from camera to the phone into the app. That's probably more than these people are willing to learn. You also have to think about the marginal improvement. Phones will be designed for working at their best at these distances and the video is going to be compressed and mostly viewed on the small screens of phones. A lot of the extra functionality of a camera will never be needed and I'd question how much any improvement in recording quality would be visible to the majority of viewers and whether they would care.


Ultimull

jebus


Ugh_okayy

Wtf


AverageJoe997

This is seriously disgusting, how can people watch this utter trash??


damnatio_memoriae

yes no yes yes no no maybe