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How Men Think

In 2025, One of the Most Dangerous Professions in the World: Influencer

How Men Think

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Relationships, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This year it felt like there were weekly, sometimes daily headlines about social media influencer deaths.  Dozens and dozens of young men and women trying to gain subscribers and get likes were either murdered, died while attempting content, or more commonly, died by suicide.  Amy and T.J. go over what experts say is the root cause to most of these sad stories.  There’s a lot of pressure and competition to get the most views and likes, which leads influencers to do riskier things, even risking their own mental health. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:14.9

Hey there, folks.

0:15.9

It is Tuesday, December 30th.

0:19.8

And as we wind down this 2025, it seemed that this year was a year

0:26.2

that being an influencer became a deadly occupation. And with that, welcome to this episode

0:33.5

of Amy and T.J. Robs, we have been talking about this and doing an episode about this for probably months,

0:42.2

but you and I keep our eyes on a lot of news.

0:45.2

And it seems like there was a great frequency of influencer deaths for various reasons.

0:52.6

Correct.

0:52.8

And it felt like we were seeing an influencer death, a tragic death, and a lot of them,

1:00.4

younger folks dying once a week.

1:03.5

And we just started noticing it.

1:05.0

And once we started noticing it, it actually became a pattern that was hard to ignore.

1:09.8

And I started Googling and researching and,

1:12.3

yeah, people are taking note. This is happening. You know what? That's a good way to put it.

1:17.0

We weren't paying enough attention to it until it became something you couldn't ignore. It has

1:21.4

become that. And so we are here and we're talking about it. And actually, Rove, this is such an

1:26.5

important thing to point out.

1:27.9

We have actually been sitting on this, full disclosure, waiting to do this story, and we didn't want to because, wow, it's the end of the years, the holidays.

1:36.0

It feels like a dud. It feels like a downer of a story. But the more we talked about it, this is such an important thing to point out. This was a significant year for deaths, a deaths among influencers and the reasons for it

1:50.2

of something we should all pay attention to.

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