Influencer Culture & Toxicity

Teenager Therapy

Astrolescence & Joy Coalition

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What are influencers actually like? We’re in a unique position because we’re not fully involved in influencer culture but still see glimpses of it. In this episode, we talk about what we hate about it, why some see it as toxic, and why it has such a negative stigma. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenage Therapy. I'm Gayao. I'm Thomas. I'm Kayla. I'm Mark.
0:15.9	Welcome back to the podcast. You know what? Maybe I feel like every time we do a podcast, we feel like our mood has to change.
0:26.6	But maybe we don't need to do that anymore. Maybe at the beginning we felt a lot of that. But maybe now we're just so real, we don't care if our mood is down.
0:38.6	I think today we're just tired or Tom's and I feel tired. Do you guys feel tired?
0:44.6	I drink the reason why I got myself a latte so I can boost my energy up. But before this I was feeling so down and tired.
0:56.6	Really? Yeah.
0:58.6	I mean because Kayla and I have to drive an hour. I mean we're not the ones driving but we still have to like, you know, get here.
1:08.6	That can be very exhausting. It doesn't help when it's like already late and you know that you're gonna have to go home late.
1:16.6	Yeah. How about you, Gayao? Are you tired?
1:20.6	I... not really. I'm like, fine. I'm just fine. I have so much to do. A lot of work to do but I'm surprisingly fine. I think because like... there's a lot of pain in this world.
1:36.6	Oh, yeah. Okay. A lot of pain in this world. But not in the NFT world.
1:42.6	Is that what keeps you going?
1:44.6	That's giving me a little like at least something is going on. I was gonna ask you what's motivating you right now.
1:50.6	Parole, that my little seal. My SAP seal.
1:54.6	Is that an NFT? Yeah.
1:56.6	It's a little thing.
1:58.6	It's a seal. And she's worth a lot more.
2:00.6	Really? Yeah.
2:02.6	Oh, right. I'll have to bring the moon to the moon. We're going to the moon.
2:06.6	That's good.
2:08.6	Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys.
2:10.6	No, but yeah, I'm fine. I do have a lot of work and like I do kind of get stressed out because this whole week, there was so many things I have to do.
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