The Sleepover Club: Is Deinfluencing Going to Save Us All? Or Is It Just Consumerism In Disguise?

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

No longer is it enough for people on the internet to tell us what to buy, they've decided they have to tell us what not to buy, too. Like a consumerist superhero; influencers are trending for telling us the dyson air wrap is a waste of money, or that viral skirt you really want is actually uncomfortable. But are these internet personalities doing important work in turning us off these products, or are they just wise to the fact over-consumption is no longer trendy?

This week Eden and Ione are discussing how we got to this moment, as well as examining the recent history of how our spending habits have been changed and influenced by those around us.

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0:00.0	Hi, Eden. Hi, Ioni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm
0:06.4	I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Pollyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls,
0:11.1	which I bet you're all sick of me talking about. We can never be sick and be talking about that.
0:15.8	I'm Eden, I'm the managing editor of Pollyester and the co-host of this podcast.
0:20.1	This is the Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all.
0:27.1	Before we get started, please like, rate review and subscribe. Do we have any reviews?
0:32.4	Yeah, we do. Nice. Five stars. A fan is born. I've been following polyester on Instagram for a few years and loved the content reels. I don't know why I was so late to recognise them as part of the podcast. I'm glad I discovered it and no lie. I've listened to them every day this week. It's a breath of fresh air to hear down to earth people discuss and critique popular culture whilst having a laugh. Thanks for this. Kiss. That's by Megmog 1 by Apple Podcasts in the UK. Oh, thank you, Megmog. Yeah, so cute. I love the reviews. They make my week. It is. It's really nice. Thank you for all the reviews. Also, sorry, I sound a bit sniffly today, so sorry, guys. It's all right.
1:15.1	Okay, thank you. It sounds a bit, a bit under the weather. But I'm feeling, I'm not feeling
1:21.0	under the weather, I'm feeling good. Okay, what are we talking about today?
1:39.6	So today we are talking about the de-influencing trend, which I feel like kind of came out of nowhere as a term and now has been plaguing my existence for the past week. Like I literally went on TikTok this morning when I woke up and there was four videos in a row of de-influencing.
1:47.0	Like I saw a general fashion one and then I saw a Switch one like Nintendo Switch.
1:52.8	Yeah.
1:53.2	That I saw all this shit.
1:55.1	But anyway, it's everywhere.
1:57.7	Yeah, it's just the Nintendo Switch one.
2:00.3	What was the nintendo switch one
2:01.4	don't get a switch no they were just tracking shit they were going like don't get disney starlight
2:07.1	blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah just get it for your PC i really love this game but you
2:11.4	should wait until this time to get it i was like okay this is what the problem is though because
2:15.8	it's not this isn't de-influencing you're just this is just your opinion that you're now rebranding as something,
2:21.3	uh, something buzzwordy. Right. So I feel like that isn't one definition of de-influencing.
2:28.3	How would you define it? It's basically a rebrand of honest reviews.
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