The Sleepover Club: The Death Of The Influencer
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From TikTok stars being called out for complaining about their working hours, to those with millions of followers bragging about helping the homeless in the same breath in which they tell us they're spending $90 a day on coffee; are we living through the death of the influencer?
As each online personality merges into a homogenous face of capitalism, we're sick of those with more power than us telling us how to spend our money and what to like. But what comes next? This week Ione and Eden are tracing the rise and fall of influencers, as well as discussing what type of content creators are ushering in the next era of social media power.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. Hi, Ioni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Iioni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of All Little Sick Girls, |
| 0:10.5 | which is available now. And I'm Eden and I'm the managing editor of Polyester and the co-host of this podcast. |
| 0:16.1 | This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse |
| 0:20.7 | in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
| 0:22.8 | Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. |
| 0:26.6 | And we do have some new reviews this week. |
| 0:29.4 | Amazing. |
| 0:29.7 | Thank you very much, everyone. |
| 0:31.7 | So, X, KCX, via Apple Podcasts in Ireland, us five stars love, love, love the casual conversation and |
| 0:39.9 | ease of listening. Be interesting to get some new guests. I concur. I would like some new guests. |
| 0:44.7 | Maybe we'll do that. Maybe we will. |
| 0:46.7 | So, hello, Eden. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Good. You're all right? Yeah, I'm all right. |
| 0:54.0 | What are we talking about today? |
| 0:56.3 | We are talking about the death of the influencer. |
| 0:59.5 | E, bum, bum, bum. |
| 1:00.9 | So do you. |
| 1:03.0 | We're coming for you. |
| 1:05.0 | You're dying. |
| 1:06.9 | You're asking for it. |
| 1:09.9 | So this kind of follows on from last week |
| 1:12.1 | when we were talking about poverty porn and cost of living crisis |
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