Famous influencers are dropping like flies: Why?

[Ninurta]

I've never understood the concept of "influencers". I won't allow people in the Real World, people whom I can reach out and grab by the throat, to influence me... why would I allow a stranger to do it across the internet?

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Did John Wayne, or westerns or Howdy Doody influence you at all? Did you have any actors or musicians that influenced you in anyway shape or form?

Same same. This is "new age" influence. That's all. This has been going on for a long time now.

Not much different than the "Marlboro Man, really."

No, not really. While I sometime like watching them for entertainment purposes, I can't say that they've really influenced me, or made a change in how I operate my life or interactions with other folks, or what I buy or don't buy. Maybe my Dear Old Dad had some influence on me when I was little, but no one I've ever seen across a screen, not that I can think of.

I've always been abnormally resistant to such things, I suppose. Even the ubiquitous "peer pressure" has never affected me like it seems to affect other folks. Now that could, conceivably, go back to the influences my pap had on me when I was young - he always insisted that I "be my own man, don't be someone else. That's just being a fake 'you' ".

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