We the influencers
Hey listen up, influencers want to tell us a thing.
Celebrities! Well then! If celebrities call we must answer.
As celebrities, influencers, and prominent public figures with significant followings on social media, we the undersigned are calling on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter to
Let me just interrupt for a second. Can you imagine calling yourself an “influencer”? Or a “celebrity”? Or a “prominent figure with a significant following on social media”? Because I can’t. The very idea makes me cringe until I’m no bigger than a spider. Yuck. The pomposity of it, the self-flattery, the conceit. So right from the outset I think this is a bunch of fools and their Letter to the Masses is worthless.
we the undersigned are calling on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter to fulfill the promises you’ve made to transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming and all LGBTQ users in your terms of service. There has been a massive systemic failure to prohibit hate, harassment, and malicious anti-LGBTQ disinformation on your platforms and it must be addressed.
But of course what they mean by “hate” is anything that’s not instant enthusiastic deafening approval of The New Laws of Gender, so their InterVention is worthless as well as conceited and laughable.
There are several more paragraphs of drivel and then a long list of names, almost all of which are of obscure entertainers and “influencers.”
Excuse me, I gotta go influence some blueberries.
The very phrase “transgender healthcare” is misinformation.
I would cut them some slack. “Influencer” is the word invented for people who are doing something along the lines of what you are doing, only on the more vapid platforms of twitter and tik-tok and maybe still YouTube.
This is something that people do in the 21st century.
With regards to “celebrity,” … if you’re a genuine “celebrity” and you feel strongly about something, and want to contribute, I won’t begrudge you taking advantage of your social status to raise awareness about something.
I’ve always said; I won’t listen to someone because they’re a celebrity. But I won’t ignore them because they’re a celebrity either.
Essentially, these people drank the trans kool-aid. They genuinely feel that the trans cult is actually a persecuted minority and they are trying to do something about it with whatever fame/influence they have.
The tragedy is that they’re dupes and probably dullards siding with an ideology that is incoherent, contradictory and non-falsifiable.
Well, sure, the word is one way to describe what people like me are doing, but I would never in a million years call myself an “influencer.” It’s a loathsome word. I call myself a scribbler, or a blogger if I must but I don’t love that word either. “Influencer” is horrendous because it assumes way too much. Arguer, polemicist, essayist, amateur journalist, columnist, babbler – all those are okay. “Influencer” is conceited and pushy and smug and I despise it.
Because this is the century of narcissistic self-involvement.
It’s almost as conceited as calling oneself and one’s group “thought leaders.” Whatever did become of the Secular Policy Institute?
The contemptuous nature of that term, “influencer,” is revealed by that influencer who is going to jail for being a sex trafficker.
Marketers, salesmen, self promoters, celebrity-for-it’s-own-sake celebrities, propagandists, clowns, preachers… I could go on. These are what they describe as “influencers.” It’s a social media numbers game.
The intelligent and/or artistic people who have actually had a lasting influence on me include none of those types.
YNnB, Facebook has nudged me to remember the “Secular Policy Institute” a time or two lately, so I’ve mocked it again for them.What became of it was a great big Nothing.
Ophelia Benson, commentator and media personality, opined:
(I kid)
Oh gawd – “media personality” – almost as bad as “influencer.”