45 Examples Of Influencers Trying To Play The Main Character But Becoming Laughing Stocks Instead
The global influencer market size has tripled since 2019 and is estimated to reach a record 21.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2023.
However, after some people get a seat at the table, it goes to their heads. The fame and money make them believe that the whole world revolves around them and that everyone else is just along for the ride.
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Some of these influencers have such an overblown, exaggerated opinion of themselves. Their expressions when reality smacks them down are priceless
This Twitch Streamer Sitting The Wrong Way On My Motorcycle Without Permission Parked Near Twitch Con For Her Stream And Then Yelling At Me For Interrupting Her Stream When I Asked Her Nicely To Get Off My Bike And She Tried To Shame Me Live On Her Twitch Stream And Stuck The Cam In My Face
Many social media users feel a career as an influencer is more desirable than a traditional one.
However, the disadvantages you face when you choose this path may outweigh the benefits. If you look close enough, the sector starts to look unappealing on the inside just as much as it does from the outside.
But I Have 11k Followers!
When An Influencer Tried To Call For Support From Simps On The Internet
Oh, So This Is Target’s Fault...right
It's true that those at the top can earn millions of dollars, but this is the exception rather than the rule. The average user who monetizes their content will bring in significantly less depending on the platform, number of followers, method of marketing, and the type of content they are creating.
While there is limited research on what's easier to monetize, many top influencers belong to different genres and that suggests intangible factors, such as how authentic an influencer is perceived to be and how well they communicate and connect with their followers, are the most important keys to success.
Everyone Should Hear Me Sing
Reminds me of the fifth grade. There was always that one girl singing or humming (loudly and on purpose just to annoy people) during a test...
Some People Have Zero Self Awareness
Tourist Taking Yoga Selfie Pic On The Holocaust Memorial Site In Berlin
Tourist Scales Ancient Egyptian Antiquities
I remember seeing this on BP and I think it said that he fell and damaged a lot of stuff
On top of an unpredictable income, another disadvantage is volatile job security. Social media platforms use algorithms to sort posts on a user’s feed to ensure that we see content that the algorithm deems relevant to us.
But as this technology advances, it's becoming more difficult than ever to predict what's going to be popular and why. Even well-established content creators struggle to diversify their meet the ever-changing demands.
Models Are The Worst
When Living Your Life Is An Inconvenience To Influencers
"Influencer " Thinks That She Owns The Park
I'd have fun with this one...so, you thought me sitting here minding my own business was ruining your shot??? Now that I am motivated, wait until I am actively trying to ruin your shot.
"As a form of independent entrepreneurship, influencing comes with no regulation, training, or support," wrote a team of researchers from the University of Windsor who study this sector.
"The result of this can be young content creators struggling with physical and mental health issues brought on by cyberbullying and high stress."
Traffic Jam Due To Influencer's Photoshoot
She’s Not Looking Where She’s Going!
I guess no one ever taught her the "look both ways before you cross the street" thing...
Guy Couldn’t Bribe Someone To Change Their Beliefs, Posts Selfie Instead
All That Just To Get In An Uber X…?
However, there might be hope after all. Recently, a new social media movement has emerged in response to the fake materialistic nature of influencer culture, called deinfluencing.
This trend involves influencers discouraging their followers from buying overpriced or ineffective products.
The Workers Look So Annoyed. The One Guy Even Shakes His Head “No” When She’s On The Luggage Cart
When the idiot breaks that thing, she's going to be horrified at the sheer nerve of them, suggesting she replace it.
Squashing Supermarket Oranges Just To Get A Good Portrait
Woman Is Tired Of People Using The Basic Functions Of A Free Social Media App On Her Public Platform Unless They're Sending Money
Dumbass Suffering From Heavy Main Character Syndrome Unsurprisingly Gets Arrested Again
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Maybe they will let him film his prison "misadventures"
"In response to the desire for authenticity, deinfluencers prioritize genuine content and real engagement over the meticulously curated content and commercial partnerships that are common in traditional influencer culture," Omar H. Fares, who is a lecturer in the Ted Rogers School of Retail Management at Toronto Metropolitan University, explained.
2 Hours Of Footage And 1000 Photos And Discounts For Followers For Exposure Bucks Seems Like A Fair Deal To Me
Girl Thinks She's The Main Character Of Her College Lecture
Lil Pump Was Surprised When People In Japan Didn't Recognise Him
Who Goes Around Licking And Worshipping Creampies?
According to Fares, deinfluencers are trying to foster a more sustainable approach to consumption. Rather than promoting the latest products, they highlight mindful consumption, sustainability, and the importance of making thoughtful choices.
But these folks will have to try really hard to offset the damage done by all of their entitled peers.
They Get Their Own Coffee Just Like Us Normal Folk
Imagine drinking coffee at home in front of the TV with two cats fighting for the best spot on your body. I was going to say with two cats sleeping in your lap, but at the last minute, I chose honesty.
Just Crazy
Again who is this Edit: thanks for so many upvotes, I still thinks that’s crazy
Dancing In Public
Welcome to the UK where people will intentionally cross the road just to screw up your pretentious Tiktok video you brain-dead gimp
How To Get Yourself Banned From A Restaurant And Waste The Waitstaff’s Time
Excellent plan, oh scientist who builds mighty booger rockets...just, one tiny problem.
Ruining The Gym For Everyone. Poor Grandpa
Woke Up To This Message From A Colleague In Our Group Chat. She Started Prank Videos And Has Received A Warning From Work About Some Of Her Content Too!
Jumping Onto People And Being Surprised They Ain’t Having It
“No Thanks "
Uhm, have you tried walking a few feet to the guardrail? I don't think there will be many people walking in front of your camera there, unless they can float in midair
Cringe
Throwing A Basketball At Random Strangers
followed up with his documentary..."How I got a basketball shoved up my woo-hoo!"
This Is Her Hallway How Dare You Use That To Walk
The Cringe
"Now, If You Ask A Kid, They Want To Be Salt Bae"
Careful with that knife, you might pop that gigantic ego of yours.
AHAHAHAHA! I laughed so hard on your comment. Love it.
Load More Replies...Hes the idiot that became famous for the way he sprinkles salt.
Load More Replies...Most kids I have spoken to either want to be an astronaut, fireman, helicopter or, in one awesome case, Deadpool! (I gave him my Deadpool t-shirt because he liked it)
I still cringe when I think back to him trying to get Lionel Messi's attention when Argentina had just won the World Cup. Still have no idea why he was there considering that he's neither a footballer or from Argentina. Desperately trying to involve himself in the celebrations but none of the Argentina team were having it.
Yep that was a complete travesty and whoever let him on the field should lose their job. He even managed to get his hands on the world cup trophy. Makes me almost cry thinking about it.
Load More Replies...Ngl idk who salt bae is lol I just know apple is greedy
Apparently he's a restaurateur who inexplicably became famous for sprinkling salt down his arm as he sprinkles it on people's food, charges thousands for gold-foil-wrapped steaks and burgers, and his food is apparently terrible (never had it, I'm going off of critics' reviews).
Load More Replies...I have read the food at his restaurant is very underwhelming to say the least.
you re an over glorified nobody. Now step off and let the real experts do their job
Poor man. He doesn't realize he's famous for sprinkling salt weirdly. No one knows he's a butcher. They just think he's a pretentious twat.
This is the d*ckhead who paid to get onto the pitch after the World Cup final and went around harassing players expecting to be recognised. Hilariously the players weren't having it at all.
No. Most everyone sees you as the egotistical cringelord of a joke you are.
Yes, he's a massive self publicist but credit where it is due he has come up with a formula for parting vulgur, rich twats from vast quantities of their cash
He's holding the knife wrong, I don't claim to be a master chef but I'm pretty sure he should be pinching at the base of the blade.
But if he was as famous as he thinks he is he wouldn't need a crazy "look"!
Load More Replies...Not really... everytime I see a pic of him I think of all the sweat that is absorbed by the salt he drops on his hairy forearms...
I’m a vegetarian so you can get the f**k away from me. I’m the opposite of impressed.
I've never been able to take this guy seriously of that stupid name. It's the "bae" that kills it for me. I dunno, it just doesn't seem to fit as a "stage name"...
One of my friends went to his restaurant, and she was of the opinion that it is highly overrated. Is it true "salt bae"?
Butcher? You're chopping up cooked meat. Butchers work on raw meat. Get a clue!
Lmao his restaurants actually have insanely bad reviews. Way overpriced b******t and it's not even good.
I hate that word. When I head "bae", I think of some douche bag wearing a baseball hat sideways covered in bling. Zero class.
For the longest time I thought this was just some wierd meme and not an actual guy who is a chef (found out over the summer). I really thought it was a wierd meme for salt lovers
People's Reaction To Me
Look, Im Special Because I Go To The Pub Like Everyone Else
Kayne Seems Really Disconnected
Someone needs to take his phone away and get him the help that he desperately needs.
This Guy Owns The Sidewalk
Madonna Hasn’t Changed Much!!
The Amount Of, ‘You’re Getting Paid By Exposure’ Cb’s These Days. She Has Less Than 60k Followers, Most Of Which Seem Purchased
Not This “Influencer” Being A Potential Cause Of Accident On An Escalator
Someone once stopped right at the top of an escalator and I was a couple of steps behind them. When they didn't move when I called out excuse me can you please move a couple of times, I put my head to the side and dropped my shoulder and braced myself. It worked- I got off the escalator without injuring myself.
Sure Jan
I’ve never had the opportunity to ruin an influencer’s video, but I’m hopeful. However, I DO stay out of the frame for tourists taking photos (and even offer to photograph them), since I live in a touristy city and their sales taxes pay for our pier & other improvements.
PSA: Pandas, if you upvote my posts, I’m blocking you unless you send me MONEY. I have a dozen followers (almost half aren’t family), so go away with your pesky upvotes. PayPal me some money and I’ll reward you with exposure!
There is a staggering amount of stupidity in the world. I guess we Pandas are really glad not to be a part of this garbage!!
Oh OK. I will do it for free IF: What is your target audience? Age, gender, socio-economic background, place of residence, occupation, education and relationship status. If you can answer all these questions ...
Load More Replies...I grabbed a girl who decided to lay on a flower display at my grocery store. She just laid on top of it and decided to take selfies. When she yelled at me, I yelled back and security made her pay for ALL the flowers, but shock and awe, she was broke.
You'd think you are the main character in your own show, but really, you're an extra for crowd shots in someone else's show.
Just someone else's? I would say almost everyone else's.
Load More Replies...Why do this people still have followers? Oh, ok, their followers are stupid too. Or bots. Stupid bots.
So glad I've never encountered one of these asshats in the wild. At least not yet.
Live your own life. Don't be influenced by anyone. Hopefully these idiots will shut up and go away if they don't get the oxygen of publicity. Most importantly, the ones who involve others in their "pranks" should, and I think will shortly in the UK, be locked up. Be an idiot on your own time, don't muck about with others, or we'll all end up like that Uber Eats guy who pulled a pistol on the bloke hassling him.
We always use to joke, "Don't trust anyone over thirty." I'm now 35 and amazed at how rapidly I have lost touch with social trends. To be honest, I am kinda fine with it.
Influencers: "As I explain in my sure to be bestselling book 'But I'm More Specialier And Importanter Than You'... If you're going to go taking pictures of yourself in public areas with a lot of traffic you COULD take a leaf out of the average movie director's book and go there very early in the morning or late at night when there will be very few people about so you can shoot at your leisure, but this would be missing the point - it doesn't count as influencing unless lots of people are forced to watch! In chapter two, I will supply the numbers of the clinics in each major city which offer reconstructive nose surgery from being punched in the face for just the price of a flattering review!"
I hate how people are like “if you wanna be that guy (the main character/the one everyone likes) you have to do this, that, and these even though you really don’t want to!” like I don’t WANT to be the one everyone likes I just don’t wanna be the one everyone hates. Sorry this kinda ran off into a tangent
I don't normally read the article attached to this post but it's pretty tone-deaf. While we're all here to laugh at these deluded "influencers", it's all about how influencers are monetizing their "craft". 🤨 This is like a tobacco company advertising on an article tearing down the industry!
I don't know any of these people but they inspire me to hate humanity even more, so I guess there's that.
no influencer ever promoted a book titled Life Seemed Good, But. On a website named for a big river in South America. Judge for yourself.
I will never be an influencer but I recommend a book on Amazon titled Life Seemed Good, But.... look for clowns in a jeep. Weird.
this is an example of rampant stupidity. you cannot win, but you outwait it. Dawin's laws of evolution states that. also, 'the ability to speak does not make you intelligent' -Qui-gon
Look, Pandas, if you don't keep downvoting this type of content it will keep appearing. Everyone hates it, yet it has enough positive votes to survive their ad-revenue desires. Vote with your... vote.
Many of these would have been better as the original video rather than 1-2 photos.
All of them would be better on another website than clogging up here.
Load More Replies...Most of the people on the list are very wrong for doing the things they're doing but y'all need to chill cause some of you are being way too mean about things that are not even causing the problem like what these people are wearing or how bad they're singing in your opinion or idk what else but chill. That's how you deal with things like these? I'm extremely disappointed with the comments on this post is like I'm surrounded by hate and malice everywhere. BP is supposed to be a chill place. Don't get me wrong, I disagree with these people's behavior as well but I still think we should have the decency to not start calling people names and behaving like this. Analyze the situation but rethink going that far please
Like with all these posts: How do they know it‘s influencers? Most of them just seem like regular idiots. In my view influencers need to be at least somewhat famous or have a certain reach. I highly doubt these people are any of that, i haven‘t seen or heard of them before 🤦🏼♀️.
I’ve never had the opportunity to ruin an influencer’s video, but I’m hopeful. However, I DO stay out of the frame for tourists taking photos (and even offer to photograph them), since I live in a touristy city and their sales taxes pay for our pier & other improvements.
PSA: Pandas, if you upvote my posts, I’m blocking you unless you send me MONEY. I have a dozen followers (almost half aren’t family), so go away with your pesky upvotes. PayPal me some money and I’ll reward you with exposure!
There is a staggering amount of stupidity in the world. I guess we Pandas are really glad not to be a part of this garbage!!
Oh OK. I will do it for free IF: What is your target audience? Age, gender, socio-economic background, place of residence, occupation, education and relationship status. If you can answer all these questions ...
Load More Replies...I grabbed a girl who decided to lay on a flower display at my grocery store. She just laid on top of it and decided to take selfies. When she yelled at me, I yelled back and security made her pay for ALL the flowers, but shock and awe, she was broke.
You'd think you are the main character in your own show, but really, you're an extra for crowd shots in someone else's show.
Just someone else's? I would say almost everyone else's.
Load More Replies...Why do this people still have followers? Oh, ok, their followers are stupid too. Or bots. Stupid bots.
So glad I've never encountered one of these asshats in the wild. At least not yet.
Live your own life. Don't be influenced by anyone. Hopefully these idiots will shut up and go away if they don't get the oxygen of publicity. Most importantly, the ones who involve others in their "pranks" should, and I think will shortly in the UK, be locked up. Be an idiot on your own time, don't muck about with others, or we'll all end up like that Uber Eats guy who pulled a pistol on the bloke hassling him.
We always use to joke, "Don't trust anyone over thirty." I'm now 35 and amazed at how rapidly I have lost touch with social trends. To be honest, I am kinda fine with it.
Influencers: "As I explain in my sure to be bestselling book 'But I'm More Specialier And Importanter Than You'... If you're going to go taking pictures of yourself in public areas with a lot of traffic you COULD take a leaf out of the average movie director's book and go there very early in the morning or late at night when there will be very few people about so you can shoot at your leisure, but this would be missing the point - it doesn't count as influencing unless lots of people are forced to watch! In chapter two, I will supply the numbers of the clinics in each major city which offer reconstructive nose surgery from being punched in the face for just the price of a flattering review!"
I hate how people are like “if you wanna be that guy (the main character/the one everyone likes) you have to do this, that, and these even though you really don’t want to!” like I don’t WANT to be the one everyone likes I just don’t wanna be the one everyone hates. Sorry this kinda ran off into a tangent
I don't normally read the article attached to this post but it's pretty tone-deaf. While we're all here to laugh at these deluded "influencers", it's all about how influencers are monetizing their "craft". 🤨 This is like a tobacco company advertising on an article tearing down the industry!
I don't know any of these people but they inspire me to hate humanity even more, so I guess there's that.
no influencer ever promoted a book titled Life Seemed Good, But. On a website named for a big river in South America. Judge for yourself.
I will never be an influencer but I recommend a book on Amazon titled Life Seemed Good, But.... look for clowns in a jeep. Weird.
this is an example of rampant stupidity. you cannot win, but you outwait it. Dawin's laws of evolution states that. also, 'the ability to speak does not make you intelligent' -Qui-gon
Look, Pandas, if you don't keep downvoting this type of content it will keep appearing. Everyone hates it, yet it has enough positive votes to survive their ad-revenue desires. Vote with your... vote.
Many of these would have been better as the original video rather than 1-2 photos.
All of them would be better on another website than clogging up here.
Load More Replies...Most of the people on the list are very wrong for doing the things they're doing but y'all need to chill cause some of you are being way too mean about things that are not even causing the problem like what these people are wearing or how bad they're singing in your opinion or idk what else but chill. That's how you deal with things like these? I'm extremely disappointed with the comments on this post is like I'm surrounded by hate and malice everywhere. BP is supposed to be a chill place. Don't get me wrong, I disagree with these people's behavior as well but I still think we should have the decency to not start calling people names and behaving like this. Analyze the situation but rethink going that far please
Like with all these posts: How do they know it‘s influencers? Most of them just seem like regular idiots. In my view influencers need to be at least somewhat famous or have a certain reach. I highly doubt these people are any of that, i haven‘t seen or heard of them before 🤦🏼♀️.