#how to be an influencer and make money

[inkskinned]

im gonna start a fight; and, at the same time, i need you to take this in the most good-faith way possible, but:

videos that involve body-checking and intentionally (and uncritically) show a mealplan of an unhealthy number of calories are just a revamped version of pro-ana food diaries.

and yeah, i know there's arguments. i address some of them under the cut. but at the end of the day, we're just coming back to romanticizing mental illness; we've just found a better platform for it.

this is already something we've done. we knew it was wrong and tried to stop it. and tbh. it just wasn't enough.

there are people who argue "well, what if you have an eating disorder, you can't help it if you don't eat!" except that as someone with an ED; we are not infants. we know what we're doing. part of having an ED is that you are like, maybe too self-aware. even if we can't help our own food choices, we don't need to fucking romanticize the disorder - something we've been warning you about since 2013. there are hours of setup, filming, and editing that go into these videos. they do not happen to fall into place randomly. there is a reason they are pieced together to be beautiful, bright, inspiring.

there's this woman who pretty much only posts daily plans under a normal amount of calories, and everyone defends her saying but it's better than nothing! and i'm like. except she opens those with images of her showing off her body and provides no context in the video or caption that suggests that she believes what she's doing is unhealthy. she has hundreds of thousands of followers on a platform designed for young kids and teens. i refuse to believe that by accident her content just happens to be cheery advice on "healthy" versions of starving.

for any other symptom of mental illness, we would be incredibly enraged by this kind of placid acceptance of a "tips and tricks" fast-start guide. imagine if people posted pink & pretty videos saying "best places to cut yourself" as if it was a fucking storytime. we, as a society, are so fucking fatphobic that we would rather accept blatantly harmful displays of self harm than admit that we are obsessed with a hyper-thin body type.

i am not suggesting someone never talks about their disorder. i talk about mine. actually, it's a plot point in my book.

here's the difference: i recognize it's a fucking mental illness. i am very careful to never mention a specific weight, eating pattern, or calorie plan. i always make sure to position it as something that ruined my fucking life. i do not put cheery music in the background and hearts and sparkles over my worst moments. i do not film it in bright light. i do not start each passage with an image of a thin body followed by "here's how to look like her."

eating disorders should not be framed as aspirational. and the problem is that society worships the "after" image, so long as you don't get too sick. there is a reason so many people who quit being "influencers" will later admit - i wasn't eating well that whole time; an obsession with food was completely destroying my life.

we let any uncredited, uncertified person write the most backwards, fucked up shit about how to get the body you desire! because the underlying, secret belief is: well, at least they're thin! and the real thing that fucking gets me each time - they make fucking money off of it. their irresponsibility and societal harm literally pays off for them.

"why do you care so much." "don't like it don't look." "so what if people experiment with new ways of thinking of food?"

thank you for asking. we're about to get extremely personal. it's because when i was 18 i discovered "thinspiration"/"thinspo." and it absolutely influenced, shaped, and codified my pre-existing eating disorder. i went from having some troubling habits and traits to being incredibly unwell within what felt like a matter of days. there were actual pages designed to train me on how to have an ED correctly. it was all so suddenly easy. i was sick; and the nature of the illness meant - i wanted to be sicker.

it takes an average of 7 years for a person to fully recover. i know this personally - even now, 10 years from the worst of it, i still fucking struggle. i am so much happier now and i eat what i want and i literally don't think about food at all (19 year old me would shudder) and yet - i still fucking know the calories of plain toast with butter.

an eating disorder is one of the deadliest types of mental illness. over 1 in 4 people with an ED will attempt suicide.

and i'm sorry. i just do not see the exchange rate of "high rate of engagement" versus "the value of a human life."

[transhawks]

brainstorming for catasterism which essentially is THE todo fic for me where I get to explore all my thoughts on them, and I'm wondering if people are okay actually discussing the likelihood Rei was the cause of the micro aggressions towards hereromorphs now (i.e. Dabi and that one time Shouto got mad)

Even mentioning Dabi might be slightly prejudiced was a huge berserk button for so many villain stans years back even though there was a solid body of evidence but with the Himura reveal, I am fascinated if anyone has been brave enough to actually put it out there that Rei, raised in a sheltered environment where the obsession with pedigree (and caste likely as since the whole Himura thing sounds super anti-Burakumin) would have kept hereromorphs out and small fears would leak out.

Particularly interesting given Natsuo's girlfriend/fiance, too.

[seeleybooth]

4.06 iStart a Fan War | 3.04 iGo Public

"I just really want to protect you. I don't know if you know this, but the Internet can be kind of mean. You don't have to protect me, okay? I can take whatever they throw at us. Or we can keep it a secret forever."

[ficoandleo]

((i was looking up how taxes are paid in japan because i realized that leo is self-employed

Normally your employer would file your taxes for you but if you're self employed or make a certain amount or have a sidegig that makes a certain amount you have to fill them out yourself

Which means Leo is like one of the only people on campus who's going to be like 'everyone shut up i'm doing my taxes i'll talk to you in like a week when i've stopped dissociating and managed to get them done' in February

(Sho doesn't have to pay his taxes until the year after starting his business so he's off the hook this year but since Leo often pays him digitally along with cash he has to do Sho's taxes too as his employer just so no one gets suspicious)

(Sho joining Leo like 'yeah I'm gonna have to do these with the fiod truck and all so I guess I have to learn now?' and just watching Leo file their fucking taxes. And both of them hate being bored and they will spend the entire month they have to do it getting extremely distracted by literally anything else. You could check in on them like 'hey how're the taxes going' and they've made a thousand little origami stars and the taxes are not done. Like at first Sho was teasing Leo for having to do something so boring but he was trying to watch and learn and then he got bored too and he's like. I would rather do literally anything else right now can we take a break please)

I just think it's funny to realize that Leo has to pay taxes. Like out of all of them he's one of the only ones that knows how to do his own taxes. Ritsu's family are his employers, their accountants do his taxes. Jin's family's accountants do any taxes he owes. Darkwick does the taxes for most of the students I imagine particularly since I'm pretty sure it's implied they get paid to do missions. But Leo, as an influencer, is self-employed and does it himself and has been for a few years so Darkwick makes him handle it himself lmao

And you might think Leo would just get an accountant and I can absolutely see him getting someone to it for him. On the other hand since he probably has less-than-legal income he doesn't trust someone else to do it for him lmao.))

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

everyone clap for me

I saw an incredibly brain dead take on activism and I didn't engage with the post

I'm just going to vague about it in the tags like a mature adult

[akkivee]

ALL THE ADULTS IN ICHIROS LIFE ARE A BUNCH OF BUM FCKS THERE I SAID IT I NEED EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ADULT TO GET AWAY FROM HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMM

[glassamphibians]

its worth noting with booktok that soooo many of the books people are getting are sent to them directly by the publisher for free like publishers send out review copies to Anyone remotely book aligned i dont even post anything and the amt of arcs i actually review is like. 2/100 and i still get emails from tor.com sending me free eARCS!! like when u see a bookfluencer doing crazy book mail hauls and insanely full shelves u gotta know a large number of those were free!! its not real!!

[jackeyscreations]

Ever wonder what your Instagram story algorithm is and you’re trying to get views follow this and look at this and tweak it to your liking but you can gain tons and tons of followers just by following us

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[an-established-butt-dent]

Dragon age Inquisition: Ellie Lavellan

I sketched my new OC as a warm up! Meet Inquisitor Ellie Lavellan. It's my first time playing as a mage and I really like it so far.

My focus for these drawings was to keep it light and dynamic. Proportions were less important than the overall flow of the lines and shapes. Pretty happy with the results!

Ink and fineliner on paper

[scentedluminarysoul]

Markiplier predicts Honey scam in 2020:

Mark was always a smart one.

For context:

[wibble-wobbegong]

more of a personal vent so reblogs are turned off but i hate that im never gonna be able to look at a show i poured my love into for so long again. i made so many friends and learned so many skills and had an amazing time with this show and now i cant look at anything related to it without feeling sick knowing i spent that long praising people who support genocide when its presented to them.

[gwensy]

sorry for reblogging fugly trends from 2012 it's for my enrichment

[heavenjbrat]

Why are you guys so rude and misogynistic toward Olivia Ponton?

I hope you guys are happy that she’s struggling with her mental health (allegedly ofc).

This is what you guys are doing to a woman who has done nothing to you, despite me not being the biggest fan of her either, she doesn’t deserve to be treated the way you and your friends are.

I’m truly disgusted by this community and it’s a damn shame. I truly hope you’re all ashamed of yourselves and will finally feel empathy towards her when she ends up doing something harmful to herself.

She’s aware of what you guys say and has been bullied ever since the news was leaked. I don’t know why the hell you people think you have the right to bully someone who’s done nothing to you personally.

How do you guys live with yourselves?

As someone who’s also struggled with mental health, and lost two family members to suicide recently, you should really consider your words before you post.

My sister was bullied by people like you and she took her life two weeks ago. Jealous girls accused her of cheating with one of their boyfriends and terrorized her for months while our family had no idea. I feel these situations are similar because as in my sister’s case, there is no actual evidence that they’ve been together or are doing things. She may be a questionable person who lacks self-awareness, but she shouldn’t be constantly bullied just because you clearly struggle with low-self esteem, which is why you get on here hating on her every chance you get.

I’m sure Olivia P would never open up about her struggles publicly, and I hate to hint toward anything negative about her, but when you lose someone you love to bullying, then see it online all the time, you learn to become sensitive to such subjects.

Feel free to call me a snowflake or too sensitive, but what you guys are doing can be more harmful than you know. Please, do better and research the consequences of what your bullying could to someone.

You never know what someone is going through.

[sukibenders]

This year's Grammys really has some of yall (still) in a tizzy. Like you would think Beyonce killed their mother when all she did was win a big award!

[grassangel]

One of the things that annoys me about billionaire romance/power fantasy books, as a lower-middle class kid who had the fortune to go to semi-private Montessori schools and thus knew upper class kids and is fortunate enough to have inherited some wealth from my deceased dad, is the lack of visible infrastructure to maintain or increase that wealth.

Like yeah, most of it will be invisible or done by people hired by the protagonist but only sometimes will there be a mention of a financial advisor such as an account or bank manager. (Both of which by the way, are not what people with millions of dollars would use as financial advisers. At least not solely.) Wealth management as a service like legal advice, security, household staff (ie cleaning, cooking, landscaping & household maintenance), personal assistance (ie secretarial, health, exercise & nutrition; hair, makeup & clothing) and public relations, where a whole team is involved, is rarely if ever mentioned. There's almost certainly no active management mentioned, just what's in the bank and maybe whatever investments in stocks, businesses and properties a character owns. There aren't discussions about seeking higher returns through private equity or claiming a loss on devaluation of an asset purposefully bought to lower their income (on paper) for tax purposes. There aren't characters talking about how they'll vote at the annual meeting for shares held in direct ownership because they want a board member ousted, or directing their custodian to vote that way. No discussions about the tax rates of investments held in trusts vs held by shell corporations vs held in their name, nor the privacy benefits of the first two.

I know billionaire romances are just fantasy and most people don't care about the economics of wealth, just the projected image of it.

But I think it is morally correct for such authors to do at least a little research into the wealth management of the rich by reading articles like this Financial Times one, and rip away the curtain a little bit to show their readers how billionaires actually obtain their high scores in money. Because it's definitely not through hard work.