29 Shocking Truths About Influencers When No One’s Watching Revealed

I train at the same gym as someone who’s got hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram, huge corporate sponsorship deals and is a massively successful and decorated body builder. She keeps it VERY real on her Instagram and YouTube and I admire her for that. She’s close to someone else who has a similar Instagram status as her and that person goes to photoshoots every weekend and only posts those pictures, you never see her break a sweat etc. My friend shows the grind that goes into maintaining the physique and how inelegant the life is (dietary requirements, hormonal issues due to extreme body fat % etc)

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This is a wild ride, you can’t make this s**t up. So I followed a [intimacy] social media for a long time, I knew she lived in my city. She had a mass following but she’s pretty controversial. If I say how, its obvious who it is, but her page consisted of club nights with bottle service, her luxury apartment, designer clothes, travelling abroad, photoshoots. Typical influencer behaviour I guess. So one day I head to my local deli for a sandwich. When I get there, there’s a new girl behind the counter making the food and I swear it had to be her. She’s had a lot of filler and procedures and I truly didn’t realise how much she edited her photos, because in real life you could hardly tell it was her. I went onto her page and realised she had tattoos, so next time I’m in the deli I look for them and they match. Its literally her. So I investigated (otherwise known as being extremely nosy). It was just crazy to me, there was no way this stuff added up. She would post that she was in some city in Europe in a high end nightclub, but in reality I would see her working in the deli from 6am that day. I knew the other staff that worked there and I had to ask. Basically, her entire interest persona is fake – she is in massive debt from credit cards, any kind of loans you can imagine. The luxury apartment is an air B&B, every few months she rents in for a night, brings multiple changes of clothes and takes enough pictures to sprinkle it across her page for months. The luxury car she drives, same thing, she rents it at a day rate every few months, takes lots of pictures. The designer goods are fake, and everything she ACTUALLY has to pay for is done through credit. The photoshoots she attends, she’s pays for. I still follow her and its been the healthiest thing for me the ever discover on social media. I’ll see her post a photoshoot, worded as though its her job, and all the comments are young girls wishing they looked like her, wishing they had her life. In reality I see her all the time, working long hours at the deli on minimum wage because she can no longer afford her debt, barely recognisable.

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I went to high school with a girl who is now an “influencer”/”instagram poet” Every photo on IG is her smiling/laughing/modeling in nature, trying to be quirky, posting messages about love and positivity and self acceptance. She writes “poetry” that she posts regularly (with awful grammar, might I add). She gets tons of comments/likes about how great and influential she is. She regularly dates new people to keep her IG “interesting” and then deletes all traces when they break up. She’s also been traveling all over during COVID (and not quarantining) and posting a lot of maskless pictures in groups. In real life – she was a huge bully in high school and regularly made fun of people for their appearance, weight, sexuality, etc. She never finished college, she worked/used to work minimum wage jobs, but now makes “insta poetry” and being an “influencer” her career. I imagine she’ll roll into my high school reunion thinking she’s god’s gift to the earth. I think instagram (and a lot of other social media) is really harmful to the younger generation.

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A girl I went to high school with is an influencer, and honestly she is pretty chill and down to earth. Pretty much exactly the person she claims to be while influencing. She was always nice, good at photography, and curating an aesthetic, so it isn’t surprising to me that she is an influencer. I respect her because she is also incredibly intelligent and didn’t give up her dreams for school; I know she works in a lab and has a serious job, which is more than I can say about myself. Sometimes I see her being beautiful, living on the beach and eating expensive meals, and get a little jealous, but then I remember how much work she puts into all of this and realize that she is just incredibly hard-working.

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I know a few. YT hair guru is actually pretty quiet and a loner that is hard working. She’s successful because she works like 13 hours a day. Dog influencer. She’s rarely in the shots as she’s quiet. But her and her dogs are great. Lifestyle/family influencer. Dude why are the family ones the most toxic? They pretend to be good parents but those kids are props that look nice to put sponsored clothes on. They like to say motivational things they will never do.

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She hides a good bit of her real life and most of her personality. But the insta persona is not really ‘fake’ per se. She’s extremely sweet, very personable, great eye for fashion and ‘looks’, and is a terrific photographer IRL. Main thing she doesn’t really let out is that she’s really academically accomplished. We met in grad school where we shared a few classes and got along really well. I moved on to the job market and career, while she got into a super competitive PhD program. She wanted to be an academic. Since her research took her to interesting places she always took great pictures, and randomly her insta started taking off. Certainly helped that she looks like Konnie Huq. Struggling as a young academic hustling for grant money < travel influencer on insta. So she put the PhD on hold and focused on the travelling for the last 4ish years. She makes a fabulous living, gets to go to a lot of amazing places. And while 2020 could have been a career-killer due to the pandemic (and Boris’s incompetence), she found enough time to take some classes and do enough thesis work that she might even end up getting her PhD in 2021. Even though since grad school we only ever met at weddings, she was also very good in keeping touch. While it would have been easy enough to be jealous of her or for her to flaunt her lifestyle, she’s just really really self-aware as well as aware of the absurdity of her life. Actually really looking forward to meeting her soon, once the vaccines get working.

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