Just like every other job!!! When your life depends on something it’s put so much pressure on you, you can’t afford doing it in a fun way anymore. Doctors, lawyers, maids, waitresses go through this too, they just don’t have the luxury to broadcast it like influencers
You hit the nail on the head. Everything is work..eventually it’ll become taxing no matter how much you “loveeeee it”. When your livelihood depends on it shit becomes real.
I feel this. I love baking for FUN. If I started baking for as a business I think I would hate it so much. Just baking things for friends and family without pressure is what I like.
I heard someone say if you turn your hobby into a business, you need to get another hobby to keep you from hating something you once love.For example I turned my sewing hobby into a business and I do gardening and baking to keep my sewing interest super fresh. In college had a little baking side hustle, I can't eat muffins now without gagging or feeling sick.😢😂😂
It’s like influencing is the new MLM! Influencers coming on here telling ppl to quit their jobs to become influencers, but then you’re just adding to the competition and making it harder for everyone!
The RUclipsrs who have a niche channel are the lucky ones because they just do one thing. My sister watches a RUclipsr on here who basically does her makeup and talks about murder mystery stories and nothing else. You don’t know anything about their private life’s or where they live, how their home is decorated and etc.
@@shonnyhines1737Has to be Bailey. She’s the original Murder Mystery & Makeup youtuber. Many have started to copy her True Crime niche but she is the original.
Full time influencers was never supposed to be a full time job. It’s supposed to be a side hustle. How can you be influencing if you are completely detached from reality?
That’s not realistic. Art is not the same as influencers. Artists by definition work gig jobs. Even celebrity musicians, do gig jobs, just on a massive scale. Don’t be silly. People work gig jobs as a full time job. All that matters is they make enough to get by and are happy. And Uber is a predatory business, no matter how few or how many hours a driver works, they will be net negative after the cost of gas and car maintenance.
This. Especially when having a job is part of their image. It's weird when "homemakers" husbands don't work. But yep it's a very quick road to out of touch
Working in general sucks. I work in corporate America and I do not want to be an influencer because I am too private and introverted. I don't want to do anything but float on a cloud. Working steals so much of our lives
-Most ppl aren’t as clever, interesting or creative as they believe. -At some point the public will grow bored of watching the same thing and move on…it’s simply how our brains are wired.
Literally had to tell my mom that I’m not that attractive or funny for online hell I can barley get through small talk without freaking out if I’m boring or not 😂
I’m 35 years old and I miss social media back in 2004-2012 where it was carefree and people posted whatever without monetizing, no freaking ads, etc. it’s crazy to see how it is now 😮 ultimately, too much media consumption was going to be the downfall of society and it feels like it happened overnight. Time flies! I’m glad these women made the decision to further their careers and have somewhat of a work/life balance.
It’s also extremely unsafe being a content creator nowadays. People will dox you, stalk you, bully/harass you, and pull up all your personal information if you say, do, or are associated with someone or something they don’t like no matter how big or small.
There is nothing in life thats easy. 9-5 gets hard, running businesses gets hard, the new age careers such as influencers, creators will get hard as well. The purpose of working is to make money, whichever career path you choose.
I think folks need to understand contentment. You will never have the perfect job, the perfect spouse, the perfect home, the perfect car, the perfect life. Contentment is about appreciating what you have faults and all. Change what you can change, but don't stress about things you can't control. Also, folks need to detach from social media and live life.
the reality is that working to survive sucks. very few people feel long-term fulfillment from their jobs. even if you have a job that you’re relatively passionate about, it’s still work. it’s still an obligation. the work and obligation aspect of it can start to suck the passion and enjoyment out of it over time
Same! I like NOT thinking about when or where the next paycheck will come, or anticipating how much I’ll have to work with. I also think it’s so much easier for a work/life balance tbh.
You know what's wild? Being a teen at the dawn of social media with a modeling career but then deciding to disconnect and go on the road- without recording it, no theatrics, just knowing through all the thick and thin without feeling a compulsive need to broadcast. I saw people behind falling into the social media void when I went off grid The early and mid 2000's were a very different era for me and now I'm just baffled by how destructive it's gotten.
The most dangerous myth is that if you have a full-time corporate job, you have stability and security. Just look at the number of tech workers (130K+) who got laid off this year. Everyone’s best bet is to have multiple streams of income.
But a content creator can be of influence. I watch Michelle mcdaniels ans she influences me to get in shape and be healthier. She jist does content but it influences. You Busiswa influence a lot of us You shine light of things we noght not know about and that can make us act differently. Hemce influence
I LOVE drawing, portraits, and caricatures. I have been a full time caricature artist for half a year and Im ready to go home 90 min into a gig. I 've drawn for 12 hours in a day before, it is EXHAUSTING and I don't get to see my friends on the weekend. I'm excited to get a different career so this can be my light side hustle again.
The market just got oversaturated. Too many people doing a lot of nothing. Very few people were influenced by influencers, and that's why the whole gig failed.
It’s already too much effort for me to get ready and look decent for a zoom call on camera… being an influencer and voluntarily film yourself basically 24/7 sounds like a nightmare
Influencing should always be seen as a side thing unless its really taking off, which is an extremely rare case in itself. I stream on twitch only 3 times a week and that gets me a few thousand extra each month, and even thats a lucky occurence. If anyone asks me if they should be an influencer id definitely talk them out of it tbh
@ambergathings7160 there's an unemployment epidemic going on that noone is talking about, it's seriously not just you sadly. You can dip into being an influencer but half the struggle is getting noticed. It took years to build up my other channel so it's not easy
RUclips was originally a hobby. Then they introduced monetization. If people would stop allowing the making money aspect to be the main focus of their channel they would be less burnt out on it.
I don't tend to watch "influencers" too often (only when I really like that person, almost despite that they fall into that category). I enjoy watching content creators and appreciate the time and effort that they put into their videos. You are a very talented content creator, and I really enjoy watching all of your videos. I also really like and respect you, which makes it all the more enjoyable for me. Thanks for the excellent content, Honey. You totally rock! 💜
Nothing is perfect but I’m very grateful for my corporate job! I like the points they made about feeling like part of team and feeling more like you’re contributing to something than when being an influencer. I think my brain would turn to mush too with all of that forced media consumption and keeping up with trends.
Influencers have always been irrelevant at least to me and I've never really sat down and looked up to one, I've only ever admired content creators and yes there is definitely a huge difference.
@@11beebee influencing is more about marketing and focusing more on the products or whatever they're trying to sell, they're not worried about creating quality content while content creation puts more emphasis on high quality content and making something that will resonate with their audience regardless if they create a product that influences them.
I kind of feel the way they feel just working from home. Just feels blah, but I’m so thankful as a single mom. It does feel so purposeless & unfulfilling. It fits my lifestyle right now though. Childcare is expensive. I’m doing it for my kids, but it’s rough 😮💨 also..social media is tough. I gave up after a week & all the silly violations 😂
Same! Working from home is sooo boring and makes each day so monotonous. I miss working in an office tbh.. I’m gonna start looking for a new job in the new year and I’m only interested in hybrid or solely in-office jobs ✨
@@bbygirlk94 my son starts school this coming year, so I am definitely tossing around that idea myself! I’ve never experienced this kind of burnout 😮💨
The thing is people realize that social media is a job and they don’t have the mentality to be self employed. It’s not for everybody. And it’s not also easy. The ones that does very good have to actually be hiring a team and be really business owners.
from the time RUclips started to monetized creator's content for them to get paid, I realize that it was work. Influencing is work, its a different and could be a very lucrative style of work but its work. When I was younger I use to think they got paid for 20sec video or 20mins video but it takes hours lol HOURS for them to develop an idea, film, edit, and post on youtube or any platform. Once I clock out of my job I am off. I won't ever get paid as much as some influencers and content creators get paid and that's okay. I've learned that I can just shut off my device whenever but for internet work that's very hard. That could be why so many are leaving or they take months and months away from creating content or posting online.
My whole thing is that in this day and age you HAVE to have multiple streams of income in order to live, if it's not nursing, or therapist, or hair stylist with wild ass prices😂. But I work 2 jobs and can't afford my own place. The major part of everything is time for me. Sure, I could pick up another job, or do tik tok on the side but when? At 3am when I gotta get up at 7 for the first job? Like everything is honestly just too much (or too little paycheck wise)
Because they fight against ageism. I love to see beautiful older women doing make-up and outfit check. Why? Life is not about being seen between 18-25, and after we because insible.
Ultimately, they’re salespeople. Selling things to people fundamentally sucks. Unfortunately, the way you really make money as an influencer is by selling things to people, while pretending you’re not.
Just the the phrase "influencer" rubs me the wrong way. Who decided any of these people know enough, do enough, are enough to tell anybody anything??!! You have to be pretty brain dead to decide to follow some random person's advice on anything!
Omg my thoughts exactly- it’s one thing to do due diligence and decide you trust someone’s insight but to just listen to someone bc of their look and follower count is just insane to me
19:30 well I can also say this, and say it loud: influencers do not work for themselves. They work for whatever platform is paying them. That logic is like all those OF girls that think they work for themselves when really OF is their pimp. There's a lot to owning a business and those platforms take care of a lot of it so that people can get paid for obsessively posting videos about themselves without having to worry about the MANY other things it takes to operate said platform. Their part may be time-consuming, but it wouldn't be possible without the platform doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
My favorite RUclipsr never monetized her channel. (For the germans I am talking about Coldmirror) She started waaayyy back in 2006 and started earning her money with her own show in german television and is now doing whatever feels right for her. I respect her so much for this. She uploads whenever she wants, could be once or 5 times in a year.
I don’t Tik Tok because I always understood the “risks” associated with it & NEVER downloaded the app. I agree with you 100% that there is a difference between influencer & creator. 11:07 let’s talk about the “you’re going to get old”! What’s old? I’m 57 & just starting to live my best life. 😉
I’ve been seeing this topic a lot lately and it’s interesting because I had to go back and get a 9-5 twice and hearing the influencers talk about their experiences are interesting being on the outside looking in
The girl that went from influencer to realtor, I wonder if she’d have that same success in reality without her influencer status. She already has that built in clientele. I used to manage a brokerage, and it is HARD to break into realty. Once you build a clientele and get the word out, you can be successful, but it’s not easy in the beginning.
It seems like every social media influencer has the bad habit of "uptalking?" And stating every sentence like it's a question? It gets to be really annoying? It would be so nice if they didn't all speak like that? I wonder if it's a Gen-Z thing? It's like totally a Valley Girl resurgence?
I used to work in an office with someone who spoke like that and she talked non stop. I don’t know where she was from but that’s how she spoke naturally. I had to quit my job because her voice was driving me nuts.
How is this girl making more than $500k a year as a realtor? She must just have more clients because she was an influencer and she had more visibility?
Also I'm pretty sure the amount the Realtor gets depends on the price of the property as well. So if she's consistently doing deals for expensive properties that could explain it.
@@alexcordon1208 in the video she [influencer] stated that this year is the most money she has ever made, and she isn't influencing, but focusing on real estate.
LMAO. Idk who, what, when or why I keep seeing your dropped videos on my feed. I'm like damn this lady dropping videos daily ha ass busy. Apparently I'm subbed to your channel. 😂 So keep up the work!
The world doesn’t need more influencers, we need more nurses, doctors, truck drivers, actual contributing members to society! The fact that 50% of Gen Z felt it was necessary for them to get into influencing is disturbing. If 50% of you guys are influencing who are you influencing? The chances of the other 50% being interested in being influenced are low because they’re probably the normal ones you wanna go and be contributing members to society! Rule of life get over yourself and as soon as you do you realize how much happier you are but if you have people with cameras in their face who are comfortable with egos telling you you need to do this and you need to do that you’re gonna question it. But in all actuality a lot of these nine fives aren’t bad at all . Especially if you have a college degree you do your homework to actually find a good company you’ll be perfectly fine! Stop letting these Internet folks encourage you to do their same stupid behaviors
Hello from South Africa! Glad I found your channel, you bring up so many good points and you're overall very entertaining!! Always looking forward to new posts❤
The thing about TikTok now, is that it's a numbers game. The more you post as a small creator a day, the more likely the algorithm will pick up on your videos and put them on other's FYPs.
I did tiktok for a bit with my exotic animals. Just showing them off and talking about them. It worked out okay for a bit but you gotta keep feeding tiktok videos or you pay for it so i stopped. Plus I couldn't stand how much it seemed like one big commercial over on TikTok. Meh so i stopped and I'm working, making art on the side selling it via etsy, consignment shops, and events when i can. It's so much less stressful.
I was on my way of being an influencer at like 35k on Instagram and posted daily or more than once a day. But that was around 2015-2018, then it all got overwhelmong with stories and reels and at some point with everything else going on, I couldn't do it anymore and I don't wanna share my life like this anymore every goddamn day. People used to ask me how I manage to post daily and I was like "oh it's easy, you just get used to it, make it a priority". Today I wonder: HOW DID I MANAGE TO DO THAT?! 9:45 Yes, exactly. And seeing the people that I still follow from like back in the days, I'm just like: How are you still doing this? This gets so old, it's always the same stuff all over again.
I'm about to start my RUclips channel just now. I hope I'm not starting too late 😅 but that's ok I'm starting now!!! Definitely more in the category of content creation, I want to be able to teach my fitness and dance classes remotely. Of course the Internet has brought us great things and not so great things with it
“I just had 1 million subscribers”, Haybo this girl 🤣 Also having a 9-5 and being a content creator is really hard! I respect people that thrive in both at the same time!
I sew and crochet. Thinking about filming for content because I should post just takes the joy out of it and also makes doing the thing take so much longer.
We are all influencers. Some decided to create RUclips and influence. Some live a normal life and influence people they come across with in their daily life offline. If someone admire the way you dress and they ask your advice, you are already influencing.
I agree, its oversaturated with so many people with the same voice, but different faces. I remember having a client that wanted a 'Who wants to be a Millionaire' game thats operated on a laser pointer (that was a fun project). So, as i was looking over the question for programming, there was one question about how many OnlyFans content creator (this was a year ago), and the answer was over 2 million content creators! OMG, I couldn't believe there were that many, and i just checked recently and it went up to over 4 million! And all i thought about is how many of that 4 million are actually making money. Same goes with other social media platforms. I have a background in marketing and understand what it takes to get myself out there (I'd rather freelance while working a 9-5) and I dont have the time and commitment to dedicate that much time (plus I'm an introvert that doesnt really like broadcasting my business online lol) because I'd rather learn something (like learning how to sew my own outfits) for me instead of learning something to do for content.
Monica Church was one of the YTbers I watched but you could tell she wasn’t feeling it anymore. Another thing that was interesting about her was that she’s an identical twin. So those videos did well too. But congrats to her! Do what you love.
The “influencer” market is becoming so overly saturated. Now that anyone can be an influencer when will it lose its spark and when will an influencer become a dime a dozen? Just the term “influencer” never really sat right with me. Such an odd term and job title.
I wanted to be a part pf the travel influencer wave during covid times and started recording my travels and taking pictures to post on my insta and at first it was fun but it quickly started to feel fake, staged and inauthentic. I also felt a lot of pressure to capture every moment on my phone and catered my activities to what would be Instagrammable or give luxurious vibes. Sad part of my life but I’m so happy I stopped and also deactivated my Facebook and instagram! I still love traveling but I don’t care about recording excessively or trying to take the perfect shots in the perfect outfit at the perfect location just to show people online who don’t even like me like that.
The influencer thing never interested me. They're SALES people. "Influencer" is just a rebrand. It's always been so obvious, imo, and it's weird to be That invested in a total stranger. It's weird. Very culty
Good vid. I was far from a big influencer but yes it can be exhausting. I'm happy with my work, and I'm happy that I can still post things I enjoy, but not so much pressure on how often, etc. And I still get free stuff LOL. I am a new mom so the free stuff honestly allows me to enjoy things without having to spend monies LOL.
Monica Church! I used to watch her and the saturation crew in the 2010s. Mylifeaseva, Niki and Gabi, Alisha Marie etc. A lot of them have either spiraled, had a rough time getting a plan b, or just migrated to other platforms like Tik Tok
I don’t like people enough to be a social media influencer. There are just too many weirdos nowadays. I also can’t see myself doing a 9-5 for the rest of my life just to get nowhere and have debt continue to pile up. It’s always something and in general it’s just hard in this society to get ahead financially without having to do the complete most the compromises your morals and values. 🤷🏽♀️.
i'm an millennal male think there is nothing wrong at all if some don't want to work a job that's not a bad thing to me at all i see it as a good nature thing to me just like it's ok if some choose to do want to work a job but i think it's not ok to force pressure some of us that don't want to work a job to just work telling us what we should or shouldn't do with our life i want to admit that i don't like being told what to do being force to work a work, stop being lazy, get out of my comfort zone and stop being addicted to technology because i am the only one that don't see it as a bad unhealthy thing i see it as a good thing to me i love embrace my lazyness, shyness, comfort zone and technology addction i just don't like that it always get demonized by the majority the popular way of thinking that it's a bad thing that's just my honest difference point of view believe i want it to share but at the sametime i respect your point of view
Off topic but I'm on the path to my bachelor's degree and my master's in a few years, and I'll be getting my teaching credential as well as additional credentials to boost my resume once I am on the job market including disability education credential as well as a foreign language (chinese would be the main one but if I could get korean intoo- even better!) Currently studying for real estate while on hiatus from school the language is so difficult but I'm going to push through because I did not spend $300 to fail or not even take the test!
Cuz most of them doing for money; fame, acting etc. the best creators are those that actually want to change lives by providing value. What are here on earth for? Hype, insane lifestyle, and half depressed. Don’t get me wrong, it ok to make money but in the end, you go love what you do if it’s rewarding.
I haven’t watched Monica Church or thought about her in the longest time - weird how her dream was selling property 🤷🏻♂️😂. Everyone has their own path aye
Like TOUCH SOME GRASS, create some DRAMA (jk…but am I?), LIKE DO SOMETHING, TRAVEL SOMEWHERE. You get burnt out because content creation is literally your whole life. Some people are not able to challenge themselves, they need others to do it for them (no shame) I just can’t relate
Everyone is different I can’t imagine to work in a team and report to anyone. I love working for myself. At the same time I can’t imagine being influencer 😅 They didn’t say anything what we wouldn’t know 🙄🤭
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Just like every other job!!! When your life depends on something it’s put so much pressure on you, you can’t afford doing it in a fun way anymore. Doctors, lawyers, maids, waitresses go through this too, they just don’t have the luxury to broadcast it like influencers
You hit the nail on the head. Everything is work..eventually it’ll become taxing no matter how much you “loveeeee it”. When your livelihood depends on it shit becomes real.
THIS PART RIGHT HERE
I love baking. I started a small little side business. I started hating baking.
Exact same thing but with art. When I turned it into a business, I started hating art.
Used to love traveling. Became a flight attendant. Hate to travel now lol.
@@chenanigans😢
I feel this. I love baking for FUN. If I started baking for as a business I think I would hate it so much. Just baking things for friends and family without pressure is what I like.
I heard someone say if you turn your hobby into a business, you need to get another hobby to keep you from hating something you once love.For example I turned my sewing hobby into a business and I do gardening and baking to keep my sewing interest super fresh.
In college had a little baking side hustle, I can't eat muffins now without gagging or feeling sick.😢😂😂
It’s like influencing is the new MLM! Influencers coming on here telling ppl to quit their jobs to become influencers, but then you’re just adding to the competition and making it harder for everyone!
That’s a good comparison. The influencers market is over saturated.
And most people who join it don’t make any money at all, or they get like $5 per year.
The RUclipsrs who have a niche channel are the lucky ones because they just do one thing. My sister watches a RUclipsr on here who basically does her makeup and talks about murder mystery stories and nothing else. You don’t know anything about their private life’s or where they live, how their home is decorated and etc.
Bailey sarian😂❤
@@shonnyhines1737Has to be Bailey. She’s the original Murder Mystery & Makeup youtuber. Many have started to copy her True Crime niche but she is the original.
@@SussexSandra lol I didn’t know her name. I’m not into murder mystery 😂😂
I've found those videos so disrespectful to the victims of those horrible crimes.
@@valiant_valor as a family member of m victim it depends on how it's done imo
Full time influencers was never supposed to be a full time job. It’s supposed to be a side hustle. How can you be influencing if you are completely detached from reality?
Same with driving for uber and doordash..
Add all gig jobs tbh
That's for you, but someone is able to make it work as many people do, who are you to speak for them
That’s not realistic. Art is not the same as influencers. Artists by definition work gig jobs. Even celebrity musicians, do gig jobs, just on a massive scale.
Don’t be silly. People work gig jobs as a full time job. All that matters is they make enough to get by and are happy.
And Uber is a predatory business, no matter how few or how many hours a driver works, they will be net negative after the cost of gas and car maintenance.
This. Especially when having a job is part of their image. It's weird when "homemakers" husbands don't work. But yep it's a very quick road to out of touch
Working in general sucks. I work in corporate America and I do not want to be an influencer because I am too private and introverted. I don't want to do anything but float on a cloud. Working steals so much of our lives
Heavy on the private, introverted cloud floating.
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To be honest, if there was no working you’d also start hating that life 😂😂
I'm doing mandatory overtime, and I forgot what being at home feels like...
@Desire85102 some weirdos were celebrating being unemployed and I was just in shock...
-Most ppl aren’t as clever, interesting or creative as they believe.
-At some point the public will grow bored of watching the same thing and move on…it’s simply how our brains are wired.
There’s only so many get ready with me’s you can watch 😂 truly
Literally had to tell my mom that I’m not that attractive or funny for online hell I can barley get through small talk without freaking out if I’m boring or not 😂
Absolutely, look at the whole makeup and travel content. Those videos are now serve as a "directory" instead of entertainment
@@kitsontuli2713 A directory? I don't understand. Can you elaborate?
And the lifestyle vloggers all seem to be doing the same thing....i think after a while its going to be boring
I’m 35 years old and I miss social media back in 2004-2012 where it was carefree and people posted whatever without monetizing, no freaking ads, etc. it’s crazy to see how it is now 😮 ultimately, too much media consumption was going to be the downfall of society and it feels like it happened overnight. Time flies! I’m glad these women made the decision to further their careers and have somewhat of a work/life balance.
One of my favourite RUclips channels quit recently. They said peace of mind is the new luxury
Privacy is the new gold
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It just doesn’t seem fun for the “influencers” anymore. Their entire lives depend on it.
That’s a good point of view that enough people don’t hear. That seems about right.
It's a job like many others so yea
And it's very apparent in their videos
I mean yeah, it's their job. That's the nature of having a job
It’s also extremely unsafe being a content creator nowadays. People will dox you, stalk you, bully/harass you, and pull up all your personal information if you say, do, or are associated with someone or something they don’t like no matter how big or small.
There is nothing in life thats easy. 9-5 gets hard, running businesses gets hard, the new age careers such as influencers, creators will get hard as well. The purpose of working is to make money, whichever career path you choose.
I think folks need to understand contentment.
You will never have the perfect job, the perfect spouse, the perfect home, the perfect car, the perfect life. Contentment is about appreciating what you have faults and all. Change what you can change, but don't stress about things you can't control.
Also, folks need to detach from social media and live life.
the reality is that working to survive sucks. very few people feel long-term fulfillment from their jobs. even if you have a job that you’re relatively passionate about, it’s still work. it’s still an obligation. the work and obligation aspect of it can start to suck the passion and enjoyment out of it over time
I never wanted to be an entrepreneur.
Give me a 9-5 anytime. I do not want the stress of running a business.
Same! I like NOT thinking about when or where the next paycheck will come, or anticipating how much I’ll have to work with. I also think it’s so much easier for a work/life balance tbh.
Same! I tried it during Covid and realized it was not for me. I’d rather have my 9-5 with benefits.
This was my revelation this past year. Give me the 9 to 5 and health care lol
That’s mediocrity
@@sabrinagonzales4456some of us don’t care if we live mediocre lives. We can still find joy and meaning in our mediocre lives. Girl bye.
You know what's wild? Being a teen at the dawn of social media with a modeling career but then deciding to disconnect and go on the road- without recording it, no theatrics, just knowing through all the thick and thin without feeling a compulsive need to broadcast. I saw people behind falling into the social media void when I went off grid The early and mid 2000's were a very different era for me and now I'm just baffled by how destructive it's gotten.
The most dangerous myth is that if you have a full-time corporate job, you have stability and security. Just look at the number of tech workers (130K+) who got laid off this year. Everyone’s best bet is to have multiple streams of income.
But a content creator can be of influence. I watch Michelle mcdaniels ans she influences me to get in shape and be healthier. She jist does content but it influences.
You Busiswa influence a lot of us
You shine light of things we noght not know about and that can make us act differently. Hemce influence
I'm also subscribed to her and she's amazing!
Amen!❤
Yaaas I love Michelle's videos too!! She makes me want to get in shape and stay healthy! Busiswa is YT gold im so glad i found her channel!
lol I love Michelle she’s informative and funny but even she still has a job outside of content creation. She’s still a physical trainer
I LOVE drawing, portraits, and caricatures. I have been a full time caricature artist for half a year and Im ready to go home 90 min into a gig. I 've drawn for 12 hours in a day before, it is EXHAUSTING and I don't get to see my friends on the weekend. I'm excited to get a different career so this can be my light side hustle again.
The market just got oversaturated. Too many people doing a lot of nothing. Very few people were influenced by influencers, and that's why the whole gig failed.
Too many “accidental” influencers. People who became infamous for salacious activities and viral videos
This is it right here
So well said.
It’s already too much effort for me to get ready and look decent for a zoom call on camera… being an influencer and voluntarily film yourself basically 24/7 sounds like a nightmare
Influencing should always be seen as a side thing unless its really taking off, which is an extremely rare case in itself. I stream on twitch only 3 times a week and that gets me a few thousand extra each month, and even thats a lucky occurence. If anyone asks me if they should be an influencer id definitely talk them out of it tbh
I live in my I could use that thousand a month nobody is hiring me not even dollar tree
@ambergathings7160 there's an unemployment epidemic going on that noone is talking about, it's seriously not just you sadly. You can dip into being an influencer but half the struggle is getting noticed. It took years to build up my other channel so it's not easy
@@courtney1496unemployment is very highly talked about. That’s one of the biggest social issues going on right now
RUclips was originally a hobby. Then they introduced monetization. If people would stop allowing the making money aspect to be the main focus of their channel they would be less burnt out on it.
I don't tend to watch "influencers" too often (only when I really like that person, almost despite that they fall into that category). I enjoy watching content creators and appreciate the time and effort that they put into their videos.
You are a very talented content creator, and I really enjoy watching all of your videos. I also really like and respect you, which makes it all the more enjoyable for me. Thanks for the excellent content, Honey. You totally rock! 💜
Nothing is perfect but I’m very grateful for my corporate job! I like the points they made about feeling like part of team and feeling more like you’re contributing to something than when being an influencer. I think my brain would turn to mush too with all of that forced media consumption and keeping up with trends.
my favourite thing to do is clean up my house while listening to your videos and looking at the screen here and there. Todays focus is my room lol
I remember one influencer said they stopped because it was making them a terrible person. They felt it was making them more vapid and selfish.
Influencers have always been irrelevant at least to me and I've never really sat down and looked up to one, I've only ever admired content creators and yes there is definitely a huge difference.
Yeap.
@@11beebee influencing is more about marketing and focusing more on the products or whatever they're trying to sell, they're not worried about creating quality content while content creation puts more emphasis on high quality content and making something that will resonate with their audience regardless if they create a product that influences them.
I kind of feel the way they feel just working from home. Just feels blah, but I’m so thankful as a single mom. It does feel so purposeless & unfulfilling. It fits my lifestyle right now though. Childcare is expensive. I’m doing it for my kids, but it’s rough 😮💨 also..social media is tough. I gave up after a week & all the silly violations 😂
Same! Working from home is sooo boring and makes each day so monotonous. I miss working in an office tbh.. I’m gonna start looking for a new job in the new year and I’m only interested in hybrid or solely in-office jobs ✨
@@bbygirlk94 my son starts school this coming year, so I am definitely tossing around that idea myself! I’ve never experienced this kind of burnout 😮💨
I am loving this look. The make up, hair and the black shirt really suits you. Beautiful!
The thing is people realize that social media is a job and they don’t have the mentality to be self employed. It’s not for everybody. And it’s not also easy. The ones that does very good have to actually be hiring a team and be really business owners.
the monica girl actually benefited from being an influencer in her current job
That’s what I said. I’m like ummmm chile you have more exposure and able to get more clients because of being a RUclips influencer 😮
over 500k / year as a realtor? no way does a 'normal' realtor make that much with no experience after just one year
from the time RUclips started to monetized creator's content for them to get paid, I realize that it was work. Influencing is work, its a different and could be a very lucrative style of work but its work. When I was younger I use to think they got paid for 20sec video or 20mins video but it takes hours lol HOURS for them to develop an idea, film, edit, and post on youtube or any platform.
Once I clock out of my job I am off. I won't ever get paid as much as some influencers and content creators get paid and that's okay. I've learned that I can just shut off my device whenever but for internet work that's very hard. That could be why so many are leaving or they take months and months away from creating content or posting online.
My whole thing is that in this day and age you HAVE to have multiple streams of income in order to live, if it's not nursing, or therapist, or hair stylist with wild ass prices😂. But I work 2 jobs and can't afford my own place. The major part of everything is time for me. Sure, I could pick up another job, or do tik tok on the side but when? At 3am when I gotta get up at 7 for the first job? Like everything is honestly just too much (or too little paycheck wise)
Nowadays, there's a big demand for 50 year olds and 70 years starting a channel.
I'm younger Gen X (80), who doesn't have grand parents or parents, I love watching the 60+ creators of vanlife, homesteading, baking, makeup, etc.
Because they fight against ageism. I love to see beautiful older women doing make-up and outfit check. Why? Life is not about being seen between 18-25, and after we because insible.
Ultimately, they’re salespeople. Selling things to people fundamentally sucks. Unfortunately, the way you really make money as an influencer is by selling things to people, while pretending you’re not.
Just the the phrase "influencer" rubs me the wrong way. Who decided any of these people know enough, do enough, are enough to tell anybody anything??!! You have to be pretty brain dead to decide to follow some random person's advice on anything!
Omg my thoughts exactly- it’s one thing to do due diligence and decide you trust someone’s insight but to just listen to someone bc of their look and follower count is just insane to me
If you turn your hobby into a job, you will grow to hate or resent it.
19:30 well I can also say this, and say it loud: influencers do not work for themselves. They work for whatever platform is paying them. That logic is like all those OF girls that think they work for themselves when really OF is their pimp. There's a lot to owning a business and those platforms take care of a lot of it so that people can get paid for obsessively posting videos about themselves without having to worry about the MANY other things it takes to operate said platform. Their part may be time-consuming, but it wouldn't be possible without the platform doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
My favorite RUclipsr never monetized her channel. (For the germans I am talking about Coldmirror) She started waaayyy back in 2006 and started earning her money with her own show in german television and is now doing whatever feels right for her. I respect her so much for this. She uploads whenever she wants, could be once or 5 times in a year.
I don’t Tik Tok because I always understood the “risks” associated with it & NEVER downloaded the app. I agree with you 100% that there is a difference between influencer & creator. 11:07 let’s talk about the “you’re going to get old”! What’s old? I’m 57 & just starting to live my best life. 😉
I’ve been seeing this topic a lot lately and it’s interesting because I had to go back and get a 9-5 twice and hearing the influencers talk about their experiences are interesting being on the outside looking in
The girl that went from influencer to realtor, I wonder if she’d have that same success in reality without her influencer status. She already has that built in clientele. I used to manage a brokerage, and it is HARD to break into realty. Once you build a clientele and get the word out, you can be successful, but it’s not easy in the beginning.
It seems like every social media influencer has the bad habit of "uptalking?" And stating every sentence like it's a question? It gets to be really annoying? It would be so nice if they didn't all speak like that? I wonder if it's a Gen-Z thing? It's like totally a Valley Girl resurgence?
Yup, it’s been going on for so long and ingrained in people’s brain. They always sound puzzled
I used to work in an office with someone who spoke like that and she talked non stop. I don’t know where she was from but that’s how she spoke naturally. I had to quit my job because her voice was driving me nuts.
@@jreneejrenee😂😂😂
How is this girl making more than $500k a year as a realtor? She must just have more clients because she was an influencer and she had more visibility?
Also I'm pretty sure the amount the Realtor gets depends on the price of the property as well. So if she's consistently doing deals for expensive properties that could explain it.
She was making 500k when she was the influencer, not as a realtor
@@alexcordon1208 in the video she [influencer] stated that this year is the most money she has ever made, and she isn't influencing, but focusing on real estate.
She said she is making more money now as a realtor than she has ever made before.@@alexcordon1208
@@alexcordon1208 She said it's halfway through the year, and she's making more than she did as an influencer.
4:47 GURL YOU DESERVE THE 1M
Love your 10k sub comment. You are so sweet. Be are desensitized to fact that even 1k is ALOT of people.
LMAO. Idk who, what, when or why I keep seeing your dropped videos on my feed. I'm like damn this lady dropping videos daily ha ass busy. Apparently I'm subbed to your channel. 😂 So keep up the work!
The world doesn’t need more influencers, we need more nurses, doctors, truck drivers, actual contributing members to society! The fact that 50% of Gen Z felt it was necessary for them to get into influencing is disturbing. If 50% of you guys are influencing who are you influencing? The chances of the other 50% being interested in being influenced are low because they’re probably the normal ones you wanna go and be contributing members to society!
Rule of life get over yourself and as soon as you do you realize how much happier you are but if you have people with cameras in their face who are comfortable with egos telling you you need to do this and you need to do that you’re gonna question it. But in all actuality a lot of these nine fives aren’t bad at all . Especially if you have a college degree you do your homework to actually find a good company you’ll be perfectly fine! Stop letting these Internet folks encourage you to do their same stupid behaviors
Thank you for two post within 21 hours ! Appreciate the consistency for our entertainment.
why would you want to monetize your life?? i see nothing desirable about that, no matter how much money it pays. NUH UH🙅♀🙅♀
Hello from South Africa! Glad I found your channel, you bring up so many good points and you're overall very entertaining!! Always looking forward to new posts❤
She's also from South Africa! ❤
@peachxtaehyung Yesss i was like "WOAHHHH" when I found out!!
The thing about TikTok now, is that it's a numbers game. The more you post as a small creator a day, the more likely the algorithm will pick up on your videos and put them on other's FYPs.
As a mother id never be an influencer and have never posted my kids online
I did tiktok for a bit with my exotic animals. Just showing them off and talking about them. It worked out okay for a bit but you gotta keep feeding tiktok videos or you pay for it so i stopped. Plus I couldn't stand how much it seemed like one big commercial over on TikTok. Meh so i stopped and I'm working, making art on the side selling it via etsy, consignment shops, and events when i can. It's so much less stressful.
I was on my way of being an influencer at like 35k on Instagram and posted daily or more than once a day. But that was around 2015-2018, then it all got overwhelmong with stories and reels and at some point with everything else going on, I couldn't do it anymore and I don't wanna share my life like this anymore every goddamn day.
People used to ask me how I manage to post daily and I was like "oh it's easy, you just get used to it, make it a priority". Today I wonder: HOW DID I MANAGE TO DO THAT?!
9:45 Yes, exactly. And seeing the people that I still follow from like back in the days, I'm just like: How are you still doing this? This gets so old, it's always the same stuff all over again.
I’m a fitness coach on Instagram and I’m PROUD of my 2k followers 🤣🤣
I don’t think influencing is over but like any other industry, it’s not for everyone.
I'm about to start my RUclips channel just now. I hope I'm not starting too late 😅 but that's ok I'm starting now!!! Definitely more in the category of content creation, I want to be able to teach my fitness and dance classes remotely. Of course the Internet has brought us great things and not so great things with it
It’s a great time to start, lots of people are working their way back to YT
Better late then never 🙂
Hi! I subbed so I can keep up with your journey! 💕
@@LifewithAlelee thank you so much!! 🥺
Guys, everything is hard in life. You have to choose your hard!
This the one.
“I just had 1 million subscribers”, Haybo this girl 🤣
Also having a 9-5 and being a content creator is really hard! I respect people that thrive in both at the same time!
I sew and crochet. Thinking about filming for content because I should post just takes the joy out of it and also makes doing the thing take so much longer.
We are all influencers. Some decided to create RUclips and influence. Some live a normal life and influence people they come across with in their daily life offline. If someone admire the way you dress and they ask your advice, you are already influencing.
I agree, its oversaturated with so many people with the same voice, but different faces. I remember having a client that wanted a 'Who wants to be a Millionaire' game thats operated on a laser pointer (that was a fun project). So, as i was looking over the question for programming, there was one question about how many OnlyFans content creator (this was a year ago), and the answer was over 2 million content creators! OMG, I couldn't believe there were that many, and i just checked recently and it went up to over 4 million! And all i thought about is how many of that 4 million are actually making money. Same goes with other social media platforms. I have a background in marketing and understand what it takes to get myself out there (I'd rather freelance while working a 9-5) and I dont have the time and commitment to dedicate that much time (plus I'm an introvert that doesnt really like broadcasting my business online lol) because I'd rather learn something (like learning how to sew my own outfits) for me instead of learning something to do for content.
You’re my new favorite RUclips channel! I’m happy RUclips recommended your channel to me💖
Please let this be the end of “influencers” I’m so sick of this bs.
Hey gurl! I’m ready for you to talk about this🥰🥰
Monica Church was one of the YTbers I watched but you could tell she wasn’t feeling it anymore. Another thing that was interesting about her was that she’s an identical twin. So those videos did well too. But congrats to her! Do what you love.
I found your channel today and binge watched like 5 videos. If you don’t hear it enough, great content, keep it up! ❤
The “influencer” market is becoming so overly saturated. Now that anyone can be an influencer when will it lose its spark and when will an influencer become a dime a dozen? Just the term “influencer” never really sat right with me. Such an odd term and job title.
The way Monica Church was talking was crazy. She seems so used to that even tho that amount of money is insane.
Anything can get tiring if you do it too much. And if you add money into the equation!? Yeah it's a wrap. 😂
I wanted to be a part pf the travel influencer wave during covid times and started recording my travels and taking pictures to post on my insta and at first it was fun but it quickly started to feel fake, staged and inauthentic. I also felt a lot of pressure to capture every moment on my phone and catered my activities to what would be Instagrammable or give luxurious vibes. Sad part of my life but I’m so happy I stopped and also deactivated my Facebook and instagram! I still love traveling but I don’t care about recording excessively or trying to take the perfect shots in the perfect outfit at the perfect location just to show people online who don’t even like me like that.
The influencer thing never interested me. They're SALES people. "Influencer" is just a rebrand. It's always been so obvious, imo, and it's weird to be That invested in a total stranger. It's weird. Very culty
yep i started making and selling handmade planners.... fast forward started hating to sew planners
Influencer as a job seems stressful af 😂 making content for fun is better and still stressful
Good vid. I was far from a big influencer but yes it can be exhausting. I'm happy with my work, and I'm happy that I can still post things I enjoy, but not so much pressure on how often, etc. And I still get free stuff LOL. I am a new mom so the free stuff honestly allows me to enjoy things without having to spend monies LOL.
Monica Church! I used to watch her and the saturation crew in the 2010s. Mylifeaseva, Niki and Gabi, Alisha Marie etc. A lot of them have either spiraled, had a rough time getting a plan b, or just migrated to other platforms like Tik Tok
17:25 i think corp America could use more peeps with content creator experience. Could probably have an interesting effect on the culture.
I remember Monica Church 😊
Here’s the thing : don’t follow trends, make what you love, and build a real community. You won’t face 90% of these things
Love ur commenting! U know juat when 2 cut off! Keep going sis
6:59 I love that for her!
You bless us with your consistency ❤
I love your honesty 👏🏾
I don’t like people enough to be a social media influencer. There are just too many weirdos nowadays. I also can’t see myself doing a 9-5 for the rest of my life just to get nowhere and have debt continue to pile up. It’s always something and in general it’s just hard in this society to get ahead financially without having to do the complete most the compromises your morals and values. 🤷🏽♀️.
7:25 is that Shelby Church’s sister?
Edit- I just realized they were identical twins 😱
i'm an millennal male think there is nothing wrong at all if some don't want to work a job that's not a bad thing to me at all i see it as a good nature thing to me just like it's ok if some choose to do want to work a job but i think it's not ok to force pressure some of us that don't want to work a job to just work telling us what we should or shouldn't do with our life i want to admit that i don't like being told what to do being force to work a work, stop being lazy, get out of my comfort zone and stop being addicted to technology because i am the only one that don't see it as a bad unhealthy thing i see it as a good thing to me i love embrace my lazyness, shyness, comfort zone and technology addction i just don't like that it always get demonized by the majority the popular way of thinking that it's a bad thing that's just my honest difference point of view believe i want it to share but at the sametime i respect your point of view
Yesss just found your channel you go queen!
Nvr been this early before
Off topic but I'm on the path to my bachelor's degree and my master's in a few years, and I'll be getting my teaching credential as well as additional credentials to boost my resume once I am on the job market including disability education credential as well as a foreign language (chinese would be the main one but if I could get korean intoo- even better!) Currently studying for real estate while on hiatus from school the language is so difficult but I'm going to push through because I did not spend $300 to fail or not even take the test!
Off topic is an understatement! haha. Hope you get the clicks you are trying for. 🙄🤭
@@davypaul9827 not for the clicks, I'm just ranting
Cuz most of them doing for money; fame, acting etc. the best creators are those that actually want to change lives by providing value. What are here on earth for?
Hype, insane lifestyle, and half depressed.
Don’t get me wrong, it ok to make money but in the end, you go love what you do if it’s rewarding.
I haven’t watched Monica Church or thought about her in the longest time - weird how her dream was selling property 🤷🏻♂️😂. Everyone has their own path aye
I think a majority of the influencers started out for fun. Once something becomes work it isn’t fun anymore
They lady that got her dream job and team she blessed and lucky
Not even 9-5 jobs are stable. You can get fired. Laid off. Personally I find it more stressful.
Like TOUCH SOME GRASS, create some DRAMA (jk…but am I?), LIKE DO SOMETHING, TRAVEL SOMEWHERE. You get burnt out because content creation is literally your whole life. Some people are not able to challenge themselves, they need others to do it for them (no shame) I just can’t relate
plan B is work in the trades they pay well and no weird hour stuff like in office work
Doing hard labor jobs only works until you’re 30… past that no one wants to do a physical labor job
13 minutes ago and on my lunch break ❤❤
No one has enough money to be "influenced" anymore.
Everyone is different I can’t imagine to work in a team and report to anyone. I love working for myself. At the same time I can’t imagine being influencer 😅 They didn’t say anything what we wouldn’t know 🙄🤭