If you were an influencer, would you rather have a huge following that hardly knew your authentic self, or a smaller following that you were truly yourself with? Let me know! ALSO the amount of times I caught myself doing the claw…. I died inside
it really depends. if being an influencer would be my full time job i woulf prefer to have a lot of followers because well technically they do it for a living but if it was more of a hobby than of course not much followers because it would be more about connecting with these people than making money
And it’s not just influencers, it’s largely average people who follow them too. Whenever someone posts a pic of their bedroom or whatever on Pinterest, there is **always** someone who will be like, “What is this aesthetic called?” And it’s literally just a regular bedroom that clearly isn’t decorated with a specific era or style in mind, it’s just things that the person likes. I’ve seen the same question asked on outfit pics, it’s like people don’t know that others have developed their own taste and decorate and wear what they want without trying to fit a trend or social media classification. Yesterday I saw a pic too of a girl’s purse and it was that trendy Trader Joe’s tote that people lost their minds over and it had a million keychains attached. Every single keychain was something that’s currently trending: Labubu, those little dolls that look like Kewpie, a Bogg mini bag, and of course the Stanley with its attachments. Every single item in that pic were nothing more than tacky status symbols, nothing about it looked personal because it could be any TikTok bimbo’s purse. These type of people’s personality is just “consumer” because they have to be told what to like and don’t understand the concept of individual preferences. It’s ridiculous.
I totally agree with the familiarity aspect. When I see someone with an alternative look with a title like, “We are being taking over by AI”, and it’s a two hour deep dive on the subject, I’m like…”Okay, I’m gonna bookmark this because I don’t just want to watch mindless crap, but I can’t do this right now. I need I prepare myself”
Watching Rent now is such a trip. All these people worried that "selling out" would be the worst thing they could do. Now it's required to survive in the arts.
no genuinely i remember the age of when people were EXTREMELY upset when youtubers started to do sponsorships. everyone was considered a 'shill' for selling people a product.
Saw a story recently where an adult was explaining the concept of “selling out” to a small group of kids; idk maybe middle school age. The kids were genuinely confused. They didn’t understand how it was even a ‘bad’ thing because it is ‘’what you are supposed to do’’. Why wouldn’t you get that bag. After all that is what success is. Selling out is now the goal and something to be admired; you’ve made it. The beginning of a world without ethics folks.
I’m honestly glad younger people are starting to notice this. I’m a 56-year-old woman, and I’ve always found it irritating, the exaggerated hand movements, the fake deep voice, the sleeves pulled over half the hands, the long nails, leaning into the camera to talk to us like we’re toddlers… I used to think maybe it was just me getting older. But apparently not.
I'm old and frequently baffled by the online world (but trying to learn), so I am relieved to hear the "scared to try a new food" thing is a performance. I thought they were genuinely just idiots.
As a 30-something who's grown up with social media, I assure you that you're not missing anything, don't lose brain cells trying to learn any of it. It's literally brain rot.
Yes, oh my god. There was a travel/food influencer whom I used to like to watch - they tried a lot of stuff I'd never heard of and I found them likeable. That was enough for me. But at some point their voice and facial expressions notably changed. Not into the cliché influencer ones but into an over the top parody of themselves. The voice pitch got higher and always forcibly positive, even when they hated something. Every emotion was notably performative. Almost like Disneyland cast members. The facial expressions while tasting food didn't make the food look enticing af anymore, they just looked like an annoying cartoon character. The eyes were starting to give Minnie Mouse when I unfollowed. I went from being excited to get their posts on my feed to being instinctually annoyed the second I heard their voice. In their pursuit to make themselves more appealing to the algorithm, they made themselves significantly less appealing to any user with functioning eyes and ears. Pity.
it's actualy been like that for a loong time on those specific corners of the internet... just cause their bigger now dosen't mean it s-suddenly a new thing
It's not recently, it's been happening FOREVER. If you live in the mainstream of life, this is the life offered. Look into the psychology of hand movements. Study politicians. This is apart of brainwashing.
The vocal fry is pretty prevalent among a LOT of the younger generation, I wouldn't say it's JUST an influencer thing anymore. The vocalisation I notice the most with influencers these days is a high, soft breathy, almost child-like tone, especially with beauty/wellness types. I guess they think it's soothing and more ASMR-ish but c'mon... talk in your normal voice.
I notice this in so much music now by female singers. That whispery, breathy, child-like singing voice….I seriously hate it, even when the song itself is really good those vocals ruin it for me.
@Chamomile369 Omg teachers eating a salad in class for lunch was so performative…like girl, I know you throw down when you at home, you’re not eating no salads 😂
The thing that drives me crazy is “RUN don’t walk” “this is a MUST have” crap. Like if it was that good I’d hear more than just influencers talking about it… this just promotes overconsumption. We know they just want the affiliate money anyway
@habituallytired i mean you shouldn’t let the internet get to you, keep doing your thing!!! the criticism is more-so targeted towards online creators who act that way as a performance rather than because of their character.
When I see that face on a video thumbnail, I automatically knock back the video. Doesn't matter what the video is about. I've even blocked channels from my suggestions because of this dumb face. Some of these people are middle aged doctors, not teenage airheads. Anyway, whatever they might have to say, I can find somewhere else minus the antics.
You know what drives me INSANE - like unreasonably angry... When they start off a recipe with "did you know if you take...." Like it's a life hack instead of a recipe. I don't think it should make me as angry as it does, but I will immediately scroll.
i HATE that!! Yes mr/ms influencer, I did in fact know that if I take some ingredients and follow all the steps of a recipe, I will have made some type of food. Like just tell me the steps, why does it have to be such a run-on sentence??? On RUclips I'll dislike on principle.
tempted to make a 'reaction' channel where all of the reactions are genuine, ranging from unimpressed and unfazed to mildly surprised when i see something sort of interesting. "wow, never had this before. huh, didn't expect it to be so spicy. pretty good, though."
You just made me think about Roll For Sandwich channel where the dude rolls DnD dice to decide on the ingredients. Sometimes the combos are interesting, sometimes weird, and some are plain eldrich abominations. And yet the man eating something like marshmallows+pickles+ghost pepper powder+ketchup on toast makes fewer facial reactions and speaks in a calmer tone than a stereotypical influencer taking a sip of a new mango smoothie😂
@haphazard-heather I dunno, I'd be scared about trying balut , or that stinky fish from Scandinavia that makes people throw up by smell alone 🤣 but if it's just a different(non vomit inducing) flavour of Ice cream then why are you scared ?? Lol these people
Everything is she, never he. I’m starting to legit be offended that my gender is being used for items. It as a pronoun exists, we don’t need she being equated to objects.
It's the tapping and the "Oh my god you guys, SO GOOD" to everything. The tapping, ASMR has the opposite effect on me, and the nails sound on glass or plastic goes THROUGH me.
Ohhhhhhh I hate it. And the popping the lid off? That I assume you then have to chase across the floor??? I love ASMR and I assume that's where it's from but uuurrgghhh in this context?
Yep. That’s my biggest hate, but since I don’t have TikTok, I never have watched them, except on the RUclips channels I do watch, Like Kiki, who she features and it drives me 🦇💩 crazy.
0:12 ok, I thought I was going crazy whenever a "lifestyle" influencer would behave the exact same way, no matter what the content is. Like clones. It's freaking weird when they ALL do it. Like creepy AF... 😅 Sorry is just off putting (sp?) when a pool of people have the exact same mannerism. Like we can tell they are just copying each other... It's sad, really... 😢
I don't know why this even became a thing, because, and I think I speak for most people, the very moment I hear an Influencer go "OMG GUYS" I click away. I cannot STAND watching this fake persona.
From my POV there is a negative feedback loop. People who are looking for these behaviors go to TikTok, encouraging more influencers there to do the same things. Then when people are tired of it, they leave TikTok so the influencers that don't copy their peers never get the chance to shine. I see a lot of good influencers that post things on TikTok that they would not post anywhere else. TikTok's algorithm is pushing their platform to be so performative with little actual content. Anyone else notice this?
As someone with auditory and visual misophonia, I love that you brought that up in this conversation. My theory is that misophonia isn’t as rare as originally thought, but instead just undiagnosed in many. To those struggling with it to an extreme level like I used to, sound-generating (white noise) hearing aids helped a ton.
I low key feel like they’re a remnant from when TikTok was dominated by cosplayers, like their heart is telling them to junko pose they just don’t realize it
@susannahfriesenofficial Or if you're Shauna Ripari, you turn influencer tropes into a Bingo card! (Sorry if you'd rather another channel not be mentioned 😬 I imagine you already have audience overlap, though. The algo sent you both to me lol)
@gunfrost8778 in the first tiktok from wengie, almost all of those hand gestures started in black queer culture, mainly black ballroom culture such as drag, vogue battles, and tutting. even the finger over the mouth as they chew something is an everyday thing i've seen from my mom's family since i as a child.
My opinion as a black girl, they are acting like black girls. Many of these mannerisms are things me and my friends have been doing since I was literally 5, now I’m 36. That’s why so much of it seems unnatural, because it is. lot of black people feel like it’s not trendy or cute when we do it but it is when other races do it. Other examples: big lips, big booties, colorful hair, long colorful nails, animated personalities, SLANG
@DeoxyribonucleicAcid4its annoying because its unauthentic, not because of the mannerisms/traits themselves. everyone in this video talking about these influencer mannerisms/these hand movements are doing the same hand movements.
I’d never participated in social media like TikTok, Instagram, etc., so I was unaware how much that affected peoples mannerisms until I got a job where my coworkers were other girls in their early 20’s. Their behaviors were so unnatural and consistent one to the next that I had to go home and research where they were getting this from lol. I’m talking every influencer hand movement, every viral phrase, the products they bought, food they ate, clothes they wore.. it was all full blown TikTok algorithm obsession, brand new personalities every week. Needless to say I was shunned pretty quickly. They were so baffled when I didn’t know about “Crumbl Cookie Dubai Chocolate Labubu Collab”.. or insert any other TikTok trend. The in-person TikTok speak sounded like rage bait to me, I was in disbelief that it was a real thing. 😂
Dimfluencers. This will eventually become saturated because the barrier to entry is so low. Like the Tulip Craze. It built up to everyone in the market and every possible tulip was developed then it collapsed.
What even is this bullshit? I don't like influencers because shilling for garbage corporations and products give me the worst icks imaginable, having icks over them holding a lapel mic with their hands for better audio quality is just grasping at straws.
susannah, you are one of the first sort of.... non-influencer/anti-influencer content creators i followed on youtube because i also was SO tired of influencers. i was searching for people who were 'normal' and seeing the same things i am seeing. i want to thank you for your authenticity and also your transparency. keep being you!
@silsail yeah! Susannah, Hannah Alonzo and Social Symone!! And each approach the same sphere with very different takes/ directions. And I like that they’re very respectful, yet assertive (I think that is something of maturity, which’s a quality I might want to start looking more for in creators I watch)!
You might also like Shawna Ripari and Caitlin Pawlowski. Shawna's content is more focused on responsible consumption than focusing on criticising influencers, but she does do a video on influencers from time to time. Caitlin's content is more about overcoming shopping addictions, so some of us might benefit from her voice.
@1019lms I honestly thought at first that the finger tapping was to force the camera into focus when the product is put so close to the camera, but I'm not so sure anymore whether it's just a learned behavior after watching so many influencer videos doing the same thing.
6:05 Lowk, I get food anxiety bc I would get punished for not liking new food, I would try and wasting it. I understand it being performative, but some of us are really scared to try new things because of the outcome 😭
My ick atm is everyone of these influencers saying theyre 'over-stimulated, overwhelmed' etc, and what is with calling every inanimate object 'she'. Wth is that all about...
Whoa there, don't take too long hoodie sleeves from my poor mellinial former emo heart 🤣 Honestly, a lot of this stuff feels like a commodified version of the "LOL so random" goofiness from when we were teens 🤔 (we as in my peers)
@IggyTheBalrog "Sweater paws" aren't my ick so much as when people make them like... their uniform? Like, every video, sweater paws. And when they get them wet? Violence.
Ok I'll have to defend that one, I love covering my hands (partly because they're always cold). And to my knowledge that's a widespread female thing lmao Though still, I don't really watch influencers like this but I can totally imagine them overdoing it somehow
@Jaguarkralle1 and that’s totally okay! As for me I love baggy clothes and having my jacket sleeve cover my hands a little, but when I see influencers doing it a lot I’m like, “That’s just for show.” It especially irks me when they’re doing tasks with the sleeves over their hands like cleaning or handling food. I guess because for me whenever I do anything I roll my sleeves up so I’m like “Omg just roll up the sleeves! You’re not gonna appear less ‘aesthetic’ for not showing your sleeves on camera!”
@MariGags i've seen trans v-tubers do litteral key jingling as well and it makes me want to click off cause- - *HOW DARE YOU ASSUME IM LESS THAN THE DIRT YOU WALK ON YOU PICE OF TRASH* *[ Im not transphobic im just tired of being treated like im **_severely mentally disabled_** ]*
I absolutely hate this gesture because it doesn’t keep me engaged. It makes me want to click off 😂 If I see someone doing that in a video I will stop watching it
@perlamedrano3637 Idk why it works if it is presentation or in classroom. I like seeing my classmates and teacher using body/hand gesture when presentating. But in influencer it feels...off?
my biggest problem is with the "why is that so good!!" because it's become a normal thing for kids to say about everything. i see them say that about people's art and it feels so dismissive and rude even though I know they have no idea theyre being that way. it feels like a great compliment even though what it is literally actually saying is that "i didn't expect this to be good. I expected it to be terrible" which is super hurtful
YES! the first time i heard the phrase “say less” it was in person at a party, and i thought i was being told to shut up in a nasty way. like, we just met, why are you talking to me like that??
14:27 not the girl saying “idc what you’re wearing.” Then immediately saying “I care about why you’re wearing it, I care about what you’re wearing.” People don’t even realize what they are saying and they are just talking. And she’s a critic of the annoying influencers. Ugh.
I watched a commercial on regular TV and it had the influencer voice and cadence. I was already annoyed, but when she said, "OMG! I'm obsessed!" I was done...🙄😐😶
You know what worries me the most Susannah? Young people watching these influencers and believing that they are a representation of REAL people-so scary 😟
YES. I have a really young SIL (her and my daughter are close in age) and they both have started doing the exaggerated hand movements and sticking out their tongue while they talk with the “I meaaaannn liiikeee” and tapping on EVERYTHING. We had to ban TikTok in our house because we couldn’t take it anymore lol we said when you can act like a human again you can get it back 🤣
People reflect what they see in media so, eventually this does absolutely represent real people. That's how culture shifts, media feeds society feeds media and the cycle goes on and on. Unfortunately our media is not interested in bolstering good behaviors and more interested in hitting dopamine so it's a race to the bottom.
Im a researcher in animal behavior, specifically in great apes and this is literally just the transmission of culture. These youngins’ watching weird influencer’s hands and what-not will definitely absorb it. For good or bad I guess
@katieanderson61 I was in the library and this kid was watching videos on one of the computers and live-reacting to it as if to his followers and not a half-empty room full of books. Made me kinda worried
0:40 it's the cadence of their speech. They sound perpetually confused and fake excited. I nearly clicked of this video because of this one clip. It's sooo fake that the second hand embarrassment and little bit of annoyed rage nearly got me. Spit it out! If someone talked like that in real life I wouldn't be able to ever take them seriously in any setting. You could be top of your field with all the degrees but if you talked in that cadence I would not believe you. Confidence is key. Doesn't matter if you stutter or take time speaking as long as you do it with conviction! Mean what you say and say what you mean.
It also probably has to do with women being called shrill or annoying if we express too much excitement. So it's kind of a lose lose unless you happen to have the perfect voice all the time.
"Top of their field" really resonates. I used to work with this girl who is a fucking doctor now, beautiful af, super smart. She was really down to earth and fun to work with. Then she became an "influencer" and was selling mlm. I'm just like oh god apparently even if I had no body fat and blonde hair, money, I could still be miserable 😅
There's a couple that's been on RUclips for a long time, and they do the excitedly yelling constantly. I turn off the sound as soon as I start watching them now
the hand behind the product thing is so funny to me because that stemmed from youtube makeup tutorials from 13+ years ago when people were recording with DSLR cameras with detachable lenses and it was to isolate the product in the lens so you could read the name of it otherwise the autofocus would keep focusing on the person’s face instead of the product they’re trying to show up close
They also smack their mouths while doing it, meaning they are eating with their mouths open! The whole point of covering your mouth while chewing is because you accidentally ate to big a bite or are signaling you are chewing when someone asks a question.
@susannahfriesenofficial I talk with my hands all the time. 😂 Even when who I'm talking to can't see me. I don't even know if it's a particular movement. I work on the computer all day and game a lot. It feels so weird to have my hands still. Sometimes I feel like I should learn sign language. I love watching people sign while talking even though I don't understand.
@LilAngelPrincess95I am also someone who talks with their hands. I've been learning ASL over the years and honestly, game changer. Would highly recommend. I feel like I'm being productive with my hand movements as opposed to gesturing wildly.
Another thing I've noticed that goes with the excessive hand movements is people who bob their heads unnaturally with everything they say. I'm just always like "why are you doing that??"
Honestly, I've always just thought the hand motions were just what people who get thier nails done do. BC they don't feel as "satisfying" without the nails.
@sammythehero bingo! It just became more prevalent the more mainstream nail art got. and now it's integrated into influencer culture and the ASMR content also exasperated it as well.
I feel like that’s what makes the gestures more annoying. Showing off fake nails seems strange and the long nails are so unsanitary. Watching someone eat with those nails is repulsive to many people.
It's not even just influencers online, it's 20 year-olds at work too. Well, at my workplace at least. They talk with that same cadence, as if they're talking to an audience all the time? You can easily tell that they grew up watching influencers on tiktok or whatever and that they've based their whole personalities around them. They wear whatever's trending, buy whatever's trending, use whatever mannerisms are trending. It's kind of sad because I have no idea what they're really like, especially since they just go along with whatever's trending all the time. You can't have deeper conversations with them because they're not really thinking for them selves? Idk, it's just sad to see.
A few months ago I redid my room and watched a few videos of people doing the same just as a way of not feeling overwhelmed by it and I found this video of this girl redoing her kitchen decor, and it was nice but at some point I kept hearing her say “I’m so scared, omg this is so scary” so I looked at the screen… she was putting a poster up… and it took her over 4min of edited video
I will say the first time I used a drill it was scary. I was scared of hitting a wire and getting electrocuted. But if it's just a command strip or something?
i guess hanging something is somewhat worrisome cause, especially if its something really sticky/hard to get off and fix, its annoying to hang up crooked?? but milking that little innocuous moment of anxiety like that is so funny 😭
@thatonedog819I understand of course that it can be scary depending on how much effort you put in it but I think hers was put with double sided tape or something like this, she didn’t drill anything. But still I am not here to insult her in the moment I just thought it was funny how important she made it sound ^^
kind of in the same vein that drives me nuts: people who post recipes often have this really strange way of taking the first bite. Like, it's similar to the reaction one, they just take this super stylized version of a bite and then really morph their face to indicate how life-changingly delicious it is. It drives me nuts!! No one eats like that!!
A HUGE ick of mine is when influencers are opening up PR packages and getting all excited about what they got and how nice it all is. They haven't even tried the product yet; they're literally just commenting on the PACKAGING.
To be fair... good packaging can show a lot about more independent brands or shops. It can immediately show how much or little they care for customers as brand. When I order from an artist and the item has a little thank you, along with it being packaged nicely, I notice that and I notice when Amazon sends me soap that has leaked out all over the box due to bad packing.
I am so sorry for your family's loss of a beloved grandparent/parent. It is a blessing to have someone one around for that long (my grandmother will be 95 in November).
- The wide eyes "WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE FACT.." Everyone's talking about the thing, shush!!. - The influencer uniform: Leggings & sweater paws, white socks pulled up over the leggings, slicked-back (greasy) bun-looking like that Demi Lovato meme, Poot. And of course, the nails - touching and tapping on everything in sight
For me it's when they scared to try a product then they're shocked they like it and declare it their new favourite....like bish don't tell me everything you try is your favourite, that just means you have no standard😭😭
18:40 the "hand behind the product" thing is to stop the camera from auto-focusing on the creator's face, or the background, etc. the hand makes it focus on the product, both by blocking the creator's face and by providing a skin tone background for the product (because cameras will auto-focus on skin tones).
Agreed! This one isn't an influencer thing, even just sending a pic to a friend or something I've had to do this. Even with small flowers in my garden!
I absolutely loathe the finger nail taps . It's so annoying. Every time these influencers tap on random objects or vegetables or even their children. Like the habit to tap on literally anything
Thank you so much for posting this.I'm probably a little bit older than your average listener.I thought it was me and being too old to understand the new way that young people were chatting.So i'm glad to know that it's some weird fad , and i'm still not out of touch with reality. 😂😂😂
Oh and it's that nail tapping On product, there's also the overexageration of responses.You've shown a great deal of them here.Yeah, that like they're the first ones to ever see something.Try something different.Some of these hacks are literally as old as I am.
finallyyyyy people are talking about this, i felt like i was going insaneeeee, i couldn't stand the way every tiktokers moves and talks the same way with the same cadence and mannerism, it made me feel like i was the only one noticing it!!! thankfully other people are noticing it now, i feel seen
Every time I hear someone tapping their long acryllics on something i physically want to recoil / pull back because it just irritates me. Like please. Stop doing that. Begging pleading stop doing that. I dont know who decided it was a good idea but I do want to fight them.
I truly started noticing these things when advertisers started using the same style content in their commercials, like having fake influencers eating food in cars and such.
It's the creepy hand under the jawline framing their face that gives me major ick, even more so when they wriggle their fingers when doing it, sooo cringe 😂😂😂
@perlamedrano3637 it is also common in classroom ngl, it works if it is presentation or in classroom. I like seeing my classmates and teacher using body/hand gesture when presentating. But in influencer it feels...off? Maybe i am too ignorant
Natural hand gestures are not what they are talking about. I know Italians talk with their hands, and it's ok, because it's not done to get likes in videos.,
It’s a very different thing, in Italy everyone does the gestures as an organic extension of your communication, it is a part of the entire culture that everyone understands. In the US it is just a trend bandwagon! for example, when I was a teen a lot of the girls were using the “valley girl” voice to talk.. it eventually cycles through as a cool way of acting but eventually disappears
I hate ads with influencers especially cheap game apps where the influencers is just screaming and yelling their narrations of what’s happening in the app.
I had a friend in the 90’s that was a manicurist and she did those hand gestures and the tapping on everything long before tic tok and she did it to show off or draw attention to her hands and nails. I think that is how this started. Look at my fancy manicure
9:49 not you zooming in your random hand movements LOL it's ok, you're not doing what these influencers are doing, your hands are in a natural place and moving how they would move in any other conversation. influencers tend to bring their hands up and to the center of the shot, that's also reason why they seem so rehearsed and exaerated LOL
I went back to rewatch for a second like "DID SHE REALLY JUST..." xD I gesticulate a lot and tapping my nails is a form of stimming for me. After this video and noticing the over exaggeration in influencer media I even clock myself with some of these and have to remind myself I don't even have tiktok xD
@corazones_rotos84 She's holding them "inwards" like "I found out: Technically they're not reviews, but reactions". They're not pointed towards us the viewer. Which mostly means "you should think like me because I'm knowledgeable and offended".
I completely deleted my TikTok account and app due to it becoming so copy and paste rinse and repeat with all of the TikTok influencers posting. It literally feels like everybody is performative and fake, and always trying to sell you something.
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If you were an influencer, would you rather have a huge following that hardly knew your authentic self, or a smaller following that you were truly yourself with? Let me know!
ALSO the amount of times I caught myself doing the claw…. I died inside
A smaller following that knew me! I hate that people lie on the internet for clicks and views
same! I ain’t interested in not being myself.
I have a smaller one that know me!!!! It's much better
it really depends. if being an influencer would be my full time job i woulf prefer to have a lot of followers because well technically they do it for a living
but if it was more of a hobby than of course not much followers because it would be more about connecting with these people than making money
@susannahfriesenofficialyou out here with 150k on YT and still being authentic!!!
When they say "run, don't walk," I don't want it anymore.
“I’M OBSESSED”
And the finger tapping on box's or product please .stop. now . 🤬
I'm going back to bed.
"This is a game changer" does the same to me. It's also way overused on ads too.
@SamsonChildoftheSun that one! I know whatever it is, is gonna be "ok" at best. And actively won't get it.
It's not a crisis, it's a complete lack of identity at this point
I’d say that’s a crisis!! 😭🤣
@sirmango2369 Simulacrums, not people.
And it’s not just influencers, it’s largely average people who follow them too. Whenever someone posts a pic of their bedroom or whatever on Pinterest, there is **always** someone who will be like, “What is this aesthetic called?” And it’s literally just a regular bedroom that clearly isn’t decorated with a specific era or style in mind, it’s just things that the person likes. I’ve seen the same question asked on outfit pics, it’s like people don’t know that others have developed their own taste and decorate and wear what they want without trying to fit a trend or social media classification. Yesterday I saw a pic too of a girl’s purse and it was that trendy Trader Joe’s tote that people lost their minds over and it had a million keychains attached. Every single keychain was something that’s currently trending: Labubu, those little dolls that look like Kewpie, a Bogg mini bag, and of course the Stanley with its attachments. Every single item in that pic were nothing more than tacky status symbols, nothing about it looked personal because it could be any TikTok bimbo’s purse. These type of people’s personality is just “consumer” because they have to be told what to like and don’t understand the concept of individual preferences. It’s ridiculous.
I totally agree with the familiarity aspect.
When I see someone with an alternative look with a title like, “We are being taking over by AI”, and it’s a two hour deep dive on the subject, I’m like…”Okay, I’m gonna bookmark this because I don’t just want to watch mindless crap, but I can’t do this right now. I need I prepare myself”
it’s pandering to the algorithm, it’s subconscious engagement baiting
I remember when being a “sell-out” was frowned upon, now it’s literally an occupation.
"Get that bag!" Slop farming.
Watching Rent now is such a trip. All these people worried that "selling out" would be the worst thing they could do. Now it's required to survive in the arts.
no genuinely i remember the age of when people were EXTREMELY upset when youtubers started to do sponsorships. everyone was considered a 'shill' for selling people a product.
When traditional forms of earning income become impossible, this is what we end up with
Saw a story recently where an adult was explaining the concept of “selling out” to a small group of kids; idk maybe middle school age. The kids were genuinely confused. They didn’t understand how it was even a ‘bad’ thing because it is ‘’what you are supposed to do’’. Why wouldn’t you get that bag. After all that is what success is. Selling out is now the goal and something to be admired; you’ve made it.
The beginning of a world without ethics folks.
I’m honestly glad younger people are starting to notice this. I’m a 56-year-old woman, and I’ve always found it irritating, the exaggerated hand movements, the fake deep voice, the sleeves pulled over half the hands, the long nails, leaning into the camera to talk to us like we’re toddlers… I used to think maybe it was just me getting older. But apparently not.
@ceciliab5409 I thought I was the only one who HATED the sleeve thing 😅
I've found my people!
@SoupSand867 lol yes!!!
@SoupSand867 ...Same!!
I feel like I have face blindness because everyone looks the same too.😕
@ceciliab5409 We're close in age, and I've noticed this behavior for the last several years!!! It's about time people are talking about this. 😊
I'm old and frequently baffled by the online world (but trying to learn), so I am relieved to hear the "scared to try a new food" thing is a performance. I thought they were genuinely just idiots.
I mean shit, i have a legitimate fear of trying new food and i still dont act like that 😭
I think it's both tbh 😂
As a 30-something who's grown up with social media, I assure you that you're not missing anything, don't lose brain cells trying to learn any of it. It's literally brain rot.
It's the wide eyes whenever they eat ANYTHING like it's so revolutionary
The over reaction to food where they start jumping and throwing their glasses😮💨 I'm just so tired
Or the eyes closed while saying “mmhhm”. Drives me crazy. Just be normal 😂
😂😂😂😂
OMG YOU GUYS. I. AM. OBSESSED.
Yes, oh my god.
There was a travel/food influencer whom I used to like to watch - they tried a lot of stuff I'd never heard of and I found them likeable. That was enough for me.
But at some point their voice and facial expressions notably changed.
Not into the cliché influencer ones but into an over the top parody of themselves.
The voice pitch got higher and always forcibly positive, even when they hated something. Every emotion was notably performative. Almost like Disneyland cast members.
The facial expressions while tasting food didn't make the food look enticing af anymore, they just looked like an annoying cartoon character. The eyes were starting to give Minnie Mouse when I unfollowed.
I went from being excited to get their posts on my feed to being instinctually annoyed the second I heard their voice.
In their pursuit to make themselves more appealing to the algorithm, they made themselves significantly less appealing to any user with functioning eyes and ears.
Pity.
Everything online just feels so fake and forced recently
I feel that
Because it is. The more they do what they are told the more money they make
Recently?
it's actualy been like that for a loong time on those specific corners of the internet...
just cause their bigger now dosen't mean it s-suddenly a new thing
It's not recently, it's been happening FOREVER. If you live in the mainstream of life, this is the life offered.
Look into the psychology of hand movements. Study politicians. This is apart of brainwashing.
The finger nails tapping on everything like the velociraptors from Jurassic park.
Lmao that's the best analogy ever
Clever girl
And i hate how it's always popular! I know everyone hates it, but at the same time it feels like it's what everyone wants!
@lemongingerchew I see what you did there. ;)
Exactly.
The vocal fry is pretty prevalent among a LOT of the younger generation, I wouldn't say it's JUST an influencer thing anymore. The vocalisation I notice the most with influencers these days is a high, soft breathy, almost child-like tone, especially with beauty/wellness types. I guess they think it's soothing and more ASMR-ish but c'mon... talk in your normal voice.
It's like how millenials used to talk in a valley girl voice or surfer dude voice
I notice this in so much music now by female singers. That whispery, breathy, child-like singing voice….I seriously hate it, even when the song itself is really good those vocals ruin it for me.
I want a Oscar for the Woman at 11:45 what a talent. she hit so many "oh yes they do that" just amazing art.
@sigisig3941 So fucking funny
You're supposed to say "noo, omg, wait, why is that SO GOOD?!" after tasting the coffee you were scared to taste.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
No wait, actually, wait, waitwaitwait, *sips* okaaay, wow like actually?? 🫴Okayyy! *Sips* YOU GUYS. But like why is it so good though?
Bruh the people who start everything with "no but-" as if you cant just start a sentence anymore
The Sh*ne D*wson original!
@casstlegees and also " obsessed"
everytime they do that finger when they eat i just think of teachers when they eat during class and are still trying to teach😭
hahah😂
i think thats where the trand actually started lmao
Always eating a salad 😂
@Chamomile369 Omg teachers eating a salad in class for lunch was so performative…like girl, I know you throw down when you at home, you’re not eating no salads 😂
@lamialux6908 what a weird comment. why would you assume someone eating a salad is performative
I just want to scream "Stop gasping. It's just foundation, Nicki!"
that upward inflection “ohh?” after the first swatch
@elizabethpost8021😂
The tapping acrylic nails on stuff sets off my misophonia SO BAD. I can't watch ANYONE who has gotten into doing that.
Same. I can’t stand it.
The tasting the food then clapping and dancing around
like a court jester 😭😭
The thing that drives me crazy is “RUN don’t walk” “this is a MUST have” crap. Like if it was that good I’d hear more than just influencers talking about it… this just promotes overconsumption. We know they just want the affiliate money anyway
"RUN don't walk" and it's a makeup brush but in a new colour like it's revolutionary
And they say that for every single thing. I have started blocking some of the influencers that do that.
THIIIIS! if I found something so good, I’m keeping it a secret so it’s not sold out
@BuzzBunnyTTV This! They swiped their pink lip gloss once
It’s scarcity marketing. If it’s limited or ‘hard to get’ people will hurry up and buy to avoid FOMO… 😐
The silent scream with the hand open in front of the face DRIVES ME NUTS
I have done this since 2012 and I’m so embarrassed. I do this and also fake sob into my hand. 😭
@habituallytired i mean you shouldn’t let the internet get to you, keep doing your thing!!! the criticism is more-so targeted towards online creators who act that way as a performance rather than because of their character.
Same
same it makes me irrationally angry 😂
When I see that face on a video thumbnail, I automatically knock back the video. Doesn't matter what the video is about. I've even blocked channels from my suggestions because of this dumb face. Some of these people are middle aged doctors, not teenage airheads. Anyway, whatever they might have to say, I can find somewhere else minus the antics.
You know what drives me INSANE - like unreasonably angry...
When they start off a recipe with "did you know if you take...." Like it's a life hack instead of a recipe. I don't think it should make me as angry as it does, but I will immediately scroll.
@thatonedog819 No but fr
IT MAKES ME SO MAD
this isn’t a recipe anymore, it’s a run-on sentence 😭😭
OMG YES! I HATE IT!
This drives me INSANE lol
i HATE that!! Yes mr/ms influencer, I did in fact know that if I take some ingredients and follow all the steps of a recipe, I will have made some type of food. Like just tell me the steps, why does it have to be such a run-on sentence??? On RUclips I'll dislike on principle.
tempted to make a 'reaction' channel where all of the reactions are genuine, ranging from unimpressed and unfazed to mildly surprised when i see something sort of interesting.
"wow, never had this before. huh, didn't expect it to be so spicy. pretty good, though."
lol if you do that, I'd definitely go watch it xD
I honestly think you'd make it big lol. I'd definitely watch
I've come across a few channels that do this and I adore them!
@adrianagrissom930 That's awesome!
You just made me think about Roll For Sandwich channel where the dude rolls DnD dice to decide on the ingredients. Sometimes the combos are interesting, sometimes weird, and some are plain eldrich abominations. And yet the man eating something like marshmallows+pickles+ghost pepper powder+ketchup on toast makes fewer facial reactions and speaks in a calmer tone than a stereotypical influencer taking a sip of a new mango smoothie😂
i think we all collectively need to go for a walk
“WHAT ARE YOU SCARED ABOUT, YOU’RE TRYING A NEW FOOD?!” This is exactly what I’ve been trying to tell my 5 year old. 😭😂
@haphazard-heather Lowkey the fear-overacting makes sense when you realize the target audience of these influencers is literal children.
@youraftermyrobotbeeYou’re so right!
@haphazard-heather I dunno, I'd be scared about trying balut , or that stinky fish from Scandinavia that makes people throw up by smell alone 🤣 but if it's just a different(non vomit inducing) flavour of Ice cream then why are you scared ?? Lol these people
@littlemy1773one time i ate gefilte fish not known
the girl trying the pringle was so good it made me shake in rage
Pringles lady is peak comedy
she was soooo good!!:D
🏆 🎉😂 I love it!
I cannot handle referring to clothes, bags, etc as “she” anymore
@monicajones6827 Yes, one of my pet peeves as well!
Everything is she, never he. I’m starting to legit be offended that my gender is being used for items. It as a pronoun exists, we don’t need she being equated to objects.
Drive me crazy too.
"She's giving....gorgeous, eeeeeeee, OMG... I'm obsessed" then some ASMR tapping of the nails 🤢🤮
@adorabell4253 in their eyes it's empowering, plus 70% of women and mostly wmn watch them so. That's why it's she instead of he or they/ them.
It's the tapping and the "Oh my god you guys, SO GOOD" to everything. The tapping, ASMR has the opposite effect on me, and the nails sound on glass or plastic goes THROUGH me.
I know it was satirical but the Pringle clip raised my blood pressure
That finger hook she did. Hahahahaha
She nailed it.
She was possessed by the spirit of 17 century European person tasting earth apples for the first time...
she was TOO GOOD at this
I just had to pause the video and hide in the comments for a hot minute because that clip pissed me off so much
If I hear one more influencer tapping their nails on products, I'm going to scream
Ohhhhhhh I hate it. And the popping the lid off? That I assume you then have to chase across the floor??? I love ASMR and I assume that's where it's from but uuurrgghhh in this context?
I immediately stop watching and keep scrolling whenever someone does that!
@sannahennerfors4833 it has infiltrated into my ads 😭
Turning on my VPN forever now
Yep. That’s my biggest hate, but since I don’t have TikTok, I never have watched them, except on the RUclips channels I do watch, Like Kiki, who she features and it drives me 🦇💩 crazy.
Triggers an instant scroll for me
It took me a second to realize the pringle clip was a parody and was concerned for a second.
hhaha these are all parody’s apart from that one hygiene video!
It was so great! 🏆 😂🎉
0:12 ok, I thought I was going crazy whenever a "lifestyle" influencer would behave the exact same way, no matter what the content is. Like clones. It's freaking weird when they ALL do it. Like creepy AF... 😅 Sorry is just off putting (sp?) when a pool of people have the exact same mannerism. Like we can tell they are just copying each other... It's sad, really... 😢
The zombie apocalypse arrived years ago and no one batted an eyelash. Now we’re stuck with the aftermath
I always figured the excessive hand motions was to show off their nails 😂
That’s how they justify ‘em being a tax write-off. 😂
Same !! 😂
It is, it's look at my tacky giant arse talons 😂
It definitely is. Or maybe that's how it started out and then people just kept copying it.
I don't know why this even became a thing, because, and I think I speak for most people, the very moment I hear an Influencer go "OMG GUYS" I click away. I cannot STAND watching this fake persona.
Oh "my girls" or "girlies"...
It’s usually because they’re often very young and dumb and they just like to copy each other.
we are genuinely just animals
@angelscrownttv i dont either. Even when i was a child, i found loud fake youtubers annoying as hell.
From my POV there is a negative feedback loop. People who are looking for these behaviors go to TikTok, encouraging more influencers there to do the same things. Then when people are tired of it, they leave TikTok so the influencers that don't copy their peers never get the chance to shine. I see a lot of good influencers that post things on TikTok that they would not post anywhere else. TikTok's algorithm is pushing their platform to be so performative with little actual content. Anyone else notice this?
The tapping on EVERYTHING ends me💀
“oh my God guys, I’m LITERALLY OBSESSED” makes me twitch
As someone with auditory and visual misophonia, I love that you brought that up in this conversation. My theory is that misophonia isn’t as rare as originally thought, but instead just undiagnosed in many. To those struggling with it to an extreme level like I used to, sound-generating (white noise) hearing aids helped a ton.
Vocal fry plus TAPPING 😢
Straight to death for people who do this....
For me it’s: vocal fry, tapping, that claw movement with the long nails😤🤯
Or whispery smol voice
Aaaaaaggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
RIGHTT. I can't with the vocal fry. It always drives me insane every time they do that
The girl in the red shirt with the Pringle was SPOT ON. So funny.
I don't know, she took too long to tell us how good it was. I wanted to know in half of a millisecond that it was a life-changing bite of food! /s
Give her an award!! 🏆 🎉😂
Influencer hands seem like they should be the subject of a linguistics dissertation… I’m just saying
hahahha! you aren’t wrong
I low key feel like they’re a remnant from when TikTok was dominated by cosplayers, like their heart is telling them to junko pose they just don’t realize it
@gunfrost8778 I was thinking that too 😭 It seem very tiktok 2019 cosplayer coded
@susannahfriesenofficial Or if you're Shauna Ripari, you turn influencer tropes into a Bingo card!
(Sorry if you'd rather another channel not be mentioned 😬 I imagine you already have audience overlap, though. The algo sent you both to me lol)
@gunfrost8778 in the first tiktok from wengie, almost all of those hand gestures started in black queer culture, mainly black ballroom culture such as drag, vogue battles, and tutting. even the finger over the mouth as they chew something is an everyday thing i've seen from my mom's family since i as a child.
My opinion as a black girl, they are acting like black girls. Many of these mannerisms are things me and my friends have been doing since I was literally 5, now I’m 36. That’s why so much of it seems unnatural, because it is. lot of black people feel like it’s not trendy or cute when we do it but it is when other races do it. Other examples: big lips, big booties, colorful hair, long colorful nails, animated personalities, SLANG
@honeybee2012mb was looking for this comment. Spot on.
@honeybee2012mb bingoooooooo
🤨😂 so being annoying af is a black thing? Oh okay.
@DeoxyribonucleicAcid4 bro I will not be called annoying by a literal coward. Show your face, or stfu.
@DeoxyribonucleicAcid4its annoying because its unauthentic, not because of the mannerisms/traits themselves. everyone in this video talking about these influencer mannerisms/these hand movements are doing the same hand movements.
I’d never participated in social media like TikTok, Instagram, etc., so I was unaware how much that affected peoples mannerisms until I got a job where my coworkers were other girls in their early 20’s. Their behaviors were so unnatural and consistent one to the next that I had to go home and research where they were getting this from lol. I’m talking every influencer hand movement, every viral phrase, the products they bought, food they ate, clothes they wore.. it was all full blown TikTok algorithm obsession, brand new personalities every week.
Needless to say I was shunned pretty quickly. They were so baffled when I didn’t know about “Crumbl Cookie Dubai Chocolate Labubu Collab”.. or insert any other TikTok trend. The in-person TikTok speak sounded like rage bait to me, I was in disbelief that it was a real thing. 😂
Dimfluencers.
This will eventually become saturated because the barrier to entry is so low.
Like the Tulip Craze. It built up to everyone in the market and every possible tulip was developed then it collapsed.
People holding a clip-on mic in their hands is the ultimate ick for me.
THIS hahaha! put it on your SHIRT
Yess, and remember everyone used to use the miniature mic, then everyone moved onto the fluffy square
What even is this bullshit? I don't like influencers because shilling for garbage corporations and products give me the worst icks imaginable, having icks over them holding a lapel mic with their hands for better audio quality is just grasping at straws.
@blloooooooop Just use a USB mic. You can use them on your phones.
@1_rad_panda well one upside of holding the mic, less hand gestures 😸
they def give me the ick especially the too long sleeves when they're cooking or making food so gross
Or long hair that’s not tied up and keeps falling near the food 😵
It’s giving desperate 🫠 LoOk HoW cUtE aNd TiNy I aM, mY sWeAtErS aRe AlL tOo BiG fOr Me 🙄🙄🙄
@alexyssaubrie1606 🤮
THE SWEATER PAWS
@Birb4 I love sweater paws but not while cooking or making food. Ew.
i hate that flamingo pose they do when they do an OOTD 😭
Yes! And the stupid foot pop during the “fit check.”
Not the flamingo pose lol
the mormon leg
@d@deltadarling23 love you and OP 😂 I just commented saying I hated both of these things! Especially when they grab their shoe when they pop it.
IT’S VILE
Ugh, the vocal fry sounds to me like the ghost crawling around in The Grudge
susannah, you are one of the first sort of.... non-influencer/anti-influencer content creators i followed on youtube because i also was SO tired of influencers. i was searching for people who were 'normal' and seeing the same things i am seeing. i want to thank you for your authenticity and also your transparency. keep being you!
thank you so much!!! 💛
Aside from Susannah, you may also like Hannah Alonzo!
@silsail yeah! Susannah, Hannah Alonzo and Social Symone!! And each approach the same sphere with very different takes/ directions. And I like that they’re very respectful, yet assertive (I think that is something of maturity, which’s a quality I might want to start looking more for in creators I watch)!
@snailiest and Kiki!
You might also like Shawna Ripari and Caitlin Pawlowski. Shawna's content is more focused on responsible consumption than focusing on criticising influencers, but she does do a video on influencers from time to time.
Caitlin's content is more about overcoming shopping addictions, so some of us might benefit from her voice.
I need to know why every influencer needs to tap whatever they touch (it’s not ASMR!) and how they can be “low key obsessed” with EVERYTHING.
They're shills
@SpartanJoe193 I get that but they are so unoriginal.
Rage bait?
They promote so much rampant capitalism yet somehow they’re all left wing and activists. Make it make sense.
@1019lms I honestly thought at first that the finger tapping was to force the camera into focus when the product is put so close to the camera, but I'm not so sure anymore whether it's just a learned behavior after watching so many influencer videos doing the same thing.
Hate influencers who try to jump on to ASMR when they blatantly don’t really get it
They would have to be silent in some cases and they can't even talk at a normal level.
They think tapping quickly and making that tut tut sound makes them an asmr pro
There's nothing to "get" in asmr. It's all fake bs
6:05 Lowk, I get food anxiety bc I would get punished for not liking new food, I would try and wasting it. I understand it being performative, but some of us are really scared to try new things because of the outcome 😭
Same, I do too cuz I have AFRID, but the difference tends to be clear I've noticed
My ick atm is everyone of these influencers saying theyre 'over-stimulated, overwhelmed' etc, and what is with calling every inanimate object 'she'. Wth is that all about...
The influencer hoodie cuff deliberately pulled up over the hands drives me up the wall.
Omfg I was just about to comment this. It makes me wanna bang my head against a wall! 💀
Whoa there, don't take too long hoodie sleeves from my poor mellinial former emo heart 🤣
Honestly, a lot of this stuff feels like a commodified version of the "LOL so random" goofiness from when we were teens 🤔 (we as in my peers)
@IggyTheBalrog "Sweater paws" aren't my ick so much as when people make them like... their uniform? Like, every video, sweater paws. And when they get them wet? Violence.
Ok I'll have to defend that one, I love covering my hands (partly because they're always cold). And to my knowledge that's a widespread female thing lmao
Though still, I don't really watch influencers like this but I can totally imagine them overdoing it somehow
@Jaguarkralle1 and that’s totally okay! As for me I love baggy clothes and having my jacket sleeve cover my hands a little, but when I see influencers doing it a lot I’m like, “That’s just for show.” It especially irks me when they’re doing tasks with the sleeves over their hands like cleaning or handling food. I guess because for me whenever I do anything I roll my sleeves up so I’m like “Omg just roll up the sleeves! You’re not gonna appear less ‘aesthetic’ for not showing your sleeves on camera!”
The hand thing is very much the jingling of keys. It's done to keep people engaged as it keeps something happening on the screen all the time
And what’s even crazier is that I’ve deadass seen some influencers jingle their keys at the camera😭 like they’re not even trying to hide it anymore
@MariGags i've seen trans v-tubers do litteral key jingling as well and it makes me want to click off cause-
- *HOW DARE YOU ASSUME IM LESS THAN THE DIRT YOU WALK ON YOU PICE OF TRASH*
*[ Im not transphobic im just tired of being treated like im **_severely mentally disabled_** ]*
I absolutely hate this gesture because it doesn’t keep me engaged. It makes me want to click off 😂 If I see someone doing that in a video I will stop watching it
My misophonia could never 😂
@perlamedrano3637 Idk why it works if it is presentation or in classroom. I like seeing my classmates and teacher using body/hand gesture when presentating. But in influencer it feels...off?
my biggest problem is with the "why is that so good!!" because it's become a normal thing for kids to say about everything. i see them say that about people's art and it feels so dismissive and rude even though I know they have no idea theyre being that way. it feels like a great compliment even though what it is literally actually saying is that "i didn't expect this to be good. I expected it to be terrible" which is super hurtful
YES! the first time i heard the phrase “say less” it was in person at a party, and i thought i was being told to shut up in a nasty way. like, we just met, why are you talking to me like that??
Performing intensity......THIS!
14:27 not the girl saying “idc what you’re wearing.” Then immediately saying “I care about why you’re wearing it, I care about what you’re wearing.” People don’t even realize what they are saying and they are just talking. And she’s a critic of the annoying influencers. Ugh.
@GinaLynn21 😄😄😄 right that part confused me
I watched a commercial on regular TV and it had the influencer voice and cadence. I was already annoyed, but when she said, "OMG! I'm obsessed!" I was done...🙄😐😶
@AyanaKitana lmao was it an olay body wash per chance? because that one has been sending me up a wall
@oz4648 lol. I've only seen it once, but I'm pretty certain that's the one. I rolled my eyes so hard when I realized it wasn't a parody. 🫠😩
@oz4648that commercial is soooo annoying
You know what worries me the most Susannah? Young people watching these influencers and believing that they are a representation of REAL people-so scary 😟
YES. I have a really young SIL (her and my daughter are close in age) and they both have started doing the exaggerated hand movements and sticking out their tongue while they talk with the “I meaaaannn liiikeee” and tapping on EVERYTHING. We had to ban TikTok in our house because we couldn’t take it anymore lol we said when you can act like a human again you can get it back 🤣
People reflect what they see in media so, eventually this does absolutely represent real people. That's how culture shifts, media feeds society feeds media and the cycle goes on and on. Unfortunately our media is not interested in bolstering good behaviors and more interested in hitting dopamine so it's a race to the bottom.
Im a researcher in animal behavior, specifically in great apes and this is literally just the transmission of culture. These youngins’ watching weird influencer’s hands and what-not will definitely absorb it. For good or bad I guess
Hello bestie.... drives me nuts. Theyre customer/clients/viewers. Youre a number/target to earn money.
@katieanderson61 I was in the library and this kid was watching videos on one of the computers and live-reacting to it as if to his followers and not a half-empty room full of books. Made me kinda worried
0:40 it's the cadence of their speech. They sound perpetually confused and fake excited. I nearly clicked of this video because of this one clip. It's sooo fake that the second hand embarrassment and little bit of annoyed rage nearly got me. Spit it out! If someone talked like that in real life I wouldn't be able to ever take them seriously in any setting. You could be top of your field with all the degrees but if you talked in that cadence I would not believe you. Confidence is key. Doesn't matter if you stutter or take time speaking as long as you do it with conviction! Mean what you say and say what you mean.
It also probably has to do with women being called shrill or annoying if we express too much excitement. So it's kind of a lose lose unless you happen to have the perfect voice all the time.
"Top of their field" really resonates. I used to work with this girl who is a fucking doctor now, beautiful af, super smart. She was really down to earth and fun to work with. Then she became an "influencer" and was selling mlm. I'm just like oh god apparently even if I had no body fat and blonde hair, money, I could still be miserable 😅
I? Am. Obsessed?
There's a couple that's been on RUclips for a long time, and they do the excitedly yelling constantly. I turn off the sound as soon as I start watching them now
@austinallen4937 I definitely? recommend? this-uh comment?
As someone that lives in a place where everyone talks with their hands, I honestly just thought that was how people gesticulated in the US
the hand behind the product thing is so funny to me because that stemmed from youtube makeup tutorials from 13+ years ago when people were recording with DSLR cameras with detachable lenses and it was to isolate the product in the lens so you could read the name of it otherwise the autofocus would keep focusing on the person’s face instead of the product they’re trying to show up close
12:20 the hook finger into a fist as they eat really pisses me off and makes me scroll so fast
@sirdyy that’s literally my biggest influencer pet peeve😭😭 i get so irrationally angry when i see them do that
They also smack their mouths while doing it, meaning they are eating with their mouths open! The whole point of covering your mouth while chewing is because you accidentally ate to big a bite or are signaling you are chewing when someone asks a question.
Reminds me of interrupting a teacher on their lunch lmao or being in ISS with the drama teacher who always has a salad
And don't fucking whisper at me. It feels like assault. Like a dry wet-willie.
I think we all should express how we hate them for doing it in every video they make
I lost it at "The Claaaaaaaawww" 😂
HAHAHAHH. I do this way too much evidently in this video
@susannahfriesenofficial I talk with my hands all the time. 😂
Even when who I'm talking to can't see me. I don't even know if it's a particular movement. I work on the computer all day and game a lot. It feels so weird to have my hands still.
Sometimes I feel like I should learn sign language. I love watching people sign while talking even though I don't understand.
fair enough! I game a lot too so totally get it
@LilAngelPrincess95I am also someone who talks with their hands. I've been learning ASL over the years and honestly, game changer. Would highly recommend. I feel like I'm being productive with my hand movements as opposed to gesturing wildly.
@LilAngelPrincess95 Someone called it the bird. And when you put it into your hand it’s like it’s pecking for food. 😂
FINALLY SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT THE HANDSSS
YESSSSSS😂
Another thing I've noticed that goes with the excessive hand movements is people who bob their heads unnaturally with everything they say. I'm just always like "why are you doing that??"
“omg im scared” and it’s trying on a dress they ordered
@maryalicefike4704 It just shows none of them really experienced a scare .
Honestly, I've always just thought the hand motions were just what people who get thier nails done do. BC they don't feel as "satisfying" without the nails.
@sammythehero bingo! It just became more prevalent the more mainstream nail art got.
and now it's integrated into influencer culture and the ASMR content also exasperated it as well.
Yup. It's a long nail girly thing.
I feel like that’s what makes the gestures more annoying. Showing off fake nails seems strange and the long nails are so unsanitary. Watching someone eat with those nails is repulsive to many people.
@RB-2g4I think acrylics are so ugly and dirty.
06:09 “OMG I am so nErVoUs guyssss~”
Maybe I'm just too old to be there. GenZ is perpetually embarrassed
It's not even just influencers online, it's 20 year-olds at work too. Well, at my workplace at least. They talk with that same cadence, as if they're talking to an audience all the time? You can easily tell that they grew up watching influencers on tiktok or whatever and that they've based their whole personalities around them. They wear whatever's trending, buy whatever's trending, use whatever mannerisms are trending. It's kind of sad because I have no idea what they're really like, especially since they just go along with whatever's trending all the time. You can't have deeper conversations with them because they're not really thinking for them selves? Idk, it's just sad to see.
You mean girl, they act like they are in a video? All the time? That's funny embarrassing on their part
The weird John Cena hand paired with the silent scream they do is so odd to me 😂 why do they do that 4:36
@Sharletwitch omg I'm never going to be able to unlink the hand thing with John Cena now 🥲
The same, "l'm SO obsessed!!" 😅
A few months ago I redid my room and watched a few videos of people doing the same just as a way of not feeling overwhelmed by it and I found this video of this girl redoing her kitchen decor, and it was nice but at some point I kept hearing her say “I’m so scared, omg this is so scary” so I looked at the screen… she was putting a poster up… and it took her over 4min of edited video
like if you don’t like it take the poster down😂 it ain’t scary at all
I will say the first time I used a drill it was scary. I was scared of hitting a wire and getting electrocuted. But if it's just a command strip or something?
i guess hanging something is somewhat worrisome cause, especially if its something really sticky/hard to get off and fix, its annoying to hang up crooked?? but milking that little innocuous moment of anxiety like that is so funny 😭
@thatonedog819you wouldn't need a drill for a poster, though. 😂
@thatonedog819I understand of course that it can be scary depending on how much effort you put in it but I think hers was put with double sided tape or something like this, she didn’t drill anything. But still I am not here to insult her in the moment I just thought it was funny how important she made it sound ^^
The way their hand is always cold so they need their sleeve to cover 3/4 of their hand lol
I’m so CUTE uwu 🥰🥹 /s 🙄
THIS! It irritates me soo much. Especially when they're cleaning/cooking like that. I just see it getting dirty and in the way.
kind of in the same vein that drives me nuts: people who post recipes often have this really strange way of taking the first bite. Like, it's similar to the reaction one, they just take this super stylized version of a bite and then really morph their face to indicate how life-changingly delicious it is. It drives me nuts!! No one eats like that!!
@cheeesybread5594 when they take a teeny tiny bite off a fork teeth first?
A HUGE ick of mine is when influencers are opening up PR packages and getting all excited about what they got and how nice it all is. They haven't even tried the product yet; they're literally just commenting on the PACKAGING.
To be fair... good packaging can show a lot about more independent brands or shops. It can immediately show how much or little they care for customers as brand. When I order from an artist and the item has a little thank you, along with it being packaged nicely, I notice that and I notice when Amazon sends me soap that has leaked out all over the box due to bad packing.
I am so sorry for your family's loss of a beloved grandparent/parent. It is a blessing to have someone one around for that long (my grandmother will be 95 in November).
- The wide eyes "WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE FACT.." Everyone's talking about the thing, shush!!.
- The influencer uniform: Leggings & sweater paws, white socks pulled up over the leggings, slicked-back (greasy) bun-looking like that Demi Lovato meme, Poot. And of course, the nails - touching and tapping on everything in sight
For me it's when they scared to try a product then they're shocked they like it and declare it their new favourite....like bish don't tell me everything you try is your favourite, that just means you have no standard😭😭
Because it's an advertisement, not a review. They've been paid either real money or given the product for free to shill.
It's not just their new fave, they're like totally OB -SASSED 😂
18:40 the "hand behind the product" thing is to stop the camera from auto-focusing on the creator's face, or the background, etc. the hand makes it focus on the product, both by blocking the creator's face and by providing a skin tone background for the product (because cameras will auto-focus on skin tones).
I know this! I’ve had to do it myself, just forgot to mention it😂
Yes! This is one of the few that do serve a purpose!
Thank you!
Agreed! This one isn't an influencer thing, even just sending a pic to a friend or something I've had to do this. Even with small flowers in my garden!
i was thinking the same, though I don't see anyone having this focus problem anymore unlike in 2014 or so:D
I absolutely loathe the finger nail taps . It's so annoying. Every time these influencers tap on random objects or vegetables or even their children. Like the habit to tap on literally anything
..even kids?? WHAT???
Thank you so much for posting this.I'm probably a little bit older than your average listener.I thought it was me and being too old to understand the new way that young people were chatting.So i'm glad to know that it's some weird fad , and i'm still not out of touch with reality. 😂😂😂
Oh and it's that nail tapping On product, there's also the overexageration of responses.You've shown a great deal of them here.Yeah, that like they're the first ones to ever see something.Try something different.Some of these hacks are literally as old as I am.
The SLEEVES drive me crazy. When they pull down their sleeves to cover their hands when they’re doing something
They’ve really stolen that aesthetic from us anxious bitches 🤣 i used to get made fun of for doing that
The sleeves thing is rage bait, it has to be🥲
@rainylight6268it has to be. Because who is cleaning while half of their palm is covered by their sleeves
@rainylight6268yes… it brings them lots of comments so they do it 😅
I hope it's shoplifting.
finallyyyyy people are talking about this, i felt like i was going insaneeeee, i couldn't stand the way every tiktokers moves and talks the same way with the same cadence and mannerism, it made me feel like i was the only one noticing it!!! thankfully other people are noticing it now, i feel seen
Every time I hear someone tapping their long acryllics on something i physically want to recoil / pull back because it just irritates me. Like please. Stop doing that. Begging pleading stop doing that. I dont know who decided it was a good idea but I do want to fight them.
Kudos to you for being respectful enough to not make examples of creators that are intentionally all those kinds of cringe.
I truly started noticing these things when advertisers started using the same style content in their commercials, like having fake influencers eating food in cars and such.
I personally think that it’s OKAY to not have to make everything you do in your life content. Having special moments to yourself is also rewarding ~
Yes! This doesn’t get said enough honestly.
This is the bottom line. You don’t have to be the main character all the time. Just live and enjoy your life!
It's the creepy hand under the jawline framing their face that gives me major ick, even more so when they wriggle their fingers when doing it, sooo cringe 😂😂😂
Those people are so chronically online that their online identity has become their primary identity.
THANK YOU! I have noticed so many of these without being able to put my finger on why some influencers annoy me so much!
It makes me happy that people are talking about this.
1:20 Anytime a content creator unironically does these hand gestures, I just start dissociating.
@selunescorpio DRIVES ME INSANE
6:16 “wait why am I so scared?” “You guys wait why am I shaking”
As an Italian im so confused about the hand gestures because we do some of these naturally 😭
@perlamedrano3637 it is also common in classroom ngl, it works if it is presentation or in classroom. I like seeing my classmates and teacher using body/hand gesture when presentating. But in influencer it feels...off? Maybe i am too ignorant
Natural hand gestures are not what they are talking about. I know Italians talk with their hands, and it's ok, because it's not done to get likes in videos.,
It’s a very different thing, in Italy everyone does the gestures as an organic extension of your communication, it is a part of the entire culture that everyone understands.
In the US it is just a trend bandwagon!
for example, when I was a teen a lot of the girls were using the “valley girl” voice to talk.. it eventually cycles through as a cool way of acting but eventually disappears
They look very different to me
@shairacaputo7341 Those are organic hand movements, the influencer hands are so contrived.
I hate ads with influencers especially cheap game apps where the influencers is just screaming and yelling their narrations of what’s happening in the app.
I HATE the tapping on stuff when showing a product. It stresses me out
I hate asmr makes me so angry . I think we may both have misophonia 😂
@littlemy1773do you hate hearing People chew?
I had a friend in the 90’s that was a manicurist and she did those hand gestures and the tapping on everything long before tic tok and she did it to show off or draw attention to her hands and nails. I think that is how this started. Look at my fancy manicure
Some women do it when they get engaged I've noticed . Suddenly the left hand is talking alot more than usual 😂
9:49 not you zooming in your random hand movements LOL it's ok, you're not doing what these influencers are doing, your hands are in a natural place and moving how they would move in any other conversation. influencers tend to bring their hands up and to the center of the shot, that's also reason why they seem so rehearsed and exaerated LOL
hahaha thank you!!! after seeing these vids I didn’t realize how much I did these too and definitely needed to poke fun at myself
That moment fried me, top tier editing lol
I went back to rewatch for a second like "DID SHE REALLY JUST..." xD I gesticulate a lot and tapping my nails is a form of stimming for me. After this video and noticing the over exaggeration in influencer media I even clock myself with some of these and have to remind myself I don't even have tiktok xD
Omg I just commented this and them boom I see your comment🙈 it got me too I was laaaaaughing
@corazones_rotos84 She's holding them "inwards" like "I found out: Technically they're not reviews, but reactions".
They're not pointed towards us the viewer. Which mostly means "you should think like me because I'm knowledgeable and offended".
I completely deleted my TikTok account and app due to it becoming so copy and paste rinse and repeat with all of the TikTok influencers posting. It literally feels like everybody is performative and fake, and always trying to sell you something.
Me too. So sick of it
the hand behind the product makes sense for the camera lens to focus
Going to see if I can make it through this without having a rage blackout 😆