Whenever I see stuff like this I can't help but always amazed, yet frightened about what the world has become/is moving towards. Gone are days of good old fun and nice pictures and a funny video here and there on the web. Social Media is really becoming a monstrous thing in multiple ways...
@PGT honestly, people are tied to their social media like they're in chains. It's been a far calmer life for me never getting into Facebook, Twitter, snapchat, none of it. It's a far healthier lifestyle than my brother, knee deep in politics going visibly insane, like so bad I am actually considering a mental home for him
So, is this why there are so many weird TikToks of people cleaning weird rooms, cooking with weird gadgets, or just opening the boxes and setting up the weird stuff and advertising the product on their link pages?
are those bots in the comments talking about babble? wth? Regarding live shopping influncers, damn what a dystopian naunce. ads are a disease and they're basically advertisers
@@applehack97 sometimes they're not bots, but people hired to post positive comments about anything. I usually see them in the comment section of any documentary regarding china, most often they come from africa, although the "babble" people don't seem to come from there...
Honestly this doesnt feel that different from any average office work. It probably just seems strange because it hasnt been done with influencers before, but jobs like salespeople and call centers have been doing this in the west for ages.
yeah this isn't very different from call centres. unless people are actually getting enslaved, this is just a desk job that scares boomers. i'm more worried about people that spend all day watching them and spending money on them lmao
the main difference I'd say is that office work is usually built to strip any type of human emotions into the worker's... work. Every answer is standardized, you typically don't see the office worker's face when in a call and their voice must at all cost remain calm and professional. In this case it's the exact opposite. Streamers have to be as emotional as possible, appealing to the human emotion so that they get as many donations as they can. But yeah, the comparison is pretty much valid
this is different from office workers.... their only job is to sell... this is not what streaming should be, its absurd how people spend money on them, i feel bad for them
Agree. So if companies like Snap and Walmart / Amazon want to mimic the same kind of idea makes you question if banning tiktok is really about Chinese spying or more about chineses competition?
This honestly does feel dystopian, I feel the term is thrown around a lot nowadays (which I can see, but is often exaggerated) but this really does feel Orwellian.
It's more like Huxley's Brave New World than it is Orwellian. I mean, TikTok's our new Soma. It's a way for us to ease the pain of our gloomy, rather boring dystopia with a temporary hit of enjoyment whilst we allow for these corporates to progressively fuck us over harder with rising costs. "One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments" Basically, All that media is designed to do is to drain you of any motivation to revolt. Be scared of the entities that're trying to help you. Like in Australia our media's entire job is to stop us from voting for the Labor and Greens parties, as they tend to be on the side of the workers, and heaven forbid there's nothing that corporations want less than to have workers standing up for their rights and standing up for the environment. You see every mainstream outlet from ABC News to Sky news standing up for the Liberals and Nationals. Luckily we have several content creators out there who're weaponising the platforms for good. The only downside here with Chinese media, is that unlike in the west their media's entirely dominated by the CCP. They have no pushback other than to support factional candidates who push for different actions within the party itself, lest you get your ass dragged to a camp for speaking for a new way of thinking. Then again, I kinda like the fact that the CCP's pushing back against these media giants. They're at least keeping their billionaires in check _somewhat_ and saying "Oi, you don't work for yourselves, you work for us, know your place" I wish we had a lot more authority to beat down on billionaires here in the West.
Human greed for attention leads to things like this. Everyone wants to be seen, to be recognized, to be someone. People are not really doing content on the internet for fun anymore, but to make business. The competition is high and most loose. Everyone wants more clicks, more followers / subscribers, more donations, more "impressions"... People are deceived by clickbait titles, changing video thumbnails. Sometimes it's really annoying. The internet became an infested place of commercialization and advertisement.
Seeing things like this always leaves me with mixed emotions. It's incredible to witness the advancements and creativity of our world, but it's also unsettling to see how much things have changed. Gone are the simple days of funny pictures and videos. Social media has become a force to be reckoned with, and it's changing our world in ways we couldn't have imagined. It's both fascinating and frightening at the same time.
This is a true return to form! Last video was really good too and the Joana Lopez one, but honestly this is the best video post Mariana’s Trench. This feels like a 2021 video.
"a grim, dystopian future we're headed right for" while describing a standard practice in the west for the past 50 years, but digitized. Jokes asides, it is pretty dystopic that people are farmed for their work, but it being digital doesn't really make it uniquely bad or dystopian. Its totally rational to be afraid of the unknown, afraid of what tech might change in our world, but don't allow that fear to blind you to the real world problems we face currently. These "farms" are the same as a majority of western corporations, they just look different.
I have always been aware of the influencer-sales scene in China but never thought much of it. It's so bizarre hearing from this perspective, when I realized how dystopian the market is... Live streaming should have been a platform to show talent or just a means of creative casual contents. The fact that it is so commodified and mass-produced is upsetting. And that young people now aspire to become one, not realizing the competition, the effect such a career has on one, and how short-lived the success would be... (unless you earn so much you don't ever have to work anymore)
The clips from those dingy, dank, and dark influencer farms look like something out of a surrealist or absurdist comedy film. It's hard to believe those are real. It's even harder to believe that they might be making their way to the United States very soon.
@AzureWolf Ah yes the regular old question. No it's not banned, to be specific it's a gray zone. However, I assume tens of millions of Chinese are using VPN right now.
@AzureWolf The Chinese government uses several different tactics to restrict users’ access to certain websites and online platforms. The most straightforward one is IP blocking. All Chinese ISPs block the IP addresses of undesirable websites. In addition to this, they use various DNS tampering methods. These include DNS poisoning and intentionally misconfigured DNS servers so that they return false IP addresses to the users. The government also uses keyword filtering to track other online content, like search engines, forums, and messaging apps. They scan internet traffic for undesirable keywords and block users and websites that don’t adhere to the rules. Part of it is automatic, but a large internet police force also constantly monitors the internet, banning controversial content.
This whole influencer thing disgusts me. When you throw out everything else in your life in hopes that you'll make it, knowing there's a million other ppl vying for your position, and you got nothing left when you almost certainly fail, it's already destroyed way too many lives.
Sounds a lot like musicians and record labels. It's become toxified to the point where if you don't have the money to pay for exposure, you have to be money hungry like it's your life
In my opinion those "VTuber farms" are identical. They give you a character, and they snatch smaller creators to puppet those characters. I find it disgusting.
I am not really worried about the influencer farms, I'm more worried that people watch this garbage influencers produce and buy the products they sell... I mean for real, the best thing you can do with your free time is watch random people on the Internet talk about nothing interesting at all really? I'd rather consume art, or expand my skills, do something fun or learn something interesting (like the videos on this channel)...
i literally find it so hard to pause your video but i just had to comment this: your voice is so so so so soothing it helps me relax! thank you for uploading this video!!
3:58 not only virtual items, but virtual currencies, they're paid by viewers to shout their name for example. It's funny, but their livestream apps are very similar to western p*rn streams, except there is nothing close to that there. It's filled by friendless people who need attention. 12:00 Alibaba also own the servers, so this industry is also beneficial for them.
So what's the limiting factor keeping people apart? Is it the 996 work culture? I see there's a lot of pushback against 996 with the "Lie Flat" and "Let it rot" movements, which the CCP's pretty much hating on. To be fair, I think it's a bit fucked that you have to do 12hr days 6 days a week to compete there... Leaves you with absolutely no time to be a human fucking being lmao
I mean in a way that's already how it's being done to a degree. Maybe not as monopolized or extreme and blatant as China but definitely takes up a large portion of streaming today as apposed to the early 2010's. It so blatantly to sell products but there is definitely AstroTurf influencers that are backed by corporations and are made to look like a regular streamer. The same thing happened with the music industry. Bands that are meant to look like the come up story or small town bands that are indie and "blew up" when the whole thing is rigged and they're backed by a larger company who owns the smaller indie label. A ton of the hiphop/pop stars are completely manufactured. What you would call a plant. The same thing happening to other forms of media/content creators.
these influencer "farms" remind me of the mlm technique of having a bunch of people livestream for hours a day to sell their products. the companies still make most of the money even though the person is streaming for numerous hours a day. the key difference between the company-run "farms" and the mlm livestream scheme is that the mlm people are allowed to do it from their own home or place they purchased as a studio.
This has been happening for a long time. No offence to LTT, as they are a company, but their end goal is to create money. Doesn't make them a bad or a good person. Just be wise when watching these influencers. Linguistics is VERY powerful. It can be a very nice realm we live in, or it can be very dark. Don't fall for traps. Always look at the end game for that entity.
"Don't ever call yourself "smart" if you don't speak at least 3 languages" A old jewish french Canadian man once said to me and he was correct. Get Babel! NOW!!!
This method of advertising is good for the same reasons MLMs are good, it puts the onus on an independent contributor. A streamer can say absolutely whatever they want about a product, they can say these shoes cure cancer, and the shoe company is not liable for that claim.
Great work as always, however I feel the need to point out that the 'dream job for American teen males' in the later parts of the video relates to gaming and how it is in the US (Twitch in particular). That's a whole different beast than China's streaming culture, so your point was kind of reaching (unless you could find a survey for the youth in China). I doubt that the youth of America dream of becoming 'streamers' that are essentially glorified salespeople. Then again, I'm not an American, and if anyone could prove me wrong then please do so. Just stating what was printed on the screen.
It still says that 11% of overall teens have professional streamer as their #1 dream job. And like most “dream careers,” people will go into it expecting greatness (organically becoming a rich influencer) then inevitably settle for something less (becoming a corporate influencer on a salary)
Absolutely disgusting. I hate influencers and content farmers. Might be a bit harsh but I think there should definitely be some restrictions or regulations, at least when it comes to people under 18. Kids are growing up stupid and oblivious to the world nowadays.
A previously unheard-of topic and quite an interesting insight - thank you It's quite curious how those within a socialist state are so overtly capital driven, *money, money, money*
A big driver that you left out is the demographics in China. Due to the one-child polocy there is only one woman for every five men. Most young men turn to these E-girls because it's litteraly impossible for them to get married.
@@rtmpgt Sure, but I’m talking about LARGE audiences and active engagements-actual humans and not bots selling scams in the comments, while real people get shadowbanned.
@@MelaninMagdalene lol,TikTok is efficiently lowering the attention span of an entire generation. The app is designed to be as addictive as possible like digital cocaine, and today the average user spends 52 minutes a day on the app.
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The idea of wanting to be an influencer seems so shallow. You're basically letting a company exploit you to be a shill for them. It's so vapid too. Most legit and good products shouldn't need advertisement. Over the past year or so I kept seeing McDonalds ads on imgur and reddit and was wondering why they think they need to advertise; they're everywhere. I hadn't eat at on in over decade, so I decided to give it a shot. It was quite disappointing.
So I’ve been making money through a survey taking gig, but the best way to make money through it has been to record a video of yourself doing a corporate item review. Oh.. oh god. It’s all ready here.
the teenagers dream job used to be a rockstar or popstar back in the 90s... this is just a modern take but influencer requires less skill than musician!
Give it 5 or less years and AI will be the one making the videos and promoting goods. Streamer days are over. saturated market and increase in money will cause companies like BABA to pivot to AI generated animes to promote products.
I just don't understand why watching a human being talk is considered shopping? Like... why go watch a human peddle a bunch of regurgitated speeches about stuff? Like... how is that even appealing? No longer is the ad supporting the video. The video is now the ad. And whatever content the video likely could've been, never will be... Just... yuck. I don't get why they even like this concept enough for it to even exist?? Why do people watch 6 hour long advertisements?? I don't get it??
Chinese history tells a different story. The Chinese Communist Party stepped in to deal with the Sparrows who were eating large amounts of the nation's grain. This resulted in a surge in the Locust population due to a lack of predation, which consumed a majority of the agriculture. Let's also not forget the One Child policy, which has resulted in an extremely unbalanced sex ratio in the population of China. The One Child policy was enacted to address the growth rate of the country's population, which the government viewed as being too rapid. China during this time was also experiencing rapid industrialization, which is often accompanied by a decline in birth rates.
I don't see the big deal, or what's so concerning about it. Influencers are vapid, shallow, materialistic people, being given money by vapid, shallow, materialistic people. It's very easy to not be part of the cycle.
2:51 Arunachal Pradesh isnt part of Prc , its part of India(as in actually administered by India, not just claimed). Glad that you didnt include Taiwan though.
That last point is particularly concerning. This is stuff you'd more or less expect from a totalitarian state such as China. But to see the exact same thing happening in the west really is an eye-opener.
Honestly I don't mind this that much, just as long as there is an obligatory "this is a paid sponsorship" before the sales pitch. And exploitative contracts are everywhere, ppl should always check what they are signing up for.
You seem harshly critical of China's code of conduct, comparing it to 1984 for cracking down on gambling, pornography, and superstitious things. You do realize that happens in the west as well right?
To those interested in babble, learning a new language can be one of the most amazing things someone can take on. It’s honestly such an amazing experience, specially once you get good and get to practice in real life instances!
Essentially an entity exploits the influencer trainees, who are then put in place to exploit their followers. Sounds about right.
Welcome to capitalism! It's so infectious it even penetrates Socialist nations.
Whenever I see stuff like this I can't help but always amazed, yet frightened about what the world has become/is moving towards. Gone are days of good old fun and nice pictures and a funny video here and there on the web. Social Media is really becoming a monstrous thing in multiple ways...
same af.
I never watch live streaming of any type i watching people play game is boring to me id rather play game myself
Moving towards? Lol bro this is just modern telemarketing: moved from our home TVs into our pocket TVs.
So do what's best. Leave.
@PGT honestly, people are tied to their social media like they're in chains. It's been a far calmer life for me never getting into Facebook, Twitter, snapchat, none of it.
It's a far healthier lifestyle than my brother, knee deep in politics going visibly insane, like so bad I am actually considering a mental home for him
So, is this why there are so many weird TikToks of people cleaning weird rooms, cooking with weird gadgets, or just opening the boxes and setting up the weird stuff and advertising the product on their link pages?
or the ones of them like sleeping and then they have to do actions when you gift them.....
@@hellsbells5389This is still going on.
are those bots in the comments talking about babble? wth? Regarding live shopping influncers, damn what a dystopian naunce. ads are a disease and they're basically advertisers
worst part is that all of them mispell it. It's Babbel, not "babble". I wonder why they do that
@@applehack97 sometimes they're not bots, but people hired to post positive comments about anything.
I usually see them in the comment section of any documentary regarding china, most often they come from africa, although the "babble" people don't seem to come from there...
Honestly this doesnt feel that different from any average office work. It probably just seems strange because it hasnt been done with influencers before, but jobs like salespeople and call centers have been doing this in the west for ages.
good point
yeah this isn't very different from call centres. unless people are actually getting enslaved, this is just a desk job that scares boomers. i'm more worried about people that spend all day watching them and spending money on them lmao
the main difference I'd say is that office work is usually built to strip any type of human emotions into the worker's... work. Every answer is standardized, you typically don't see the office worker's face when in a call and their voice must at all cost remain calm and professional. In this case it's the exact opposite. Streamers have to be as emotional as possible, appealing to the human emotion so that they get as many donations as they can. But yeah, the comparison is pretty much valid
this is different from office workers.... their only job is to sell... this is not what streaming should be, its absurd how people spend money on them, i feel bad for them
Agree. So if companies like Snap and Walmart / Amazon want to mimic the same kind of idea makes you question if banning tiktok is really about Chinese spying or more about chineses competition?
This honestly does feel dystopian, I feel the term is thrown around a lot nowadays (which I can see, but is often exaggerated) but this really does feel Orwellian.
It's more like Huxley's Brave New World than it is Orwellian. I mean, TikTok's our new Soma. It's a way for us to ease the pain of our gloomy, rather boring dystopia with a temporary hit of enjoyment whilst we allow for these corporates to progressively fuck us over harder with rising costs.
"One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments"
Basically, All that media is designed to do is to drain you of any motivation to revolt. Be scared of the entities that're trying to help you.
Like in Australia our media's entire job is to stop us from voting for the Labor and Greens parties, as they tend to be on the side of the workers, and heaven forbid there's nothing that corporations want less than to have workers standing up for their rights and standing up for the environment. You see every mainstream outlet from ABC News to Sky news standing up for the Liberals and Nationals.
Luckily we have several content creators out there who're weaponising the platforms for good. The only downside here with Chinese media, is that unlike in the west their media's entirely dominated by the CCP. They have no pushback other than to support factional candidates who push for different actions within the party itself, lest you get your ass dragged to a camp for speaking for a new way of thinking.
Then again, I kinda like the fact that the CCP's pushing back against these media giants. They're at least keeping their billionaires in check _somewhat_ and saying "Oi, you don't work for yourselves, you work for us, know your place"
I wish we had a lot more authority to beat down on billionaires here in the West.
I love how we basically made the same comment lol
this happens when everything is commodity
Human greed for attention leads to things like this. Everyone wants to be seen, to be recognized, to be someone. People are not really doing content on the internet for fun anymore, but to make business. The competition is high and most loose. Everyone wants more clicks, more followers / subscribers, more donations, more "impressions"... People are deceived by clickbait titles, changing video thumbnails. Sometimes it's really annoying. The internet became an infested place of commercialization and advertisement.
Seeing things like this always leaves me with mixed emotions. It's incredible to witness the advancements and creativity of our world, but it's also unsettling to see how much things have changed. Gone are the simple days of funny pictures and videos. Social media has become a force to be reckoned with, and it's changing our world in ways we couldn't have imagined. It's both fascinating and frightening at the same time.
the sponsorshit at the beginning of the video really proves your point
This is a true return to form! Last video was really good too and the Joana Lopez one, but honestly this is the best video post Mariana’s Trench. This feels like a 2021 video.
"a grim, dystopian future we're headed right for" while describing a standard practice in the west for the past 50 years, but digitized. Jokes asides, it is pretty dystopic that people are farmed for their work, but it being digital doesn't really make it uniquely bad or dystopian. Its totally rational to be afraid of the unknown, afraid of what tech might change in our world, but don't allow that fear to blind you to the real world problems we face currently. These "farms" are the same as a majority of western corporations, they just look different.
Most companies aren't built around propaganda and exploitation.
I have always been aware of the influencer-sales scene in China but never thought much of it. It's so bizarre hearing from this perspective, when I realized how dystopian the market is... Live streaming should have been a platform to show talent or just a means of creative casual contents. The fact that it is so commodified and mass-produced is upsetting. And that young people now aspire to become one, not realizing the competition, the effect such a career has on one, and how short-lived the success would be... (unless you earn so much you don't ever have to work anymore)
we got twitch before this dystopian shit tho
The clips from those dingy, dank, and dark influencer farms look like something out of a surrealist or absurdist comedy film. It's hard to believe those are real. It's even harder to believe that they might be making their way to the United States very soon.
Only fan farms
wait till you see office workers/call centres
There already are influencer farms, it is called journalism.
我们的国家已经变得如此疯狂，我为那些不得不经历这一切的穷人感到难过。😢
很快就不只是我们国家了
@@tianzexia2118 好的，谢谢
@AzureWolf 你说我被禁止是什么意思哈??
@AzureWolf Ah yes the regular old question. No it's not banned, to be specific it's a gray zone. However, I assume tens of millions of Chinese are using VPN right now.
@AzureWolf The Chinese government uses several different tactics to restrict users’ access to certain websites and online platforms. The most straightforward one is IP blocking. All Chinese ISPs block the IP addresses of undesirable websites. In addition to this, they use various DNS tampering methods. These include DNS poisoning and intentionally misconfigured DNS servers so that they return false IP addresses to the users.
The government also uses keyword filtering to track other online content, like search engines, forums, and messaging apps. They scan internet traffic for undesirable keywords and block users and websites that don’t adhere to the rules. Part of it is automatic, but a large internet police force also constantly monitors the internet, banning controversial content.
This whole influencer thing disgusts me. When you throw out everything else in your life in hopes that you'll make it, knowing there's a million other ppl vying for your position, and you got nothing left when you almost certainly fail, it's already destroyed way too many lives.
Sounds a lot like musicians and record labels. It's become toxified to the point where if you don't have the money to pay for exposure, you have to be money hungry like it's your life
Trueeee
And that's how they pull you into the machine.
Chill fuel quickly becoming my favourite Channel.
In my opinion those "VTuber farms" are identical. They give you a character, and they snatch smaller creators to puppet those characters. I find it disgusting.
I am not really worried about the influencer farms, I'm more worried that people watch this garbage influencers produce and buy the products they sell... I mean for real, the best thing you can do with your free time is watch random people on the Internet talk about nothing interesting at all really? I'd rather consume art, or expand my skills, do something fun or learn something interesting (like the videos on this channel)...
Jesus this was a depressing watch. An excellently made, but depressing watch. Thanks, Fuel, keep 'em coming 👌
Yes, great video, but bleak forecast.
Yes! Happy to see this upload pop up in my notifications
i literally find it so hard to pause your video but i just had to comment this: your voice is so so so so soothing it helps me relax! thank you for uploading this video!!
Thank God somebody uploaded something interesting
Get a job
@@josh2232 You're here too, aren't you?
This shit is agitprop and barely educational or truthful, wdym?
Really isn't much different here in america
i dont see how these vids dont get more views. Gota love yt and there algorithm. keep up the vids!!!
3:58 not only virtual items, but virtual currencies, they're paid by viewers to shout their name for example.
It's funny, but their livestream apps are very similar to western p*rn streams, except there is nothing close to that there.
It's filled by friendless people who need attention.
12:00 Alibaba also own the servers, so this industry is also beneficial for them.
So what's the limiting factor keeping people apart? Is it the 996 work culture? I see there's a lot of pushback against 996 with the "Lie Flat" and "Let it rot" movements, which the CCP's pretty much hating on. To be fair, I think it's a bit fucked that you have to do 12hr days 6 days a week to compete there... Leaves you with absolutely no time to be a human fucking being lmao
I mean in a way that's already how it's being done to a degree. Maybe not as monopolized or extreme and blatant as China but definitely takes up a large portion of streaming today as apposed to the early 2010's. It so blatantly to sell products but there is definitely AstroTurf influencers that are backed by corporations and are made to look like a regular streamer. The same thing happened with the music industry. Bands that are meant to look like the come up story or small town bands that are indie and "blew up" when the whole thing is rigged and they're backed by a larger company who owns the smaller indie label. A ton of the hiphop/pop stars are completely manufactured. What you would call a plant. The same thing happening to other forms of media/content creators.
In Pro Wrestling they're called "home-grown" & while there is a stigma nowadays, it gave us some of the best ever.
man, chinese livestream agencies sound like a SFW version of what andrew tate did.
Looks like the title is missing a dash, sounds like an influencer is farming the dystopian truth
a colon would be better - but yeah, you're right.
these influencer "farms" remind me of the mlm technique of having a bunch of people livestream for hours a day to sell their products. the companies still make most of the money even though the person is streaming for numerous hours a day. the key difference between the company-run "farms" and the mlm livestream scheme is that the mlm people are allowed to do it from their own home or place they purchased as a studio.
Man sometimes I feel like humanity peaked in the 90's. It's been going downhill ever since.
let me guess, you grew up in the nineties and today you’re an adult so today is worse
@@gggggggggggggggggg161 yes.
50s, that was the peak.
@@gggggggggggggggggg161That's how gradual degeneration works.
there seems to be a way to man produce anything these days..
This has been happening for a long time. No offence to LTT, as they are a company, but their end goal is to create money. Doesn't make them a bad or a good person. Just be wise when watching these influencers. Linguistics is VERY powerful. It can be a very nice realm we live in, or it can be very dark. Don't fall for traps. Always look at the end game for that entity.
Audio balance. The background music is louder than your voice over.
I dislike making comparisons to 1984 because it's become so cliché, but honestly this does feel very Orwellian
Ministry of streaming
They get paid better than most people in USA...
"Don't ever call yourself "smart" if you don't speak at least 3 languages"
A old jewish french Canadian man once said to me and he was correct. Get Babel! NOW!!!
Great content! But after about 30 seconds I thought ffs it is spoken so slow then, I realised it was already on 1.25x speed! 1.5x makes it better.
And then there was a Babbel add before this video... :O
You do such a great job. Thanks for your hard work. Kudos.
$780 a month at 6 hours a day is less than $4 an hour....
Or $6 an hour if they get weekends off (unlikely all things considered)
Sounds like digital slavery to me…?
This method of advertising is good for the same reasons MLMs are good, it puts the onus on an independent contributor. A streamer can say absolutely whatever they want about a product, they can say these shoes cure cancer, and the shoe company is not liable for that claim.
I feel like this is the kind of thing Meta is after.
Great work as always, however I feel the need to point out that the 'dream job for American teen males' in the later parts of the video relates to gaming and how it is in the US (Twitch in particular). That's a whole different beast than China's streaming culture, so your point was kind of reaching (unless you could find a survey for the youth in China). I doubt that the youth of America dream of becoming 'streamers' that are essentially glorified salespeople.
Then again, I'm not an American, and if anyone could prove me wrong then please do so. Just stating what was printed on the screen.
It still says that 11% of overall teens have professional streamer as their #1 dream job. And like most “dream careers,” people will go into it expecting greatness (organically becoming a rich influencer) then inevitably settle for something less (becoming a corporate influencer on a salary)
Good. Long live the totalitarian era!
Absolutely disgusting. I hate influencers and content farmers. Might be a bit harsh but I think there should definitely be some restrictions or regulations, at least when it comes to people under 18. Kids are growing up stupid and oblivious to the world nowadays.
Its like something out of a Si-fi movie.
This video didn’t show up in my subscriptions or recommended 😑
The New Wall Street. Live Street.
A previously unheard-of topic and quite an interesting insight - thank you
It's quite curious how those within a socialist state are so overtly capital driven, *money, money, money*
A big driver that you left out is the demographics in China.
Due to the one-child polocy there is only one woman for every five men.
Most young men turn to these E-girls because it's litteraly impossible for them to get married.
This is super interesting to me, thank you for the content 🌹
By using tik tok you are complacent in this
TikTok is the last hope of social media freedom of speech in America
@@MelaninMagdalene I mean, it really isn't. Websites existed way before Tiktok. You can always start your own blog.
@@rtmpgt
Sure, but I’m talking about LARGE audiences and active engagements-actual humans and not bots selling scams in the comments, while real people get shadowbanned.
@@MelaninMagdalene lol,TikTok is efficiently lowering the attention span of an entire generation. The app is designed to be as addictive as possible like digital cocaine, and today the average user spends 52 minutes a day on the app.
Oh also, I forgot to send over your link for the description/pinned comment:
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These kinds of news make Black Mirror look less fictional now...
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The idea of wanting to be an influencer seems so shallow. You're basically letting a company exploit you to be a shill for them. It's so vapid too. Most legit and good products shouldn't need advertisement. Over the past year or so I kept seeing McDonalds ads on imgur and reddit and was wondering why they think they need to advertise; they're everywhere. I hadn't eat at on in over decade, so I decided to give it a shot. It was quite disappointing.
I've seen games about something similar to this, but didnt realize how sinister it was deep down. Damn.
So I’ve been making money through a survey taking gig, but the best way to make money through it has been to record a video of yourself doing a corporate item review. Oh.. oh god. It’s all ready here.
I'm sorry, but is there any other way to scroll through TT than mindlessly?
the teenagers dream job used to be a rockstar or popstar back in the 90s... this is just a modern take but influencer requires less skill than musician!
Oh this is a good one
Give it 5 or less years and AI will be the one making the videos and promoting goods. Streamer days are over. saturated market and increase in money will cause companies like BABA to pivot to AI generated animes to promote products.
I just don't understand why watching a human being talk is considered shopping? Like... why go watch a human peddle a bunch of regurgitated speeches about stuff?
Like... how is that even appealing?
No longer is the ad supporting the video. The video is now the ad. And whatever content the video likely could've been, never will be...
Just... yuck. I don't get why they even like this concept enough for it to even exist??
Why do people watch 6 hour long advertisements?? I don't get it??
It’s not a cubicle, I don’t see one damn cube anywhere 😆
Chinese government knows when to step in and stop stupidity.
Chinese history tells a different story. The Chinese Communist Party stepped in to deal with the Sparrows who were eating large amounts of the nation's grain. This resulted in a surge in the Locust population due to a lack of predation, which consumed a majority of the agriculture. Let's also not forget the One Child policy, which has resulted in an extremely unbalanced sex ratio in the population of China. The One Child policy was enacted to address the growth rate of the country's population, which the government viewed as being too rapid. China during this time was also experiencing rapid industrialization, which is often accompanied by a decline in birth rates.
Why at 6:05 is there a animation of a checkmark that spins and turns into a bag with a dollar sign on it ?
It's a transition from harmless, (checkmark) to money (money bag).
I don't see the big deal, or what's so concerning about it. Influencers are vapid, shallow, materialistic people, being given money by vapid, shallow, materialistic people. It's very easy to not be part of the cycle.
2:51 Arunachal Pradesh isnt part of Prc , its part of India(as in actually administered by India, not just claimed). Glad that you didnt include Taiwan though.
All it is, is a modern day home shopping network.
AI will replace them all, both the models and interactions.
I remembered the manhwa Lookism
Good research
I thought the original video was from a get together/event of many infuencers who met irl...?
I cant unhear the singsongy cadence one I noticed it 😬
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Nice vid chill Fuel
China Uncensored covered this years ago
Very melodramatic lol
Be nice to see ur vids more than 1 a month
hello polish youtuber @PaFi.RUclips stole your video and add your voice and pretend it's his video
Didnt see this in my sub box maybe I missed it
That last point is particularly concerning. This is stuff you'd more or less expect from a totalitarian state such as China. But to see the exact same thing happening in the west really is an eye-opener.
“Influbical” who knows. Might become a thing.
Lmao I thought this was a typo I made for a sec
@@ChillFuel haha! Nah, dope you responded. Sorry to give ya a notification. Probably so over that shit.
The voice inflection up is so bad dude why?
*insert things that every country does*
*but only calls it dystopian and cover it in a negative light when china does it*
*insert bad things that China does
but only excuse it because other countries do it*
Then don't watch
@2:45 same as the us
8:37 the 69 on the shopping app
Honestly I don't mind this that much, just as long as there is an obligatory "this is a paid sponsorship" before the sales pitch.
And exploitative contracts are everywhere, ppl should always check what they are signing up for.
Damn!
You seem harshly critical of China's code of conduct, comparing it to 1984 for cracking down on gambling, pornography, and superstitious things. You do realize that happens in the west as well right?
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I dont care because
1. I dont watch livestreams
2. I dont socialise with people who do