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2 Oct 2024 Conversations with Tyler Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
“An influencer is somebody who’s going to be your “best friend,” somebody that you tune into every aspect of their lives, and they give you access to every aspect of their lives. I think that far supersedes everything that we’ve ever gotten from a celebrity.”
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- 2 Oct 2024
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…And do you need celebrity? You said it’s all I need, but in fact, you have however many TikTok and YouTube videos. Yes, I know. There’s always a little bit of hypocrisy sometimes, I suppose. I think celebrity is dead. I put that down because I was curious what are your thoughts on that as well. I think people look toward influencers as celebrities now. The celebrities themselves are just sort of these figments of movies. An influencer is somebody who’s going to be your “best friend,” somebody that you tune into every aspect of their lives, and they give you access to every aspect of their lives. I think that far supersedes everything that we’ve ever gotten from a celebrity. I think of celebrity as having peaked maybe in the 1980s. You have Eddie Murphy, you have Schwarzenegger, you have Madonna, Michael Jackson, and it was a thing. Then that starts to collapse and break down, and we recreated this very different thing, the influencer. That’s you, right?…
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