HBO documentary exposes how easy it is for influencers to buy their way to social media fame
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작성자Danny Mccrary 작성일 24-01-03 조회수 5회본문
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Don't believe everything you see on Instagram. This is Dominique Druckman at a photo shoot that makes it look like she's relaxing at a spa.
HBO Dominique Druckman reclines on a tuft of red and white rose petals, Tranh sơn mài bình dương Bán Tranh sơn mài cửu huyền thờ liễn Cửu huyền thất tổ her eyes closed, her skin dewy, a tranquil smile tugging at the corners of her perfectly tinted pink lips.
According to her tag, Druckman is recharging at a Hollywood spa, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
She's in a backyard, awkwardly propped onto a small plastic kiddie pool filled with flowers. A photographer stands over her, angling for the perfect shot. The kind that makes Druckman's followers believe she's living a luxurious life they could also have ... if they just buy the expensive sunglasses and sneakers she's hawking.
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At an audition for Fake Famous, Chris Bailey tries to show off his influencer potential.
HBO
Thing is, many of her followers aren't real people.
They're .
Druckman knows this. She's part of a social experiment chronicled in the compelling , written and directed by veteran technology journalist Nick Bilton.
For [Redirect-302] the film -- his first -- Bilton attempts to turn Druckman and two other LA residents with relatively small Instagram followings into social media influencers by purchasing an army of fake followers and bots to "engage" with their posts.
The three were chosen from around 4,000 people who responded to a casting call asking one simple question: "Do you want to be famous?"
The documentary, on now, feels plodding at times (or maybe it's just tedious spending time with fame chasers), but it explores intriguing questions for our influencer-influenced times. Will people look at the trio differently as their follower counts rise? Will their lives change for the better? And Địa chỉ bán tranh sơn mài tphcm Hà Nội in a world where numbers equal fame, what is the true nature (and cost) of fame anyway?
The questions are worth exploring for anyone who's felt a tinge of envy scrolling through feeds of glamorous getaways and perfectly made-up miens.
At least one of the newly anointed influencers discovers a soaring follower count isn't good for his mental health.
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On some level, most of us understand that of other people's realities and Tranh sơn mài bình dương Bán tranh thờ liễn Cửu huyền thất tổ that influencers' living rooms aren't always bathed in the perfect sunlight. Last year, for example, Instagram influencer Natalia Taylor to remind her followers not to believe everything they see.
And who could forget the hyped by the influencer crowd?
But Bilton, formerly of The New York Times and now a correspondent for Vanity Fair, turns his unflinching reporter's eye more broadly and methodically to this bizarre influencer world where followers, likes and comments function as a cultural currency. In doing so, he exposes just how fake that world can get. Spoiler alert: very.
CNET Culture Entertain your brain with the coolest news from streaming to superheroes, memes to video games.
As Bilton hops on his phone to buy thousands more bots for his stars, we see that purchasing fake followers is as simple and quick as downloading an app.
Don't believe everything you see on Instagram. This is Dominique Druckman at a photo shoot that makes it look like she's relaxing at a spa.
HBO Dominique Druckman reclines on a tuft of red and white rose petals, Tranh sơn mài bình dương Bán Tranh sơn mài cửu huyền thờ liễn Cửu huyền thất tổ her eyes closed, her skin dewy, a tranquil smile tugging at the corners of her perfectly tinted pink lips.
According to her tag, Druckman is recharging at a Hollywood spa, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
She's in a backyard, awkwardly propped onto a small plastic kiddie pool filled with flowers. A photographer stands over her, angling for the perfect shot. The kind that makes Druckman's followers believe she's living a luxurious life they could also have ... if they just buy the expensive sunglasses and sneakers she's hawking.
At an audition for Fake Famous, Chris Bailey tries to show off his influencer potential.
HBO
Thing is, many of her followers aren't real people.
They're .
Druckman knows this. She's part of a social experiment chronicled in the compelling , written and directed by veteran technology journalist Nick Bilton.
For [Redirect-302] the film -- his first -- Bilton attempts to turn Druckman and two other LA residents with relatively small Instagram followings into social media influencers by purchasing an army of fake followers and bots to "engage" with their posts.
The three were chosen from around 4,000 people who responded to a casting call asking one simple question: "Do you want to be famous?"
The documentary, on now, feels plodding at times (or maybe it's just tedious spending time with fame chasers), but it explores intriguing questions for our influencer-influenced times. Will people look at the trio differently as their follower counts rise? Will their lives change for the better? And Địa chỉ bán tranh sơn mài tphcm Hà Nội in a world where numbers equal fame, what is the true nature (and cost) of fame anyway?
The questions are worth exploring for anyone who's felt a tinge of envy scrolling through feeds of glamorous getaways and perfectly made-up miens.
At least one of the newly anointed influencers discovers a soaring follower count isn't good for his mental health.
window.CnetFunctions.logWithLabel('%c One Trust ', "IFrame loaded: iframe_youtube with class optanon-category-3");
On some level, most of us understand that of other people's realities and Tranh sơn mài bình dương Bán tranh thờ liễn Cửu huyền thất tổ that influencers' living rooms aren't always bathed in the perfect sunlight. Last year, for example, Instagram influencer Natalia Taylor to remind her followers not to believe everything they see.
And who could forget the hyped by the influencer crowd?
But Bilton, formerly of The New York Times and now a correspondent for Vanity Fair, turns his unflinching reporter's eye more broadly and methodically to this bizarre influencer world where followers, likes and comments function as a cultural currency. In doing so, he exposes just how fake that world can get. Spoiler alert: very.
CNET Culture Entertain your brain with the coolest news from streaming to superheroes, memes to video games.
As Bilton hops on his phone to buy thousands more bots for his stars, we see that purchasing fake followers is as simple and quick as downloading an app.
