America desperately needs a return to AMERICAN values.
More than half of Gen Zers want to be an influencer — 57% to be exact, according to a 2023 survey of 1,000 Zoomers — but content creators caution it’s not as lax as it seems.
“It’s just constant, Monday through Sunday,” TikTokker Hannah Williams told CNBC. “From the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, the internet’s on, so you’re on as well.”
The 27-year-old runs the popular account Salary Transparent Street, which boasts 1.4 million followers. After quitting her job in 2022 to pursue content creation full-time, Williams now rakes in a sizable $125,000 — but at what cost?
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A young person on my last job was always LOOKing online for schools and courses to attend... She never signed up and took a single class. That would require work...
What these aspiring YouTubers don't seem to realize is that influencers who make it big often have talent and work hard at it.
I follow a YouTuber The Filipina Pea, she has 335,000 followers and is making a great living now. The only influencer I ever donated to, I sent her my GoPro I never used... Why? Early on she actually climbed up a coconut tree and picked a coconut... My wife's family own coconut trees and zero of them would climb one. Pea puts a lot of work into her pro-expat channel and it has paid off for her.
Yeah some of those I follow are honest about how running the channel is a lot more work than their 9-5 job ever was. Also the smart ones have side businesses as they know they could get deplatformed or just lose popularity so the YouTube money went to get the other business off the ground.
I'm married to a Filipina as I'd looked for a wife from there... In 2010 the number of bloggers from there could be counted on one hand. Now there are hundreds... One of the better ones quit vlogging for a few years then came back. His channel is now lost in the sea of creators. I think he has a very small core of followers still.
I had channels twice with only a few videos on each. In the end, one was too much work, and the other Google would de-platform anyways...