“The problem is that America more or less runs on the concept of selling out.” A pretty cynical statement. I understand the feeling, however. The social media influencers I tend to follow are the restless ones, unsatisfied with their reach on Instagram, they’ll push Youtube, or TikTok. Or other channels. They have the threadbare profit to be able to analyze their best channel, their best followers, and tailor accordingly. It’s instructive to watch, but I have to really commend them for the hours and sweat equity that they put into these well-produced video shorts. They continue to do it, generally, for about two years before burnout (IMHO). I can only wonder if they ever get the $ remuneration that truly represents those hours. I suspect not.

Getting onto Instagram reels and seeing one influencer with like 30 beautiful shorts in a single hour of the morning, I want to just bury my head and give up life as a committed slacker. I suspect I’m not alone. The pressure to broadcast with perfection (the young and unblemished only need broadcast, also) must be intense.