No we want v4v. She is providing zero value. She is the exact same as the homeless guy on the corner begging for money.
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I think you might be unfair with homeless people
You're right. The homeless are much better people than this influencer.
Influencers are marketers. Like people on the home shopping network or people who design billboards or think up jingles.
Some of them actually work really hard. It's a cutthroat job market.
This girl is not working hard. She's begging for money.
She just got laid off.
Laid off her platform. Where she begs for money. If she has sponsors and an audience, then she should be able to carry a sizable audience to any platform and her sponsor would continue to pay her for her marketing. But she can't. If she has marketable skills, she should have no problem performing the same skills on any and all other platforms. If I got laid off, I wouldn't beg for money. I would go get another job with my valuable skill set.
Not the same situation. I've arranged financial help for long-term suppliers, before, to keep them afloat while reestablishing themselves, after they lost a big customer or went solo.
Apparently, people view her as a trusted supplier and don't want her to go work at McDonald's or learn to code. That is not your problem. She apparently does have marketable skills. That is why she has customers willing to help her, so that she doesn't reorient herself.
This is the free market, at work. Nobody is being forced to finance her lifestyle.
Her audience is financing her. Her audience is not her employer if she is marketing. It's different. Her audience is being fleeced because her employer no longer sees value in her.
I have used all the main social media platforms to market several projects for the last decade, all very different. It is extremely difficult to show up on people's feed unless you're lucky and the algorithm god's have blessed you. Or ads.
For some reason, I don't know I don't work there, on TikTok it is much easier to build an account and get in front of people who will eventually follow you and grow with you. It's a more level playing field (but not really obviously it's still an algorithm) than the others.
So I understand the point you are trying to make but in this context that's just not how this industry works.