@rocio
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 1:49

Influencers: I Got Questions

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Hi. Swell. It's been a minute since I've done one of these, but I've had this idea in my drafts for a while, and I don't want to give too much of a disclaimer, but I'll just go right into it. These are questions that I have about influencers and influencers questions after too many years being on social media. So here we go. What did the Internet feel like before influencers? Can we go back to a time without them?

A list of questions about influencer culture that I’d love to get your POVs on

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@aShamaninJourny

"Capitalism & the Internet had many children." 🙏🏽💭🤔 @rochristensen

Hey Ro, this is really awesome. Love how you really frame this space to capsulate such an inquiry. And as we were listening and even and trying to respond in our minds to the series of questions, we couldn't help but just be focused on this idea that capitalism and the internet have many children or have many offsprings. And one of those offsprings is the influencers questions of culture where it's now become a profitable thing
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:04

@The3rdOWL @rochristensen

And I think it's sort of a false premise because critical thinking is definitely scarce still. And you hope that when you teach people how to critically think about the sources that the voices they're hearing are coming from what's influencing the influencers, you have a better chance of having a freedom of sorts to not. But I think in a positive way I can't believe I'm saying this, but in a positive way, we can create micro communities with micro influencers that are of our choosing somewhat
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

@aShamaninJourny

@DBPardes "Love your perspectives" 🙏🏽❤️💭💯

It's kind of hard not to make it meta, but when we start thinking about in the larger scheme of it all, we do end up in this realm of meta thinking and metaphilosophy and even meta economics, spirituality. We love what you said about the micro to macro, like being an influencer not based on the number of followers, but the relationships. And that could even look like us three
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@lwatsonjr
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:58

@rochristensen: exit or exalt…

It all sort of culminates with the decision to exit, meaning to sort of move on to the next post, consume the next bit of content or to exalt, right? So thus you have sort of the birth or the innovation of the like button. You have the more traditional innovation of the headline on the newspaper. We decide collectively and many of us individually. Right
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@rocio
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 3:41

@DBPardes @The3rdOWL

If I feel that to be true for myself because I think it is interesting because I don't know. There's something in my brain that's like. Okay. But in this conversation between us three. Not now four. But in these conversations that you have on Swell. For example. There's something about it that I feel is like. This is not like an influencer vibe type thing. Which then leads me to thinking. Like. Okay. What does the influence survive?
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@rocio
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 3:26

@lwatsonjr

And so there's something interesting as well there, which is kind of like it's opposite, I think, to the exit and exalt. Maybe like exiting, moving on to the next post. You're like, okay, done with that. Versus exalt is like, oh, I like that post. Let's boost that. Let's give it a follow, or like or whatever. And in consumption versus creation, the moving on or the consumption, the mindless constant stream is the staying right?
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@aShamaninJourny

@rochristensen "Religious Influencers." 🙏🏽💭❤️💯

And a follower easily is identified as someone who really is more influenced by the words and the ideas that the influencers questions offering. And you're right. At the end of the day, the influencers questions upholding a biased perspective. Very few influencers uphold and share objective ideas. And it's hard because we live in a world where most things are binary or they're taught to us through a binary method. It's either good or bad
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@lwatsonjr
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 5:00

@The3rdOWL @rochristensen: many doors,…

And what's so cool about that is when you think about what is meant by mansions, a relatively contemporary term, but what was described there was a community of homes and these homes representative of temples, representative of places of reverence to deity. And how those many homes have many doors, obviously, right, because a home without a door as a box
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@jeffcross222292
Jeff Cross
@jeffcross222292 · 3:02

How we behave on the internet?

The only thing I really think about is what picture am I going to put up with my response? So just absolutely love this question. This should be a viral question, is how do we behave on the internet? And I wish I could have all that. I'm going to go back and list to it again and write down all the questions you ask yourself about the Internet and what would we have influencers about the Internet?
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@wilshine729
will guzman
@wilshine729 · 2:30

Friends have power

We can't take this device too seriously, all these apps too seriously. This app I love because it's open, it's honest, and you actually could feel someone's energy by talking and not texting, you know what I mean? So the Internet is overly saturated with a bunch of junk and we can't fall victim to it. There are people that are victimized on the Internet and get sad and depressed
@warrior_kvj
Kalyani Jada
@warrior_kvj · 4:21
We see the black spot because that's distinguished from the white wall but why don't we see the white wall? Similarly. When you talk about the internet. The influencers yes there is a positive side of it that you see the world. What's happening in the world by sitting in India I can see what's happening in the USA. Canada. UK. South Africa. Africa
@lehvipearl
Lehvi Pearl
@lehvipearl · 2:43
That's what got me on this post to come and I saw a picture of Jesus. I think you just have to like think the Internet kind of facilitated the means through which people outside of your friends circles could talk about influencers or could react to their content in some kind of way. Because an influencer is really just something or someone specifically with content, let's say enough that drags enough interest to them as to talk about
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@Acey
mpilo thabethe
@Acey · 2:01
But as you said, over time influences the whole type of chat has come about. I feel like also with the more money there are platforms and more brands want to get involved. I think the premise of social media has got diluted on me. I really think it just got diluted. It became what it is right now. But I think platforms like Swell are really amazing about just connect with people. I don't know, you don't know me, I've been to see you
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