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What’s With The Cooking Lessons and Workout Videos on Instagram?
Influencing overload
My Instagram feed has been overwhelmed by images of eager-minded, energetic influencers or self-proclaimed life experts who are capitalizing on this stormy climate as if their very lives depend on how many new followers they can amass for the incoming next frontier.
Celebrities aren’t any less invasive or annoying but that’s a convo for next time, if we survive long enough to dissect.
I can’t help but wonder where the performative crowd that actively engages in relentless uploads of demonstrative culinary skills, accompanied by mid-morning exercise routines, acquired the mindset that their over-shared indulges are somehow revolutionary and worthy of daily reminders.
There’s really nowhere to blissfully hide from this ongoing nightmare that keeps getting deadlier by the minute. Streaming the new season of Good Girls while unexpectedly dying from laughter due to the antics of the older girls on Real Housewives of New York City does help to provide temporary relief.
But Twitter is even more unbearable than before with exposed sections of active battles that run the gamut from bloody dragging of a successful TV showrunner who hates dark-skinned Black people to the heightened bad blood between wrongly…
