Influencers have faced newfound scrutiny in the past year for a variety of tone deaf moves like throwing ragers while their city is locked down or simply trying to sell during a pandemic-fueled economic downturn.Â
Despite the backlash, however, the influencer market is booming.
The "influencing" industry is like many others in that a select few reap the rewards. But what if influencing was more democratized? What if anyone could be an influencer, or at least have a million Instagram followers?
MSCHF, the group behind stunts like attaching a paintball gun to Boston Dynamics's robot dog, wants to answer these questions with Death of the Influencer. The titular death is of a fictional, unnamed Influencer, the "son of Andy Warhol and Paris Hilton," who was apparently killed by a password reset. RIP. Read more...
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