Isn’t the whole point of travel influencers to allow conventionally attractive twenty-somethings to badger smallish local communities into giving them free room and board? If there isn’t a just-out-of-college ex-cheerleader trying to get an exhausted b&b owner to comp them their weekend in exchange for a half-dozen Instagram photos, then what’s even the point?
saw a marketer on bsky point out the attraction: influencers, and particularly travel influencers, are the most unreliable arseholes you’ll ever find yourself paying to do something, and I can see that
Isn’t the whole point of travel influencers to allow conventionally attractive twenty-somethings to badger smallish local communities into giving them free room and board? If there isn’t a just-out-of-college ex-cheerleader trying to get an exhausted b&b owner to comp them their weekend in exchange for a half-dozen Instagram photos, then what’s even the point?
saw a marketer on bsky point out the attraction: influencers, and particularly travel influencers, are the most unreliable arseholes you’ll ever find yourself paying to do something, and I can see that