What was the equivalent to wanting to be a YouTube/Instagram/TikTok influencer for a teenager in the 80s? I honestly can’t map it to anything we were even thinking about then. It doesn’t seem to quite map to wanting to be a performer in the traditional sense, which still exists.
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Replying to @vgr
It's just wanting to be the cool kid with the cool clothes and the lip gloss, same thing, different technology
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Replying to @upoutandaway
Except there’s millions of dollars in play for the bif winners. I think that distorts cool-kid motives a bit.
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Replying to @vgr
Maybe it heightens them, makes them aesthetically more cocaine-adjacent, but it feels like the same drive to me
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