Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 days agoYour comment makes me realise that there’s shit tons of kids seeing those tiktok/insta influenza living a good life doing simple stuff and think they don’t even need to study, not realising the one they see is the tip of the iceberg, only then failed at doing influenza work and also failing in other work as well.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Listen influenza doesn’t need TikTok or insta, though I’m sure they help it spread by reducing vaccination rates
But yeah, kids don’t see that those influencers probably put in a ton of time and a fair bit of money to fake success for a small shot at making it. And that making it isn’t nearly as lucrative as they portray themselves.
And like, I think this is something a lot of parents weren’t prepared to teach their kids. But these jobs are the modern version of being a rockstar, but like with a lot less room at the “filthy rich” part and with less healthy skills than getting really into making music (also without the music tutoring or wedding musician fallbacks). Like, these kids aren’t trying en masse to be high research video essayists like Hbomberguy. But much like with trying to be a rockstar, most will not study while they treat it as a serious hobby thinking that that’ll get them somewhere.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’m pretty sure it’s a portmanteau of affluenza and influencer. It’s similar to this phenomenon, but not semantic, rather morphological.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I didn’t initially catch that but that’s really amusing.