I’m sorry to burst these kids’ imaginary fantasy bubble, but not everyone can or ever will become “influencers”

Someone needs to come pick up my garbage every Sunday from my driveway

new generations , new hustles who cares

They saw them 360 deals rappers get caught up wit and switched lanes lmao

Musician top 3 in china

not really a big deal, i think i said i wanted to be a pro skateboarder or pro soccer player when i was young. although i still would class those professions as 1000x cooler and representative of a passion rather than a purely fame seeking 'influencer'

We're f***ed

NO

These are 16-25 year olds bro they're not in elementary school anymore lol

oh s*** then lol

Nobody ever becomes what they want to be when they grow up anyway, lol.

Poll is sad if its a similar distribution of ages. 16-25 year olds givin 8-12 year old answers.

why is this even a thing lmao

social media in general is boring/wack af. people need to get hobbies or something

19% musician

nearly 1 in 4 Gen Z believe there should be social media influencer training in school

F*** it, though. Getting paid to not do a whole lot is the American Dream. Doesn’t sound like anyone’s pushing them to be astronauts or anything anyway.

Colleges creating a course for it as we speak

And if people are going to give teenagers thousands of dollars to make social media posts, that’s not the teenagers’ fault.

yep my nieces are convinced they're gonna become Youtubers but they have no creativity whatsoever and put in no effort to make content

We’re so f***ed man
I just hope they grow up and become realists

S*** i was in agreement with @BG too until i read this lol.

I was on the fence about this being either "bad" or "good", but i thought the surveyed people were younger than that.

If that's the case then i def lean more towards "bad" but it also makes a lot of sense because (1) this was the first generation who were actually born and raised with universal access to the internet in the home or hand, and (2) being an "influencer" doesn't require any transferable skills and appears extremely lucrative from an outside perspective.

It's basically the new "i wanna play in the NBA/NFL", except you dont have to actually learn and practice a skill but the barrier (and chance) of realistic success is just as small.

I can dismiss high school kids saying this as an "in the moment" fascination that will likely change as the real world hits them later. But the people in their early 20s is another mess entirely. Even though the notion that "28 is the new 18" has existed and become reality among the middle class since the 90s, such a large percentage of people approaching that age saying they aspire to be an influencer alludes to a real absence of proper education and motivational virtues in both school and home.

Does anyone think I could make it as an influencer?

such a large percentage of people approaching that age saying they aspire to be an influencer alludes to a real absence of proper education and motivational virtues in both school and home.

This is such a huge reach.

Also I just find it funny how we assigning a cutoff age to wanting to be an influencer itt