• @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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    3 months ago

    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?

    • David GerardOPMA
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      83 months ago

      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