Everyone should have their time to shine, but some people can't help being the main character in their lives 24/7. We all have these people in our lives, and maybe you are that person! Some people love to post every minute of their lives on their socials, which of course their friends will comment on, hyping up their reels, snaps , or TikToks. It's so lovely when your besties give you love on your photos, but too much of that might give you a big head. Even influencers with just a few hundred f…

On a throwaway account, one person with physical disabilities asked what she could do to stop her friend from “mimicking” her condition.

This bakery owner learned a difficult and expensive lesson after working with an influencer who didn't hold up her end of the bargain. As the OP shared to r/ChoosingBeggars, she decided to collaborate with an influencer who was the wife of a local musician. She gave this influencer a box of cookies, and received a 6-second video clip highlighting the products. Sounds great, but would it actually draw any paying customers? As the OP continued on with the story, they shared that they did gain a f…

One woman won't soon forget her encounter with this influencer who shares everything with her followers. Video creator @cvillainnn shared an eye-opening lunch date that went south.

When an influencer from Ohio first moved to Los Angeles , she found that the influencers there could be quite entitled — especially after how they treated her at a party. Video creator Becca Moore shared her story of influencers acting crazy entitled at a party. She shared two stories . In the first, she spoke with an influencer who's already established, and in the second, she met a mutual who she had actually talked to before. Thumbnail image via Jake Blucker on Unsplash.

These days everyone wants to be an influencer — or thinks they already are.

Do you hear the ancestral lifestyle calling?

Almost universally, we have a tendency to trust the narrative of the narrator when it comes to stories we see online. We seldom stop to pause and take a look at the other perspectives that the context offers us: When you're reading a story your favorite influencer or personality is telling about some aggressive Karen they met at a festival, do you ever stop to think, "Why did that complete stranger take offense to them?" Sure there are some wildly unhinged persons in this world who have the ten…

Surprise, surprise—a TikTok influencer turned out to be a horrible boss…

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These people are the worst.

Nope, that's not how it works.

That's a hard no, Karen.

Nice try.

Life sure ain't like social media makes it out to be.

Oh dear.