The Perils of Audience Capture - by Gurwinder - The Prism

How influencers become brainwashed by their audiences

The Perils of Audience Capture How influencers become brainwashed by their audiences Gurwinder Jun 30, 2022 1,255 131 162 Share “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ― Virginia Woolf I. The Man Who Ate Himself In 2016, 24 year old Nicholas Perry wanted to be big online. He started uploading videos to his YouTube channel in which he pursued his passion—playing the violin—and extolled the virtues of veganism. He went largely unnoticed. A year later, he abandoned veganism, citing health concerns. Now free to eat whatever he wanted, he began uploading mukbang videos of himsel

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