The Anxiety of Influencers, by Barrett Swanson

Educating the TikTok generation

June 2021 Issue [Letter from Los Angeles] The Anxiety of Influencers Educating the TikTok generation by Barrett Swanson , Influencers at Clubhouse Beverly Hills, Clubhouse For the Boys, and Not a Content House, in Los Angeles. All photographs by Philip Cheung, September 2020, for Harper’s Magazine © The artist [Letter from Los Angeles] The Anxiety of Influencers Educating the TikTok generation by Barrett Swanson , Adjust Share It’s noon in Los Angeles toward the end of the Plague Year, and I’m lounging on the patio of a swanky three-floor mansion, watching a scrum of teenage boys perform trend

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