i dont understand the mockery in this kind of meme. A large amount of "instagram models" get paid by third party companies to plug their products just like youtubers and twitch streamers along with actors and what i suppose the people that make these memes would consider "real models" doing paid sponsorships on tv ads. I dont see the difference.
I think it's probably the sheer volume of them to start with.
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There's thousands if not millions of Instagram models that definitely don't get paid (or get paid very little) and post only selfies and such.
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A bit like someone who had 500 Minecraft videos on YouTube that had nothing particularly noteworthy in them, got 280 likes total on all their videos, maybe somehow got a bit of ad revenue, and as a result started referring to themselves as MLG.
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Or a guy who caught a football a couple of times with his buddy saying he's "suburban-NFL" or something.
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Premise is similar, execution and result are off.
From what little I've heard from guys a lot of these women wield the term like a weapon. They think it validates them, makes them important, and they demand to be treated like goddesses (often financially as well), while at the same time treating the guys like trash and expecting the fact that they have a face to be enough to make the men bow down at their feet.
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I've also heard photographers get frustrated because they will put time, effort, etc into taking beautiful pictures. But no one ever sees because 7000 girls in push-up bikinis have already tagged themselves in that location, and clearly the people googling this location wanted to see some random girl's ass and very little else.
aye but thats not any different than any of the other professions ive listed in my post. People that tried and dont get paid because they didnt do it good enough or correctly or whatever. There's likely just as many failed actors acting exactly the same way yet they are still "actors" that is their profession. Even with "real" modelling youll see the exact same thing but there arent memes about that nor are there memes about the closest similarity in youtubers that dont get paid and claim their profession as youtuber. In fact you have the exact opposite reaction. When people act like them failing at youtube isnt a real job the internet gets defensive and thinks of that person as old or as the newest meme would say "ok boomer" however with instagram models, which is an identical situation of content not getting consumed and as such sponsor ads not getting offered is somehow different? even if we just go by numbers id assume there are more failed youtubers than failed instagram models
I think this would be more akin to someone only acting in a 7 minute home video they themselves wrote, posting it on their youtube channel, and saying they're an actor. Or someone who wanders around banging a garbage can lid tunelessly and claiming they're a musician when people are forced to look in their direction. Technically they did the thing, but until they produce something real that's not just fluffing their own egos, no one is going to take them seriously.
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And, yes, you can call yourself any job you want. But if you fail to have an audience in a performing job then technically you are claiming you worked a job you were never hired for.
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And most YouTubers get a LOT of flack for ever even trying to get started. Ask any of the big YouTubers (or small ones) and they'll tell you that they not only got no support, they were actively discouraged from attempting to start on youtube.
And until they make enough money to compensate for "quitting their day job" (assuming money is their end goal) and/or gained an audience large enough, they usually are met with the same eye-rolling IG girls get. I've never really encountered anyone defending a random shmo on YouTube who put up 7000 videos of lackluster generic material over however many months/years, had gained no following, but insisted they were the next Markiplier (<- who had to literally lie to his mother about what he was doing because he knew how "supportive" she'd be, and this
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I don't really care one way or the other tbh. It's not just Instagram models that get treated this way. And not even all Instagram models.
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People want people to "put up or shut up" I guess. Prove this is actually a sustainable line of work for you and that you're not just Narcissus on the beach with a camera demanding everyone acknowledge how beautiful you are. Then, perhaps, they'll consider it your job
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There's thousands if not millions of Instagram models that definitely don't get paid (or get paid very little) and post only selfies and such.
.
A bit like someone who had 500 Minecraft videos on YouTube that had nothing particularly noteworthy in them, got 280 likes total on all their videos, maybe somehow got a bit of ad revenue, and as a result started referring to themselves as MLG.
.
Or a guy who caught a football a couple of times with his buddy saying he's "suburban-NFL" or something.
.
Premise is similar, execution and result are off.
.
I've also heard photographers get frustrated because they will put time, effort, etc into taking beautiful pictures. But no one ever sees because 7000 girls in push-up bikinis have already tagged themselves in that location, and clearly the people googling this location wanted to see some random girl's ass and very little else.
.
And, yes, you can call yourself any job you want. But if you fail to have an audience in a performing job then technically you are claiming you worked a job you were never hired for.
.
And most YouTubers get a LOT of flack for ever even trying to get started. Ask any of the big YouTubers (or small ones) and they'll tell you that they not only got no support, they were actively discouraged from attempting to start on youtube.
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I don't really care one way or the other tbh. It's not just Instagram models that get treated this way. And not even all Instagram models.
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People want people to "put up or shut up" I guess. Prove this is actually a sustainable line of work for you and that you're not just Narcissus on the beach with a camera demanding everyone acknowledge how beautiful you are. Then, perhaps, they'll consider it your job