China recently decimated their (previously thriving) influencer ecosystem, simply by requiring that health influencers have documented health education, financial influencers have finance education, etc… China implemented the rule, and immediately banned like ~95% of all their health influencers. The rule targets both individual influencers and the platforms that host them. And no platform wants to stick their neck out and eat fines for some random influencer. So influencers who didn’t have documented education got banned basically overnight.

Bro here on the local news during covid they'd interview idiots "im not trusting the government idk whats in that shot" and then they hit their gas station vape, amurica!

human beings are wired to trust other people's confident bullshit.

far more than they trust something abstract like medical knowledge backed by scientific studies.

it's not any different why the charming asshole narcissist is socially popular and the accurate nerdy scientist is seen as weird and anti-social.

It's literally because these people are manipulated by fear -- influencers intentionally use emotionally loaded language while doctors very intentionally do not.

Yeah, that reminds me of times of days past when people would just be chatting about how this or that food is bad for you... As we rail another line of cocaine... Like what do you care about healthy?

also listeing to a QUCK DOCTOR, AND person with brainworms. they also would inject GLP-1 because, they look thinner with it.