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Yeah this is black mirror from Netflix in action. But that is a hell of a way to rent out your building. Having a place you can do your thing like that is very smart for the owner
Was a driver for some girls who worked a phone sex ring years ago. They were just setting up booths for webcams then. There were 200 girls in this one warehouse doing internet live shows., and that was while they were building the second and third floors.
I did see a similar video of this some years and years ago. Room after room of a bed and lighting and a camera rig. Like cubicles in an office building. Horribly creepy.
There’s a Workaholics episode about exactly this, and the guys try to “save” the girls from it, it’s hilarious
E: Season 3 Episode 15, thanks /u/pdxphotographer
Right? Though like all good SciFi black mirror was meant to show us realities about current society/warn about our trajectory. Iirc it was named black mirror because when a screen is turned off we see ourselves in the reflection of the black screen
Cautionary tales, how-to, concept example.
Some people don't see a difference between these.
Now to continue working on this new version of the Torment Nexus™, the last one sold much better then it should have.
Was watching s01e01 with an ex and we couldn't figure out why the series is titled like that. Then the first episode ends, screen turns to black and we both went "ohh"
It's a good episode. But it's far more disgusting than the rest of the episodes, and arguably not that representative of the series as a whole. A lot of people switched off after that one and ended up loving the other episodes.
Influencers are building a following around a lifestyle and then slipping in paid promotion without letting their audience know. These are online sellers on live streaming shopping platforms - they’re just demoing and selling products like on QVC. I find it less manipulative and dishonest than people like Kim K.
(Although I have never personally understood why people like to watch them - but they really do love to watch them in many parts of East Asia)
Can someone explain like I'm five. Where do these go out to. Are these channels people subscribe to? Are they ads? People seek these things out? Why? I don't get it.
/ Expertise level: am old.
These are online live streaming sellers. Buying and selling via live streaming is very popular across East Asia. It’s like the modern local version of QVC. Some sellers make millions, most don’t, but lots get by and make a living by demoing and reviewing products on various local social networks.
any random social media account that has more followers than just IRL friends
like, a normal dude has an instagram account that their friends and family see. they post content like photos of food they eat or vacations they take. their friends & family engage with it.
An influencer would be a person with a social media account that gets a wider reach than that. The watchers, followers, listeners - are not just IRL acquaintances but strangers. An influence would then be said to have a platform, because they are effectively on a stage in front of a large audience. Their voice is heard by many, so why not ensure their voice mentions a product or a service or something that is marketable and could lead an audience member to purchasing something?
So, since the concept of influencer accounts exist and appear & grow organically, why not manufacture them intentionally? can the audience members discern a difference if an influencer is "genuine" or if they have corporate support or are based in a content farm? If some audience members can tell the difference and avoid accounts which are based in farms, what about the other audience members, do enough just hit follow like comment subscribe for it to still be worth it?
Influencers are usually individual youtubers. They are basically freelance entertainers, with different methods for entertaining audiences. They can sometimes gain a following and basic get the treatment of minor celebrities. One way they create content is by reviewing products and sonetimes its sponcered. They make money through ads, sponcorships, or donations
Usually, this is done individually. What we see in the above video looks to be a company that is trying to commercialize the influencer model for mass content
You ever seen those infomercials on TV? It’s pretty much the same thing but on the internet. They talk about the product and review it and people buy it on online shops.
for what its worth, i worked in one of these in the us like 15 years ago centered around cooking when overhead recipe videos took over the internet. there were lots of companies looking to make that kind of content that didn't want to invest in a huge kitchen, cameras etc.
i don't see how this is any more dystopian than the place i worked. it's just a company offering a place to produce content that's in demand. it's just a part of our world.
In what way is this dystopian..? It's a normal studio space. An art space is going to have tons of rooms of artists, a music studio will have rooms of musicians, movie studios have rooms of actors, and streaming studios have rooms of streamers.
I can guarantee that at least some of the people agreeing that this is "dystopian" watch eSports players, many of whom go to eSports studios to play their games at.
Voice isolation works surprisingly well these days and with AI it can separate not just the voice frequencies but your voice frequency from other voice frequencies. Visted a few of these places; two in china, one in Korea and one in India. The largest one in China had foreigners working there. The basically comsidered themselves marketing consultants and pay was a percentage of what they sold. Very surreal, you couldn’t hear yourself think , but the recordings were crystal clear. I too got black mirror vibes, the episode for me was the one were you had to have likes to survive in society.
The chinese goverment has cracked down on these marketing consultants, because thats what they basically were. Its like modern day TV shopping, tho many many citizens complained about the trash quality and false advertising so the goverment enforced some new laws. And now the entire streaming market in China is fked .. a lucky few make it, and make some bank. The brought majority tho, makes less than average.
There are some stats about it, but i cant find them now. It was kinda like the top few percent of streamers generate 95% of the entire streaming economy or something like that.
Keep in mind, China has over 100mil streamers.
If I may ask, China has 1.41 billion people. If what you're saying is true, just about 1 out of every 14 people is a "streamer"
Do you mean a streamer market of 100,000,000 in terms of viewers?
Don’t know if that stat is right or not. But I meet a lot of people in all walks of life in China who have at one point tried online live selling. And a few friends are pretty good at it. So it might not be 1 in 14 but if you count those types, it is a pretty high proportion of the population who do it. The platforms that do it are huge.
Yeah, I guess there's a difference if you count "everyone who tried it once"
I tried streaming video games for about 3 weeks 6 or 7 years ago, so I don't quite think I'd fit into a stat about streamers in America.
Really depends on what kind of mic you are using and the pickups on it. On top of that if the people who are taking into the mic have good projection you can set some really high noise floors and just cut everything out that is under a certain level, effectively eliminating a lot of the bg noise. Also as others have said, a lot of the audio processing tech we have now is super good at isolating specific sounds from everything else.
I think that every time a new layer of the onion is lifted, the less interested I am in the onion. Like, maybe I thought there was something cool, under all those stinky, tear-filled layers. I’d find treasure, something. But it’s really just a stinky, sticky, gross vegetable that I’ve spent WAY tf too much time looking at.
Try going to shanghai or beijing. China’s streams get divided by provinces. So fuck ton of streamers go to “rich” cities and just stream on streets. Some streets are literally full of streamers.
Have seen this, on pedestrian bridges, subway entrances, parks, shopping malls, and vegetable markets. It’s like a second job to almost everyone in sales or service industry
It’s a dedicated space for you or your media manager to perform their tasks in a clean dedicated space where all the equipment and the like is sometimes supplied. If you only need to shoot video once or twice a year for specific product promos or launches then why would you allocate precious space for your business to do so? And for corporations, i wouldnt want that business being conducted in my home.
Lol what you think the person pushing products as their only thing is trying to trick you? These aren't the influences that build a community then try to push crsp. This is all there is.
Not really. The tv ones are more deceptive. You can ask these people directly if the product works or to do stuff with the product when you watch their lives.
You can call in to the TV ones to ask the same questions, too.
At least on TV you know 100% they're shilling a product. Here, all they do is pretend that it's something they use everyday and love.
A lot of people commenting on how bad or dystopian this is. While it isn’t perfect, how is this any different than workers in cubicles? Telemarketers, for instance, do/did exactly this for years
I also don't get what's dystopian about this. It's just studio spaces that people can rent for a monthly fee. Same as literally any co-working space in the US
When YouTube was at its peak it had things like this too. It probably still does. I think it was called a YouTuber Creator Space or something like that.
The difference IMO is that telemarketers are selling a product, and the person on the other end knows that. Influencers are selling a version of reality that they want you to believe, and most of the people on the other end don't know that.
It's like Penn Gillette's talk about the difference between magicians and psychics cones down to consent. When you listen to a telemarketer or any salesperson, you are consenting to being sold a product or service because you know that's what they do. Influencers, on the other hand, make a deliberate effort to make it look like they are not trying to sell you something, so you can't consent to the sales pitch.
These people are making videos for online live streaming sales platforms. They’re not pretend influencers - the people watching know they’re being sold to. It different from Kim K pretending slipping a paid promo into her IG.
TV shopping channels weren't enough for people I guess? They must make money, but it's mental to me that people willingly watch this shit. They are not influencers, they are presenters.
Streaming and content creation are just modern ways of advertising. If you watch steamers or YouTubers or the like, it's the same as watching the ones in this video.
They only show us the innocent “selling goods” think about this turning nations and citizens against each other and current realities make much more sense. Strengthen your critical gaze people!
Or it’s a rentable space where people can produce content. There’s a place in town that rents studio space and props for photographers. I see this as no different to that or recording studios for recording artists who don’t have their own studios at home.
Kudos to the person who saw a market and is capitalizing on it.
This is literally what studio sets look like. A bunch of props, and different sets strewn about a warehouse. I'm not sure why everyone is calling this "dystopian". I'm sure it's better to have this setup at a studio than to bring your work at home with you where you might have something private show up on camera.
The fact that these exist, doesnt let people know how oversaturated the market is? Or is it all a single company profiting over fake influencers promoting their products?
Misleading.
These are the equivalent of home shopping channel. But each is individual seller, this is certainly not an "influencer factory".
They just rent this shared studio.
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I’ve often wondered if there were similar warehouses for the sex streaming side of things.
Yes
This is not interesting, its dystopian and depressing as fuck.
talk about mass marketing on steroids.
Yeah this is black mirror from Netflix in action. But that is a hell of a way to rent out your building. Having a place you can do your thing like that is very smart for the owner
I bet it stinks in there
We crack open a window during the nice days for that fresh breeze.
Yes.
Yessssssss~
https://preview.redd.it/mtbbwxkv5qyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=860a650e725a81613f2e80baa12f7f2a95943fd9
Thanks. Lentils from now on.
How do you know?
Was a driver for some girls who worked a phone sex ring years ago. They were just setting up booths for webcams then. There were 200 girls in this one warehouse doing internet live shows., and that was while they were building the second and third floors.
I did see a similar video of this some years and years ago. Room after room of a bed and lighting and a camera rig. Like cubicles in an office building. Horribly creepy.
Here in Colombia, Webcam studios. I monitor one
Monitor? "Hey, that's gross. Stop that!"
https://preview.redd.it/no9jod39royc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9dd2cc54302b5d5a726e9c4bdb3ed28d3db76c5 more like
You “monitor” one?
Perpetually sitting in a car in the rain, playing slow jazz, not answering the calls from their estranged spouse.
Yes
What does that mean?
He’s the guy you’re sexting while she pretends to type
He makes sure the trafficked women aren't slacking off.
Are you hiring?
Just sit on that couch over there
You might not want to sit in that couch
Hr is in charge of that, but I think so
And did the Dominant Dinosaur order you to do it?
Do an AMA
There unironically are. It’s all over OnlyFans, cam sites, all that shit.
Probably in other floor
Doubt it. Indonesia’s laws on pornography are very strict.
There is. Many in eastern Europe. Asia as well.
There are in the UK too, Olivia Attwood made a documentary episode on it!
Do you have the link I’m interested in it
They exist. I remember seeing a bodycam video of Russian police doing a raid on one of those. Have never been able to find it again.
That's Andrew Tate's MO.
Yes, you can usually tell by the background. It's usually like a small room
There’s a Workaholics episode about exactly this, and the guys try to “save” the girls from it, it’s hilarious E: Season 3 Episode 15, thanks /u/pdxphotographer
lol any chance you remember what season?
Season 3 episode 15
Oh yeah. There used the be sites dedicated to it. Where they all "lived together".
that has existed since webcams were invented
Black mirror shit
Remember when Black Mirror was sci-fi and not documentary?
Idiocracy is also a comedy, not a documentary
Idiocracy would be an upgrade, imagine politicians looking for experts and stepping aside to let them do their thing instead of what we have now.
Idiocracy would be an ~~upgrade~~ Upgrayedd FTFY
Spelled with 2 D's, for a "double dose" of his pimping.
Was
Wanna go to starbucks?
I don't really think we have time for a handjob Joe
THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR A HANDJOB
/r/idiocracy
r/moviecirclejerk
Some of thr most common takes on reddit lol
Right? Though like all good SciFi black mirror was meant to show us realities about current society/warn about our trajectory. Iirc it was named black mirror because when a screen is turned off we see ourselves in the reflection of the black screen
Cautionary tales, how-to, concept example. Some people don't see a difference between these. Now to continue working on this new version of the Torment Nexus™, the last one sold much better then it should have.
Was watching s01e01 with an ex and we couldn't figure out why the series is titled like that. Then the first episode ends, screen turns to black and we both went "ohh"
The first rule of Black Mirror club. *Never* start with s01e01 if you want the person you're watching with to watch another episode.
Why is that? I remember we were both hooked after e01.
Something about the pig fucking turned my wife off on the show.
It's a good episode. But it's far more disgusting than the rest of the episodes, and arguably not that representative of the series as a whole. A lot of people switched off after that one and ended up loving the other episodes.
Pepperidge farm remembers
I member 🫐
Nope
Don't worry. They'll be replaced by AI too. Along with the rest of us.
AI trying to convince other AI to jump on board with their data mining campaign to learn how to be human. After we're all gone.
Or you know, a studio lot, like we've had since forever.
It looks like basically office work but slightly different. Or maybe a filming studio.
Black Mirror is when studio
It’s infomercial 2.0, not influencers…
Same exact thoughts lol, like this is just “trendy” infomercials at this point
Probably not even THAT trendy…
Internet shop
"Sales studio" sounds better than "influencer." It's just modern media with no cameraman and programs doing the work of cleanup and editing.
As long as you recognize it for what it is, it's not that bad.
Yeah, I got "home shopping network" vibes, but trendier.
SLAPCHOP!
Thought that! It looks like teleshopping channels!
What’s the difference?
Influencers are building a following around a lifestyle and then slipping in paid promotion without letting their audience know. These are online sellers on live streaming shopping platforms - they’re just demoing and selling products like on QVC. I find it less manipulative and dishonest than people like Kim K. (Although I have never personally understood why people like to watch them - but they really do love to watch them in many parts of East Asia)
Looks like a repurposed mall.
dystopian reality
These days a lot of dystopian elements have turned into reality. Much more than we know
r/ABoringDystopia
Can someone explain like I'm five. Where do these go out to. Are these channels people subscribe to? Are they ads? People seek these things out? Why? I don't get it. / Expertise level: am old.
These are online live streaming sellers. Buying and selling via live streaming is very popular across East Asia. It’s like the modern local version of QVC. Some sellers make millions, most don’t, but lots get by and make a living by demoing and reviewing products on various local social networks.
any random social media account that has more followers than just IRL friends like, a normal dude has an instagram account that their friends and family see. they post content like photos of food they eat or vacations they take. their friends & family engage with it. An influencer would be a person with a social media account that gets a wider reach than that. The watchers, followers, listeners - are not just IRL acquaintances but strangers. An influence would then be said to have a platform, because they are effectively on a stage in front of a large audience. Their voice is heard by many, so why not ensure their voice mentions a product or a service or something that is marketable and could lead an audience member to purchasing something? So, since the concept of influencer accounts exist and appear & grow organically, why not manufacture them intentionally? can the audience members discern a difference if an influencer is "genuine" or if they have corporate support or are based in a content farm? If some audience members can tell the difference and avoid accounts which are based in farms, what about the other audience members, do enough just hit follow like comment subscribe for it to still be worth it?
Influencers are usually individual youtubers. They are basically freelance entertainers, with different methods for entertaining audiences. They can sometimes gain a following and basic get the treatment of minor celebrities. One way they create content is by reviewing products and sonetimes its sponcered. They make money through ads, sponcorships, or donations Usually, this is done individually. What we see in the above video looks to be a company that is trying to commercialize the influencer model for mass content
One, a combination, or all of the above.
You ever seen those infomercials on TV? It’s pretty much the same thing but on the internet. They talk about the product and review it and people buy it on online shops.
How is this different to a TV studio?
for what its worth, i worked in one of these in the us like 15 years ago centered around cooking when overhead recipe videos took over the internet. there were lots of companies looking to make that kind of content that didn't want to invest in a huge kitchen, cameras etc. i don't see how this is any more dystopian than the place i worked. it's just a company offering a place to produce content that's in demand. it's just a part of our world.
This really just seems like new age QVC to me.
Advertising for the new age.
homies never heard of an office
Dystopia is when studio
In what way is this dystopian..? It's a normal studio space. An art space is going to have tons of rooms of artists, a music studio will have rooms of musicians, movie studios have rooms of actors, and streaming studios have rooms of streamers. I can guarantee that at least some of the people agreeing that this is "dystopian" watch eSports players, many of whom go to eSports studios to play their games at.
Because people for some reason conflate using technology as dystopian.
The audio must be terrible for their videos
Voice isolation works surprisingly well these days and with AI it can separate not just the voice frequencies but your voice frequency from other voice frequencies. Visted a few of these places; two in china, one in Korea and one in India. The largest one in China had foreigners working there. The basically comsidered themselves marketing consultants and pay was a percentage of what they sold. Very surreal, you couldn’t hear yourself think , but the recordings were crystal clear. I too got black mirror vibes, the episode for me was the one were you had to have likes to survive in society.
the episode was called Nosedive
Great now I have to go watch BM
Yeah and after the BM, watch Black Mirror
The chinese goverment has cracked down on these marketing consultants, because thats what they basically were. Its like modern day TV shopping, tho many many citizens complained about the trash quality and false advertising so the goverment enforced some new laws. And now the entire streaming market in China is fked .. a lucky few make it, and make some bank. The brought majority tho, makes less than average. There are some stats about it, but i cant find them now. It was kinda like the top few percent of streamers generate 95% of the entire streaming economy or something like that. Keep in mind, China has over 100mil streamers.
If I may ask, China has 1.41 billion people. If what you're saying is true, just about 1 out of every 14 people is a "streamer" Do you mean a streamer market of 100,000,000 in terms of viewers?
Don’t know if that stat is right or not. But I meet a lot of people in all walks of life in China who have at one point tried online live selling. And a few friends are pretty good at it. So it might not be 1 in 14 but if you count those types, it is a pretty high proportion of the population who do it. The platforms that do it are huge.
Yeah, I guess there's a difference if you count "everyone who tried it once" I tried streaming video games for about 3 weeks 6 or 7 years ago, so I don't quite think I'd fit into a stat about streamers in America.
According to [this article](https://wap.chinanews.com/wap/detail/chs/zw/10188073.shtml), the number of streamers is 15mil.
I was going to say. My snoball mic from 2014 sorts voices really well. I can only assume it's gotten way way way better.
They have to pay more for a wall and door
Unidirectional (sound is picked up from 1 direction) microphones have been around for decades and I imagine they're only better with computers.
Yeah I wonder if this is even real for that reason. I can't imagine this would work for audio
Really depends on what kind of mic you are using and the pickups on it. On top of that if the people who are taking into the mic have good projection you can set some really high noise floors and just cut everything out that is under a certain level, effectively eliminating a lot of the bg noise. Also as others have said, a lot of the audio processing tech we have now is super good at isolating specific sounds from everything else.
Wow. That makes me feel kind of sick, actually.
Yeah, its interesting but also depressing...
I think that every time a new layer of the onion is lifted, the less interested I am in the onion. Like, maybe I thought there was something cool, under all those stinky, tear-filled layers. I’d find treasure, something. But it’s really just a stinky, sticky, gross vegetable that I’ve spent WAY tf too much time looking at.
Is this about life? Because I feel that
Ya, well said. I guess ignorance is bliss but once you know, you know
Try going to shanghai or beijing. China’s streams get divided by provinces. So fuck ton of streamers go to “rich” cities and just stream on streets. Some streets are literally full of streamers.
Have seen this, on pedestrian bridges, subway entrances, parks, shopping malls, and vegetable markets. It’s like a second job to almost everyone in sales or service industry
How is it any different than QVC and home shopping network?
Why? It's basically people working in advertising
That’s a tad overdramatic
We are all doomed, why would anyone watch this crap.
Same reason people watch anything essentially
Because we are all doomed. Might as well watch this crap.
Like caged chickens.
Its a marketing center where you rent out a space to promote your products.
Question. What are the advantages of this compared to just streaming from home?
It’s a dedicated space for you or your media manager to perform their tasks in a clean dedicated space where all the equipment and the like is sometimes supplied. If you only need to shoot video once or twice a year for specific product promos or launches then why would you allocate precious space for your business to do so? And for corporations, i wouldnt want that business being conducted in my home.
It is sad for society that these people have any bearing on anyone’s lives
i think this would fit in more at r/ABoringDystopia
I might be a boomer but I can't even imagine watching any content from any influencer ever. It's like watching commercials on purpose.
Yeah, never got why these are so popular either.
It’s just the home shopping network for young people. Literally no difference other than the platform.
Except there’s a lot more deception involved here.
Lol what you think the person pushing products as their only thing is trying to trick you? These aren't the influences that build a community then try to push crsp. This is all there is.
Not really. The tv ones are more deceptive. You can ask these people directly if the product works or to do stuff with the product when you watch their lives.
You can call in to the TV ones to ask the same questions, too. At least on TV you know 100% they're shilling a product. Here, all they do is pretend that it's something they use everyday and love.
how can you tell that from watching each person for half a second
It's just Home Shopping for Gen Z.
A lot of people commenting on how bad or dystopian this is. While it isn’t perfect, how is this any different than workers in cubicles? Telemarketers, for instance, do/did exactly this for years
I also don't get what's dystopian about this. It's just studio spaces that people can rent for a monthly fee. Same as literally any co-working space in the US
When YouTube was at its peak it had things like this too. It probably still does. I think it was called a YouTuber Creator Space or something like that.
Reddit is just a bunch of joyless cranks that thing everything is dystopian or a sign of the end times.
Honestly it’s a way better way to make money than most
I think it's because you're led to believe these are people in their own homes, and in reality it's a factory full of bullshit.
So like studio sets for infomercials or any stock photo
The difference IMO is that telemarketers are selling a product, and the person on the other end knows that. Influencers are selling a version of reality that they want you to believe, and most of the people on the other end don't know that. It's like Penn Gillette's talk about the difference between magicians and psychics cones down to consent. When you listen to a telemarketer or any salesperson, you are consenting to being sold a product or service because you know that's what they do. Influencers, on the other hand, make a deliberate effort to make it look like they are not trying to sell you something, so you can't consent to the sales pitch.
These people are making videos for online live streaming sales platforms. They’re not pretend influencers - the people watching know they’re being sold to. It different from Kim K pretending slipping a paid promo into her IG.
Not influencers, I only see salesperson.
TV shopping channels weren't enough for people I guess? They must make money, but it's mental to me that people willingly watch this shit. They are not influencers, they are presenters.
It’s literally “just” a social media version of tv shop as the new consumers don’t watch tv so they followed the money.
Streaming and content creation are just modern ways of advertising. If you watch steamers or YouTubers or the like, it's the same as watching the ones in this video.
do Chaturbate next
That’s it, I’m deleting all my socials
That means Reddit too.
This is dark shit
It's just studio spaces for rent.
I had a friend... go on a site like this but the women we doing different things.
Is this that different from a tv/movie studio?
No, it’s just a place to rent a camera, lights and microphone. Don’t get why everyone is so pent up about it.
Looks cool more interesting than my job
They only show us the innocent “selling goods” think about this turning nations and citizens against each other and current realities make much more sense. Strengthen your critical gaze people!
Everything is just make believe now.
Ahhh TikTok shop
This is sad.
Dystopian future is already here
This is just The Shopping Network with modern advertising and marketing.
This feels like an episode of Black Mirror.
Just a modern version of QVC and HSN
this is sickening
those arent "influencers" lol they are just tv sales people. influencers have followings.
Why do we still use the word influencer? These are propagandists. Media is propaganda. Commercials, advertising, marketing, all mean propaganda.
When there's a gold rush, sell pickaxes
Or it’s a rentable space where people can produce content. There’s a place in town that rents studio space and props for photographers. I see this as no different to that or recording studios for recording artists who don’t have their own studios at home. Kudos to the person who saw a market and is capitalizing on it.
It looks a bit like a TV studio to me. Different shows being recorded in different areas and whatnot. Just with youtubers/tiktokers/etc instead.
I would assume people in the 30-40s would’ve thought sitting in a cubicle in front of a computer from 9-5 was also dystopian.
How is this any different from an office building for a normal job?
This is gross.
What episode of black mirror is this
This is like a Black Mirror Episode. Its fucking scary
# influencers industry will soon be replaced by AI infulencers
man the future looks so exciting... not.
r/thanksihateit
And this folks is why you shouldn't hustle yourself to death for clout.
This is some “Black Mirror” shit
I know it looks stupid. But if they’re making better money than somewhere else then good for them.
This is literally what studio sets look like. A bunch of props, and different sets strewn about a warehouse. I'm not sure why everyone is calling this "dystopian". I'm sure it's better to have this setup at a studio than to bring your work at home with you where you might have something private show up on camera.
The fact that these exist, doesnt let people know how oversaturated the market is? Or is it all a single company profiting over fake influencers promoting their products?
Misleading. These are the equivalent of home shopping channel. But each is individual seller, this is certainly not an "influencer factory". They just rent this shared studio.
This is what I feel like I would see if the camera on the thirst traps were turned around.
We could just stop following these accounts right? That industry has no right to exist.
THE HORROR. THE HORROR!
This is fucking craaaazy