Do you think you'd make a good influencer?

[HawkPerception]

Yeah I'd make a great influencer 😁

Nah I don't think I have the vibe people wanna listen to 😅

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I'm pretty sure I won't. I used to run a fitness channel on YouTube many years ago but it took me over 2 months of hard work and over 50 videos just to get to 10K subscribers.

Also I think the only reason I even gained that many is because I offered a fairly novel and psychologically-oriented, iterative way to look at weight loss. I also neither encouraged nor discouraged any specific nutrition plan or training plan or anything, just encouraging people to whittle away at their worst habits and start developing healthier ones.

So it was compatible with a lot of people whether they were favoring keto, HCLF vegan, Mediterranean, Paleo, Atkins, etc, and I had all sorts.

If I had someone with the Influencer skills and patience though to re-record takes, edit, focus on nice camera angle and lighting, to teach what I taught, make clickbait titles (something I refused to do), etc, I think the channel would have easily been a hundred times more successful. I had very little interest that way and just recorded all my videos from my phone without any editing and sometimes in my pajamas from my room.

[HawkPerception]

You're low key flexing and you know it. In 2 months you got 10k subscribers? You know a lot of digital marketers can't even promise those kinds of results, right? If you kept at it, imagine how many followers you'd have by now.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Is that unusual? I've seen people with like millions with brand new channel! Also this was over 15 years ago. I think it might have been easier back then since there wasn't so much competition. But also a lot of my videos were very long-winded. I'd just kind of ramble on and on about what is fairly a simple concept.

[HawkPerception]

10k followers in 2 months is amazing man. And I don't know any that can get millions of followers in that short amount of time. It was a bit easier to get followers back in the day as there was much less competition, but if you kept at it, especially 15 years ago, you would've taken off and been an influencer for sure.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

The main reason I started it is that I got into the show, The Biggest Loser, where people made the most amazing transformations:



It was so inspiring to watch and I was rooting and cheering for everyone. Then I learned the most depressing thing that just within a year or two of the show, almost every contestant regained their weight. Also they were practically torturing the contestants behind the scenes, limiting them to 1200kcal/day and many of them went on dangerous water-cutting strategies similar to MMA fighters to get to the lowest weight possible for each weigh-in which just results in rapid loss of water weight but not actual body fat.

So I got thoroughly depressed learning about it and wanted to make a channel offering a way to think about weight loss that's maximally sustainable and just gradually makes the tiniest lifestyle changes one baby step at a time so that we get used to each and every tiny change and don't make more changes until we do.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I'm pretty sure if someone more presentable presented the same topic though, it could have been so much more successful! What I'd love is to be in the background behind a skilled influencer like researching the material and coming up with the topics and ideas to present.

[NewgodOmega]

No definitely not
I dont to talk to humans they are wasted life forms

[DizzyDesii]

I don't know. I hate being on cam and social media. I wish radio was still popular. I’d love my own late night radio show (I don't know if that fits into influencer category). Im not into podcasts

[DizzyDesii]

Thanks for mho

[purplepoppy]

No, I'm too honest. And let's give them their real title, salesmen.

[KrakenAttackin]

Most "influencers" are full of shit.

[HawkPerception]

But why can't you be an influencer that isn't full of shit?

[KrakenAttackin]

@HawkPerception. Because people who want to be "influenced" are fools.

[HawkPerception]

People who follow others content aren't fools just because they follow them. It could just mean they like the content they post and resonate with it.

[Simslover92]

I don't think so though I would kill to be one with the money they make.

[NathanDavis]

I'm already a tutor and a coach... I do have an influence, lol

[Kingofkings1992]

Don’t really care

[Static_In_The_Attic]

NOPE!