I find it quite useful as warning that you’ll now hear about the opinion of a moron which you can safely ignore.

I call them freelance advertisers.

Exactly, how do people get ‘influenced’ anyways? I think it says something about people following them and thinking them ‘influencers’ are nice and likeable people. They often ignore other’s privacy and aura.

I use it as a derogatory term. Content creator is for the people who create content that is imo valuable. Influencers I use for the type of person who makes content to sell as space.

I think in most cases, you can replace it with advertiser as that’s usually what it is…

When I first heard the term it was on that Black Mirror episode about the star ratings affecting people’s real lives, and I thought it was just an appropriately creepy and dystopian term made up for the creepy dystopian show. Then I learned it’s what those people actually called themselves and it’s so gross.

If your job title literally means “I convince people to want stuff I have” you probably need to get in the sea.

Yeah the whole influencer thing came too late. We have curators (people who find cool stuff and rave about it) and then critics (people who look at multiple offerings in the same category and give a measured take on each, sometimes comparing and contrasting.

But for most mechandise the most accessible voices are the ones who are bought by marketing departments and are obligated to give positive reviews. Curators now push the stuff they were paid to push. Critics are paid to give positive reviews, so to the viewers and readers, we can’t expect a fair assessment.

Not that this is a new phenomenon, but these roles had long been generally known as corrupted and biased before anyone called themselves an influencer, so I suspect the role is closer to Only Fans accounts that sell small amounts of lover / partner engagement to lonely people. Influncers are non-premium OF with ads and no nudity.

I wish we had a good term. “Content Creator” is meaningless and allows vapid instagram and tiktok people to slip in. Film maker has some serious connotations with Hollywood and movies that will give people the wrong idea. Media creator kinda works, but it isn’t specific to what type of media. YouTuber is strongly coupled to a corporation, so that sucks. Memeist? Video maker?

Well at least health care hasn’t started using the word consumer yet!

They avoid using that term and instead use “patient” but these are patients of money extracting procedures regardless.

I haven’t seen that in healthcare settings yet. Just curious what context it was in specifically.

service user

They are talking shit because the try hard was probably an asshole.

I got called a try hard in tft recently. It seemed so moronic especially at a silver elo because I’m just playing to have fun not be min maxing

I don't think it refers to effort level alone. It's about doing obnoxious, unfun things to get marginal (at best) advantages.

For example, the only game I really still play multiplayer is Madden. If I hold a dude to 4th and 15 and they go for it, I know damn well it's going to be a boring shitshow of a game until they rage quit. They're going to turn it over on downs because that's not a convertible play, I'm going to get an easy touchdown, they're going to be even more stupidly aggressive on the next possession because now they're behind, and it's going to be a blowout where I'm just waiting for them to quit because there's no way they're going to play it out for a whole game.

That's a try hard. Someone just winning and making intelligent gambles isn't.

Devs use it in the software industry to describe the people who work excess hours and weekends to try and impress somebody, when it was unnecessary. And all it does is make normal people look bad for just doing a reasonably regular amount of work. If you’re going above and beyond all the time, that’s no longer going above and beyond, you’ve just pushed out the goal post for what is normal

At the same time they’re saying “I’m not a try hard. I could beat them any time I want but I choose not to”. GTFOH loser

“Nerd” is used similarly for kids who do well in school.

I’ve lost count on how many times I got called “Try Hard” and “Sweat”…I kill one guy what, twice in CoD?

I’m too damn casual for today’s high competition games. How tf can I be a try hard when I’m either playing against AI or jam single player RPGs?

Oh yeah man, this is sooo weird!

Huh. TIL.

Isn’t it, technically, the b-word?

Yeah, that confused the heck out of me

In english, its a brand of bread