Influencers Explained

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Comic: Influencers explained.
Old woman: “I'm sorry Jimmy, I just don't think I really understand what it is that you 'Influencers' do. I think i'm too old to ever understand your job.”
Young man at computer with mobile phone: “Well Gran, think of it like this:
I've created a communal village and I tell lies about what my life is like there to attract other people to join in and follow me. Then I trick them into spending money on things I tell them are
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are good for them.”
Gran, smiling: “Ahhh okay! Thank you dear, I think I get it now...”
Jimmy smiles, too.
Later another woman asks gran over coffee: “What does your little Jimmy do these days, Gladys?”
Gran: “He runs a cult.”