Ice cream truck to would-be Instagram "influencers": fuck off, pay double

[Tanuki]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/03/ice-cream-los-angeles-instagram-influencers

"CVT Soft Serve, a popular truck in Los Angeles, has started to receive weekly requests from self-proclaimed Instagram “influencers” who promise to post a photo of Nicchi’s ice-cream – if they don’t have to pay. Nicchi has always said no, but this week he found an unusual way to profit off of the influencers: he publicly told them to go away.

Nicchi went viral after posting a sign that said “influencers pay double”, writing on Instagram that he would “never give you a free ice-cream in exchange for a post”. The image, tagged #InfluencersAreGross, spread around the globe, and now Nicchi says his business is booming, attracting fans across southern California who share his disdain of influencers.

“We’re the anti-influencer influencers,” he told the Guardian on Wednesday. “It’s weird … but I think it’s really fun. I hope it inspires small businesses to hold their own and tell people to fuck off.”

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Nicchi eventually became so tired of influencers that he put up his anti-influencer sign at the truck, making clear that people who requested a free cone would get the opposite – they’d have to pay $8 instead of $4. A customer took a photo and posted it to Reddit, which then went viral.".....(more)

[Xolodno]

1. Think I read somewhere....

...that an influencer demanded a free week at an all inclusive resort in the South Pacific and would promote the resort. If they didn't, then would post negative reviews. Resort promptly told them to fuck themselves.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Good! These people are so into begging and thinking they have a lot of influence...ah, the ...

entitlement generation is here to stay...but it is very nice to see some fighting back...

[lame54]

3. I think the term is blackmailer

[csziggy]

4. I'd hunt them down and charge them for extortion

I've never really understood the whole "influencer" deal, anyway. This makes me think they are simply con artists.

[msongs]

5. same crowd that thinks loans are gifts and don't have to paid back nt

[dalton99a]

6. Excellent.

[Takket]

7. there are actual "influencers"

with a lot of followers and pull that sell their posts. We used to just call them "spokespersons" but i guess "influencers" sounds more chic.

but most of these "influencers" bullying businesses are nothing more than nobodies with delusions of grandeur. they have no more influence that you or I do to leave a yelp review.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. They are little more than parasites.