I recently saw a post on the popular website, The Poke, sharing pictures of people’s response to a video that was doing the rounds on TikTok.
The video is of a young guy recording himself dancing in the aisle of a plane mid flight.
The responses were lifted from X, the social media platform originally called Twitter.
I haven’t seen the video myself; I have only seen other people’s responses to it, which are quiet comical in their attacks on the ‘annoying influencer’.
I use the word ‘influencer’ because that is what these people are known as, but who they are influencing and to do what remains to be seen.
A lot of these ‘influencers’ record themselves doing a variety of stunts.
Some are ridiculous such as leaping between parapets on the highest buildings, high above the city streets without safety gear, others are just funny routines done to make people laugh and smile.
Influencers mostly do things to grow a large number of followers and get thousands of people sharing, liking, and commenting on their videos.
Sadly, it pains me to say this… but… that young ‘influencer’ filming himself on a plane has a greater chance of success than most people, no matter how annoying others find him and his antics.
You see, he has ‘balls’, and that’s not me throwing my tuppence into the current debate on gender, either.
He has the courage to get up and do what he wanted to do without worrying whether anyone would think that he was an annoying little ‘pain in the arse’.
He is thick skinned enough to not allow other people’s opinions stop him from doing what he wanted to achieve… which was to film himself dancing on a crowded plane.
The idea of filming yourself dancing in the aisle of a packed plane makes me cringe, but that doesn’t matter to him.
Not only has his video gone viral on TikTok, people are talking about it on all social media platforms, and websites like the Poke are reporting on it.
I imagine that his video has been seen millions of times and if he earns money based on the number of views the video receives, then he is going to be banking quite a bit of money.
Different platforms pay people differently, but that video spread across several platforms could be generating him more than enough money to live on for the whole year.
Plus, all the exposure could grow his following to a figure that means every video he posts from now on will earn him a decent amount of money.
If he does have a large number of fans, companies would be rushing to offer him money to advertise their products in his videos.
Online sponsorship is a huge business today.
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Many companies include sponsoring popular ‘influencers’ as part of their online advertising campaigns. The return on their investment when using sponsored content is probably far greater than direct adverts.
The reason for that is, although people are told that the content is sponsored (by law it should be disclosed), they trust the influencer that they follow.
When people see an advert they ‘know’ that it is an advert which was purposely staged by the company using an expensive ad agency, but with sponsored content, they still believe that the influencers would only recommend products they believe are good.
They trust the influencer and their judgement.
They believe that an influencer would turn down a sponsored post if it didn’t align with them or their audience. This may not be true, but that is what people think.
Sponsored content can be powerful and it can result in a lot of people buying the product or service that was recommended.
You only have to think of Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club section on her popular chat shows.
I don’t know if she was ever paid by publishers or whether she actually just recommended the books that she liked, but she could make an unknown book a bestseller by simply recommending it to her ‘viewers’.
As soon as she revealed the book and said that she really loved it, people would rush to the shops to buy it.
Sales would sky rocket from her recommendations.
The world is changing and instead of there being just a handful of ‘big name’ influencers broadcasting to millions through television sets; there are now thousands of online influencers who have millions of followers.
This new generation of influencer are not afraid to get in front of the camera (the one they carry around in their pocket) no matter where they are.
They are happy to perform in front of crowds of people and document everything they do. And by doing so, they are creating a ‘celebrity’ like status online and growing a large following… for free.
So, although many of the passengers looked on in puzzlement while the young guy pranced around like a loon, and many people on social media have accused him of being an annoying attention seeing ‘pain in the arse’, dancing on the plane for a minute or two has probably done him a lot of good financially.
It could have potentially made him a lot of money or opened up doors to opportunities that he didn’t have before.
Sheffield’s own YouTube star, Morgan ‘Morgz’ Hudson, is rumoured to have bought his mother a house before he had turned 20 with the money he earned from his online videos.
He began creating videos in his bedroom back in 2015. His videos are loud and brash and they were a mix of pranks, video games, and challenges.
He currently has 12.8 million subscribers to his YouTube channel and his 843 videos have been seen over 1.5 billion times.
Even his mother – she used to appear a lot in his earlier videos – has her own YouTube channel, Morgz Mum, with 3.35 million subscribers.
The point of this article today is to say that when you have the courage to do what you want without worrying what other people think or say about you… you have a far greater chance of being successful.
So, the question is this… if you are a person who is worried or concerned about what other people say or think about what you do… could this be what is holding you back?
Is it time to grow a thick skin and ignore what other people say or think?
Because the truth is:
- Worrying what other people think is one of the biggest reasons people do not achieve anything in life.
And
- The thoughts, words, and opinions of others do not pay your bills. They don’t buy your food, they don’t pay for your holidays, they don’t buy your cars, they don’t fill your home with furniture, and they don’t pay for your entertainment and experiences.
So why make them more important than your own life’s wants and desires?
Why give other people’s thoughts, words, and opinions more credit than they really deserve?
It’s time to put yourself first and ignore what other people think.
Kind regards.
John Harrison.
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