Over 800 complaints made in five weeks about influencers’ potential failing to declare ads on social media

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1. Examples include:

   *[Laura Fox] shared her experience of wearing braces from the Dental Options firm, including “#collab” with the content, a hashtag considered an insufficient disclosure of commercial marketing by the ASAI.*

   *Nikki Whelan and her content with food box brand Hello Fresh was also the subject of a successful complaint when the ASAI ruled that while the disclosure was included, it was not clear enough to social media users as “#Ad” was placed in the top left-hand corner of the screen.*

2. The sooner social media dies and we go back to texts the better

3. Irish influencers. You will sure see them in Dublin asking stupid fucking questions for that money

4. Good.

5. Is there evidence that influencers actually do have any influence ?

6. Most of them are narcissistic parasites who feed on the soul of naïve impressionable people. Good enough for them. A life of lies and deceit.

7. They are a scourge on society. The worse thing is they take work away from creditable individuals who have gone to college for a career in media. You see so many getting presenting, acting or comedy gigs because they have a following. What’s more, you then see they are actually unwilling to put a real opinion out there in case they upset a sponsor.