NYC Influencers Are Boring Drama: What's This Really About?

glamour.com:

But on , there’s a new rage cycle brewing aimed at NYC-based . Their crime? Being “boring.”The hubbub kicked off last week when a woman who goes by made a declarative statement: She was over them all.“I hate all of the New York influencers,” she declared. “I think that they’re boring as fuck and their all carbon copies of each other.” She then listed their crimes, which included wearing the same jewelry, shopping at the same store (Revolve), and experiencing the same mental health issues (panic attacks).“They should be the influence-es not the influence-rs,” she concluded.@MartiniFeeny’s apparently off the cuff and somewhat jokey video clearly struck a chord.

Since she posted it, other women on social media have been commiserating about the lack of originality among influencers in the city.Soon a consensus of who these “NYC influencers” are to be angry at emerged.

They are white, usually blonde, thin, conventionally attractive city transplants. They “live to post,” not the other way around, and are obsessed with follower counts and brand deals.Then other New York–based creators, who importantly do not identify with the group being called boring, entered the chat to .