Influencer Madness – The Weird Side of the Internet

Influencer Madness – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

What is the value of an influencer? I question it, sort of on a fundamental level. For starters, I don’t follow any influencers, yet somehow I continue to find interesting things to buy. Is it a feminine thing? Makeup and fad diets, something that a heathen like me wouldn’t have any interest in? Because all honesty, just because I have no use for something, that doesn’t mean that it’s not useful. For example, I have no use for a torque wrench, but my life materially better because others do have a use for it.

I do have to question why some influencers are qualified to be influencers. But I’m no gatekeeper. I swing those doors super wide. But I have found a person I would close the gates for: Debora Peixoto.

Peixoto is a model who appears to be obsessed with age. But her methods for keeping her skin young have me wondering if she should instead be obsessed with education. One of her methods is so disgusting that I can mention it here, which, when I do mention the other one, you will really wonder what it was.

She, like many women, experiments with face masks. She makes her own, once a day if she’s healthy. Yes, it’s feces.

She slathers poo on her face. Her own; she’s not a weirdo. She puts a clothes pin on her nose and lets it set a few minutes before washing it off and showing her shining face online.

Now, before you think this is actually effective, the medico’s turn down their noses at this.

“Of all the skincare ‘trends’, this is one of the strangest I have ever come across,” said Dr. Sophie Momen, a a London dermatologist. “There is absolutely no scientific benefit to your skin in using feces as a face mask.”

Plastic surgeon Mr. Tunc Tiryaki concurred: “Feces contain a plethora of bacteria, viruses, and parasites, including E. coli, Salmonella and helminths, which can cause serious infections and diseases.”

She’s Brazilian, but I suspect this level of stupidity could just as easily be going on in Sheboygan.

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