YouTube "Influencer"...

glad you got in on the take @Tim

Just the term “influencer” makes me cringe…
 
Pfft. I was told many years ago to stay away from certain families daughters because I was a bad "influence" on their morals.

Nothing new about this.

Wait. What?

I'd take the money and run without a second thought. It sounds like you are simply running the back end processing, nothing to do with whatever the weak minds in the front end are doing. Freedom means freedom to make mistakes and be an idiot if you so choose as long as you don't complain about the consequences.

I am something of an expert in 'life mistakes'. I should start a YouTube channel...........
 
This client 'soft launched' a new product line yesterday with a single Instagram post saying "we're open...come on by and check it out".

Shortly after launch their web servers got hit with a 10 hour long DDoS attack.
Recovered from that, and just rolled $1MM in sales in less than 24 hours.

I am definitely in the wrong business.
 
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Tim said:
This client 'soft launched' a new product line yesterday with a single Instagram post saying "we're open...come on by and check it out".

Shortly after launch their web servers got hit with a 10 hour long DDoS attack.
Recovered from that, and just rolled $1MM in sales in less than 24 hours.

I am definitely in the wrong business.
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Any speculation on who's behind the DDoS - competitor, random hacker who saw the IG announcement, etc? Or maybe just a coincidence of really poor (for your customer) timing?

And yeah, I'm in the wrong business too - but I was never one of the cool kids so "Social Media Influencer" is not likely to be a title I'll ever hold.
 
Tim said:
This client 'soft launched' a new product line yesterday with a single Instagram post saying "we're open...come on by and check it out".

Shortly after launch their web servers got hit with a 10 hour long DDoS attack.
Recovered from that, and just rolled $1MM in sales in less than 24 hours.

I am definitely in the wrong business.
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Can you Office Space some pennies from the jar into your own account?
 
Last summer, I was in Greenville, SC where my niece lives. I figured I was in town and had some free time, I will take her to lunch. I called her, she said she was free and that we could go to Outback, because she was a waitress there. Sure thing.
We meet at Outback 30 minutes later. She arrives with some 16 year old kid. (She was 19 at the time). She explains that her boyfriends brother was in town and he was going to join us for lunch.
While eating, this kid sat there and bragged to me how he was tik tok famous and that he had something like 1mil followers on social media. Middle of the summer, I had to sit across from this kid wearing a sweatshirt, winter hat, painted nails and just listen to how he was launching a clothing line soon.
My niece who is a social butterfly and socially retarded, gets up and leaves me for what felt like an eternity to chat with her coworkers.
Long story short, he didn't have $5 to his name to cover the appetizer he wanted. I guess Outback wasn't buying his exposure. And yes, he offered to put it on social media if they would give it to him for free.
 
Cape Fear said:
Any speculation on who's behind the DDoS - competitor, random hacker who saw the IG announcement, etc? Or maybe just a coincidence of really poor (for your customer) timing?

And yeah, I'm in the wrong business too - but I was never one of the cool kids so "Social Media Influencer" is not likely to be a title I'll ever hold.
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They have a good idea about who was behind it.
 
Nick Leduc said:
While eating, this kid sat there and bragged to me how he was tik tok famous and that he had something like 1mil followers on social media.
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Nick Leduc said:
Long story short, he didn't have $5 to his name to cover the appetizer he wanted.
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If he had a million followers but no money he's doing it wrong. He should have advertisers already buying the views.
 
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