Influencer private life is only valuable as extractable economic content.

Evidence

At the same time, these “personal” connections are almost always directly framed as business connections. Private lives—family, selfhood, relationships, identity—are irrelevant unless they can be mined for content, attention, and profit. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 160

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels attention-economy critiques that treat personal life as raw material fed into a value-extraction apparatus.
• SEED: Angles toward the labor theory of value application: the self is the commodity and the influencer-platform split realizes the surplus.