The demand for influencer transparency burns out the very creators it rewards

Evidence

On an episode of the blog’s podcast, Larson revealed that the constant demand to renovate houses was deeply tiring, that, despite being some of the most popular parts of the entire Beautiful Mess industry, she simply could not continue remaking and redoing domestic interiors. Responding to the demand to see inside—the demand for transparency, to recall the arguments of Byung-Chul Han39—is a demand that burns one up and burns one out. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 155

Categorization

• XREF: Byung-Chul Han’s transparency argument surfaces; resonates with earlier silencing/transparency themes and the reader’s Corpocene framing of audience demand driving self-commodification.