“Fuck journalists and artists. We should just give all of their power to corporate media and record labels.”

" I’m convinced the primary reason they are popular, is people are too lazy to want to have to read news/information of whatever topic and assemble it into something resembling their own opinion. They’d much rather have some other person read, parse, watch the goings-on and then deliver it as the influencer’s opinion."

You’ve essentially described why idiots like Joe Rogan are so powerful