OT: Is Trent Ellis Mississippi State’s biggest influencer?

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I am sure you’ve seen him on Facebook. I started following his instagram 2-3 years ago and didn’t realize he had gotten so big. He went to State and occasionally wears Bulldog gear in his videos. Are there any State “influencers” or content creators with a bigger following?

Trent Ellis: 2.1 million facebook followers/759k instagram followers/650k TikTok followers.

 
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I am sure you’ve seen him on Facebook. I started following his instagram 2-3 years ago and didn’t realize he had gotten so big. He went to State and occasionally wears Bulldog gear in his videos. Are there any State “influencers” or content creators with a bigger following?

Trent Ellis: 2.1 million facebook followers/759k instagram followers/650k TikTok followers.


He makes entertaining videos. When most people make shooting videos, the content is boring and dry, not his.
 
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Some of these influences make big money. Never heard of him tho. May check out his stuff.
 

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I saw a stat that something like 60% of middle schoolers want to grow up to be an influencer. I'm sure 30-40 years ago for many of us, that was something like "play in the NBA" or "be Jacques Cousteau". I really try not to judge the kidz, but just being famous and selling people stuff seems boring and borderline awful.
 

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I saw a stat that something like 60% of middle schoolers want to grow up to be an influencer. I'm sure 30-40 years ago for many of us, that was something like "play in the NBA" or "be Jacques Cousteau". I really try not to judge the kidz, but just being famous and selling people stuff seems boring and borderline awful.
Lot of them don't realize how much work it is. You have to constantly put out content.
 

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I saw a stat that something like 60% of middle schoolers want to grow up to be an influencer.

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Lot of them don't realize how much work it is. You have to constantly put out content.

True, and even then, you likely won’t make as much money as you think you would…
 
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I (blessedly) know very little about that world, but a lot of it looks less like typical work and more like lightly-disguised begging.
What they actually do bothers me less than it's just an overly cringy, fake environment. But I guess that's the sales world period, doesn't matter if it's on the internet. LLLLLOOOOOTTTTTT of ego.

My question is, who are these people that watch this shlt
 

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I follow Vice Grip Garage on youtube and he makes about $16K a month. Also No Nonsense Know How. both of these guys finds junk vehicles all over the country and triy to get them running and drive them home or haul them home and then just see if they can get them running.
 
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I follow Vice Grip Garage on youtube and he makes about $16K a month. Also No Nonsense Know How. both of these guys finds junk vehicles all over the country and triy to get them running and drive them home or haul them home and then just see if they can get them running.
I love Derek. I'll have to check out the other guy's page.
 
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What they actually do bothers me less than it's just an overly cringy, fake environment. But I guess that's the sales world period, doesn't matter if it's on the internet. LLLLLOOOOOTTTTTT of ego.

Sometimes it is fake.

Sometimes it’s an outgrowth of people’s natural environment. Maybe the best local example of that is the Hometown series in Laurel…

I don’t know the Napiers, but I have more than a few friends who’ve appeared on the show… some of whom because the Napiers thought their talents would be useful, and others because they were homeowners…

My question is, who are these people that watch this shlt

People who are interested in them

Heck, I’ve accidentally become sort of a tastemaker when it comes to music among my friends, but I’m not going to even try to monetize it because then my hobby won’t be fun anymore…
 
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I've followed Trent for several years after I saw a random video he made while wearing a State hat. I believe he lives in Fulton.
 

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I saw a stat that something like 60% of middle schoolers want to grow up to be an influencer. I'm sure 30-40 years ago for many of us, that was something like "play in the NBA" or "be Jacques Cousteau". I really try not to judge the kidz, but just being famous and selling people stuff seems boring and borderline awful.
What exactly are the academic requirements for being an "influencer"?
 

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I saw a stat that something like 60% of middle schoolers want to grow up to be an influencer. I'm sure 30-40 years ago for many of us, that was something like "play in the NBA" or "be Jacques Cousteau". I really try not to judge the kidz, but just being famous and selling people stuff seems boring and borderline awful.
That's pretty damn sad. Also, Influencer is a word that pisses me off. Who wants to be influenced? At least call them a DCC. Digital content creator.
 

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I follow Vice Grip Garage on youtube and he makes about $16K a month. Also No Nonsense Know How. both of these guys finds junk vehicles all over the country and triy to get them running and drive them home or haul them home and then just see if they can get them running.
Vice Grip Garage is the best content out there. It's the only non-movie I can sit and watch for 2 hours straight. Of course I'm fixing up my own 1965 F100, so there's that connection.
 

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I follow Vice Grip Garage on youtube and he makes about $16K a month. Also No Nonsense Know How. both of these guys finds junk vehicles all over the country and triy to get them running and drive them home or haul them home and then just see if they can get them running.

Hagerty (on their YouTube channel) has a guy named David ??? that does the same thing and its called "Will It Run?" They also have "Barn Find Hunter" with host Tom Cotter that is also on their channel that is pretty good. Tom drives across the country looking for interesting looking garages, junk yards, auto shops, etc and just stops in and starts asking car questions of whomever is there.
 
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I am sure you’ve seen him on Facebook. I started following his instagram 2-3 years ago and didn’t realize he had gotten so big. He went to State and occasionally wears Bulldog gear in his videos. Are there any State “influencers” or content creators with a bigger following?

Trent Ellis: 2.1 million facebook followers/759k instagram followers/650k TikTok followers.
Strike 1 for Facebook
Strike 2 for Instagram

Never heard of either of them, I'm sure they're devastated
 

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What exactly are the academic requirements for being an "influencer"?
I think you have to be able to record a video and upload it to the internet. **

Actually, I'm sure it's a lot harder than that. My brother has been trying to get an online video music lessons program going for a few years now. It's hard and the odds of even getting noticed are slim. I've told him he's trying to do about 5 jobs, only one of which he's really qualified to do (the music part). Now, he's learned a lot, but it's not easy.
 

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Strike 1 for Facebook
Strike 2 for Instagram

Never heard of either of them, I'm sure they're devastated
Facebook is what you make of it. I think I have maybe five friends and they’re all close family. I never accept a friend request. I follow a few people and joined several groups pertaining to hobbies and interests. It can be a useful tool if you don’t jump in too deep.
 
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Vice Grip Garage is the best content out there. It's the only non-movie I can sit and watch for 2 hours straight. Of course I'm fixing up my own 1965 F100, so there's that connection.
Also Project Farm. This guy is a push mower's worst nightmare. He must be independently wealthy. He does comparison tests on everything, tools, oil additives, fuel additives, anything. He takes requests from viewers on comparisons. He also does destructive tests. He will run a mower with the oil additives. Then drain all of the oil out of the mowers and see which mower last longer. He'll do stupid stuff like using cooking oil, bananas, soft drinks, chain lube, water, etc, as the "oil" and see how long it runs.
His videos and reviews are fantastic, but I'm on the fence about claiming someone who wears an "Archie of Drew" t-shirt every single day of the year.....
 
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I bet you're a BIG tiktacker tho, right Peeper??

Please don't prod me and get me started on that because it will get my blood pressure up. I have never seen a bigger waste of time than that (other than this site). I actually downloaded it long enough for the damn Chinese to plant a bunch of spyware on my phone I'm sure. I saw absolutely NOTHING on it that I liked in the 2 or 3 days I had it. I will sit in the break room at lunch at work and watch all the young things there just grinning and laughing and looking at the stupidest videos made today. It is brain drain for all of them and they try to get me to watch that mess.

"The Twitters" is my only vice besides this one. I almost gave up on Twitter but as long as you stick to personal interest pages (weather, local news, sports, MSU, BBQ, etc) I like it ok, just don't take a deep dive off into political or DEI horse shat and its good
 
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Facebook is what you make of it. I think I have maybe five friends and they’re all close family. I never accept a friend request. I follow a few people and joined several groups pertaining to hobbies and interests. It can be a useful tool if you don’t jump in too deep.
I tried it but even so called friends go off the deep end stirring up crap too often for me. I had a page but put it in mothballs a long time ago. I will occasionally open it up and take a look at Marketplace if I'm looking for something in particular to buy but I'm just not into casserole recipes, baby gender reveals, and other peoples personal opinions enough to regularly use it. I just looked and I have 61 friend requests now dating back as far as 11 years, I guess those people have given up on me by now................
 
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I saw a stat that something like 60% of middle schoolers want to grow up to be an influencer. I'm sure 30-40 years ago for many of us, that was something like "play in the NBA" or "be Jacques Cousteau". I really try not to judge the kidz, but just being famous and selling people stuff seems boring and borderline awful.
A few years ago I was talking with a sophomore girl that played in the HS volleyball program I help run and the topic of careers came up. She said she wanted to live at the Playboy Mansion like the women from The Girls Next Door.
I struggled to not immediately criticize that.
She then said that if she couldnt live there as her job, she wanted to be an influencer.
I struggled to not immediately criticize that.

To your professional athlete comment- I do think there is a huge difference between someone hoping to play in the NBA and someone hoping to be a social media influencer. I am not saying one is more legitimate or realistic or anything...just that they seem very different. I think it may be the fact that so many 'influencers' dont seem good at what they do or convincing, while an NBA player is objectively great at what they do.
But maybe the comparison really isnt too far off.