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How Micro Influencers are Redefining Affluence: how and why we love fake rich people online.
14 minutes Posted Sep 13, 2025 at 2:15 am.
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my casual commentary on the 6 week project of the academic article How Micro Influencer are Redefining Affluence: How to fake wealth online and why wen love fake rich people.

Using critical and interruptive Communication Paradigms to explain the possibilities of how content discussed, changes meaning, frameworks as a collective, and connotations relating to non denotational symbols of wealth.

the way it effect our perspective and world view on what is wealth and a desired life.

including the theoretical paradox of the affluent content, inspires more affluent content creation, then consistently redefining affluence giving a more unique form of affluence that are infinite.

we use concepts like:

conspicuous consumption theory

cultivation theory

redundancy

etc…..

feel free to read along with the video. Or watch the free video before or after reading the article to get to know my thought process and me.



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