I'm writing a story that has some loose influencer parallels in a more fantasy/scifi setting. It's more or less one character's dynamics reflect this, not the whole story.

I just figured that the dynamics with the people flocking around the character are enthusiastic incompetence. Which sounds like Veep. But with the influencer subculture. Which...correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't that basically what influencers are IRL?

I spent more time than I should have (20 minutes!) watching random influencer rant videos yesterday to get a feel for some of the dynamics, and.....whooooo. Please someone take this idea and run with it.

IG boyfriend living in hell filming their gf in spandex doing stupid stuff over and over. A subplot where two such IG bfs are actually secretly hooking up and are doing this all to write a movie about it. An influencer that does it all herself and puts together videos that always seem a little off because it takes her so long to make a single video. A parent forcing their marginally willing child into videos.

The entire first season could be the entitlement and drama of 4 people trying to go to Coachella.

I don't have the heart and hate in me, nor the time on IG, to give this idea justice.

Tons of ways to go with this - more than I'll ever know. If anyone ever does it - just put Lemmy in the "Special Thanks" section.