{"id":5209,"date":"2025-04-23T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:56:57","slug":"social-media-influencers-the-negative-impact-of-social-media-influencers-through-online-networks-and-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5209\/social-media-influencers-the-negative-impact-of-social-media-influencers-through-online-networks-and-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Influencers: The negative impact of social media influencers through online networks and communities.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-3.53.33-pm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis paper argues that social media influences negatively impact their followers, blurring the lines between reality and media illusion by social networks. Some of these negative social media influencers that I write on include Belle Gibson, Andrew Tate, and Ruby Franke. The social media networks that these influencers operated on include Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter X. This paper outlines how these social media influencers manipulated and deceived their viewers into following their <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5209\/social-media-influencers-the-negative-impact-of-social-media-influencers-through-online-networks-and-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper argues that social media influences negatively impact their followers, blurring the lines between reality and media illusion by social networks. Some of these negative social media influencers that I write on include Belle Gibson, Andrew Tate, and Ruby Franke. The social media networks that these influencers operated on include Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter X. This paper outlines how these social media influencers manipulated and deceived their viewers into following their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":5236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1390,1391,1298,1313,1329,1389,1392,1310,1338],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-onsc","tag-andrew-tate","tag-belle-gibson","tag-community","tag-influencers","tag-online-networks","tag-platforms","tag-ruby-franke","tag-social-media","tag-socialchange"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}