"Fake Famous": The Dark Side of Influencer Culture

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Nick Bilton stops by Inside the Hive to talk about his upcoming HBO documentary, Fake Famous, about a social media experiment that explores the influencer economy, but not before discussing all the ways in which people are trying to get COVID-19 vaccines, and how Joe Biden’s administration is trying to correct course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The best thing I got on Deepop. That's a good question.
0:02.4	This really nice 80s Adidas jumper.
0:05.3	The cordurets which I'm wearing. This pink miniscope. This juicy guitar hoodie.
0:09.3	Probably my unif choke boots.
0:11.0	This pair of jeans. I wear them all the time. The main one I'm quite into the moment
0:14.4	this extreme layering. Grange. Y2K. Relax grumpa. Part-time punk, part-time poly pocket. I think
0:21.2	coquette is the word. Baggy relaxed and a bit out there.
0:24.4	Nech are short sure. I really short sure.
0:26.5	That's like my favorite outfit at the moment.
0:28.8	I got it on Depop.
0:29.8	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am Emily Jane Fox and we have very exciting guest today plus my co-host Joe Hagen and drum roll we have Nick Bilton back with the both of us
0:46.6	today it's like the gang's all here guys I'm so glad I'm here today to join you as we short game stock together.
0:55.2	That's the point.
0:56.2	That's the whole point of this exercise.
0:59.1	Everybody's trying to figure out how to explain it.
1:02.4	It doesn't make any sense to me and I've been following it all for for the
1:08.1	past four days. I do it does make a little sense but it's just it's insane honestly what happened this week and is still
1:15.2	happening. It feels like everyone who has been using the stock market as like a
1:21.5	fun casino game to make money is now upset that
1:25.0	other people are using the stock market as a fun casino game to make money.
1:29.4	Pretty much. A bit of a populist uprising in on the market.
1:35.2	I think what happened what what I think there's a couple of things that have happened like
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