I recently attended a small get together and the topic of influencers came up.

One of the guys went on about how he "hates" influencers and how it's not a real job and most of the women who do that are "women looking for a sugar daddy on the internet by posting picture of them on social medias" (I'm paraphrasing his words).

But when a friend of mine started talking about this male influencer, the same guy who was shitting on female influencer had nothing but praises for the male influencer. Most of us (the women funnily enough some guys nodded along with him and those who had a disapproving look on their faces just stayed quiet) were shocked at how fast he changed his tune when it came to male influencers.

When asked about the double standards, he replied that it was different and gave an example of a beauty influencer saying how all that makeup was bad and he liked "girls" to be natural and other nonsense excuses.

That was the first and last time I'll meet this guy but I couldn't help and wonder how many times have we heard/seen people bashing female influencers but nothing is said about male influencers even the problematic ones.