Recs if you like Followers...
Try Being an Influencer for a Day (It's Hell)
Mikayla tried to warn us! Being an influencer IS hard! You have to work until 5:19 some days, open hundreds of PR packages, AND actually have to film those lucrative sponsorship videos but in these books, it's not just the influencer comment sections that become a blood bath! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and suggest more influencer horror/thrillers in honor of the hardest working people around! Use my promo code SOUL20 for 20% off your next demonic pact! #DevilPartner #Ad #BlessedAndPossessed
reality TV & social commentary
“Nothing here is fake.” — The Truman Show
across both dystopian and realist worlds, these books centre depictions of reality tv in facilitating discussions around surveillance, capitalism, exploitation, and how both global and local suffering is sensationalised.
Parasocial Hellscapes
Uncanny digital intimacy. Ring lights, comment sections, stan culture, identity crisis, doomscroll insomnia.
Influencers in Fiction
Novels where being an influencer is a big deal. I made a separate list for Novels About Podcasters - Novel Another Podcast, ugh.
fame, fandom, & fanaticism
fiction exploring fan-celebrity dynamics, influencer culture, and parasocial relationships
Influencers, Therapists, & Other Intimacy Vendors
Where intimacy is labour and feelings are billable. Therapists, streamers, friends-for-hire, trauma influencers - the new side hustles of the soul.
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