Social Media’s Influence: The Good and The Bad

Social media stars are the new thing, and they all have their good and their bad attributes. With how present they are in our society, you will be influenced by them at least a little in a good or bad way. In this case, Huda Kattan is a good social media star and makes women feel powerful. On the other hand, Logan Paul is a bad social media star, as he showed during his Japan Suicide Forest video.                                               

Social media stars can have a pretty good influence on society, but also can be bad at times. A popular social media star is Huda Kattan, who is very popular in the beauty community. Her first product was a pair of eyelashes that became very popular after people found out Kim Kardashian West wore them. Now, she’s one of the most popular beauty stars, with 27.6 million followers on Instagram, 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube, and 140K followers on Twitter. Huda is a really great influencer and has a good effect on the people who follow her. An example is from one of her followers, Karishma Dawood, who said in an article in Odyssey Online, “She’s living life to the fullest and is constantly encouraging women to be themselves!” This shows how Huda is encouraging so many women around the world. Karishma also said that Huda’s influencing them by saying that a woman can “raise a family, be a successful girl boss, and dominate the world.” Huda shows women that they can do anything.

However, everything good always comes with something bad. In this case, this is the bad influencers on social media. One of the most controversial social media stars is Logan Paul, who became famous on Vine which was an app where people made 6-second clips of themselves, he also started creating content on Youtube. His followings are pretty big, with his Instagram at 16.5 million followers, his Youtube channel 18.5+ million subscribers, and his Twitter at 4.8 million followers. Logan Paul has a huge following all over his social media platforms, which are mainly pre-teens and teenagers. When Logan decides to do something bad and puts it out as content for people to see, he’s influencing them in a bad way. According to Lad Bible (the source), once his followers viewed his video on the suicide forest located in Japan, he lost more than 6,000 subscribers. Compared to what he had back then, which was 15.2 million subscribers, this isn’t much, which says a whole lot about his subscribers. The influence that he has on most of his subscribers made them believe that they didn’t need to unsubscrib, because what he did wasn’t bad, when in reality it was.

So, what’s the difference between a good influencer and a bad one? A good influencer is a role model to their following. They make sure that their followers and subscribers always do good and never do anything that spreads negativity. On the other hand, bad influencers don’t really notice or care if the way they act affects their followers and how they act. Some bad influencers just want views or more followers and subscribers so that they can gain even more popularity, while actual good influencers want to create exciting content and products. They aren’t just in it for the fame or money.

Although some readers might believe that there’s no bad influencers, or even good ones, and that they’re just influencers, it’s clear that there is good and bad influencers. For example, Huda Kattan is a good influencer, and Logan Paul is a bad influencer at many times. Even so, with bad influencers, we do get influenced by them at some points which isn’t good. Hopefully one day, all influencers will become good ones.