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Influencer

IN-floo-en-sernoun

What it means

A person employed to be perceived, whose labour is the perception itself.

What it actually means

Their job is that you know their name.

How it is used in a sentence

"We sent the product to forty influencers and two posted."

Filed under

Social Dynamics — The unwritten rules we invented online and now enforce in public without irony.

Euphemism — The phrase hides something specific. We decode it.


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pair-uh-SOH-shuladjectiveDiagnosis

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PUR-suh-nul brandnounBafflegab

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