Umpire Influencers

[WIUMP]

Over the last few years, the algorithm has decided I need a steady diet of umpire influencers.

GoPros on masks. Meta glasses (had to Google those… I am, in fact, uncool). “Day in the life” content, mic’d up clips, etc.

Is there any real value here, or mostly content for content’s sake?

[The Man in Blue]

I don't do social media, so my answer is going to be (a) limited to my limited experience, and (b) subject to my bias about social media.

From what I have seen people post on forums (and typically Youtube is the only thing I will click on), it is garbage content.  

I question the rationale of somebody recording other people's minor children and posting it online for their "please validate my life with clicks" content.  That also calls into question organizations that allow umpires to do this.

[SeeingEyeDog]

I have yet to see an "umpire influencer" offer anything of value...

~Dawg

[BLWizzRanger]

50 minutes ago, SeeingEyeDog said:

I have yet to see an "umpire influencer" offer anything of value...

~Dawg

How about... 'how not to do it?' That has some value, don't it?

[SeeingEyeDog]

6 minutes ago, BLWizzRanger said:

How about... 'how not to do it?' That has some value, don't it?

Sure, if that's how it was presented but, I'm too short on time in this world to have to process someone taking themselves way too seriously AND giving bad information to then acknowledge that's how not to do it...

~Dawg

[BLWizzRanger]

Sorry, SED, I should have put a sarcasm label on my post.  We both know, as everyone has alluded, that these influencers are for the clicks and not for the instruction.

[grayhawk]

Is this a Facebook or Instagram thing? I'm not on Instagram and spend VERY little time on FB these days.

[WIUMP]

I see them on Instagram but I'm not on many other platforms for personal consumption.