SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Chiropractors. It’s quackery performed by scam artists and idiots. A “ghost” told a crazy man about this magic during a seance, and his son saw a way to make a buck. The only thing it’s proven to do is cause paralysis.
In the same vein, homeopaths, and psychics that take advantage of vulnerable people (aka all of them)
I miss James Randi…
I’m gonna suggest two:
- anyone at all who works at ICE
- anyone who works at an America health insurance company in any sort of managerial or leadership capacity
Marketing, particularly Ads people. They exist only to hype shitty products, primarily. Sure they might get eyeballs on unknown brands, but I feel like that's not what they are paid big bucks for.
Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money
I want to also ad the people who are determined to put ads on FUCKING EVERYTHING. I grew up in the 90s, I remember when gods damn gas pumps were silent... I remember when the flashiest thing we saw on the store was when the soda displays were made into cool shapes... Get off my lawn and take your damn roofing company sign with you.
Fun fact: you can silence most gas pump ads by pushing the second-from-the-top button on the right-hand side of the gas pump screen... Not all pumps, and every now and then I encounter one that uses the third button down, but most pumps I've run into can be silenced.
It's unforgivable they've jammed ads into pumps full of disgustingly overpriced gas that you're already paying for...
keep an awl in the car... poke the speaker .
or, get some 3.5mm male ends and stick it into the headphone port for the bild folks. does it screw the blind/visually impaired from getting gas? sure..but it's an unfortunate side effect to saving all our ears. I wouldn't mind if I was blind, I'd just ask the attendant for assistance in pumping.
Is there a statistically significant population of blind people pumping gas? If you struggle to pump gas unassisted, I'm honestly not sure how you would safely operate a vehicle.
That used to work but no longer does on a lot in my area. Stuffing recipts in the speaker holes could help if you know what I mean
I have yet to run into any gas pumps with video ads personally, but this seems like a great way to drive EV adoption
I miss ads from the 60s-80s that were just a info-dump on the product with very little hype. You actually got to learn about what they were trying to sell you instead of a bunch of bullshit and a logo at the end.
I despise tow operators (unless they exclusively work for repair shops) and their lesser cousins, car booters.
I'm also a "fuck cars" adherent, but tow operators are cop collaborators, and car booters are assisting them both to steal and ransom people's personal property at the behest of capital.
Whatever people with MBA's do.
No one on earth hates MBAs enough
I still never remember what the fuck MBA stands for without looking it up, I can only think "Master Bachelor Associate" because I feel they're that pretentious; but, I know that's incorrect.
Salespeople at car dealerships (used or new), and dealership owners moreso. In North America they benefit from protectionist laws to keep people from buying cars directly from manufacturers, which adds approximately $2k to the sale of each car on average. Pointless middlemen who are almost universally the worst people you can imagine. And the dealer service shops are not much better than scams either.
HR managers. They are there to protect the company and not the employees
Insurance claims adjusters.
Law Enforcement. Military personnel.
united states businesses
Then I won't say but thats my answer
That's gonna be everyone's answer, hence I asked for anything else
Read the room, bro.
He literally did.
Hedge fund investors, CEOs, cops, self help industry folks, homeopathic medicine salespeople, organizational structure consultants, social media influencers,
just gonna keep adding,
Suburban development planners, strip mall developers, developers who displace PoC neighborhoods, anyone in health insurance in the US, Catholic not-for-profits writ large, Catholic priests, tourist helicopter pilots...
Why tourist helicopter pilots? Everything else speaks for itself so I’m curious about that one lol
Ha, it is a bit personal I guess. They fly routes below 400ft continuously over parks, known landmarks adding noise pollution that really gets to you.
Litigation PR, I feel they primarily exist to cover for rich guilty people
Scammers/grifters. Put all that effort into something moral and legal and make a living without having to worry.
CEO and Marketing
- (in-house) Recruiter
- Project Manager
- Agile Coach
These are probably my top three. Recruiters who work in company HR, are usually very moody about who they pick, based on personal preference rather than facts. Sole proprietor recruiters are effective though, that’s why only the in-house ones.
The other two are similar, but they’re the “I work in IT” people who neither possess nor perform the technicalities. Actual imposters (unlike many good folk who do fair work but sometimes suffer from the “imposter syndrome”).
And yes, exceptions happen too. I just dislike these three roles in particular.
Entrepreneurs.
Private equity firms, Attorney General, scalpers
came here to say data broker but private equity takes the cake. no "job" worse.
Liability lawyers