Let's use our brains" - such a funny joke

Let's use our brains" - such a funny joke - It was an episode from a conversation between two influencers caught in a visibly stressful situation. One of them, losing her temper, suddenly started yelling at the other:“Let’s use our brains!”

That’s when I burst into laughter. Out loud.Because I genuinely had to ask myself: which brain?

But alright, let’s not be too mean — they are funny in their own way, thinking they possess something like that: a brain functioning under pressure, a brain rooted in depth, reflection, or even just basic logic.

Leaving the joke aside, though, there’s really nothing funny about the situation. In truth, it’s rather sad. These so-called influencers have ended up earning large sums of money — essentially by doing nothing — simply because they look good or perform artificial versions of themselves in front of a camera.

This, in my view, is what modern prostitution looks like. Not in the traditional sense, but in the sense of selling one’s image, allure, and simulated intimacy for likes, attention, brand deals, and profit.

And yet — I don’t entirely blame them. The real problem lies deeper. I blame those who follow them, admire them, and like their posts uncritically. Those are the ones fueling the machine.

What I truly can’t understand is why the very people who work hard to live decent, modest, honest lives are the same ones wasting time consuming these influencers’ empty content. Posts that add nothing to their lives. Personalities that offer nothing but shallow aesthetics or staged drama.

And by following them, by clicking, liking, sharing, and giving them engagement, these hardworking people inadvertently enrich the laziest individuals — those who exploit attention without producing anything meaningful.

To me, this is what modern slavery looks like — rebranded in the digital age.A new kind of servitude, where digital profiteers get rich on the backs of those who toil, not by exploiting their labor directly, but by manipulating their attention.

And they succeed. They grow their wealth and power by tricking people into following them, making them believe they’re aspirational or interesting, when in reality, they are nothing more than well-lit illusions.

Welcome to the New Age:Where influence is currency, truth is irrelevant, and distraction is the most valuable commodity of all.