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Influencer Madeleine Alizadeh, better known by her handle @dariadaria, recently bought an apartment.
Anyone who follows her daily Instagram stories knows that she finances the property alone and with a loan.
He also knows that Alizadeh not only received congratulations but, above all, many unfriendly messages when he moved in.
How can she afford that, having never really worked?
Failure to understand that you can make a lot of money with YouTube videos or Instagram photos (take a look at Bianca Heinicke's home tour alias @bibisbeautypalace!) Is nothing new.
Just as little as criticism of influencers.
For many, they stand for unreflected consumption, for superficiality - and for advertising with which the often young recipients of social media are inundated.
But with Alizadeh's apartment purchase, the debate about the supposedly superfluous influencers has taken on another dimension.
Because suddenly it's about "internalized misogyny" - that is, people, especially men, simply criticize influencers like Alizadeh so severely because they want to keep women down and deny them their successes.
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"Men think it's okay that other men kick a ball professionally, but say that influencers should look for a 'real job'", Ida Marie Sassenberg posted on her Instagram profile @wellshesassy.
In 2019, Sassenberg and Hanna Seidel started a petition against so-called upskirting, and the Bundestag passed a law against taking photos under the skirt.
Since then, Sassenberg has been commenting on feminism issues from time to time.
Your thesis: The influencer profession is only ridiculed because it was more or less invented by women.