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March 10, 2023\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a04 min read<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 By Julian Cannon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What began as \u201cdon\u2019t buy this product\u201d has morphed into \u201cdon\u2019t buy that product, buy this product instead\u201d \u2014 this phenomenon is better known as the current de-influencing trend on TikTok. <\/p>\n

For example, gaming influencers<\/a> are now giving opinions on which chairs, microphones, and headsets they don\u2019t recommend, there are posts from Sephora employees who are critical of makeup products <\/a>that do not live up to their hype and dermatologists telling users which products they should avoid when it comes to skin care<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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De-influencing is exactly what it sounds like: The opposite of a social media star promoting a product. <\/p>\n

In recent months, social media users and influencers have become much more open about the viral products they weren\u2019t going to recommend in order to,<\/strong> according to them, avoid overconsumption. Even so, many of them are now recommending other products that are either cheaper or the competitor of the viral product. This comes at a time when consumers are also increasingly questioning influencer content, according to marketers who say consumers are moving away from the culture of mass consumerism and facades of perfection towards a more conscious lifestyle that values community, authenticity and businesses with values.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe de-influencing trend has people questioning the value and necessity of these products, which is a clear contrast from how they were once promoted and these products are inauthentic to the normal consumer\u2019s lifestyle,\u201d said Wendy Mei, head of corporate strategy at the map-based app <\/strong>Playsee, who added that audience desires are changing. Also changing is the creator economy and how brands and businesses can influence online due to the de-influencing trend.<\/p>\n

The oversaturation of sponsored influencer content<\/a> has led marketers to question if influencer marketing has reached its peak, even though the revenue associated with it exceeded $16 billion in 2022<\/a>, according to the Influencer Marketing Hub.\u00a0Today\u2019s social media users are much more savvy to influencer marketing due to an overabundance of product promotions and brand partnerships from creators. As a result, they are less likely to be influenced by influencers they deem inauthentic. Hubspot conducted a study that found that 33% of Gen Z have made a purchase based on a recommendation from an influencer<\/a> in the past three months in order to establish their trust in that brand. <\/p>\n

And as the popularity of de-influencing on TikTok has steadily climbed over the last three months the number of videos with the #deinfluencing tag on the platform has reached over 300 million in total<\/a> as of this writing.\u00a0According to Mei, Gen Z is now changing its purchasing habits from excessive consumption <\/a>to more intentionally and sustainable ones. Because of this marketers are pushing to ensure influencer communications are spot on with their values.<\/p>\n

Gen Z consumers are becoming more frustrated with the shear volume and frenzy around influencer pitched products that they ultimatety don\u2019t need, said Molly Barth, senior cultural strategist at Sparks & Honey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose whole videos are just in general becoming a lot less popular as people are seeing them as a gross representation of wealth and amassing of goods, which isn\u2019t necessarily ethical or responsible or sustainable,\u201d said Barth.<\/p>\n

TikTok star and content creator Taya Miller, who has 4.8 million followers on TikTok, said that she has not joined the trend, but hopes others continue to push the trend (as long as it is not sponsored) because transparency is a must when it comes to being honest with a creator\u2019s audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they\u2019re just being transparent with their audience, then that\u2019s why people follow them. If they\u2019re going to promote products, be honest about it, that\u2019s your job,\u201d said Miller.<\/p>\n

As Miller and Barth pointed out, Gen Z has become increasingly aware of the fact that content creators, in the beauty industry in particular, may tout products that may not work as well as pitched. An example of this is Mikayla Nogueira\u2019s mascara scandal<\/a> . <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are less drawn towards those big celebrity influencers because they see how much they\u2019re being paid by these big brands to say whatever these brands tell them to,\u201d said Barth, adding that the creators who are truly talented understand that cultivating a genuine connection with their audience is their value proposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cViewers are now more alert of the type of content they are consuming, and less accepting of influencers content with obvious monetary content,\u201d said Mei. \u201cUsing multiple micro-influencers will help brands reach niche audiences that widely followed influencers might not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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