![]() ![]() And if you’re not at all familiar with internet drama, a lot of this book is going to confuse you. ![]() ![]() It’s an interesting approach to take – if you’re expecting a book about Fyre festival, you may be frustrated by the amount of non-Fyre festival material, and if you’re looking for your particular internet scammer, you may wonder why Fyre festival gets so much airtime compared to whoever you were looking to read about. As it traces how the Fyre festival came into being, Bluestone takes a lot of side trips to visit other “influencers”, including Caroline Calloway, to discuss more broadly why and how we are being influenced. Hype is an ambitious book, trying to explain “how scammers, grifters, and con artists are taking over the internet and why we’re following”. If I had, I would have read this right after The Accidental Influencer, since Hype (being about scammers and grifters), also talks a lot about influencers and it would have been interesting to consider the two books in tandem. ![]()
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