YouTube Creator and Instagrammer CurrentlyHannah drops in to give her perspective on the challenges, responsibilities, and realities of travel influencers, for a conversation that will inspire all of our parents to say "Wait, so WHAT do you ACTUALLY DO for your JOB?"Ollie ignores the fact that he spent his time in Japan at McDonald's to shit on a Hard Rock Cafe River Cruise, and Bobby puts his ability to read the news headlines (and only the headlines) to take a crack at the Shinzo Abe Boat story.Topics discussed on this episode range from:Discriminatory Housing Practices in Japan and a company who offers a solutionWhere Tokyo Disney isRegional Areas of Japan and their social media savvyHannah's video, The Travel Flex, and what inspired her to make itCreative choices for different types of video re: boob quantityTravel Influencer cliches and tropesThe positive and negative ways that documenting and recording travel changes the way you experience itSquarespace and WHO THEY DEEM WORTHY OF GIVING MONEY TOIshikawa: Summittosea podcast and the over-saturation of Ishikawa podcastsThe big question about whether or not Influencers should be aliveInfluencers who were called out for posting travel content during the pandemicThe standards to which influencers are held by the general public and whyBeing held to the extremes of social responsibilityWhat to do when you really want to post a picture to instagram, but you have a plastic strawWhat Ollie thinks about the roles social media forces us intoThe consequences of taking a position on the internetWhich of the corona-era challenges are travel influencers actually most troubled byHow influencers also struggle with all of the conflicting government messaging and the demand for the services from local areas who need helpHow the influencer industry has pivoted to a certain kind of travel, and what Hannah thinks that can do for sustainable tourism in JapanThe reactionary nature of online call-out culture and backlashes without inside knowledge of what goes into the content we're reacting toHow much influence do influencers actually have and what is the value of the kind of content that they createGet access to the extras, which are once again EXCELLENT this week, by supporting the podcast for less than $1 an episode by becoming a member at http://buymeacoffee.com. Topics discussed on the extras include:Rochelle Kopp's Golf tweet, re: golf being frivolous compared to foreign residents not being able to get home, and a way in which Bobby slightly disagreesHow much sympathy people have for out-of-work travel influencersHow Bobby got fired from an Influencer job for being too famous and not famous enoughTourist Destinations as clients who want the help of influencers but don't actually know what influencing is or how it worksThe job that Hannah and Bobby did together and how it hilariously illustrated Japan's poor approach to trying to implement influencersOllie's misconception about prefectural social mediaHannah drones onSorry, that should have said  "Hannah, on drones"What Hannah wishes clients would know about/do when they hire a social media influencerHow part of the influencing job includes having to teach clients why and how you do what you doThe way attitudes have changed about paid contentHow Hannah approaches content creation differently when she doesn't have to rely on social media for her incomeProblems with Japanese marketing aimed at foreigners, especially how it often just attempts to directly translate the marketing for Japanese peopleHannah's take on the Time Out Tokyo : "Japan is always safe" tweet, and her experiences traveling alone in Japan and otherwiseHannah's experiences trying to talk about traumatic experiences online and being targeted by anti-women trollsPeople projecting their own experiences onto online-figures to either support or attack themMagdalena Osumi's now infamous press conference clap-back over Japanese/English fluencyHave something you'd like to say? Send us a fax at japanbyrivercruise.com - it works now. or Tweet to us at @jbrcpodContent Links:Hannah's Videos:The Travel Flex Over-tourismDONATE TO:Black Lives MatterOfficial George Floyd Memorial FundNAACP Legal Defense FundRunnymede TrustStephen Lawrence Charitable TrustSocial Media Links:CurrentlyHannah: YouTube | Instagram | Twitter | Ollie Horn: Twitter | InstagramBobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeOther things to click on Some are affiliate links because we're sell-outsWe record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

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