The Restaurant Becomes Disposable Content
Everyone became a traveler and food critic at the same time. Like yoga — first everyone does it, then everyone becomes an instructor. Soon there will be more people recording restaurants than enjoying meals. They film it, extract the attention, and move on. The restaurant becomes disposable content.
Everyone became a traveler and a food critic at the same time.
Social media slowly turned into an endless stream of people going somewhere, eating something, recording it, and showing it to other people who are also going somewhere and eating something.
It reminds me of yoga culture.
First everyone starts doing yoga. Then everyone becomes a yoga instructor. Eventually there are more instructors than actual students.
The same thing is happening now with food and travel content.
Soon there will be more people visiting restaurants to record themselves than people simply going there to enjoy a meal.
At least tourism grows, I guess.
Although now even people with a thousand followers ask for free meals and discounts.
If every restaurant gave free food to every micro-influencer, they would go bankrupt immediately.
But the funny part is: most of the people recording those places never return anyway.
They film it, upload it, extract the attention, and move on to the next place.
The restaurant becomes disposable content.