'Social Media Influencers.' The name says it all. These are people that have a huge following on social media platforms (i.e. YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter). They literally influence their fans. I can't tell you how many people I have seen on YouTube and Instagram and have wanted to dress like them or decorate my house as they did. While this is not too crazy, there are so many unhealthy habits of social media influencers that have been passed on to their fans.

For example, @Stassiebaby on Instagram has been speculated to use photoshop on her body to make it look curvier. Can you imagine how many girls out their look at her body in her pictures and think, "why doesn't my body look like that?"

I have gotten to the point where the majority of the things I watch are on YouTube. This can be good and bad. The good thing is that some people actually show their real lives and show their real selves. Usually, you can tell who these people are because they can be vulnerable with topics they talk about with their viewers and fans. The bad thing is there are people who avoid sharing too much about their life because they try to live the "perfect" life. This has lead me to think that so many people out there live this "perfect" life, but in reality, they don't, but I wouldn't know that had I not realized this myself.

The term "influencer" has gotten a bad rep from social media influencers themselves. They don't want to realize that they have this much power over their following. But they need to realize this because it is mentally exhausting to think that these people are living the perfect, saturated life or have the perfect body when they do not.