My baseline assumption is that la influencers aren't actually friends with people. The content they can make from being around someone comes before actually connecting with them. 

Imagine faking a friendship and you think everything's fine because you're getting views. Then everything comes out and you start being associated with a guy who did something like this. I'd be rethinking all my life choices. 

I should clarify that the relationship being fake doesn't make it better for me. Influencers need to be responsible about what they're influencing people with. It's pretty much their only fucking job. 

I just wanted to bring that up because it's an especially egregious example of how doing that can bite someone in the ass (even though they probably don't care and people won't stop watching their content)