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Why influencers are telling you what not to buy

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Audiences are officially exhausted by relentless sponsorships and fake enthusiasm. A massive wave of creators are now going viral purely for telling you exactly what not to buy, ripping apart overhyped products and costing mega-brands millions in revenue with a single brutally honest, heavily viewed review.

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