Overview
- Downey’s comments, reported Wednesday and Thursday, came during a Conversations for our Daughters podcast interview.
- He called it “absolute horseshit” to say influencers will be the stars of the future.
- He said social platforms let people “create celebrity” by filming themselves, which he framed as raising the challenge of individuation.
- He described his son getting drawn into gaming streams and donations, likening some influencer tactics to “Evangelical hucksters of the information age.”
- He added that he keeps his own online presence shallow despite roughly 58 million Instagram followers and said many influencers he meets for film promotion are grounded and accomplished.